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Posted on 07/26/2012 8:09:38 PM PDT by InHisService
Too many of us so called “Christians” today buy into the perversion that is prevalent in entertainment, simply because it’s there, it’s being promoted and we read or hear good reviews. The popularity of such genre does not make it acceptable for us, as Christians, to take part in it. If anything, we should be speaking out against it.
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I’d think the author, being a Christian, wouldn’t be involved in “Hollywood gossip” but maybe she feels compelled to watch out for us.
I have seen things on ABC “family” that are practically soft core porn.It's about to get worse.
Jennifer Lopez To Produce Show About Lesbian Couple For ABC Family
“Oh so it turns out you didn’t kill your TV, you’re just making crap up.”
If you don’t know the difference between a TV hooked up to the incoming sewer and one that has been disconnected, I suggest you try it. There is a world of difference - maybe literally - between the two. It is the never-ending flow of filth and bad values flowing in free of charge that makes TV a dominant force for evil culture and wasted time.
If you pay $25-40 for a season of a show, you don’t plop your butt down and watch the TV for 4-5 hours/night, every night. You also find yourself asking if THIS show is one you want in your home. The long periods of silence in your house will get you thinking about talking to someone - maybe even your spouse!
We’re not Luddites. We don’t go around smashing evil machines. But TV is a driving force in accepting values such as homosexuality, dependence on government, jealousy of the rich and a passive approach to life.
On the Internet, at least, you can talk back. With TV, you just open your mind and absorb.
Just IMHO. You can of course do whatever you wish. But as someone who has tried both, I’d recommend trying a few months with no cable TV. It might change your life.
No, you’re assuming and wrong again. You couldn’t receive a signal on my CRT if you tried. No reception - dead. My last set was a B/W lab monitor. The new color job does, however, have the ability to take a patch cord from a VHS/DVD. Last night I watched a classic: ‘The Third Man’ with Joseph Cotton and Orson Wells. Landmark film for many reasons, all of which would probably be lost on the usual TV watcher. Face it, relaxation is a personal thing. You enjoy whatever and I have found your fare, for the most part, insipid, insulting and dull. Hey, if you like watching ‘Gilligan’s Island’ or the modern equivalent, enjoy!
I didn’t assume anything. You started on this thread saying people should kill their TVs and now you’re watching TV. That means your TV ain’t dead, that means you are a BSer. Those are the simple facts, you like to toot your own horn and you like to insult others and you don’t even do what you advice others to do. Thus making you 100% full of crap. Bye now, life’s too short to deal with crap artists, they interfere with watching top shelf TV. We’re in the golden age of TV drama right now. Of course you probably know that since your TV isn’t dead.
You’re sharp. Oh, yes indeedy you are. You’ve seen right through me like a bolt of lightning. I stand in awe of your insight and grasp of fact. Truly, you are beyond razor sharp. It must be the TV watching that hones your keen mind.
Sheesh.
A TV that shows stuff is a TV that shows stuff. Especially in this modern world. Heck you can watch almost all the TV shows ever made without even having a TV now, we know he’s on the internet so he can get to the stream. Right now what I’m watching on TV is from the stream. If the thunder storms had hit harder I’d be watching DVDs but the internet connection stayed up.
You know you can have conversations AND watch TV. It’s not an either or world. It funny how the folks that feel the need to come on TV threads to stroke their own ego just can’t seem to manage simple concepts like keeping the TV at a volume it can be talked over. I talk the spouse with the TV on, I read with the TV on, I FReep with the TV. And I do all that stuff without it on too, because life is about options.
He’s the one that said to “kill your TV”, that IS smashing the evil machines. Had he said “watch less TV” or “be more selective in TV” that would be different. but he said to kill it. Not my fault he didn’t mean what he said.
Actually with the modern age of TV dramas you analyze, then often you hit the internet and discuss, sometimes you even get to discuss with the makers of the show.
I’ve gone years without cable, see that’s the problem with coming onto threads just to stroke your ego, you tend to make assumption, and we all know about ass-u-me now don’t we. Currently I keep the cable, it’s convenient for much of what I want from my TV. I could setup a media center PC and do things a bit of a harder not always as legal way, but I’m willing to pay for convenience, I make enough. My life is groovy as is, awesome wife of 20 years, comfy home, solid health, many many entertainment options, and the job’s not to terribly time consuming so I get lots of time for that entertainment. Because you see I understand how to use TV, it’s not too tough if you’re willing to understand that it’s part of the options of life. Maybe if you spent more time watching TV you wouldn’t come onto threads to stroke your ego, stroking in public is kind of gross.
“Maybe if you spent more time watching TV you wouldn’t come onto threads to stroke your ego, stroking in public is kind of gross.”
I’m not surprised you consider modern TV to be at its zenith. You have a mind to match it.
“Maybe if you spent more time watching TV you wouldn’t come onto threads to stroke your ego, stroking in public is kind of gross.”
I’m not surprised you consider modern TV to be at its zenith. You have a mind to match it.
I guess I’m feeling down because I don’t see much of a future for my family with the way this country is going . I worry about them all the time. I’ve never seen things go so bad so fast in this country and I’ve got nothing to protect them with. If Obama gets re elected, I don’t know what I’m going to do or where to go......
Yup, I have a mind that can grasp complex layered plots and the death of the rule of 3. I know you wanted that to be an insult, but the fact is the modern age of database narrative drama requires much more intellectualization by the audience. You’re no longer spoon fed the plot, you’re expected to remember that sentence uttered once 2 seasons ago from which tonight’s episode spawns. It’s a wonderful world of story telling that trusts the audience to keep up with complex tales. It’s telling that one of the most popular shows on TV right now, Game of Thrones, started as a novel George R R Martin wrote specifically to be impossible to put on TV, he was kind of burned out from working on TV and the first book was an act of rebellion, complex interwoven fire and forget story telling completely the opposite of everything TV was built on... until the golden age.
Read up, do some learning, it’s good for you:
http://review-mag.com/archive/680-689/689/captain_video.htm
Ever watch the rebooted ‘Doctor Who’? Steven Moffatt has been some terrific multi-year storytelling just like that.
I’ve never liked Dr Who, but my friends that do have been quite impressed with how it’s gone since the reboot. The kind of story telling that’s on TV now is amazing, made most amazing by the fact that the root of it is assuming the audience can keep up. Very different from how things used to be.
“I guess I’m feeling down because I don’t see much of a future for my family with the way this country is going .”
I can certainly understand that. I have no use for Romney, but I cannot imagine life in the USA in 2016 after 8 years of Obama. I also find the trends terrifying. With the exception of gun laws, almost every social issue I can think of is being lost. A culture of dependency, of entitlement, of spend now, of homosexual rights, transgender rights, soon to be pedophile rights, half the people in the country expecting the other half to pay their bills - it is scary. At 54, I may be old enough to die before the full bill comes due.
As individuals, all we can do is live our lives conservatively & follow the principles that have proven themselves over time. That gives us the best odds over the long run.
I’d love to go back to work, but the jobs I could find wouldn’t pay for my additional taxes and gas costs. And if I go back for another degree (a BS in Biology from 1979 isn’t going to get me anywhere), then I’ll be pushing 60...would anyone hire me?
A Romney victory won’t even gain me much on most issues I care about. He’s marginal on fiscal matters and worthless as teats on a boar hog on social issues. But he won’t push us into hell quite as fast as Obama will, and he might actually care about America...but what a miserable choice!
Are you judging by the old one or the new one? The amount of variety involved with DW precludes any one style or subject matter. It became a very different show every few years and still does..
It’s something in the core concept. I got annoyed with DW back in the old days, tried a couple of the new episodes just don’t like them. Even watched Torchwood before finding out it was a spinoff, sat there thinking “some of it’s good but it has the stench of the doctor”, then I looked it up on wiki and sure enough.
The new show has a couple of dud episodes every year. Which did you see? Others like Blink and Gridlock are some of the best pieces of episodic TV ever made.
I don’t know which ones I saw. They were still DW. Can’t like everything, there’s always going to be something you don’t connect with. Kind of like Smallville, I’ve heard about what they’ve done with that and it certainly sounds like some excellent story telling, but in the end it’s still Superman and I don’t like Superman so I’ve never bothered.
The worst of the DW episodes are truly terrible though. The disparity between the best and the worst is wider in DW than it is in just about any TV show I can think of. It’s interesting how DW has achieved such massive popularity in the U.S. now after being a total cult here for so long.
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