If you have not seen the movie this scene is from, you should. :)
Posted on 04/30/2010 9:49:49 AM PDT by alleyesonCHRIST
“People never crumble in a day – it’s a slow fade.” This is the chorus of Casting Crown’s “Slow Fade” song. The lyrics are just as applicable to a nation as to an individual and unfortunately for America, we have been in a slow fade for some time now. When “I dream of Jeannie” made its debut on television in September of 1965 it was the most embattled show to come across the airwaves. Television rating organizations had all kinds of problems allowing “Jeannie” to show her belly button. Today, that is laughable. One evening I was forced to turn “King of Queens” because it had 4 curse-words in 2 minutes. That’s just not appropriate for my children. Sorry. Then I found my wife turning an episode of “Bones” because of inappropriate sexual content. In fact I found myself encouraging my wife to watch sports with me because it’s the only thing on that doesn’t have cursing, sex, or violence - at least not at an audible level. It has been a slow fade.
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Get rid of the broadcaset and cable. We have lived for almost 25 years without it. Best thing we ever did. The culture is a hell hole. we will band together in points of light.
This frog jumped out of the water when it was starting to get hotter than “luke warm”. i.e. I dumped TV in 1997. I’m occasionally exposed to it now in hotel rooms and airports. I am dumbfounded regarding how incredibly hot the water got in the last 13 years.
I fear the frogs are already being boiled alive. I think this is one reason I have a major disconnect with American culture and nobody I’ve voted for in the last 10 years except dubya has won.
United States of America
Looks like another silent night
As we're sung to sleep by philosophies
That save the trees and kill the children
And while we're lying in the dark
There's a shout heard 'cross the eastern sky
For the Bridegroom has returned
And has carried His bride away in the night, in the night
America, what will we miss while we are sleeping
Will Jesus come again
And leave us slumbering where we lay
America, will we go down in history
As a nation with no room for its King
Will we be sleeping
Will we be sleeping
United States of America
Looks like another silent night
They seem to think that people like me have drifted in an extreme rightwing direction. My very-much-out-of-the-mainstream views on personal freedom, personal responsibility, limited government, and Christianity are just weird to them.
They think my worldview is new and threatening.
“In fact I found myself encouraging my wife to watch sports with me because it’s the only thing on that doesn’t have cursing, sex, or violence - at least not at an audible level.”
I guess he doesn’t watch the commercials.
Does the culture create the entertainment, or does the entertainment create the culture? Chicken or egg?
I’m a big TV watcher. With regard to my kids, violence or language on TV doesn’t bother me near as much as sex. We’ve let my kids watch 24 on occasion — and they’re pretty young. Sex we usually censor a bit more ... How I Met Your Mother, for instance, is funny and my wife and I watch — but only after the kiddos are in bed.
It is difficult to balance. On the one hand, you don’t want to over-expose. On the other, the culture will automatically overexpose at some point ... so a kid needs to know how to live successfully in a culture that is often off-its-rocker.
SnakeDoc
I dumped it 1995, and I am also amazed at what a sewer broadcast media have become. Our children have never had television in the house, so sitting like a slack-jawed, lank-haired, mouth breather for hours on end in front of a video screen watching dreck is something entirely foreign to them.
Netflix is a great resource if you have children. We watch perhaps 2 movies a month - if we have time, but the selection allows parents to provide very wholesome and instructive entertainment. Sirius in the car is also good - children love the old radio dramas and comedy shows (e.g. The Shadow and Jack Benny).
If you have not seen the movie this scene is from, you should. :)
I too am amazed by those who think those who defend traditional values are somehow the aggressors.
As if homosexual marriage has been accepted for thousands of years and people are now trying to take away this right.
They talk about the GOP and Tea Party moving rapidly to the right simply because it isn’t moving left as fast as they are.
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