[The Duke]

This article would be my "pick of the week" for including in a time capsule for future generations who find themselves wondering...What happened to America?

[Khepera]

Great article

[William Terrell]

Spam? Just delete it and don't read it. The Subject line almost always identifies the content.

[SERE_DOC]

"How much perversion will our society tolerate before we grow up, act like adults, protect our children and save our society?"

Certainly no more than Rome (just after it ceased to be a world power) centuries ago.

Unless there is a great revival in this country, the abnormal & perverse will grow, but there will always be those who stand for honor & integrity and virtue, but regretfully their numbers will be small.

[ArGee]

How much perversion will our society tolerate before we grow up, act like adults, protect our children and save our society?

Or maybe G-d will have to give us a little thump on the head to get our attention. My dad had to do that sometimes when I was a kid. The thump really hurt because he had a big class ring on the hand he thumped us with. It hurt, but didn't injure and was usually enough to get me to "straighten up and fly right" as he used to say.

We all know what happens to nations that don't straighten up and fly right.

Shalom.

[nightdriver]

"How much perversion will our society tolerate before we grow up, act like adults, protect our children and save our society?"

We're following exactly the path of old Rome. Most likely answer to the question? As much as it takes to destroy us.

[hopespringseternal]

Regarding the computer and the TV, one of the best things you can do to get away from them is adopt a time-intensive hobby. There are a lot of things more fun that television: old cars, new cars, astronomy (telescope making), radio-control models, rockets, home repair, and the list goes on and on.

I find that planting myself in front of a TV or computer is a sure prescription for depression. I have to be accomplishing things.

As far as the porn spam, I have never opened one. Not because I am any less tempted than any other man, but because there is a real high probability it contains a virus.

The success of the porn viruses though, shows that few people are not tempted by porn.

[wwjdn]

bttt for honesty and integrity, and for slaming the PC lunatics

[discostu]

I must be hanging out in the wrong parts of the internet. I like porn and I almost never smut-spam. Of course I also forward ALL unsolicited bulk e-mail to my ISP's spam-cops (usually spam@your.com, sometimes spamabuse or abuse@...) regardless of content. Really nips it in the bud. Depending on what the spam in question is I often forward it to the police (like when I got spammed with the Sierra Leone scam).

I think you're blaiming the wrong people for the "perversion" of the language. In America gay has meant homosexual pretty much forever who knows where it came from, probably a slur to start with. As for "adult content" unfortunately your definitions show that it is the right term; the subject matter is for people who have reached their legal majority. And really it came from the ratings people, not the smut peddlers. What's the warning you see on TV for a "racey" movie? Contains strong language, violence and adult situations. See, it's you church ladies that started calling smut adult stuff. And now the peddlers are using it.

Languages evolve over time. Usually the evolution is a softening. George Carlin has a great bit talking about how "shell shock" (an aggressive term that effectively transmits the horrors the person has gone through) changed to "post traumatic stress disorder" (a completey jargonized term almost completely without meaning). Everything changes like that. When Jesus was around people without legs were "cripples", by my mother's generation they were "poor unfortunates" and now they're "differently abled".

And you folks are never happy. First you complain that words are dirty (getting rid of those 7 dirty words and all). And now it's too clean?! Which words are "just right"?

Further down on this thread there's a prediction that TV (I'm presuming network TV) will have frontal nudity in 4 years. I heard that prediction too... in 1978. Don't hold your breath.

[Don Myers]

America has become a place that isn't suitable even for adults.

[DouglasKC]

We had an interesting sermon at church about "adult" language...along the same lines as this.

It sure isn't adult, it's juvenile...it's sophmoric, it's adolescent, it's all anything but adult.

[lds23]

First I tried to give up smoking for Lent, but I was getting anxiety attacks. (Good thing I also gave up meat, so at least I had something going).

Anyway, to make up for the smoking, I've been giving up TV at night. What a great relief this has been, not having to watch the gay porno that passes for sitcoms.

[usconservative]

Bump for a good post, and to re-locate the resources located in it later....

[HiTech RedNeck]

"Adult Content" is short for "Adulterous Content"

[LowOiL]

I agree Cindy, thanks for the wonderful post. Keep up the good fight.

[lodwick]

Good Job - bttt

[sweetliberty]

"How much perversion will our society tolerate before we grow up, act like adults, protect our children and save our society?"

It will take until the ones promoting it are whipped soundly and have their mouths washed out with soap, in a manner of speaking. They need to be treated the age they act until they act the age they are.