Re: Sex and Violence on Television
| Posted On: 02/27/07 06:16:23 PM |
Age 48, VA |
Mr. Anderson,
I agree with your article but would have added one thing. If a person is truly a christian then they need to ask themselves: would Jesus watch TV in America? Is there any scriptures in the Bible about spending time being entertained? Is this country headed in the wrong direction? Would the Lord consider TV to be an idol??? How much time do you spend praying, reading the bible, witnessing to others in comparison to how much time you spend watching TV? Idolatry???
God Bless,
GR
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Re: Sex and Violence on Television
| Posted On: 02/23/07 04:29:12 PM |
Age 56, MN |
I know what Mr. Anderson says is true. I was in my late teens when the Viet Nam War started. When they first started broadcasting pictures of people who had been killed and/or were being killed I felt sick and I cried. After a few months of watching this every evening on the news, it did not bother me as much. After a year, it was so old hat that it did not bother me at all. I was desensitized by the continual barrage. I know that is still the situation with people today, young and old alike. But God can reverse the damage if we will shut off the TV and turn our hearts back to Him. I am living proof.
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Re: Sex and Violence on Television
| Posted On: 02/23/07 04:26:14 PM |
Age 19, VA |
I think some excellent points are made here. My only area of contention would be the call for federal regulation. Shouldn't it be up to viewers to simply turn off the television when they don't want to watch it, and programmers will be forced to respond by airing programs the populous will watch? I've never been one to put my faith in the free market, but it seems especially applicable in this situation, where the 'product' is just stories, and the actual force behind it is advertising dollars.
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Re: Sex and Violence on Television
| Posted On: 02/23/07 11:34:26 AM |
Age 60, MO |
Television is one of the worst things we can expose ourselves to--irregardless of programming content. That the programming is full of sex and violence should be even more reason to eliminate the television from our homes. This is not to say that the set itself cannot be used for viewing VCR and DVD's. The television set then comes under our control. But broadcast TV in any way shape or form, whether it be dish network or cable of any sort should be considered taboo and eliminated. I consider sex and violence in the programming to be a secondary problem compared to television's use as a medium of economic control which was predictable at the time of its creation. Also, there is a biological reaction of humans to the TV signal which leaves people mesmerized and bored, yet hyperactivated at the same time. Physiological evidence also reveals how humans literally become like the TV images they absorb. Television has little potential for beneficial programming and no potential for democratic use. Technical limits require the rejection of most information useful to human understanding. TV programming is the way it is primarily because it has to be that way. The technology of TV is predisposed to funnel understanding into a pattern appropriate for an emerging subtle form of autocracy (read fascist dictatorship, communist socialism, totalitarianism, etc.) George Cancilla
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Re: Sex and Violence on Television
| Posted On: 02/10/07 08:41:52 PM |
Age 31, ON |
I find it interesting that it is against the law in "socialist" Canada for television networks to broadcast shows with sexual or violent content between the hours of 6:00am and 9:00pm. Why can't a law like that be passed in the US?
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Re: Sex and Violence on Television
| Posted On: 02/09/07 08:54:25 AM |
Age 51, MN |
One of my professors in college loved to quote a poet who said: "though I walk in the sun for another reason, yet is my complexion changed." Applied to the media, though I watch TV to be entertained, yet is my worldview subtly changed. Those who think it does not are naive.
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Re: Sex and Violence on Television
| Posted On: 02/08/07 11:30:46 PM |
Age 56, OR |
Sorry to use what may harm sensibilities, but here goes.... Want to give your kids dog-vomit or the media? Be careful what you answer. For those who say neither...BRAVO. for those who want to argue. Tough. Make the choice. Your child, if you had to make the choice, would be healithier to eat dog-vomit than watch the media's TV. Don't do it. You are dancing with the Devil to his Satanic tune if you think you can separate yourself from the visual imact of just one quarter second unwholesome image. Just one cuss word or innuendo will stay with you. Ditch the media. You will live. Do something meanigful with your kid's brain-sponge. Don't use it to mop up sewage! You can have a TV and select videos carefully. You will not DIE, your kids will not expire from not wasting time on insanely time consuming sports. If you are a Christian, I would have expected you to have better things to do with the time the Lord God gave you. All of us will answer for the way we spent the gift of time. Look around you. Listen to what the article says. It is an indicator of a cancer that can EASILY be remedied. So do it! Ditch the media. PGW
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