Posted on 10/11/2008 2:07:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
I can’t remember the last time I watched one of those mindless shows on the alphabet networks. It might have been during the Reagan presidency...
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We lived in an area that had very poor TV reception. Without an antenna reception was impossible. So...To get rid of the TV we merely canceled the cable.
We did have a monitor with a VCR and later DVD. We would go to the library an pick up PBS, Nova, National Geographic, and History Channel productions. The children could watch these any time.
Once a week ( if the kids did all their chores) we would rent a video.
We had a few educational video games. Their favorite was "Sim City".
Yes, the children saw TV and played video games at the homes of their friends and when they visited relatives. I considered this OK and it was enough for them to keep up with what they needed to know about TV and games in our culture.
The children are adults now. Two are married with kids and none have TV in their home.
With literally hundreds of options on satellite TV, cable, netflicks, You Tube, texting, Face Book, message boards, games, etc. people simply are not all watching the same programs as they once did when I was a kid. It is **normal** not to have the biggest hit of the season because it is assumed that you are watching different "biggest hit" of the season or doing something else electronic.
But how do you successfully raise a child to be a nonconformist when a toxic culture is furiously, even violently, trying to make everyone conform?
I strongly recommend that you homeschool your children. It is an amazing and wonderful process to see how the intense and sustained effort that put into play eventually become their passionate adult work.
If they have a safe home with caring parents ( with whom they primarily identify rather than their friends) the toxic culture will not stick. Homeschooling is the best way to achieve this.
There is a huge difference in a character being gay to advance a plot line and a character being gay to advance an issue in the political landscape. I think Oscar is the former. He is gay to advance the issue of Micheal being an idiot not anything else.
I think his sexual orientation is far more an issue of what is funny than what is politically correct.
I’m also honor bound to say Go Cowboys tonight, so Go Cowboys. It is nice to be cheering on the bowl eligible team from Oklahoma tonight for once.
We don’t watch all that much TV but we do watch TV. We joke, oh who’s the homo character, etc. It seems many of the shows we watch always have a homo character or a homo storyline, briefly.
Even the shows we watch on HGTV have more homos. House Hunters is a fave of my youngest and me but seems they’re having lots of homos on lately.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
Ironically, the sodomite character on Heroes you refer to is now playing John Conner on the Terminator show.
That’s him? I didn’t even make the connection.
Alcoholics, arsonists, gamblers, sex addicts of all tastes, and others with destructive or aberrant appetites are everywhere as well. We do not celebrate or endorse them.
If a sinner is a republican, swell. We are all sinners. But I’ll not excuse or endorse or excuse or ever accept deviant sexual behavior.
Alcoholics, arsonists, gamblers, sex addicts of all tastes, and others with destructive or aberrant appetites are everywhere as well. We do not celebrate or endorse them.
If a sinner is a republican, swell. We are all sinners. But I’ll not excuse or endorse or excuse or ever accept deviant sexual behavior.
What? Don’t all heterosexual people love to hear all about gays and their lifestyle...over and over and over and over again?
Funny thing, the gay people I personally know are almost all against the Hollywood agenda. They just want to live their lives in peace and co-exist. Then there’s the one that’s not so peaceful, and not so willing to co-exist. She’s pretty loud. And not so pretty.
Greetings to you, lentulusgracchus!
I’m back and it’s good to see familiar - screen names, even if not faces!
“I’m also honor bound to say Go Cowboys tonight, so Go Cowboys. It is nice to be cheering on the bowl eligible team from Oklahoma tonight for once.”
Congratulations to your Cowboys!! That was quite the Mizzou coup! And since you are an OSU fan, I can only assume that you didn’t mind the hurting that the Horns put on the Sooners. I LOVED IT! And even my beloved alma mater, Baylor, pulled out a conference win! Go RGIII, go! It was the best football day I’ve seen in ages!! Can’t wait to see how the top 25 rankings shake out. :o)
The Texas-OU game was pretty exciting as well. I’m actually pretty worried about the game with Baylor next week. It is pretty much to the point where there isn’t a bad team in the Big XII South. Every week is just a battle.
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I hope you and yours are well and happy - we’re still kicking! And plan to do a bit more kicking, especially now that I’m back on FR! ;-)
(Is sinkspur still around?)
What’s RW - I forgot! (I need to kick myself in the brain a little - amazing how I forget stuff if I don’t immediately need it.)
Don't kick yourself! ;)
I guess I forgot what RW meant since I so rarely visit it.
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