I find solace in prayer, old time movies, like “Going My Way” and books and of course my family and my good friends here.
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Have also been fascinated with a number of old movies lately as well.
Was watching one last night with a teenage Shirley Temple. Don’t even know what the title was. So many themes ran through this movie: respect for parents, respect for the FATHER of the home (young girl took her father’s coat and hung it up when he came home from work ...a simple gesture of respect.) Mother was in the home, available, gentle — respect for military, PRAYER before meals, belief in God, etc. Just unbelievable how movies and culture has changed .... and it was not like women were disrespected ...more men delighted in them, and cherished them.
I KNOW that there were bad family situtions with overly dominieering fathers and women who were abused ....but don’t we STILL have those societal ills? What have we traded and what have we gotten in return for leaving these values behind in the name of progress? Is it really worth it for women to bust their butts all day at work just to slog home and be half there for their kids? (I ask MYSELF this question all the time!)
But, yes, watching the “old days” is highly therapeutic, but also highly tear inducing at times. I can’t even make it through an old Walton’s episode anymore without bawling, thinking of days gone by.
God bless and keep you, dearest LibsRJerks.
Old Hollywood had it right. At least a lot of the screen writers and directors did. I so much enjoy those old movies which reflected the good American values of those days.
You’re right. We’ve lost so much.
I love old movies for the same reason. Liberals complain about those awful old censorship codes, but I think they actually resulted in better movies. Back then movie-makers could not rely on violence, language, and nudity, but had to keep viewers’ interest using only plot, dialogue, humor, suspense, acting, etc. I hardly even go to the movies anymore because of the subtle and not-so-subtle preaching about how evil conservatives, whites, Christians, men, gun-owners, Southerners, etc. are.
I wonder if someday old movies and TV shows will be banned because they will show what our country used to be like, and that it wasn’t the evil, bigoted, hateful place everyone will be taught it was.