TV or no TV ?

[JM]

Without TV, how will you watch EWTN?

 

[kvanlaan]

EWTN? I had to google that one, you heathen papist!

 

[Reed]

you will never regret getting rid of the TV -- think of it this way -- is there any redeeming value in the tv programming?

we have a tv but we only use it to watch our own family home videos, dvds/videos that are approved by myself or my wife and for watching as a family the one, single, only wholesome program left on broadcast TV -- and that is....

The Lawrence Welk Show!
Saturdays 6:00 Twin Cities Public Television channel 17

 

[VictorBravo]

The Lawrence Welk Show!
Saturdays 6:00 Twin Cities Public Television channel 17

Oh My!

That show, when it was on live, scared me like no other. I fled the premises if it was on.

 

[BobVigneault]

Wunnerful, wunnerful.
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[Calvibaptist]

I often think of getting rid of, at the very least, my cable and, at the most, my tv. Then I think of the month of March and how the three-week Madness would be sorely missed and I can't bring myself to do it. Besides, the new season of Heroes comes on in a month.

BTW, where are all the people who posted Simpson's videos in the other post? I find it interesting that none of them have responded.

In actuality, we watch tv rarely. I find now that we even turn it off and listen to my iPod, since I got one of those iHomes to plug it into.

 

[ReformedWretch]

I watch several programs a week and I don't feel bad about it. I give of myself about 343 days a year to kids and I don't have time for much else besides TV (not including Church, bible study, and reading) in regard to my entertainment. Shows I like include-

-Sports (Football mostly)
-Law and Order SVU
-Smallville
-Lost
-Battlestar Galctica
-The Simpsons
-Survivor
-The Apprentice

I do however try to go to as many Penn State football games as I can LIVE! That is by far my all time favorite entertainment option. I'd travel to and sit with my worst enemy if it were the only way I could go (lol)

 

[Ivan]

Oh My!

That show, when it was on live, scared me like no other. I fled the premises if it was on.

I like it. It reminds me of my beloved grandparents.

 

[VictorBravo]

I like it. It reminds me of my beloved grandparents.

Sorry Ivan, I was partly joking, although I did flee the house. But I have to say that my grandmother didn't like it either. But I think I inherited my antipathy for TV from her. She didn't like anything.

 

[Ivan]

Sorry Ivan, I was partly joking, although I did flee the house. But I have to say that my grandmother didn't like it either. But I think I inherited my antipathy for TV from her. She didn't like anything.

No offense taken at all, Victor. I was just commenting.

I didn't care for the show when I was a teenager, of course. I knew what I'd be watching if I were at my grandparents on a Saturday night. However, I like to watch once in a while now. Kinda of like honoring my grandparents.

 

[BobVigneault]

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

---- Groucho Marx

 

[Me Died Blue]

As others have said, it can serve as many things from education to art to culture to entertainment. I really do view many of the dramas I regularly watch as forms of art, and cannot see any principled different between them and things such as music and theater. Some examples of wonderfully-executed art ...

-House
-My Wife and Kids
-The O.C.
-Prison Break
-The Rachael Ray Show
-Seinfeld
-Shark



(I'm actually serious, but the smilies are to clarify that I realize many people would strongly disagree with the adjectival application of "wonderfully-executed" to a couple of the shows above!)

 

[caddy]

Same here Jeff

I love Home & Garden Network, on Saturday Mornings at 12:00:

Gardening by the Yard with Paul James. I love GPTV, the Discovery Channel and the History Channel.

...and I would be lost without reruns of the Andy Griffith Show!

Blast my big screen??? Don't think so!

Seriously. While there are many horrible things on television, and it is perfectly in one's liberty to have one, or not to have one, television can be a fun source of entertainment. We don't watch a whole lot of tv, but there are certain show we watch regularly when in season (Lost, 24, and Heroes). We also love renting a good movie on the weekend.

Christians should certainly guard what they watch, but I think that there are shows that are not too bad at the same time.

BTW, we do not have cable either. Just an antenna.

 

[ReformedWretch]

lol! I've seen all the Walton's episodes so much that I can bear no more. My family was called that by friends and such for years! As the oldest I had to be John Boy of course, which I wasn't really crazy about.

 

[caddy]

HGTV! I even get emails from these guys with great information.

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_soil_water_watering/article/0,,HGTV_3637_3036450,00.html