Does anyone also not watch tv?

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A while ago, I stopped watching tv, except EWTN. I still watch movies but choose them carefully. Almost all my friends watch a lot of tv…so I’m wondering if there’s anyone else here like me 🙂 I don’t think ALL tv shows are bad…and if you watch tv it’s not like you have to choose between “Sex and the City” and “South Park” lol. Some shows are much better. And I don’t think that people who watch tv are somehow more ‘worldly’ than I am. But I found that it had a negative influence on my life and once I stopped watching it, I found that I started looking at the world differently.

any thoughts? 🙂
 
i do not watch tv either,
i will watch an occasional religious video, such as Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, or some saint movie,
but other then that, i do not even have cable,
i use to watch tv just like anyone else, but i’ve found after getting away from it for awhile, i’m just so much happier without it, it didn’t just waste my time, it had a bad effect on me(like you mentioned with yourself)
and i agree, it’s not so much the tv itself that’s bad, because it’s really not, it’s the shows there are, and the excessive watching of tv that is bad.

anyways, how i look at it, the world is doing rather terrible right now, and if you don’t fit in with the world, you must be doing something right 😛
 
Monica4316 said:
A while ago, I stopped watching tv, except EWTN. I still watch movies but choose them carefully. Almost all my friends watch a lot of tv…so I’m wondering if there’s anyone else here like me 🙂 I don’t think ALL tv shows are bad…and if you watch tv it’s not like you have to choose between “Sex and the City” and “South Park” lol. Some shows are much better. And I don’t think that people who watch tv are somehow more ‘worldly’ than I am. But I found that it had a negative influence on my life and once I stopped watching it, I found that I started looking at the world differently.

any thoughts? 🙂
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I’d be the biggest couch potato there ever was, but my wife won’t stand for it. I have only broadcast tv, which means I may get a channel or I may not, especially since the switching over to DTV by the gvt.

So it’s Seinfeld reruns and a little pbs for me.
 
Whenever I visit my aunts and grandma in another province, I’d watch the cable TV there to see what’s new on stuff like Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, or maybe even AXN and movie channels like HBO.

Sadly though, it’s never been able to compete with the internet when it comes to giving stuff that I wanna watch. 😉 There’s more variety too. Most of the anime on Cartoon Network are either kiddie or waaaay behind the times. XD
 
Well I don’t really have that much time to watch TV anyways, and when I do most of the shows don’t really appeal to me very much. It’s hard to find good shows to watch. But I agree, some shows do have a negative influence… plus I find that TV just encourages me to waste time. Even when there’s really nothing good on, and I’m watching TV, a lot of times I won’t want to turn it off. But I’m too busy for that now… which I think is a good thing 🙂
 
Monica4316 said:
A while ago, I stopped watching tv, except EWTN. I still watch movies but choose them carefully. Almost all my friends watch a lot of tv…so I’m wondering if there’s anyone else here like me 🙂 I don’t think ALL tv shows are bad…and if you watch tv it’s not like you have to choose between “Sex and the City” and “South Park” lol. Some shows are much better. And I don’t think that people who watch tv are somehow more ‘worldly’ than I am. But I found that it had a negative influence on my life and once I stopped watching it, I found that I started looking at the world differently.

any thoughts? 🙂
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I haven’t had a TV set since 1985. My POSSLQ and I broke up after being together 10 years, she took the TV set, and I’ve never bothered to get a replacement. I undertsand that there might be some good programs I am missing, but I am also missing all those commercials.:banghead:

I do have radio, and here in Los Angeles County we have a Classical Music station (KUSC 91.5 FM) and a Jazz station (KJZZ 88.1 FM). Both commercial free, sort of. Plus reading. No newspapers and few magazines.:compcoff:
 
I don’t…
I don’t even do UTUBES

I do get books on CD
I get DVDs
 
I gave my television away several years ago, and have not missed it. I found that so much material found in television programs and movies IS a negative influence, either overtly or covertly. The enemy of souls can be very surreptitious in his efforts to influence the thoughts of men. I do think that the messages of television and movies simply does not lift the heart toward God. When was the last time you saw a nationally broadcast television program that expressed the message that the whole duty of man is to fear God and keep His commandments?

Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”

Psalm 101:3-4: "I will not set bfore my eyes anything that is base . . . Perverseness of heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil."

I was also concerned with the amount of time I wasted watching television and movies. How could I justify watching some silly movie for 2 hours, but I could not spend the same amount of time in Eucharistic Adoration?

I also had the same experience you did, Monica, I noticed a change in my perception of the world when I removed that influence from my life.
 
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I was also concerned with the amount of time I wasted watching television and movies. How could I justify watching some silly movie for 2 hours, but I could not spend the same amount of time in Eucharistic Adoration?
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When you’re a movie critic. 😉
 
kimmielittle said:
I do get books on CD
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Hello, Kimmie! 👋 Yes, I recommend books on CD, and audiobooks that can be downloaded from the Internet. I listen to LOTS of books while I’m doing housework, running errands, working a jigsaw puzzle, sewing, exercising, etc. etc. I have the Bible on CD and listen to that while I’m commuting to and from work. That’s what is so wonderful about audiobooks–you can listen to them while doing other things.
 
I don’t watch network TV and have not in years, I sometimes look at the new shows once, but they are so dreadful, the comedies so dreary and unfunny, the dramas sacrifice real drama for perverted sex wherever possible, there is nothing of redeeming value, 900 channels and not much to watch. my TIVO records some programs on EWTN, the old movie channels, one or two PBS programs, one or two from Hallmark and now that we are fixing our house up a coupe of the DIY reality shows.
 
Miss_Linda said:
Hello, Kimmie! 👋 Yes, I recommend books on CD, and audiobooks that can be downloaded from the Internet. I listen to LOTS of books while I’m doing housework, running errands, working a jigsaw puzzle, sewing, exercising, etc. etc. I have the Bible on CD and listen to that while I’m commuting to and from work. That’s what is so wonderful about audiobooks–you can listen to them while doing other things.
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Hiyas 🙂

Two of my favorite readers are Mr Jim Dale and Mr. Martin Shaw. I’m saving my money to get the Nancy Drew Books 🙂
 
I don’t watch much, but it has nothing to do with religious convictions. I’m of the mind that tv isn’t the sex crazed madhouse everyone seems to think it is. When i DO sit down to watch TV, I find plenty of good shows on, and I can’t stand Hallmark or other such diabetes-inducing drivel.

I’d rather be online for my down time. I do watch my favorite TV shows on DVD, though. If they’re good enough to buy, they’re good enough to watch over and over! I’d watched all 50 episodes of Code Geass at least 5 times, as well as my favorite movies.

When I DO watch tv, it’s usually discovery channel, History channel, TLC or Nick at Nite
 
I’m happy to say that I haven’t owned a television since 2003. Since then I’ve watched some TV at other people’s houses, but that tends to only happen while visiting family when conversations run dry.

I find the biggest blessing I get from not owning/watching television is that I have so much more time to educate myself. I can’t remember the last day that’s gone by that I haven’t read for at least an hour (with the exception of when I get the flu or what not). Friends and family are always telling me how much they wish they could dedicate as much time to reading as I do but then shudder at the mere mention of giving up television. :rolleyes:

I’ve tried to give up the internet too, but that’s been a little more difficult. Especially since I’m still in college and often classes require students to use the internet to do research for various projects and papers.
 
I stopped watching television years ago because I decided reading is more fun.
 
I don’t watch TV at all. I got the converter box so that my sisters’ husbands can watch sports when they all come over for dinner.

I like to read, listen to CD’s, and sometimes, though rarely, watch a DVD.
 
Family of four kids - all teens. No TV, no complaints. Killed the last one about ten years ago.
 
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