It's getting harder to watch television these days

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AlexBr said:
Seventh heaven, I Love Lucy, and Downton Abbey are some clean t.v shows that I liked. Also pretty much any cooking show or something like House Hunters and stuff like that
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Even with House Hunters… we’ve given HGTV the tongue-in-cheek nickname, “The Your House Isn’t Good Enough Channel.” Likewise, with cooking shows, I have to be careful about what The Screwtape Letters called “the gluttony of delicacy.”

Even with EWTN, there is the same temptation as there is in the book store–or even here!–to spend more time talking about praying or reading about prayer than actually praying! It is easy to consider time spent watching TV together as time spent together. It kind of is, but it kind of isn’t, too. TV and internet use can easily take an inordinate amount of time and brain attention.
 
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For some, it is the GOLDEN AGE of Sexual Perversion and Immorality on TV.

More fornication.
More profanity.
More fornication.
More portrayals of graphic killing.
More portrayals of heroes who aren’t heroes but killers and/or vigilantes.
More portrayals of supposed heroes working with villains.
More profanity.
More nihilism.

Good? No. Bad, very bad. Except for those who want to build a media world that suits them.
Reject it. Don’t put those thoughts in your head.
 
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BoomBoomMancini said:
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If I remember rightly from 4 1/2 decades ago, it was the makers of the shows in question and their “professional organizations” (like the Motion Picture Association of America, etc.) who invented the terms “Mature Adult” and “Mature Audiences”, and those are the shows and movies we secretly saw while “maturing” in the “culture” into “mature adults”.

Personally, I am saddened and do not watch; I do not care any more to be “mature” or “sophisticated” (anyone ever look up the definition of “sophistry”?).

John Martin
 
Just like stores selling porn in the 1970s were called ‘Adult Bookstores.’ There was nothing Adult or mature about it. They were selling porn to poison hearts and minds. To create masturbation addicts. Those behind this knew addiction was going to occur.

Porn - not Adult Entertainment
 
You know… Even non Christian parents might have a problem about what can they watch with their kids and spouse together as a family?

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It should not be difficult to maintain faith even amidst such images, if not characters. Just think of events in the Bible where the Lord dined with prostitutes, etc.
 
False and dangerous thinking. Dealing with actual prostitutes and the homeless, which I’ve done, is entirely different than watching crude portrayals of casual sex and women acting like prostitutes. That is not entertainment. It’s poison.
 
The example given is from a channel called Animal Planet. From what I know, such programming is not meant to be pure entertainment.
 
Pattylt said:
I am secular so TV shows that reference religions wouldn’t be a concern for me BUT the quality of so many shows is so awful that I, too, struggle to find good shows to watch. I don’t expect a show to always challenge my intelligence or raise my awareness but I don’t want it to make me feel stupid either.

I don’t have problems with bad language or sexual content but it better be there to advance the plot or have some reason other than shock value! What IQ are they reaching for these days?
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And the acting is horrible in most cases, especially sitcoms, although they are usually purposely cheesy. I find myself watching House on Amazon Prime to catch a few I haven’t seen yet.
 
Acting is another big problem! I’m amazed how many shows have some very good actors and horrid ones in the same show. It just totally takes you out of the scene when someone can barely give a line without making me cringe!

Love House…and I worked in a hospital for 27 years as a med tech. My only complaint is that even student doctors do not run lab tests. They are lost in a lab!
 
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Love House…and I worked in a hospital for 27 years as a med tech. My only complaint is that even student doctors do not run lab tests. They are lost in a lab!
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Yeah for the most part working as a GP is rather boring. At least in comparison to the fabricated, but eccentric Dr. House!
 
To some extent, I agree but I know some very mature and sophisticated 18 yo that think most TV is crap, too. And the younger generations really don’t watch TV at all… YouTube all the time! Which is sometimes better and sometimes even worse!
 
If only TV would give us something to inspire us .

Two short videos below show how good TV can be . The first is from BBC’ Songs of Praise and the second from ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent .


 
Seriously though…sometimes you must go through people’s back door to get to their front door to reach people and tell them about your faith. You can’t be totally oblivious to major television shows out there that many people watch. Understanding the television they are watching may be part of that.

I’m not saying go overboard with it…

Thoughts?
 
He also showed mercy towards them, and stuck with them when most didn’t, including the religious leaders who criticized Him.

That’s the point that I want to make. Rather than avoid what goes against one’s Catholic faith, one can also confront it. Of course, one can’t do that as a television viewer, but when one meets a Wiccan, one can choose not to shun him or her and follow what Jesus did, which was not simply a call to repentance but genuine mercy.

That’s why I was taken aback when I was told that I was arguing for something “false” and “dangerous.”
 
Why can’t one “do that as a television viewer”? I watch far below the national average of TV. I want to tell everyone how bad it is accurately. I never accept what I’m watching as “no big deal.” Hours and hours of poison every day will affect you - mentally and spiritually. TV portrays a highly perverted and dysfunctional view of the world. I can’t relate to what I’m seeing. I could in the 1960s. Today? No.

I knew a Wiccan but he was less than enthusiastic about it after a short time. I certainly didn’t shun him.
 
One cannot confront the character that one sees on television for obvious reasons, unless the program is live and is being shot nearby.

I did not argue that what is seen is “no big deal,” but that world won’t simply go away as one turns off the TV, insist that one can’t relate with what one sees, or wish that one were back in the 1960s, whether on TV or elsewhere.
 
I will warn everyone that most TV portrayals of relationships and families are pure poison. If what you say is true, then stop scripted TV and put a camera on a street corner. Which, by the way, I don’t recommend. Reality and living in it requires requires a strong, disciplined approach. Watching hours of uncivilized behavior acted out is bad. Very bad, especially if done daily. I don’t live in the world. I only interact with parts of it.
 
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