I Could Live Without Cable Tv
I read an article some years ago titled, "I killed that savage beast!" I cannot remember who wrote it since it was so long ago.
I was about a family man who, after being fed up with the time TV robbed from his family that he unplugged the thing and carried it to the trash heap. Then, he wanted to put it out of his family's misery, so took his double barrel shot gut and shot the thing to bits so no one else would fall victim to its evil influence.
From that point on, the family enjoyed the rest of their family time together. They always found other wonderful things to do together. Their changed their "favorite TV night" into eating their "TV dinners" by the radio.
TV is so consuming, people talk about shows as if they were reality TV. One Christian lady got so infatuated by a certain soap opera that she went to church one night and requested prayer for a character who was facing some form of surgery the next day (episode)!
I have not had TV for almost five years now and I don't miss it at all. I do watch youtube to help me sleep for a couple hours a day. I watch classic TV shows such a "The Andy Griffith Show" and other good moral shows and movies from the 70's (my era) and before. I am happier and more fulfilled without "that savage beast" in my life! The only thing I miss about it is keeping up with the news, even though most of it is "bad" news.
I was about a family man who, after being fed up with the time TV robbed from his family that he unplugged the thing and carried it to the trash heap. Then, he wanted to put it out of his family's misery, so took his double barrel shot gut and shot the thing to bits so no one else would fall victim to its evil influence.
From that point on, the family enjoyed the rest of their family time together. They always found other wonderful things to do together. Their changed their "favorite TV night" into eating their "TV dinners" by the radio.
TV is so consuming, people talk about shows as if they were reality TV. One Christian lady got so infatuated by a certain soap opera that she went to church one night and requested prayer for a character who was facing some form of surgery the next day (episode)!
I have not had TV for almost five years now and I don't miss it at all. I do watch youtube to help me sleep for a couple hours a day. I watch classic TV shows such a "The Andy Griffith Show" and other good moral shows and movies from the 70's (my era) and before. I am happier and more fulfilled without "that savage beast" in my life! The only thing I miss about it is keeping up with the news, even though most of it is "bad" news.
61-69, M
