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Re: A Campaign against TV!
« Reply #75 on: June 07, 2009, 08:49:46 PM »
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Actually I was wondering how has The Spy's goal of not watching more than one hour of TV turned out?

Is it all you had hoped for and more?  or did you cave to the pressure and watch TV?
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Re: A Campaign against TV!
« Reply #76 on: June 08, 2009, 12:56:48 AM »
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Actually I was wondering how has The Spy's goal of not watching more than one hour of TV turned out?

Is it all you had hoped for and more?  or did you cave to the pressure and watch TV?
Since you ask, I will answer. My goals had turned out as I had planned for the most part. At nearly every chance I refused the TV, but no matter how hard I tried to the television off, someone in my family always turned it back on. Therefore, the solution has come quite recently. By allowing the cable to be cut, nobody in my household watches TV anymore. So although it took time, it worked out in the end. :) Now, I am as fervent as ever to keep away from the Television. It has allowed me the free time I have needed to read books by the week so that my stack has shrunk considerably. I am a happy person for books and enjoy them far more than television.
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Re: A Campaign against TV!
« Reply #77 on: June 08, 2009, 09:14:00 AM »
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Good reasons to keep TV:
1. UFC

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Re: A Campaign against TV!
« Reply #78 on: June 08, 2009, 09:15:54 AM »
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Ughh, I hate watching sports. Watch PBS and learn something.

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Re: A Campaign against TV!
« Reply #79 on: June 08, 2009, 10:57:21 AM »
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I once challenged my kids in m y youth group to "fast" from TV for a month.  It was the month of May during all the "sweeps" programing.  I had three students actually take me up on it and they all said the same thing.  It was hard, one even gave up during the month, but they also found that they had a lot more time to do other things they liked and, while they havent banned TV from their lives altogether, it gave them a great perspective to judge how "addicted" to TV t hey can become and it helps them limit or choose the programing they watch more carefuly.


Me, I usually watch sports (Reds in the summer and Colts in the Winter along with a little college basketball)  I also like to watch Shows off of the History or Discovery Channel or National Geographic.

The only regular show that I watch often is CSI (the original, I dont watch the other two), I also tend to watch House on reruns but now they have started to repeat the shows so I dont even watch that any more.  but I still haven seent he episode where Cutner commits suicide so I still have this gaping hole in my "House" timeline.  grrrr.

So every week I usually watch 1 hour of guarranteed programming and then anywhere from 0-12 more aditional hours depending upon how many Reds games or interesting History/discovery/nat geo chalnnel show are on.
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Re: A Campaign against TV!
« Reply #80 on: June 08, 2009, 12:36:31 PM »
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House interested me until they became too caught up in their immoral ratings if you know what I mean. ;)
I also like to watch Shows off of the History or Discovery Channel or National Geographic.
I also enjoyed these shows, but I soon realized that they often misinterpretted facts and produced faulty conclusions that I began to not trust these shows. When I lost my trust in their fact-gathering skills, the shows quickly lost appeal to me.
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