TV Turnoff (the worst) week

POSTED BY: ilovefirefly
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 22:13
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NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 5:01 AM

"TV makes you lose IQ points the longer you watch. There have been actual studies." as Stephanie says, pretty near, in Short Circuit.

That said, I watched plenty in high school and college, and graduated from both with good, but not excellent, grades.

I learned how to turn the TV off, and sit under the bright light at the dining room table all by myself, just me and my school books and my homework papers.

I also learned how to ignore the idiot box, even when it was playing loud in the next room.

But probably the most important thing I learned, was to read; and to enjoy reading; to revere books; and, to learn from them and be entertained by them.

I also ate the crappy, unhealthy food my parents served, and prefer it still , when I can get it, and was tall and skinny into my late 30's. Now, mid-50's , I am getting fat, but still don't have serious heart or blood pressure problems.

Now-a-days, I don't watch much TV, but I do choose to watch shows or movies on DVD. *I* *C*H*O*O*S*E*.

I watch things that I want to, not just what's on, and I watch it with full concentration, not just as background noise to dinner or life or work.

ILOVEFIREFLY

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 5:09 AM

My estimated IQ is in the mensa range and ive been watching television since i was young

CAUSAL

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:53 PM

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Originally posted by ilovefirefly:
Different medical reports contradict each other i once read something that said that video games lowered your heart rate but due to my science experiment work ive found that the person actually has a heavy increase on the really violent games and action-based ones

I don't doubt that there's some disagreement, but which studies are they? When/where were they published? Are they available online? Again, I understand that you disagree, but mere disagreement doesn't entail truth.

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HERO

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:31 PM

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Originally posted by ilovefirefly:
There are some people who are trying to get rid of television and aren't looking at the facts

Those people produce reality TV or are Fox TV executives.

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FINN MAC CUMHAL

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:16 PM

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Originally posted by ilovefirefly:
My estimated IQ is in the mensa range and ive been watching television since i was young

Did you estimate it yourself?

I think your overstating the issue. There is no real concerted effort to get rid of television in this country, but television does pose a problem for education, particularly in children. Children who spend a lot of time watching television do poorly, on average, in school, and it’s really not hard to see why. It’s not that there isn’t educational programs on TV or that TV can’t be educational, but generally speaking, most shows on TV are not educational.

Most successful people do not spend hours everyday watching TV. I, for one, carefully control the TV time in my house. I curtail my television time to only a few shows. On top of that, I’ll watch the news regularly and occasional shows on the Discovery Channel or the History Channel when they strike me. I think that’s a responsible use of television, but that’s not typically the way children obsessed with television watch.

I know kids who would sit in front on the television from the time they got home from school to the time they were forced into bed by their parents. One kid’s explanation for watching TV like that was that he didn’t want to miss his favorite TV show (singular). Meaning that there was only one show on that he was actually interested in, but would sit entranced in front of the television for hours watching shows he couldn’t have cared less about until that one show came on. Afterwards he would continue watching for lack of anything else to do. That is not healthy, but that’s the way a lot of children watch TV in the US.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

MALBADINLATIN

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 5:00 PM

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Snarky snark snark - cause it urks the hell out of me when people blame things on everything except where it belongs - on themselves. Biggest problem in this country? No Personal Responsibility. "The buck stops everywhere else but here" should be the USA motto.

Sooooooooooooo True! Americans are so spoiled. We are all so good at finding someone to demonize, then blame them for eveything till they're no longer demons. Like communists in the 50's-80's, now we have Islam. Anyway, I couldn't agree more

"You can believe your eyes...or you can believe me." -Groucho Marx

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 5:52 PM

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Originally posted by Malbadinlatin:
Sooooooooooooo True! Americans are so spoiled. We are all so good at finding someone to demonize, then blame them for eveything till they're no longer demons. Like communists in the 50's-80's, now we have Islam. Anyway, I couldn't agree more

Yeah, I’m not sure either communism or Islam are good examples of that, since both (in one form or another) were and are very blame worthy for an awful lot of horrible things. But clearly there is some intent in certain areas of social attitude to seek blame that doesn’t require a personal admission. However, even that can become a form of deception to avoid blame. I’m a strong advocate of personal responsibility, but I’ve seen people desperate to push all the blame onto person responsibility, when in almost all cases, there is a degree of blame to be shared. Television is one of those things. Take graphic violence in the media for example: some people insist that we should uncritically accept such graphic violence on television because it is our responsibility not to watch it, but that is as much bullshit as saying that we have no responsibility in the matter. As always a degree of reason is important.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

ILOVEFIREFLY

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 5:13 PM

-snip-

CONSTANCE

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 5:23 PM

Turn off tv for a week?? If you need to do that to get meaning back into your life, youre either haveing deeper rooted problems, or youre just watching the wrong shows...

turn off tv..hah...

Constance

ILOVEFIREFLY

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 10:13 PM

I am very sorry if I offended anyone with some of my posts. I really didn't mean to diss anyone. I am very sorry. Really really I will be a try not to rush and to keep my spelling grammatically correct in my posts from now on. I like to see other evidence and other people's views on this, and will try to not get defensive

I do understand in certain cases that TV can cause obesity because it can keep children inside instead of going out to exercise, and I understand that maybe these people are trying to improve that, maybe make some family togetherness time even, but I do believe that things can be learned on TV. There are things like cartoons and other shows that might not allow people to learn from them, but there are also shows that, although are in it for the entertainment, can give people knowledge and can be good family shows.

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