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3:1 If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God. 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3:3 For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory. 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 3:6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: 3:7 In the which you also walked some time, when you lived in them.
What are the most ignorned words on television? I nominate “Viewer Discretion Advised.” The content and attitude of most popular American TV programs prove that Americans use little or no discretion in deciding what programs to watch.
My dictionary defines “discretion: as: “the ability to make responsible decisions; the quality of being discrete, especially: cautious reserve in speech.”
Let me ask, do people use discretion — their “ability to make responsible decisions” — when they passively feed their eyes, ears, and minds on negativity, disrespect, vulgarity, drug use, violence, rudeness, crime, fear, crude humor, war, perversion, and profanity. Those seem to be the primary subjects of our intrusive American TV industry — which could be more accurately described as sickovision. So where is the so-called “viewer discretion?”
And where is any “cautious reserve in speech” when we continually listen to a flood of nasty, jock-shocking, rude, crude, and mean words spoken to us every night in our living room or our bedroom?
At least sickovision is honest as they gleefully poison our minds, our hearts and our society; counting their money all the way home. They warn us with a rating system for their programs: V for “graphic violence,” S for “explicit sexual activity,” and L for “crude or indecent language.” (Those are their words, not mine.)
And then they give us the most ignored words in the world: “Viewer Discretion Advised.” |
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| October 10, 2008 |
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| You are so right... |
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| October 10, 2008 |
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| Appreciate your reading this, TickleMeElmo. By the way, Elmo is rare nowadays -- good, clean TV. |
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| October 10, 2008 |
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| Interesting. I refuse to go to sleep with the tv still playing, because you never know what is playing late at night. Cartainly food for thought. |
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| October 10, 2008 |
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| You are absolutely right.. and revstarr.. we have made the mistake of not shutting off the tv before falling asleep and I have been awakened in the night with the most horrific movies playing. We have to be so careful what we feed ourselves on.... |
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| October 10, 2008 |
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| your right! |
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| October 10, 2008 |
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| That is wisdom, revstarr. |
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| October 10, 2008 |
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| Good point, Prudence. |
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| October 10, 2008 |
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| Thanks, Angela. |
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| October 10, 2008 |
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| Spot on Steve!!! I would also add,Once you have ingested"sickovision"the images and words are hard to get rid of.When you listen to music or read crude and vulgar things they will remain.... |
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| October 10, 2008 |
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| Amen, Jimmie. Output is more difficult than input. |
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| October 10, 2008 |
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| Lord, help us to boycott inappropriate shows on TV and music too. |
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| October 10, 2008 |
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| Amen, Destiny. Why should Christians feed on mental filth? |
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| October 11, 2008 |
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| The old sayinig: "GIGO -- garbage in, garbage out," is an important concept to remember and to guard against in our personal lives. |
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| October 11, 2008 |
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| We have Viewer Discretion Advised etched right onto the TV itself!! LOL! |
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| October 11, 2008 |
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| Amen, Mike! Many of us (yes, even us Christians) need "Viewer Discretion Advised" engraved not only on our TV, but also on our will, our conscience, and our remote. |
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| October 11, 2008 |
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| Even the commercials are in need of "Viewer Discretion Advised"! |
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| October 11, 2008 |
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| That's for sure, GrammyB. |
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| October 11, 2008 |
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It is ashame what TV has become especially with the cussing, nudity. It
is just trash. It is very rare that I watch TV anymore because of this. Children are so influenced by what they see on TV and parents should pay more attention to even some of the cartoons that have violence in them. |
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| October 11, 2008 |
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| Jan, that's why I call it sickovision. |
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| October 14, 2008 |
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| These things go out by prayer and fasting, AMEN steve you are definitly on to something profound, while i was away at school, God had me in a place where i had no television for almost 2 years and talk about the wonderful world of detox, i find it very hard to even watch cartoons now. |
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