television

Can we make it
less... Meaningless?

The wisest man in
history was Solomon. A great deal of Solomon's wisdom can be gleaned
from the Bible. One lesson that can be easily overlooked in what
Soloman has to say about "Vanity".

Ecclesiastes 12:8 NIV

"Meaningless!
Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Everything is
meaningless!"

The
average time an American household spends watching TV is at an
all-time high. We spend 8 Hr. 21 Min a day watching television. 1

Also
internet usage among Americans is rapidly increasing. Most polls
state that the average internet usage by Americans to be around 2 Hr.
12 Min a day. 2  read more »

Digital Destruction

The evening news and American pop culture cinema, what do they have in common? They both are sensationalistic, disturbing, and more appropriately, not for children. The last movie I saw, through the spaces of my fingers that is, was The Last House on the Left. My brother talked me into going and restrained me several times from leaving, it was too violent and explicit. In the beginning of the film a young girl was violently raped, you could see it coming like a slow motion car wreck. The young lady in the movie portrayed an underage beauty, the camera panned her entire figure as she playfully joked around with her girlfriend, her clothes dangling off her fully developed body.

They accentuated her sexuality, clothing it will juvenile naivety.; it was enough to make the old men feel like perverts and the young ones shamefully not look away as she was assaulted. The victim's girlfriend tried to stop the rape and was violently impaled by the thrust of a giant hunting knife, she took an agonizingly long time to die, it truly rattled me, I had to keep telling myself that it was just a movie. I think it was this movie that motivated me to vow not to let my daughter watch anything more controversial than the animal channel.  read more »