I do not own a television. We gave away our tiny television 7 years ago. I own a couple of computers personally and in my company office for my employees… but none of them have television transmission receivers, no cable subscriptions. You should try zero television for at least 1 year and see how much personal growth can happen to you. For starters, television is so darn awful and conclusively harmful for babies. They need personal, human stimulation and interaction. Would you want your children to grow up st—-?
In my son’s school, Manila Waldorf, everyone knows how bad television is for children. Anthroposophic medicine knows, all the natural and holistic healers know, anyone not aligned with profiteering from television knows how awful television is.
For starters, the scenes on TV change every few seconds… children’s mental wirings are not yet complete so they grow up damaged. The conversations on scripted and edited television are unnatural and non-interactive, the children grow up damaged. And children grow up to be commanded by the television marketing advertising machine… they become zombies, slaves to advertising… you see it everyday… pathetic. Mental faculties? Thinking capacities? Situation analysis? Reasoning? Confined in the idiot box, the boob tube… laughable… but profitable! Ummm yeah, I want to get my shot at marketing to zombies too and getting some of that cash too…
You think television only stunts children? Television stops adults from growing up too! In my case, I am glad that in 2005 when I got sick of eczema I was no longer a tv watcher, I was able to think a way out of the mental confines of the western medical / drug establishment. I don’t use shampoo, I don’t use soap when I bathe, I don’t use commercial deodorants… you wouldn’t know unless I told you. I no longer yearn for any mass marketing ploy, toy, gadget, fast food… because I don’t watch any advertising. This non watching of television has made it pretty easy for me to try out and stick to diets that I know are awesomly beneficial. As some of you know, I promote a Raw Paleolithic Diet. I’m the network administrator of http://www.rawpaleoforum.com , come and join us there and experience a whole new world of health.
The UK Daily Telegraph has gotten wind of just how bad television is… you won’t see this on TV, so you had better surf on over to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4074606/Two-year-olds-to-be-screened-for-speech-problems.html
Not watching television will free you from many mental shackles… TV is a selling box to benefit the advertisers and will only say positive things about the advertisers. My in laws have a television set with no antena and no cable subscription, it is merely hooked up to a DVD / USB player and they watch movies or documentaries they choose to watch.
Not watching television is one of the first freedoms you should experience. Freedom from the matrix of conformity, freedom of time… now you have so much more time with your family, your hobbies, expanding your mind, in more engaging activities. Freedom to seek and expand knowledge. There is no hope of expanding knowledge with TV as the purpose of TV is to focus your attention to be commanded to buy, buy, buy.
I believe everything you say, I am the same. I have not had tv for 3 years, what a negative investment!! I’m interested in this form of living you conduct by not using shampoo and whatever you do. please message me back.
I agree with you that TV is bad. I believe it has contributed to the way society is today: high divorce rates, along with teen pregnancy and abortion. TV is ruining the families who have them in their home and religiously watch it. And if the familiy is ruined? Society is next.
Kristen: How is television responsible for teen pregnancy? Teen’s are getting pregnant due to the fact that they have little to no knowledge of contraception.
People are getting divorced because of sex (with others), time (not spent together…and it’s not because of television.), money (not enough of in their mind to keep stable), and abuse.
I can easily say that oranges are causing cancer, and that statement would fit in the paragraph of ridiculous statements you just posted.
Television is great. I watch a healthy amount of it, and am I obese? Nope..I’m actually pretty fit and workout often.(At the place of my choice, with the equipment of my choice.)
Do I go and rush out and buy everything that I can because I just saw a commercial for it? Nope…my house is pretty simple, not because I can’t afford anything, but because I like it that way.
Do I use shampoo? Yes I do actually, I spend a lot of time out in the sun, which dries my scalp a lot, and well I personally don’t like it when my shoulders are white with dandruff when I’m in a meeting or gathering.
Television employs millions of people from a technical aspect (cameramen, lighting personnel, etc.) to a creative side (actors, writers, editors)
What is the difference from your in-laws watching dvds of their choice to somebody watching the television programs of their choice?
There are some great television programs being aired. I suggest you watch some when you get a chance. In fact you don’t even need a television, just a computer.
Here: http://www.hulu.com/
Please quit using television as a scapegoat for what you think is wrong with our society. There are a million things wrong with it. Yes some people may use it and view it in the wrong way, but don’t instantly categorize all television watchers into ignorant mindless zombies.
Any good television programs can be downloaded via torrents. Or via DVD compilations.
No commercials. The commercials are all wrong. And the commercials influence the content of those television programs.
TV is about making money, about selling the advertisements. All of those tv programs must conform to the advertisers.
So you will not see on primetime commercial television a daily bashing and thrashing of shampoos, of soaps, of drugs, of fast foods.
TV is all about $$$$$$$$$$ follow the $$$$$$$$$$$$$ if you don’t follow the $$$$$$$$$$$$ your show will FLOP.
Calling a spade a spade is called HONEST OPINION.
It’s not scape goating.
TRUTH FROM MY PERSPECTIVE.
Watch tv and be programmed yourself.
The reason a lot of us hang around in the net is because it’s easier to find truth and REAL PEOPLE here than in the artificial ad supported world of TV.
Turn off the TV, plug that TV in your internet surfing box. It’s time for those TV networks to just be another minor channel in youtube.