So in a response to my response, Greg made an interesting comment:
It will be very easy for me not to have any sort of TV at all in our house in the near future. I am almost to the point that I see absolutely no utility in it whatsoever.
I've actually been thinking along these lines quite a bit for the last couple of months because TV has become decidely less important in our household. At present we follow five shows: House, 24, Survivor, American Idol and a fifth show that I am ashamed of and will not admit to publicly. :-)
The thing is, I could happily ditch 24 and American Idol. They do absolutely nothing for me. But Sarah likes them and so I usually end up watching be default. As for the unnamed show, it is becoming imperative that I ditch it. It is so wretched, so vile, so absolutely antithetical to my values that I must give it up.
So that leaves me with House, Survivor and the NFL. I gave up baseball this season and I highly doubt that I will return. The Cubs are so organizationally inept that I no longer enjoy a single game because the time surrendered seems foolish when I know that everything will blow up by the end of the season.
So, we pay for cable and all I really want to watch is House, Survivor and the NFL. Truth is, if it weren't for the NFL, I'd probably ditch it altogether and just buy the DVD's of the two series. It would be a lot cheaper.
But here's the catch. I honestly think that we, as Christians, have an obligation to have a basic, rudimentary understanding of the culture around us. Conversations regularly occur on the subject of culture and if we are uninformed, I wonder if we in someway become irrelevant. So what do you think? Do we keep TV as a means of keeping abreast of culture?
It will be very easy for me not to have any sort of TV at all in our house in the near future. I am almost to the point that I see absolutely no utility in it whatsoever.
I've actually been thinking along these lines quite a bit for the last couple of months because TV has become decidely less important in our household. At present we follow five shows: House, 24, Survivor, American Idol and a fifth show that I am ashamed of and will not admit to publicly. :-)
The thing is, I could happily ditch 24 and American Idol. They do absolutely nothing for me. But Sarah likes them and so I usually end up watching be default. As for the unnamed show, it is becoming imperative that I ditch it. It is so wretched, so vile, so absolutely antithetical to my values that I must give it up.
So that leaves me with House, Survivor and the NFL. I gave up baseball this season and I highly doubt that I will return. The Cubs are so organizationally inept that I no longer enjoy a single game because the time surrendered seems foolish when I know that everything will blow up by the end of the season.
So, we pay for cable and all I really want to watch is House, Survivor and the NFL. Truth is, if it weren't for the NFL, I'd probably ditch it altogether and just buy the DVD's of the two series. It would be a lot cheaper.
But here's the catch. I honestly think that we, as Christians, have an obligation to have a basic, rudimentary understanding of the culture around us. Conversations regularly occur on the subject of culture and if we are uninformed, I wonder if we in someway become irrelevant. So what do you think? Do we keep TV as a means of keeping abreast of culture?
posted by Just a Few Things about Scott ... | 10:48 AM
2 Comments:
Reply got too long winded... sorry :)
I think you have to be able to have a cutoff line.
I would tend to agree that it does allow for one to keep up with pop culture thereby allowing one to better place themselves in a position to witness to someone. On the other hand I have been in situations where a conversation about a show comes up (like South Park) that I had to stop watching....where I was able to witness as well when asked why I didn’t watch such a funny and popular show.
In the end I think it’s best to try things out and make a decision based on morals, faith, and your personal threshold of the media at hand.
Slippery slopes are hard to climb back up....unless you stay alert and carry the proper equipment......
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