Alternative Spirituality

» pink101 - What's Their Real Problem?

In response to What's Their Real Problem? posted by Migisi:
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I think that's nothing but bull roar.
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What has happened is that our choices have been narrowed according to the mediataion we get that is put on us.
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How do I mean that?
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Simple. The quality of t-v programming gives us a choice. Our teean agers can watch crap or they can watch religious programming with some rather dry choices choices thrown in that doesn't do much when it comes to entertaining. I happened to catch some halloween comedian on the radio to day while I was driving in my car. Some guy was doing stand up about visiting a medical office where dead bodies were being dissected for some reason or another. He had the audience roaring with some of the most unfunny stuff I've ever heard. Some of the promo ads I've seen on the tube for horrow shows coming up in the next few days are nothing less than obsene. Triple x rated porno wouldn't be as bad in a certain sense.
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What is that doing to the psyche of the teen agers who will soon be running society?
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You have a choice and it's populist religion or its crap and not very much else in between. Do your kids study Shakespeare in high school? Did you? Too dry, right? So what's out there? The three stooges hitting each other over the head with hammers? Or the walking dead with mildew growing on their faces coming at the camera with arms outstretched so as to get you.
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Dumb, dumb, dumb.
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But, what do I know? I'm just an old man.
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-- posted by pink101