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Post by guest on Aug 19, 2011 14:37:53 GMT -5
I discovered that the house that we have our Sunday morning meeting in has a T.V.  Now don't get me wrong I am not suggesting that I am the perfect christian ,far from it. But there is no doubt in my mind that a T.V does not belong in any christian house. And a elders house should be the lead example. But what do I do know ? I don,t really want to "tittel tale" on them but I also won't feel comfortable attending meetings there any longer.  |
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Post by lucky on Nov 11, 2011 12:48:40 GMT -5
;D internet is worse than tv. evil stuff from all over the world. In fact tv is nothing compared to billions of evil pages
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Post by handsomehero on Dec 16, 2011 4:55:42 GMT -5
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Post by asfa on Jan 5, 2012 1:06:36 GMT -5
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Post by daddy on Feb 2, 2012 18:53:31 GMT -5
I discovered that the house that we have our Sunday morning meeting in has a T.V. Now don't get me wrong I am not suggesting that I am the perfect christian ,far from it. But there is no doubt in my mind that a T.V does not belong in any christian house. And a elders house should be the lead example. But what do I do know ? I don,t really want to "tittel tale" on them but I also won't feel comfortable attending meetings there any longer. just pray for them,and it will work itself out |
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Post by jeremiah427 on Mar 11, 2019 10:19:40 GMT -5
I am responding to this post really late. I wonder what views are now, March 2019. I was a University Professor in West Virginia until I retired there in 2013. We were pretty much required to have television because of online education.
I had a small one, and asked the workers about it. Scott Hanks and Carleton Schooney were the workers in my field. I'm not sure about the Educational background of Carleton, but Scott Hanks attended Purdue University and has a degree in Engineering. (I do not recall what kind, but I believe Electrical Engineering.)
Scott said that the younger workers had pretty much accepted television at that time. He pointed out that all younger workers at that time, had a laptop, and you could watch television on that source. He also pointed out that he knew of no workers at that time, who did not have a cell phone, and you could watch television on that source as well. He asked, "What's the difference?"
Carleton affirmed what Scott said. He was the senior worker. Scott was new the year I met him. Carleton said you have to make decisions about what you watch, and how often you watch television. He felt there were problems in not going to church because of a movie, or what not, and missing church to watch something. His concern was with letting television control one's life.
My own position today: I do not like a big television that dominates a room to where you can hardly visit. One of my son's who does not profess, has a large entertainment center in his basement, with a bar etc. It is about like a mini theater, and the large television screen takes up pretty much one wall. When that thing is on, usually the volume is so loud my ears ring. I find it difficult to talk about anything, and pretty disrespectful.
In 2014, I taught Psychology at a small college in North Dakota, for one semester. I was just filling in until they could get someone to fill a vacated position. They liked my Clinical Psychology background, so I filled in. Classes were held in a small lecture hall with theatre-style seating. Students were all issued laptops by the university. Professors were forbidden from telling students they could not have them on during classes, because the university had issued the laptops. It was felt "We cannot issue laptops and then tell students they cannot use them." I tried to lecture that semester because I was hired late and did not have time to set up classes for computerized teaching and learning. Students were rude. They watched football games etc, during class, for example, and prett much paid no attention to my lectures. I even explained to them one the first day that, because of my being hired late, the course was going to be lecture. I was not permitted to tell them they could not do this. I think it was the worst experience of teaching and learning that I ever had. If I had had time, I would have set the class up on computer.
So, I find this similar with television watching. People do not visit well when television is blaring.
Our daughter and two teenage granddaughters live with us. The mother gave the girls cell phones. Most of the time they walk around with headphones on and you cannot even talk with them. I think this is quite rude. Typically the girls keep their door locked in their bedroom. Sometimes I have been up at 1 or 2 am, using the restroom, and they have left the door open, and zi will see them in their beds fully awake, watching a movie on their cellphones.
Finally, I did some research, back when I was s professor, on texting in the schools during class time. I looked primarily at elementary and secondary schools. What I found was interesting. In the studies I saw, researchers found that the teachers were texting during class time, much more than the students, and so much, that they could not even do a good study of student texting.
I have seen firsthand where technology has gotten out of hand.
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Now don't get me wrong I am not suggesting that I am the perfect christian ,far from it. But there is no doubt in my mind that a T.V does not belong in any christian house.
