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Originally Posted by Tyrel Sackett
I am most certainly not here to call names, but to challenge the modern day thinking that television is okay.
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I don't know how long you've been here, but in my short time I have not noticed any of the regular participants being persuaded of anything. It's just a place to voice opinions, visit, rant and rave, and argue. I mean, umm,
discuss.
My efforts have been going along just swimmingly.
When I reason out principles and such and extract an irrefutable point, my spelling and grammar are closely scrutinized, and others continue the discussion on minor side issues in a post. I've posted several unanswerable questions, which are traditionally considered signs of merit.
We are accused of playing dodgeball, and yet they employ the same tactic.
You're dealing with made-up minds, not seekers. I've tried to convince myself that seekers, lurkers, and perhaps posterity might benefit from my inclusion of divergent and opposing viewpoints. These days I am starting to wonder if we aren't all just in a little room banging pots with spoons.
Every once in a while even the good liberal players will slip up and show a crack in their foundation.
The charismatic world will
NEVER concede any position to UPC conservatives. If they even
start to re-evaluate a stance, their entire world will unravel.
Whereas, if the UPC were to re-evaluate TV, we'd just turn into the 2nd ALJC. (Or we'll collapse like a house of cards, depending on who you ask)
You'll notice how subtle some of the tactics are. If you can only be caused to agree with some tiny thing, and adjust your position slightly to the left, well then you can expect to be asked to agree with some other subtle sub-category of an issue, and eventually you've been displaced or even knocked completely over with compromise.
You can explain that there are agendas behind television programming, what those agendas are, and that the propaganda is slipped in subtly and quickly. You can explain that it is opening a door to other things. You can explain that moving visual images stir and scar the human mind in deeper ways than still pictures or sound alone can. You can prove that writers, actors and producers ALL intend to
influence people, and especially the next generation, by placing such deep-rooted and emotional responses within them that they are no longer capable of critical thought, and become numbed to conscience and bible teaching. You can point out, during a momentary lapse in the hooting, hollering, jumping up and down, and chest-beating about self-control, that people lose self-control. (Then you'll get called a hypocrite for being on the internet) You can demonstrate the differences between the two media.
You can do all of that.
But it won't make a dent in any of the people that you are presently interacting with. Don't get me wrong, it'll sharpen your focus and thoughts on things, and it's good practice, but other than that it does indeed appear to be a complete and total waste of time.
Have fun with that!
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