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[Truthseeker]

Originally Posted by NotforSale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jocRd-aajW0

You said for mature audiences, I doubt 3 stooges is rated for mature.

[NotforSale]

Originally Posted by Truthseeker

What kind of graphic detail??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNgbBYdDZA8

[shellyboo]

Originally Posted by NotforSale

I think most, if not all of what we find on TV is in the Bible. Murder, Sex, Abuse, War, Genocide, Lying, and so on. Many feel the Song of Solomon is too graphic for immature readers. I've watched many good movies that had graphic detail, and were rated for mature audiences.

Sometimes over sheltering our perspective in life by avoiding the Arts that display the grim realities on Earth can lead to a very shallow understanding about our Planet by not uncoverving the darkness of Religion, Government, and past Rulers of evil.

One excellent movie my wife and I watched recently was "Bordertown". This was not only an eye opener of what takes place in Mexico, I realized Americans are very naive when shopping for those good prices. Rape, murder, and deep corruption are what bring many things into our homes, via the great deal.

Another movie we saw that is a heart breaker is, Tears of the Sun. This film takes you right into the heart of Africa where guerilla warfare has cancered the jungle where innocent people are slaughtered. I never knew that these men with a "Cause" would go into a village and kill everyone, cutting the breasts off of women with child, which makes the statement of stopping the future generation from surviving.

Our "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" numbness in this Culture is more damaging than trying to abstain from Truth's we can't stomach. We think we do ourselves a favor by closing our eyes to things that may be hard to bear, but knowing what really goes on can change our hearts for the better.

On the other hand, just like anything, the tool of a good program or movie can become nothing but an escape. IMO, Video Games and Internet Pornography are far worse than TV.

I so agree with this post. My son urged me the other night to watch the movie "Precious". He said he normally would of never watched this movie, but a good christian friend of his told him it was really touching. It was full of cussing, drugs, sex and physical abuse (all that this precious young girl named Precious had to face day in and day out). It broke my heart, I told my son that some of us church people are so isolated in our wonderful church services and perfect, blessed lives that we can easily forget about what so many face everyday. Maybe it wouldn't hurt any of us to make ourselves watch some of the realities other have to endure all the time. Maybe then we could get our priority right and stop worrying about meaningless things and start reaching a lost world. I want to do better.

[oletime]

Originally Posted by shellyboo

I so agree with this post. My son urged me the other night to watch the movie "Precious". He said he normally would of never watched this movie, but a good christian friend of his told him it was really touching. It was full of cussing, drugs, sex and physical abuse (all that this precious young girl named Precious had to face day in and day out). It broke my heart, I told my son that some of us church people are so isolated in our wonderful church services and perfect, blessed lives that we can easily forget about what so many face everyday. Maybe it wouldn't hurt any of us to make ourselves watch some of the realities other have to endure all the time. Maybe then we could get our priority right and stop worrying about meaningless things and start reaching a lost world. I want to do better.

kinda you gotta experience to know it ? sooo ! as one famous baseball announcer said "do i have to die before i can write an obituary?".

[*AQuietPlace*]

Originally Posted by oletime

kinda you gotta experience to know it ? sooo ! as one famous baseball announcer said "do i have to die before i can write an obituary?".

You have to be aware of it to know it.

We can live such sterilized, comfortable lives that we are completely unaware of the horrible suffering that is going on all around us.

That doesn't mean that we immerse ourselves in filth. Or watch things that glorify filth. But some of these shows can open our eyes to a lot of pain.... pain that Jesus came to heal.

[TheLegalist]

Originally Posted by shellyboo

I so agree with this post. My son urged me the other night to watch the movie "Precious". He said he normally would of never watched this movie, but a good christian friend of his told him it was really touching. It was full of cussing, drugs, sex and physical abuse (all that this precious young girl named Precious had to face day in and day out). It broke my heart, I told my son that some of us church people are so isolated in our wonderful church services and perfect, blessed lives that we can easily forget about what so many face everyday. Maybe it wouldn't hurt any of us to make ourselves watch some of the realities other have to endure all the time. Maybe then we could get our priority right and stop worrying about meaningless things and start reaching a lost world. I want to do better.

Not saying "media" does not help teach lessons but the stuff in the mainline world of entertainment? No thanks! Our kids should learn the reality of life by oursides, helping others in need. They should see how to deal with the realities of life through our own love toward others. If we need a daily TV to show the horrors of life then we are failing in our daily work to show the love of God to those who need him and our children witnessing it and it transforming there minds and hearts.

[NotforSale]

Originally Posted by oletime

kinda you gotta experience to know it ? sooo ! as one famous baseball announcer said "do i have to die before i can write an obituary?".

Without experience what does a person have? Nothing.

Take away experience and the World we be one big void of Nothing.

Imagine a person with no experience in the good and the bad. No way to compare or gauge life. No failures, no wins, no trials, no repentance, no sins, no tears, no laughter, no confusion, no learning.

We live in a World where our children walk out the door with pads on every joint, proving to ourselves we worry about this thing called, Experience. We corral them into private schools, trying to shelter them from the storms of Experience.

As far as the dead are concerned, I'll never forget this one Funeral I performed. We had the casket at the Church, open for all to see the deceased. After the service and viewing, we went to the grave where this woman was to be buried.

After saying a few words, I realized these folks weren't finished. With everyone standing there they lowered the casket into the cold earth and began the actual burial. Men with shovels threw dirt into this hole as people began to wail and mourn. I was in tears until the last bit of the hole was filled. I walked away a changed man. I thought to myself, this should be done at every Funeral.

Instead, we cremate people and put them in urns. All we might see is a picture instead of an actual dead person. God forbid we’d watch the burial! Little do we know it, that we are running from Experience. We hide, dodge, and cover the pain with the fantasy of Religion, reading the Bible like a fairytale. The death of Jesus is portrayed as some beautiful thing, like a dream, not an actual Crucifixion.

[NotforSale]

[Jeffrey]

Originally Posted by shellyboo

I so agree with this post. My son urged me the other night to watch the movie "Precious". He said he normally would of never watched this movie, but a good christian friend of his told him it was really touching. It was full of cussing, drugs, sex and physical abuse (all that this precious young girl named Precious had to face day in and day out). It broke my heart, I told my son that some of us church people are so isolated in our wonderful church services and perfect, blessed lives that we can easily forget about what so many face everyday. Maybe it wouldn't hurt any of us to make ourselves watch some of the realities other have to endure all the time. Maybe then we could get our priority right and stop worrying about meaningless things and start reaching a lost world. I want to do better.

Language and plots help shape stories. Our house rule: if the movie/tv show is about something worthy, and it contains off-colors things as part of the story, then we discuss and consider watching. If it is only to glorify those debase things, which are no longer props to a story, but the entire point of the story, then we have better things to throw our minds in. There's plenty of entertainment that doesn't glory in sex, drugs and scandal. That doesn't mean a good movie won't have sex, drugs and scandal. Like NFS said, the Bible uses the same themes. Of course, the Biblical writers didn't just include those things for the sake of those things, but we're telling a story that pointed to an idea that was larger.

Good Will Hunting, for example. GREAT, GREAT MOVIE. However, it's full of curse words and the young man even fornicates. But that's not what the movie is about. The movie is about a young man overcoming the limitations of his environment (an environment that was accurately depicted through language and plots). The end result is a beautiful, riveting story that inspires us.

[Jeffrey]

Originally Posted by TheLegalist

Not saying "media" does not help teach lessons but the stuff in the mainline world of entertainment? No thanks! Our kids should learn the reality of life by oursides, helping others in need. They should see how to deal with the realities of life through our own love toward others. If we need a daily TV to show the horrors of life then we are failing in our daily work to show the love of God to those who need him and our children witnessing it and it transforming there minds and hearts.

Agree. That's a lame excuse to be entertained by a good story on TV. If that's someones "justifying" excuse for their legalistic culture, so they feel better about watching TV... well, that's pretty lame.

I don't watch TV to "show me the horrors of life" or so that I may "connect with the world around me better." I watch it for a good escape. A laugh. A chuckle. A tear. A scream. We all like stories.