Kendrick, you probably don't even know my name, so I'm not even going to address whether your doubt of what my Holy Ghost and conscience guide me to do really matters to me. As for the second part, there are so many places where you find out what is showing that I don't even know where to begin. I guess when something has been so engrained in you you don't really need logic to defend or understand it.
But having said all this I already can see that this convo is pretty much hopeless.
It's hard to explain, isn't it? We check out EVERY movie our kids watch BEFORE they watch it, either by reading the detailed reviews at www.pluggedinonline.com, or by letting them watch something we've personally previewed.
I'm about as diligent about books at the library. If my oldest daughter wants to look at books in the teen/young adult section, either I pick out a stack for her to peruse, or I walk with her and help her decide which titles to preview.
Is that really so hard? Books can be about as trashy as TV, quite frankly, from content to literary value and everywhere in between.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Speaking of "walk", where is your scriptural permission to own a car. Do you know how many people those vile things kill every year? Why would you want to spend thousands of dollars supporting such an evil industry?
Unless it is a Prius hybrid! Or a Volvo.... (Where they slap Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers on at the factory..... Which can be the only explanation!)
Speaking of "walk", where is your scriptural permission to own a car. Do you know how many people those vile things kill every year? Why would you want to spend thousands of dollars supporting such an evil industry?
Again, technology should make our lives better. But there are trade offs.
I see it as a matter of power and control versus indivisual freedom. I usually come down on the side of freedom. I don't want to give up my own automobile - but then again, I don't have the desire to force the Amish into automobiles either.
Same thing with television. To prohibit television reveals a short sighted and insecure leadership attempting to grapple with issues beyond their ken. If they can't grapple, then they need to sit down and allow others to truly lead.
Again, technology should make our lives better. But there are trade offs.
I see it as a matter of power and control versus indivisual freedom. I usually come down on the side of freedom. I don't want to give up my own automobile - but then again, I don't have the desire to force the Amish into automobiles either.
Same thing with television. To prohibit television reveals a short sighted and insecure leadership attempting to grapple with issues beyond their ken. If they can't grapple, then they need to sit down and allow others to truly lead.
This is the difference between an honest liberal and a rebellious trouble maker. The honest liberal will allow someone else to have a conviction, but the rebellious trouble maker (and many ultra conservatives as well) want to tell you how you should live. It goes back to the question of "why is it that conservatives are always the one to be offended?" and to whom everyone else has to change to accommodate? If a conservative went to a church where everyone had a TV would THEY get one as to not offend? of course not, nor should they expected to. Yet someone with one is expected to drop it lest they offend everyone else.
It's hard to explain, isn't it? We check out EVERY movie our kids watch BEFORE they watch it, either by reading the detailed reviews at www.pluggedinonline.com, or by letting them watch something we've personally previewed.
I'm about as diligent about books at the library. If my oldest daughter wants to look at books in the teen/young adult section, either I pick out a stack for her to peruse, or I walk with her and help her decide which titles to preview.
Is that really so hard? Books can be about as trashy as TV, quite frankly, from content to literary value and everywhere in between.
By doing this you are also teaching your children how to exercise discernment. From a practical standpoint - there's simply not enough time in our lives to read all of the good books. We can't afford to be hindered by too much "trash."
Learning to discern and make wise choices will benefit your children in the long run, if nothing else- it will also make them more efficient with their time.
The same scriptures that tell me to OWN a TV (or VISIO 32 inch LCD) are the same ones that tell me what color to paint my house, what car to drive, what COLOR that same car needs to be, what brand motor oil to use, what toothbrush to buy, what color counter tops to install and what type (granite in our case)...
You mean there ARE no scriptures telling me any of the above?
I guess homes (and cars) and the things in them are just basically sinful than!
Hey Randy while your looking for those scriptures would you look for the one that says a wife shouldn't ask her husband to lay ceramic tile. My knees would be really appreciative. Let me know as soon as you find that one.
Hey Randy while your looking for those scriptures would you look for the one that says a wife shouldn't ask her husband to lay ceramic tile. My knees would be really appreciative. Let me know as soon as you find that one.
Proverbs 25:24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
I'm sorry bro, but you don't win this one.
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Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States. – W.E.B. DuBois
I don't know about you, but when I look for information on the internet, I often surf it and have to surf right past some pretty dirty stuff sometimes. It's an amazingly simple task.
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