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I am Thinking of Giving up Television.



I am Thinking of Giving up Television.
This evening I turned off the television and the computer and found the ensuing silence blissful.  I lived quite happily without a television when I first came to this apartment.  I only had a T.V. because it was given to me.  What would I miss?  Not a lot.  The News just splurges out war and mayhem without providing any answers.  I find all that misery makes me less sensitive to the great distress of many people in this world.  It drags your spirit down and one, either grows a tough shell and become impervious to everything, or you are greatly distressed by the scenes on the box.
  There is so much that pushes forward the importance of sex and no thought of moderation. Sex really isn’t that important, but we have it flaunted before us in most programmes. People are expected to worship their partner.  Worship is for God alone and to put anyone else before Him is utterly wrong. I know all this because I’ve done it.  Television helped to make me dissatisfied with my first marriage.  Television told me I deserved more and I believed it.  Happily I now live close to my first husband and we are good friends.
   Is it really healthy to be watching stories about murder?  Is it healthy to make yourself envious about or covetous of beautiful homes that will never be in my price range?  This of course leads on to doing the lottery, a temptation that is always present wherever you go. To go back to the News, would it really matter if you didn’t know what is supposedly going on the world? Just think what you could do with all that spare time.  You might even get out into your community and make friends and find people near you who need your help. I’m liking the sound of this more and more.  I think I’ve almost made up my mind.

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