Owning a TV really necessary?

[Brother Adam]

Help me to decide.

[Christie_M]

I picked the first one! did I help? lol

Edited August 29, 2005 by Christie_M

[Old_Joe]

you need an all of the above option

[track2004]

Um I'd vote yes, but then there are all these clauses on the yeses. I don't own one, I've gotten along fine.

[Iacobus]

Yes and no. The TV can be a really good thing, it all depends on how you use it. If it starts to interfere with your prayer life or take up too much time, dump it. But if you don't watch like 23 hours of tv a day and just watch a few shows or play games once in a while, it could be a good thing to have just to use to kill time. Without injuring entierity.

[Brother Adam]

That's another thing. We use it on average once a week...

[ofpheritup]

[quote name='Iacobus' date='Aug 28 2005, 10:40 PM']Yes and no. The TV can be a really good thing, it all depends on how you use it. If it starts to interfere with your prayer life or take up too much time, dump it. But if you don't watch like 23 hours of tv a day and just watch a few shows or play games once in a while, it could be a good thing to have just to use to kill time. Without injuring entierity.
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YUP, WHAT HE SAID. TV is a tool to be used. You control it, it does not control you (or your family).

When and if that happens send it to a friend for a vacation,
until you can get a handle back on your life.

[Tony]

I dont watch as much tv as I used too.. mainly for sports and "DXing" which is the art of catching non-cable distant stations

[RC_]

You can get the news on TV, plus soccer and baseball. The Simpsons is just extra...

[FlyLikeABird]

I love my dvd player on my computer! I've watched some good movies on it lately and because I have a laptop computer I can watch DVDs in bed! :

I don't have a TV anymore. My landlords owned the one in my suite and I just moved out of there. Never the less I rarely turned it on anyhow!

[homeschoolmom]

Two and three.

[cmotherofpirl]

My cable is off for awhile and there are things I miss:
EWTN, Mash and Buffy the Vampire Slayer reruns, Star Trek, the weather channel, Discovery , the Weather Channel, Little House on the Prairie, the WEATHER Channel , all the old movies on turner Classic Movies, the WEATHER CHANNEL..

However my house is getting much cleaner

Edited August 29, 2005 by cmotherofpirl

[stargirl3:16]

Give your kids books before you give them the remote. They'll turn out like me. :

[cmotherofpirl]

My kids started with the books, I didn't get cable until they were in high school. Their favorite stuff is history, science, or old movies. It worked: one son is doing maths and economics, another psychology, another engineering.

[FlyLikeABird]

cmom - I am with you, I do miss my Trek from time to time.

[Dudette]

you don't need it. My parents raised me without the tv and I got along fine without it.
Now we have it....but I never watch it, even though I could.

[Theoketos]

<<< Does not own a T.V.

[kaidoh]

the 1st one is good

[Sojourner]

I don't think owning a TV is a problem as long as you exercise self-control in how much and when you watch it. The object itself isn't bad -- it's how you use it.

[Theoketos]

[quote name='Sojourner' date='Aug 29 2005, 10:52 AM']I don't think owning a TV is a problem as long as you exercise self-control in how much and when you watch it. The object itself isn't bad -- it's how you use it.
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For most young men, it is an either or thing. For me then, exercising self control means pitching the T.V.