|
sunyata
nonexistentexistentialist
Registered: 12/26/02
Posts: 133
|
This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show
#1432427 - 04/05/03 09:03 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Somebody fucking shoot me in the head for turning on my TV. It's like a window into the necrotic consumerslave heart of our culture.
I fucking LOVE how america loves to see brutal honesty on their idiotic television shows but if anyone were to sit there on TV and speak that brutally honestly about their country they would FREAK out. Opiate of the masses, no shit.
I invite you all to speak. Honestly.
|
Ellis Dee
Archangel
Registered: 06/29/01
Posts: 13,104
Loc: Fire in the sky
Last seen: 5 years, 14 days
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: sunyata]
#1432447 - 04/05/03 09:12 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
mmm opium need more /me turns it on
-------------------- "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do."-King Solomon And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
|
sunyata
nonexistentexistentialist
Registered: 12/26/02
Posts: 133
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: Ellis Dee]
#1432464 - 04/05/03 09:19 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
This is an intervention. Thanks for being honest about your problem; there are people who can help you.
Talk to me, America. Let me feel your pain. Your rage. Your self-loathing and your contempt for the other. Your hypocritical self-delusions, justifications. Tell me what prescription medicine helps you sleep.
|
Murex
Reality Hacker
Registered: 07/28/02
Posts: 3,599
Loc: Traped in a shell.
Last seen: 16 years, 6 months
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: sunyata]
#1432667 - 04/05/03 11:06 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
That show sucks so much it's funny.
Does that make sense?
-------------------- What if everything around you Isn't quite as it seems? What if all the world you think you know, Is an elaborate dream? And if you look at your reflection, Is it all you want it to be?
|
Skikid16
fungus fan
Registered: 06/27/02
Posts: 5,666
Loc: In the middle of the nort...
Last seen: 18 years, 11 months
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: sunyata]
#1432706 - 04/05/03 11:28 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
How the hell is this relevant to politics, activism, or law?
-------------------- Re-Defeat Bush in '04
|
Anonymous
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: Skikid16]
#1432708 - 04/05/03 11:29 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
it is man, it is.
|
Ellis Dee
Archangel
Registered: 06/29/01
Posts: 13,104
Loc: Fire in the sky
Last seen: 5 years, 14 days
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: Skikid16]
#1432723 - 04/05/03 11:37 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
How the hell is this relevant to politics, activism, or law?
TV isn't relevant to politics, activism, or law? Watch Law and Order. You'll see. Hehe.
-------------------- "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do."-King Solomon And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
|
Anonymous
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: sunyata]
#1432881 - 04/06/03 01:17 AM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Oh man, I totally agree with you.
I turned on my tv tonight and saw that stupid shit. I can't even believe that this is now what attracts viewers and publicity, how 'hot' you are. These girls are anorexic and the guys are all airhead aspiring models.
I already hate the repuation we, as Americans, have...now this shit is coming along? Christ...
|
Ellis Dee
Archangel
Registered: 06/29/01
Posts: 13,104
Loc: Fire in the sky
Last seen: 5 years, 14 days
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: LeViTY]
#1432888 - 04/06/03 01:20 AM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Geez, there's a show called are you hot? I thought it was a general post about tv bullshit. I didn't rrealize it was a show. Guess I wouldn't since all I watch is PBS and movies.
-------------------- "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do."-King Solomon And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
|
Skikid16
fungus fan
Registered: 06/27/02
Posts: 5,666
Loc: In the middle of the nort...
Last seen: 18 years, 11 months
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: Ellis Dee]
#1432945 - 04/06/03 03:07 AM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Guess I wouldn't since all I watch is PBS and movies.
Nerd.
Oh, did you catch that show tonight on the evolution of life starting from sponges? It was really cool.
-------------------- Re-Defeat Bush in '04
|
Anonymous
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: sunyata]
#1432957 - 04/06/03 03:17 AM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
I wouldn't know. I haven't had tv reception since 1988.
They do still come with an off switch don't they?
|
Ellis Dee
Archangel
Registered: 06/29/01
Posts: 13,104
Loc: Fire in the sky
Last seen: 5 years, 14 days
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: Skikid16]
#1432960 - 04/06/03 03:19 AM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Missed it, I was watched a romantic comedy called "America's Sweetharts" and then a Rambo movie. But right now there's a show on PBS about agricultue in Santiago Chile.
-------------------- "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do."-King Solomon And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
|
angryshroom
Stranger
Registered: 12/18/01
Posts: 7,264
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: sunyata]
#1433155 - 04/06/03 09:24 AM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Everyone should disable and then get rid of their TV.
|
Anonymous
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: angryshroom]
#1433162 - 04/06/03 09:27 AM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
High 5's angry:
^5
|
sunyata
nonexistentexistentialist
Registered: 12/26/02
Posts: 133
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: ]
#1433335 - 04/06/03 11:28 AM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
I wouldn't know. I haven't had tv reception since 1988.
They do still come with an off switch don't they?
Good for you Mr. M! I too stopped watching TV on anything approaching a regular basis about three or four years ago. Changed my life almost as much as mushrooms did (although the former might not have happened had it not been for the latter). I was stoned last night for the first time in a while and my girlfriend was channel surfing and came across that show and it blew my mind. I didn't really intend for this to be a thread about tv per se, but whatever... My point was more that Americans seem to have developed this new insatiable lust for brutal insulting honesty when it comes to telling people that they are ugly, or not talented, or that they fall anywhere short of the perfect ideal that has been constructed, but if anyone were to sit there and be that honest about the United States of America and its history and current social realities, probably 90 per cent of those people would be hurling something at their tv if they didn't have a gun nearby...
I don't watch TV, but it is a fascinating subject to explore for me, like many others. To just suggest that we shut it off is nice and all, but isn't it kind of like sticking our heads in the sand? I looked it up and 10 million people watched this dumb dumb dumb show back in february, and it was the third rated show that night. This is apparently where millions upon millions of people's heads are right now in this country. I don't need to watch TV to know it is worthy of my attention, you know?
|
Anonymous
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: sunyata]
#1433358 - 04/06/03 11:43 AM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Exactly.
See what Andrew Weil says about watching in his book, 8 Weeks to Optimum Health:
"I have asked you to try a one-day news fast this week. I do not want you to become uninformed about the state of the world, but I note that paying attention to news commonly results in anxiety, rage, and other emotional states that probably impede the healing system. I have given you many suggestions about diet, about nourishing your body. I think it is useful to broaden the concept of nutrition to include what we put into our consciousness as well. Many people do not exercise much control over that and as a result take in a lot of mental junk food. My goal in asking you to practice news fasting through the Eight-Week Program is for you to discover that you have the power to decide how much of this material you want to let in. I have no objection to your turning on the news for information you really need; I worry about people who turn it on compulsively or unconsciously, who are addicted to the news and the emotional ups and downs it provides. Observe any difference you feel in your state of mind and body when you opt to ignore the news. Are you less anxious? less stressed? less fearful? When you get to the end of the Eight-Week Program, I will ask you again, and at that time you can decide how much news you want to let back into your life."
I watch zero news on television and severely limit how much news I let into my life. My life is relatively stress-free and you don't see me flaming others and I rarely get angry.
Think there is a correlation? I know there is.
Cheers,
|
Buddha5254
addict
Registered: 04/22/00
Posts: 532
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: ]
#1434068 - 04/06/03 07:05 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
1st off I didnt know this was an actual show, its really sad. Secondly, a friend adn I are very political, but we often agree that sometimes it is just too much and we just turn it off, and chill and live a little. Its important to be informed, but not to the point that you are on a verge of a heart attack.
|
Azmodeus
Seeker
Registered: 11/27/02
Posts: 3,392
Loc: Lotus Land!! B.C.
Last seen: 19 years, 2 months
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: ]
#1436662 - 04/07/03 03:42 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
But worse of all..... Its spread to canada! ...and i cancelled my cable. Im serious! After joe millionare, are you hot? came out, and i thought to myself....."is this really how i want to spend my time?", cus if you have a tv, you end up watching this shit. Now i have no cable, and its great! I've started an ethnobotanical room in my house, and i dont even have withdrawl anymore!....Remember i've always had cable for my entire life, and for the first two weeks, all i could do with my spare time was put in a movie, or play a video game or somthing. I will never get cable again.
-------------------- "Know your Body - Know your Mind - Know your Substance - Know your Source. Lest we forget. "
|
Anonymous
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: Azmodeus]
#1436891 - 04/07/03 05:14 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
I have saved about $1,800.00 since I pulled the plug in 1988.
And lots of stress, migraines, etc.
Cheers,
|
djfrog
omgws!!!1!
Registered: 10/22/00
Posts: 3,710
|
Re: This fucking Are You Hot? TV Show [Re: Azmodeus]
#1436898 - 04/07/03 05:16 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
I never understood people who pay for cable. It has as much advertising if not more than regular tv, the shows are mostly crap, etc etc.
|
|