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 Phluck
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 Re: Over a year without TV  [Re: Learyfan]
#4410030 - 07/15/05 10:51 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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I like having a TV and I find the whole thing really interesting, including the ads.
I don't think not watching TV makes you any better off, or shields you from any kind of brainwashing. Lots of the most intelligent, skeptical, and questioning people I know watch television.
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danlennon3
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Phluck]
#4410043 - 07/15/05 10:53 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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i barely ever watch tv also.. only animal planet and comedy central once in a while
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 Shroomism
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Phluck]
#4410059 - 07/15/05 10:55 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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maybe canoodian tv is different than american.. I dont know
but TV in general to me is a brain-numbing radiation box, not to mention if they put stupid senseless shit on it to warp your sense of reality. In my opinion 90% of TV is mental programming.. social programming. Maybe there's a few good things here and there, cartoons and comedy central sometimes and informative channels like discovery come to mind.. but overall I find watching TV to be a mentally .. spiritually draining activity.
It's probably been about 5 years since I've owned a TV.. but I can't help watching others sometimes. I enjoy a few shows, but the majority of the time what I watch on TV is utter shit.
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Shroomism]
#4411107 - 07/16/05 08:33 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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My first two years in Japan I didn't have a TV or a computer. I hardly even read the paper. I just read novels and listened to cds and cassettes. Then I bought a TV but mostly I just watched porn videos. Then I got satellite TV with CNN and Fox and stuff. I watched it like crazy for awhile but now I prefer the Internet. TV is too censored to be very entertaining. If it was anything goes like the Internet I'd watch it all the time I'm sure.
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You constantly make posts thatr fling middle school insults at people you don't like mixed in with maladjusted psychopathic comments about wanting to beat up the other poster with a crowbar.
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Icelander
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Learyfan]
#4411117 - 07/16/05 08:39 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Learyfan said:
It's been over a year since I've had TV. I decided that cable internet was more important. The only TV I've watched in the past year is at someone else's house or shows that I've downloaded on the net. I'm not as informed about the world and popular culture, but I'm not as angry either.
Anyone else not have TV beside me?
You bet. Best choice ever. I get so much more done and really enjoy not worrying about things I have no control over. IMO TV just keeps you down. 
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Krishna
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Icelander]
#4411133 - 07/16/05 08:48 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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i think tv in europe is quite different than tv in the us, in my experience. i've got a tv at the place where i live now (one of my roomates, i guess?) but rarely watch it - every once in a while when i'm eating lunch, or if there is a movie on in the evenings and i've got nothing else to do. i most certainly wouldn't spend any money on a tv at all - anything that i really want to watch i download anyhow - but if there is already one there, and i don't have to pay anything for it, i'll channel surf every now and again.
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Krishna]
#4411152 - 07/16/05 08:56 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Most people get hooked on TV. It is often used as a subsitute for living or as a way to block things out. The constant inane dialog interrupeted every few minutes by commercials at a different volume level, wreaks havoc on the nervous system IMO. But TV in and of itself is not bad.
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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.
With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Digs
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Icelander]
#4411165 - 07/16/05 09:04 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Occassionally when I'm bored I'll check PBS to see if NOVA or something cool is on.
Not often though.
And I like to watch college sports in season, but that's in my blood, so no getting around it 
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Phychotron
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Learyfan]
#4411176 - 07/16/05 09:09 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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i dont watch tv either... in fact... it's the same.. cable internet is more imporantant... and the tv i do have get's shitty reception... cause i'm kinda in a valley, or the hill to one anyway... i've been watching farscape lately... downloaded a gang off episodes, it's an alright show... kinda too much drama a points.. but eh...
people will start talking to me about current events, and i'll be like "huh?.. i dont have a TV" .... i didnt even know johnny cockran died...
i think i'm on like year 2... i'm a movie watchin fool though...
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Digs]
#4411177 - 07/16/05 09:10 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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i've never watched much TV.
I enjoy cartoons.
Since moving out of my parent's place over a decade ago I have never had a cable/sat/etc bill.
I download cartoons and cool shows and watch them using my Xbox.
I find the large majority of TV VERY irritating.
All you people talk about seeing TV over a friend's place. I find a group of people who have gathered to be sociable but yet mindlessly stare at a TV for hours to be a great travesty.
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Krishna
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Phychotron]
#4411178 - 07/16/05 09:13 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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wait, what - johnny cockran died? i almost never read american news websites nowadays, i guess i missed out on that!
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Digs
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Krishna]
#4411186 - 07/16/05 09:15 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Sounds vaguely familiar......
I guess so?
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WeAreAllOne
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Digs]
#4411188 - 07/16/05 09:16 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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I poison my mind with television everyday and I didn't know that guy died either. 
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Phychotron
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: WeAreAllOne]
#4411197 - 07/16/05 09:20 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/29/cochran.obit/
yea, i didnt belive it.. i found out maybe 3 weeks ago...
speaking of the subject, a buddie at work, his name is mark furhmann, so for the past few days, varous peopel have been calling his houst trying to get an opinion on <some current issue that's going on>... he's got like 6 calls... "is this the mark furhmann from the OJ trial?" apparently there's another one in the area too... i dont know how he knows that but he does... but yea, some reporters from all over the country, ohio, texas, etc.... even a cop...
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Phychotron]
#4411199 - 07/16/05 09:21 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Man, that's a prime opportunity to mess with people :x
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Phychotron
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Phychotron]
#4411203 - 07/16/05 09:23 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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yea, i was like "dude, tell them to send you a couple hundred bucks for your opinion... it's not like the check's NOT going to be in your name.."
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Krishna
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Phychotron]
#4411204 - 07/16/05 09:23 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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hehehe i'd lie and give some crazy ass opinion just to see if they quote it.
"Mark Furhmann, on the question of the israeli settlement retreats, told our reporters - 'I believe the only road to peace in that region is to have Sharon perform a public goatse impersonation and allow any palestinians who feel grieved by his government the opportunity to stick random objects in his anus'"
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Phychotron]
#4411205 - 07/16/05 09:23 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Phychotron said:it's not like the check's NOT going to be in your name.."
hahaha
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WeAreAllOne
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: Digs]
#4411216 - 07/16/05 09:32 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Krishna, that makes me nauseous.
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Krishna
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Re: Over a year without TV [Re: WeAreAllOne]
#4411222 - 07/16/05 09:34 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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hehe methinks i've been hanging out in OTD too much as of late!
time to go read a book and increase the level of my humour a bit!
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