I have recently become appaled by my tv habit. After reading an old 2006 post by Indi, I was given pause to think about things in a new way......Why do I want tv on all the time as background noise? Why do I feel the need to replace that background noise with more background noise? -retorical
It seems in my attempts to drown out my own thoughts & unclutter the mind with background noise....I effectively created more clutter.
Furthermore this got me thinking.....is the radiation & the waves from the computer similar?
Also have any of you found in ending your tv addictions you replaced it with another?
How many of the tv killers out there have gone cold turkey & how many still make allowances & if so for what do you make allowances?
It seems in my attempts to drown out my own thoughts & unclutter the mind with background noise....I effectively created more clutter.
Furthermore this got me thinking.....is the radiation & the waves from the computer similar?
Also have any of you found in ending your tv addictions you replaced it with another?
How many of the tv killers out there have gone cold turkey & how many still make allowances & if so for what do you make allowances?
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Re: examining further -questions for everyone
Wed, January 23, 2008 - 8:03 PMPSYCH-K infomercials and vintage Sesame Street episodes. -
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Re: examining further -questions for everyone
Wed, February 13, 2008 - 5:57 PMif tv worked like this i would watch it:
turn on
select d
scroll down to dukes of hazzard
click enter
scroll down to roscoes millions
click enter
watch entire episode without breaks or commercials and have the ability to pause, rewind and fast foreward
pay .25 cents an hour no matter what i am watching.
but it is not like this so i stopped supporting a bad product until it is alot closer to what i expect, been goin on 4 years now and 50 bux a month i would have been spending on basic cable buys a tun of dvds hehehe i feel the same way about music prices too. -
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Amen, brother Rick!
Sun, February 24, 2008 - 4:55 PMVote with your feet, your dollar$ and your thumb on the remote control Power button!!!
It's now up to about 17 minutes per televised hour of programming on the average broadcast, cable, satellite or PBS channel. Whether it's commercials or 3 different five-minute appeals to subscribers on PBS, Comcast vs. DirecTV bullshit, or promotions for another network or show...it all counts as somebody charging you time from your life to watch a show. I'd rather give 'em money. I can earn more money, but I probably have a fixed amount of time. I mean, well, I MIGHT be immortal? But even if I were, I wouldn't want to listen to an infomercial if I had all the time in the world!
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