tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430816887221599577.post5247367277590840685..comments2015-04-26T15:39:19.888-07:00Comments on Desert Deliberations: Committing American Cultural Blasphemy - Turning Off The TVDesert Dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07634123982517005157noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430816887221599577.post-27192101408949636072011-03-01T11:25:49.394-07:002011-03-01T11:25:49.394-07:00Hey Carlyn,
One of things I really started to won...Hey Carlyn,<br /><br />One of things I really started to wonder about was how this relates to our thoughts. There is so much written in Orthodoxy about our thoughts and dealing with them that when I read this book and realized the further mess we create by allowing images to be implanted in our brains, I began to wonder if we all are at the borderline of insanity. <br /><br />Mander writes this:<br />"Television inhibits your ability to think, but it does not lead to freedom of mind. You may have time out from prior obsessive thought patterns, but that's as far as television goes. The mind is never empty, the mind is filled. What's worse, it is filled with someone else's obsessive thoughts and images."<br /><br />I don't need other people's thoughts...mine are enough to battle with!<br /><br />As an aside, St. Kosmas of Aitolos who lived in the 18th century had this to say "A time will come when the devil will enter a box and scream. His horns will be on the rooftop." and "A time will come when the world will be directed by speechless and lifeless things." <br />What must have sounded crazy in the 18th century sure makes a whole lotta sense in the 21st!<br /><br />May you and your family have a blessed Lenten journey. I can't wait...I love Great Lent!<br /><br />TrinaDesert Dwellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07634123982517005157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430816887221599577.post-52600035437671458702011-03-01T07:12:59.155-07:002011-03-01T07:12:59.155-07:00Wow, this was a timely post for me.
My husband and...Wow, this was a timely post for me.<br />My husband and I were just discussing curtailing our video viewing during Lent. We don't watch any broadcast TV, but we do watch videos that we get from Netflix. We stick to what we can watch together as a family, but even so, our evenings after supper are built around the television. <br /><br />Thanks for this post. I have never heard of the book, even though it was first published in 1977.CarlynBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482296048898660917noreply@blogger.com