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Date Posted: 23:51:04 05/19/03 Mon
Author: SYNTARSUS
Subject: Re: Thinking about abandoning the TV
In reply to: Rev Joe 's message, "Re: Thinking about abandoning the TV" on 20:54:15 05/19/03 Mon

>I had a friend that I worked with who refused to even
>look at a TV screen. His anti-TV attitude came more
>from a conspiricy theory/subliminal message point of
>view. We used to have weekly in-service meetings that
>often featured some sort of instructional video, and
>he would sit next to the TV, facing us, so he would
>not even glimpse the screen out of the corner of his
>eye. It was always amazing to watch him enter other
>people's homes and position himself so that the TV
>screen was always behind him; he did it so gracefully
>it was almost like a ballet, and often the other
>people (who did not know about his aversion) would
>have no idea that he was doing it, so skillful was his
>maneuvering. He lives in the jungle of Bolivia now -
>not much TV happening out there (yet, anyway).

That is quite interesting, Rev. Joe. I think there are a lot of subliminal messages on TV, especially in commercials! I wonder how much television has coloured my thinking and the way in which I do things. And I don't even have to wonder about how much influence that it has had over others . . . I can see it quite clearly.

What I really hate is when you go to a friend's house and they have the TV on while you are trying to have a nice conversation with them. How rude is THAT?!?!?!

-SYNTARSUS

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