DEAL OR NO DEAL
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Date: March 25, 2008 02:02AM THIS GAME SHOW HAS GOT TO BE THE MOST PATHETIC DISPLAY OF AMERICAN GREED I HAVE EVER SEEN.NO WONDER TERRORISTS FROM OTHER LANDS ARE TRYING TO BOMB OUR MAIN CENTERS OF COMMERCE AND GOVERNMENT.I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT THIS IS MONDAY NIGHT PRIME TIME TV ANYMORE.
ITS ONLY THE FOODS OF THE EARTH THAT GIVE ME ANY KIND OF GROUNDING ANYMORE. THOUGHTS. OPINIONS? Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/25/2008 02:05AM by Raw1228. Re: DEAL OR NO DEAL
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MauiGreg
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Date: March 25, 2008 02:51AM get rid of your TV!!!!
you can download anything specific that you want to watch from the internet ...without the commercials. Join netflix if you want visual entertainment, they have an awesome selection of documentaries...lots of Dalai Lama videos, good independent films... much more uplifting choices than TV. I canceled my cable last month and have never felt better. I have more time for reading and other more interactive and enriching activities. All I ever watched regularly was John Stewart/Stephen Colbert anyway and you can download those from itunes or a torrent site. Otherwise it was too easy to just veg-out and let the TV execs have their way with my thoughts. I think this culture has turned TV watching into a twisted type of group prayer... millions of people focused, all at the same time, on violence, greed, stupidity. Just say Know! Aloha Nui Loa, Greg A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. - William James There is no pill that can be swallowed, There is no guru, that can be followed, - Michael Franti (Pray For Grace) The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. - Albert Camus Re: DEAL OR NO DEAL
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Date: March 25, 2008 03:46AM oh yeah, kill that TV, set yourself free!!! Re: DEAL OR NO DEAL
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la_veronique
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Date: March 25, 2008 07:55AM never heard of deal or no deal
have not had a tv forever i'm not missing out i have heard that there are these "support groups" ( no kidding!) where they try to support each other to watch less television they could just get rid of it completely instead of wasting their precious time in these support groups... that makes more sense to me here is the "DEAL": get rid of your television or else game is over ( you've wasted your life) LOL Re: DEAL OR NO DEAL
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Date: March 25, 2008 02:30PM Thanks folks. Re: DEAL OR NO DEAL
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Date: March 25, 2008 03:58PM I never had a tv either. The real deal, game, and fun is not having one!
elnatural Re: DEAL OR NO DEAL
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Date: March 25, 2008 05:29PM I am increasingly seeing that tv has got to go.
Its not just greedy game shows,but the look of it all these days... All that flashing and spinning and zooming. Its enough to make a person sick,or trigger a seizure of some kind! Re: DEAL OR NO DEAL
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Lightform
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Date: March 25, 2008 08:54PM MauiGreg you are wise and a blessing to all. I've never had a T.V and don't find it supprising to hear that there are many like minded people in the raw community either. I think that you can look at your whole life culture as a condition of your welbeing, and that every choice that you make in your life has a collective effect on your experience.
So when you involve yourself in a particular activity or medium wether it is your entertainment, company or living environment which premotes a "negative" outlook on life, that this is essentialy what you are helping to foster. I believe in cultivating the ideals that one wishes to experience, in what ever shape that has for an individual and abstaining from the rest. Re: DEAL OR NO DEAL
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MauiGreg
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Date: March 25, 2008 11:55PM Thanks Lightform! ...right back at ya!
I've been thinking about TV and group consciousness a lot lately. Not just TV, but mass culture. I think it started when I read about a meditation experiment in Washington DC, where several thousand people came together and focused on lowering the violent crime rate... and indeed there was a reduction in violent crime of over 20%. So it got me thinking about how every day millions and millions of people are intently focused on the messages of our mass culture. This is essentially a massive group meditation with a mantra of war, violence, hatred, greed, intolerance, disease. And yet when the media giants are asked why that's the only message they are sending, the reply is always "we give the people what they want"... whether it's gangsta rap, slasher films, reality TV that glorifies dysfunctional families, or graphic news footage of personal tragedies. This is nothing short of an energetic virus that has infected the spirit of most of humanity. We need to do more than just turn it off...we need to turn it around! Since I cancelled my cable service, I don't know what to do with my TV. I thought about donating it to one of the charitable second hand stores, but it feels like it would be the same as donating a loaded gun. Aloha Nui Loa, Greg A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. - William James There is no pill that can be swallowed, There is no guru, that can be followed, - Michael Franti (Pray For Grace) The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. - Albert Camus Re: DEAL OR NO DEAL
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Jose
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Date: March 26, 2008 12:35AM
[www.amazon.com] It would seem to me that there are many elements of both Huxley and Orwell in the world today unfortunately. Cheers, J Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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