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Originally Posted by redeemedcynic84
I know, but he keeps asking for arguments FOR television being ok, but I haven't seen any reason to think it isn't ok other than some people decided to make it a rule in the mid-1970s...
And, well, there is only one person who I listen to if they make completely arbitrary rules and, well, that's God... Everyone else needs to actually have a reason for what they do and tell me to do...
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Well, a blanket statement saying that "TV is ok" I totally disagree with. It cannot be argued, IMO, that full acceptance of TV and it's programming should be embraced as acceptible. TV, in any unregulated form, is NOT acceptible. There are way too many insidious programmings that are pummelled through televisions to completely embrace it. However, the effectiveness of certain venues of TV, i.e. as an advertising and communication medium, cannot be denied. Therefore harnassing the positivie benefits, while "filtering out" and regulating the negative aspects, is something that could be considered, and still not be contradictory to the apostolics traditional position on TV as a whole. We harnass the "advertising, communication, and information" aspects of the internet while attempting to filter out it's damaging and perfidious aspects... why can we not do the same for TV? I would not suggest that people should have unfettered access to programming on TV, and I also would emphasise that TV should not be a primary method of entertainment in the home. I even think the traditional position of just not having one in the home (not through legislation, but by teaching principle and letting people make up their own mind) could be promoted as well... while still harnassing those EXTREMELY effective avenues of communication that are available on it. JMHO...
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