| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 6:22:21 AM | | not had a tv for 6 and half yrs now and not miss it, could you live without yours,its not that im anti tv i watch it i visit .but dont you find its on all the time. you try and talk and there eye are on the screen | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 6:41:43 AM | I can remember when my family first got a TV back in the50's. It was a family activity back then. We would all sit down and watch Ed Sullivan on a Sunday night. We would watch Archie Bunker and Goldie Hawn and Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason. I can still remember the thrill of seeing the Olympics for the first time on TV.
During the 70's and 80's, I was working and raising a family and I never had a chance to watch TV. I had too much to do but we would sit down once in awhile and watch Walt Disney or some of the shows with the kids.
Then in the 80's, educational TV and cable really expanded the choices a lot. My mother loved watching shows about distant countries, archaelogy, science and my father loved watching the cooking shows.
Today I enjoy watching the educational shows about volcanoes and pandas and all that stuff. I enjoy watching some mysteries and dramas like Law N Order or Poirot. I enjoy watching the ice skating competitions and I tune into the political debates here and there to find out what the candidates are saying they stand for so I will know who I want to vote for. I think the TV has expanded our ability to learn if we use it for that.
For me as a child, I grew up in a very poor village. TV showed me a life that I didn't even know existed. It encouraged me to study and do well in school so I could leave my village and live in a place I only saw on TV...........so now I live in Florida instead of New York.......
I think TV is like any invention that changes the world..........it can be misused or it can be used for good............It's all in how we choose to use it. | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 7:00:57 AM | In the early days of television, most of the programs were family shows. With only three stations for most viewers, it could be counted on that friends, families, and neighbors were watching and following the same shows. This tended to unite families and communities with a common interest.
Today, there are so many channels and programs that watching television tends to be a pastime for individuals. Although a popular show might unite a certain demographic, it will usually fail to unite even a family on any given night, let alone the neighborhood or community.
I rarely watch television, but I can't say that I would be willing to give it up altogether. It can be a lot of fun watching with friends and family or snuggling with your partner under the light of a flickering screen. Having said that, I agree with your underlying point that too much television robs relationships of the intimacy that comes from fully focusing on each other. | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 7:15:31 AM |
not had a tv for 6 and half yrs now and not miss it, could you live without yours,its not that im anti tv i watch it i visit .but dont you find its on all the time. you try and talk and there eye are on the screen
Sure...if I always had another source for immediate and up to date news.
TV programs and movies are largely bland and formulaic,IMHO.
I prefer reading,the radio and the Internet.
Having said that,I dislike people who announce (most of the time,smugly) that they don't watch (or own) a TV.
If you choose to to expand your mind using other means or if you prefer physical activities to sitting and being entertained...then by all means...go ahead,
Just don't bore the rest of us w/ your choices. | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 7:54:57 AM | | I like to watch ONE show on TV (House) - other than that, I may watch it for the news, or if there's a special of some kind I'm interested in, but most days I never even turn it on. I prefer music for inspiration to being hypnotized by the TV (and that's just what I used to be, back in the days when I'd just keep it on all day for "background noise" ) | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 7:57:34 AM |
TV showed me a life that I didn't even know existed. It encouraged me to study and do well in school so I could leave my village and live in a place I only saw on TV...........so now I live in Florida instead of New York.......
That description looks a lot like how people today speak of the internet - I think it's an apt one for both. | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 8:55:15 AM | I gave up Teevee just before the new year... at first the house was so quiet I felt like I had to tippy toe around it. I live in Florida so my windows are open and now I hear all the migrating birds flying in (they completely stripped my holly berry trees in one day) I hear all that is going on in my neighborhood.. the downshifting of the skydiver planes as people jump.. can even hear the pop as their parachute opens...
If there is a program I want to see I can catch it on VEOH online.. and for the news I read all that online too! or cbs,nbc,abc all have websites to see programs online!
I grew up without TV and basically no telephone either.. so this so far has been a terrific experiment in getting back to my roots...
No background noise for me...
Girlflower | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 8:56:28 AM | I never put it on if I have a real live person to talk to. But I'm alone a lot, and at least it's an adult, human voice. The dog and I have worn out most of the topics of conversation we have in common. | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 9:22:38 AM | | I haven't had a TV since sept. since the damm thing was too big for the boat. Eventually I will get a Flat LCD for the bulkhead. | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 9:26:24 AM | I'd give up TV before I would give up my stereo.
TV can get on my nerves pretty fast these days. The older I get, the less crap I will deal with.
I've been known to refuse to watch some TV shows, like The Bachelor and American Idol, or ones where people sell there soul to the highest bidder. | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 9:38:54 AM | Yes I could, and I would in an instant if it wasn't for my granddaughter living with me:)
I no longer watch any TV...I find it all very boring. I get my news from the Internet and as long as I have my music and my high speed connection, I'm cool:)
I could also live very well without a phone...I hate HATE phones...lol! 
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 9:55:26 AM | | I enjoy the TV for sports, mostly, but I could live without it. I didn't have one for 3 years and neevr noticed. | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 9:56:30 AM | Nope, don't think I could live without my tv to be quite honest!
I have a couple of sitcoms that I enjoy immensely and also like to watch the Learning channel and some of the medical shows. Most informative.
Besides what would I play my "special" films on? | |
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Posted: 1/7/2008 10:12:45 AM | Yes I most certainly could!!! I enjoy listening to music on my stereo and also reading a good book. I can usually entertain myself without the TV. I do have outside interests with family and friends so I don't need to be sitting watching TV. Most of the time, I usually read and then fall asleep with the light on and the book in my lap. There aren't too many TV shows that I would miss except maybe Jeopardy. LOL. | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 11:01:17 AM | Yes...just as easily as I could "live...if living was without you..."
Moonie, I wonder if re-enacting those films would encourage you to toss the Idjut Box? | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 11:01:26 AM | Yes. I could live without the TV and have done it for years at a stretch in the past.
Not such a big deal to me. I prefer the internet for entertainment mostly. Also I like the semi-personal interaction afforded a person in forums such as this. I am a voracious reader, so forums can eat up a great deal of my time. In addition to this forum I am on a couple other interest specific boards and issue debates/conversations allows me to use my mind for something other than being a junk sponge.
For 'background' noise around my house I usually am listening to the multitude of trains coming and going in this farming community.
Now...I said all that to say this; I LOVE 2 1/2 MEN!!!! Very funny show. | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 11:36:45 AM | God yes! How could I forget 2 1/2 men? See? Told you I couldn't live without my boob tube!
An Schaf? You git yer mind outta wherever it went! | |
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Posted: 1/7/2008 12:11:35 PM | I could live w/o tv.
I could live w/o a phone
I could live w/o a computer
BUT WHY IN THE HELL WOULD I IF I DON"T HAVE TO?????? | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 3:26:30 PM | My main TV is Not on during the day I have always prefered music to TV anytime..But at night in my Bedrm..I have to have the TV on or I can't sleep.
So No guess I can't live w/o it. | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 3:28:48 PM | Anybody could live without a TV, but that doesn't mean they are going to, lol
So the answer is NO NO NO.... My TV stays same as my pets do
Now if perchance I find a SO, I may watch TV less... more to occupy my time  | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 3:44:57 PM | Only if it were a life/death situation. Other than that, nope, nada. I'm addicted....especially to the History and Discovery channels.  | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 4:26:15 PM | Is this the thread where I can proclaim my intellectual superiority and political correctness by declaring I can live without my tv? I know some very conservative religious people who do not believe in having tvs and I guarantee that they think they are holier than thou. Well, the Amish live without electricity, so I think they are better than all of us. Damn, to think I wasted all those years at university getting that degree in mass communications and working as a tv camera operator and director. Plus, since there are now hundreds of channels there is just nothing on to watch. Why, it's, it's a vast wasteland on the tube.
I cannot live without food, water, and shelter, so after that I could probably manage to live without tv like billions of other people on this planet do, but I do think I will keep my tv and watch it everyday. But I will try and read a book this week as well as not having a balance on my credit cards because nobody at POF carries a balance on their credit cards. | |
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