Author Topic: Daytime Television (Read 2184 times)

lauraelizabeth · « **on:** April 23, 2013, 07:48:21 AM »

oh WOW, I have been keeping my grandmother company while my aunt is away on vacation and only just yesterday was I tortured with a FULL DAY of this garbage. I can't believe what I saw: :devil2: grown women in their bras and underwear, women swearing like sailors, girls talking about 'bedroom toys', women (if you can even call them that) gossping about EVERYONE, slander, girls as young as 13 making sɛҳuąƖ innuendos, pornographic books, burlesque dancers, jokes about ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ acts, how it makes women feel 'independent' and 'empowered' to pay for their boyfriends dinners......... :devil2:

.....................and for the record, I have definitely known sin....so I feel as though even I am incredibly desensitized (but THIS.....)

I feel like such a coward because I am failing to say the truth to her. I never have a problem speaking to my peers, but with my relatives is different. They think I am "overreacting" "extreme" or "self-righteous". So instead of speaking to her outright, I just say "that is foul" or "that is horrible" and I try to read and pray. I want to speak up to her without her feeling attacked. Please pray for me to have courage, I really do need it. Even if you can spare one Hail Mary.......I will be so thankful.

*I asked God for trials this morning (in order to gain patience)............
and now I'm not so sure I am pleasing Him.

Solus Deus. <3

Mithrandylan · « **Reply #1 on:** April 23, 2013, 08:01:31 AM »

Ask God for trials and He will oblige you!

This is your grandmother? Shame. You'd hope the elderly would retain some sense and duty towards decency but it sounds like your grandmother doesn't find any of this to be a problem, and if she doesn't now then she probably hasn't for a while. She's probably been rooted thinking this for at least 25 years, maybe even 50 or more. Sounds like you're doing the right thing. Keep calling it filth and keep praying.

Matthew · « **Reply #2 on:** April 23, 2013, 08:19:31 AM »

Anyone who sits around watching such crap all day doesn't deserve to be that "retired".

It doesn't get any lower than sitting around all day on the couch, LITERALLY watching soap operas and eating junk food.

How does such a person justify their actions?
"It's not as though I sit around ALL DAY and watch soap operas...wait a minute, that's exactly what I'm doing. Carry on."

Exilenomore · « **Reply #3 on:** April 23, 2013, 08:44:18 AM »

Some who leave their televisions on when you are present, knowing that being exposed to that filth is an unspeakable torment to you, will simply not care. I do not say that this will be the case with your grandmother, mind you, as I do not know her. I am just stating a personal observation of mine which is relevant to the subject of this thread.

Some people truly do care more about that instrument of malediction standing in their living rooms, usually in the center of it, where a Sacred Heart image should have been enthroned, than their own kindred which they either torment (if they execrate worldly filth) or corrupt (if they consent to it) by exposing them to that hell of impurity and error.

Regarding your personal situation, I hope that Our Lord will bring your grandmother to reject watching that garbage through you.

MrsZ · « **Reply #4 on:** April 23, 2013, 09:21:50 AM »

I can imagine how difficult this is for you. My grandmother lives very far from me and I only visit with her on the phone, anymore. But she and my grandfather began leaving the t.v. on all day every day about 35 years ago when they retired from the public school system. They didn't have a remote control and just left it on one channel and whatever came on they watched. Back then the news and talk shows weren't as bad as they've become ... but there were still plenty of time wasters and trashy soap operas (are there any other kind? :thinking:

She is very very old now and that t.v. is on day and night. Mostly she watches Fox News ... but that channel has tons of questionable stories and images on it just as much other channels do. She's a prisoner to the machine.

What did old people do before t.v.'s kept them in a false sense of "being informed" ?

I wonder if you can think of other things you can do with your grandmother? can you take her out somewhere? Can you cook something together? Is there any ruse you can come up with to either leave the t.v. or turn it off to do something else?

Good luck and God Bless.