IS TV LAME- INFORMATIVE AT BEST-USELESS-CRAP!

[viljo]

It's up to you, you may vote up to ten times and there are ten options.

 

[Cosmik_Debris]

There's some good, worthwhile, educational stuff on TV sometimes. It's like trash picking, most of it's crap, but there's some treasures to be found. Like a program I saw last night on the Science channel called "Finding My Mind". It was about the scientific search to define conciousness, andpinpoint exactly what makes a being concious and self-aware. Very interesting and thought-provoking show. That's why, if I ever watch TV, it's usually only Discovery Network or History Network channels...or Comedy Central

Of course, you also have people like Bill O'Reiley on TV...

 

[viljo]

what ever happened to that mushroom trip.cosmik
never been to spain.
griffiti is art i reckon.
double the effort on news, thats all i ask.

 

[IJesusChrist]

That's why, if I ever watch TV, it's usually only Discovery Network or History Network channels...or Comedy Central

+National geographic, -History Channel.

The history channel has had some really bogus B.S. on their broadcast. One of them actually claimed there was a UFO in the Mona Lisa painting... So dumb.

"All I watch is science of comedy"

I like people who abide by that rule

 

[Teonanacapilli]

Any TV shows or documentaries I want, I just download. I fucking HATE commercials! Also, looking at channels like discovery and history now, and remembering them 10 or so years ago, you can see how they have degenerated. They seem to have "dumbed" or watered down their content for a different audience than before. They've made things flashy and exciting, but with less actual information. Lots more of the bullshit reality TV on these channels too, far less educational.

I mean "Destroyed in Seconds" on discovery channel??? :roll:

 

[waygie]

i don't really consider entertainment to be a waste of time

but not everything needs a use beyond simple entertainment

 

[IJesusChrist]

I don't know how I stand on entertainment

"The movies and bars are the opiates of the masses"

But isn't that what we want - to be happy and occupied?

 

[spice]

what I want more than that is to not be influenced by people peddling paper towels and colon cleansers....

my definition of happiness is to be free of coercive commerce-related garbage, and TV fails miserably.


TV is for stupid people

 

[IJesusChrist]

pay per view

 

[waygie]

basic cable is for stupid people

fixt

 

[spice]

The coercive influence is still there, anywhere you look. Movies are a little more subtle, but it's in them too.

Those are only one aspect of why I think it's crap.....it is a very poor form of escapism, at its very best

 

[IJesusChrist]

I love watching movies with advertising in them. Sometimes they are so overwhelmingly subconscious though, it's interesting.

The invention of lying is a wonderful example.

When he reads the ten commandments that he made off two pizza hut boxes...

 

[tryptonaut]

I watch a lot of stuff that has been on tv and that some nice people have encode and put on a Bittorrent site. Only good, well produced shows and documentaries. Oh and the Daily Show and Real Time with Bill Maher.

My real tv hasn't been on for months, because the good stuff is extremely rare on free tv, and most of what's on there is so stupid that I just can't watch it. Sometimes when I have a real bad hangover and I'm basically unable to move and think, then I switch it on and watch some stupid shit, but that's about it.

By the way I'm a freeloader right now because there are no good commercial options available for on-demand HD television shows and documentaries. When the pirated content is better than what they offer commercially, well, what can I do? :roll:

 

[Psyolopher]

Pretty much most of it.

 

[ophiuchus]

commercials are invading our privacy. you can't even watch youtube videos or listen to pandora anymore...

i wouldn't mind so much if the products weren't total SHIT trying to steal my money for half assed ideas i could make for free at my house

 

[Schwanke668]

The exorcism movies are a joke. They have absolutely nothing to do with the 'churches' stance on real exorcisms. They are hollywood taking something that has a specific use and mutilating for the sake of box office numbers. Believing those exorcism movies are real is like believing in the vampires and werewolf movies as being legitamite scientific endeavors.

Though reading what you guys write in the extraction threads maybe some of you are von frankenstein! lol!

 

[ophiuchus]

The exorcism movies are a joke. They have absolutely nothing to do with the 'churches' stance on real exorcisms. They are hollywood taking something that has a specific use and mutilating for the sake of box office numbers. Believing those exorcism movies are real is like believing in the vampires and werewolf movies as being legitamite scientific endeavors.

Though reading what you guys write in the extraction threads maybe some of you are von frankenstein! lol!

"...churches stance on real excorcisms..."
yes i know, but that isn't my point. the point is, why would there be so many of these movies, if no one percieved the messages from religion this way? there is a connection there, whether intentional (on the churches part) or not. im just making observations, i've seen more of these movies in the last, say, 2 years, then i have seen altogether in a long while...

could just be a coincidence... :lol:

 

[Schwanke668]

Actually it probably is just conincidence. Ive studied hollywood culture a few times and one thing is if ONE producer comes out with an idea and it seems like its popular 3 or 4 or more will jump on and remake it at the same time. Thats why there are so many similar disaster movies, or werewolf movies, or comic book movies. The ideas float around hollywood in multiple forms and some get split and turn into multiple movies or spawn new ideas of new movies and with it taking 3 to 5 years to do a good movie they are all in production at once and pop out at the same time within months or a year of each other.

I think the exorcist thing is just pop culture feeding off the church's bad wrap for the molestation (which is probably a lot more truer then ANYONE really wants to admit) but movies on that subject wouldnt sell real well. Who could see three of them in two years? But exorcism is a 'classic' hack the church movie. Conscious or subconscious.

 

[Guest]

TV is a tool to control the population and keep people asleep so they work and consume quietly.

It provides shitty culture and it makes shitty people in a shitty world.

 

[ophiuchus]

if you only look at the negatives, yes.

@schwanke. that wouldn't be a coincidence then.. :lol: i don't believe in coincidences. but that also does not mean that i believe that EVERYTHING HAS TO BE RELATED IN A VERY CONTRIVED WAY. i get your point though