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• Turn off your TV (Score:1)

  by davebaker (4482) <reversethis-{moc ... {ta} {rekabevad}> on 2005.03.16 20:52 (#38947) Homepage Journal

  Seriously. Turn it off, or even throw the damned thing away. Don't buy into the crap being served up on TV. It isn't real, it doesn't work in real life, it's bad for you.

  Finding someone of the opposite sex whom you can love faithfully and who will love you faithfully ... having an intimate lifelong relationship with that person that results in babies who grow up to be more people whom you can love and who will love you ... there's the real world, my man. Even though it doesn't make for "entertaining" TV.

  I'm speaking from experience; I loved Esquire magazine in my 20s, was a big-shot lawyer; got married, got obsessed with my job, got divorced, finally got religion, then got another wife with whom I learned to "stay in the canoe" and paddle together INTO the waves rather than trying to outrun them ... now we have a 10-year-old son and we're a family. It beats all the attempted thrills of younger days. The stuff that passes for "relationships" on TV nowadays is practically criminal in its effect on the culture.

  IMHO :)

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  • Re:Turn off your TV (Score:1)

    by Beatnik (493)

    but... but.. where would I then go for the ultimate bad advice in relationships??
    • Re:Turn off your TV (Score:2)

      by nicholas (3034)

      /. ?

      Not limited to relationships, either :-)