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Off Topic [at-l] No TV/VCR
To all concerned,
To me TV is mostly a waste but there are some areas that cannot be
duplicated and shown to the large population basis.
However these people have to be willing to watch such shows.
No where else but through TV did the American people become aware of the
world so easily an in the old Lowell Thomas travelogues. I know National
Geographics did a excellent job of this and still does but live action film
seem to take you right with the person witnessing the action as in
expeditions to Mt Everest.
Did any of you see the BPS specials on Alexander the Great or
Napoleon. No where else could the average person have seen and followed
these persons footsteps so closely except to retrace them yourself which is
too costly for most people. Then there was the Ken Burns speical on the
Lewis and Clark expedition. How many of us have the money and time to trace
their footsteps and find a copy of their journals and letters then comple
them in such an interesting way.
We all make choices in life. This list is dedicated to those that
want to or have walked one of America's greatest gift to the world. Think
about the handicaped who cannot walk and are confined to wheel chairs, they
have no less desires than others and were blessed with the special on the At
trail if they chose to watch it. I watched John Kennedy's funeral live and
the first walk on the moon but could not be there myself. Where or how else
in this world could a person be so connected to history as it unfolded.
These things might not be of interest to all but at lease it was available
for those who choose to take the time to be a part of history and science.
I knew old timers that were real mountain men whose stories were forever
lost when they died that could not read or write. Filming them could have
preserved a part of history as nothing else could have. You can write about
these thing but to see and experience their way of telling thier stories was
priceless. Yes TV is a scorge to thinking but not always. Be selective I
say and exoecise controll of the remotes.
Rogene
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie Booher" <lwbooher@halifax.com>
To: <cballs@mindspring.com>; <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>; "kahley"
<kahley7@ptd.net>
Cc: "Ed Gilroy" <egilroy@comcast.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: Off Topic [at-l] No TV/VCR
> This is not personal to Kahley, whom I really love as a person. But I've
> seen all these things without having a TV. I was in someone's hospital
room
> when the attacks happened, and I moved on to a neighbor's house to watch
> until I had had enough, and we left to go plan a prayer service for that
> night at church. There are enough publications with pictures to last me a
> lifetime without watching the live action again. I've seen the footage of
> man walking on the moon, albeit later. I've been with a friend twice to
> have her babies, so I've seen that close up. <G> I may have missed the
> lioness, but I have seen that sort of thing in movies and when we did have
> TV. And I watched both parts of the Rosie video after the Ruck, since we
> stayed an extra night. I really don't think that I'm missing anything,
and
> some of the cultural things, I can do without. They normally float down
to
> us, anyway. I do read the paper and listen to NPR, so I'm current. <G>
I
> remember being at David's cousin's house in WV one night watching the
news.
> I was telling her all about a couple of the news briefs, and she couldn't
> believe I knew all about them when we don't have TV. I'd heard it all on
> NPR on the way to her house. In depth. anklebear
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: kahley <kahley7@ptd.net>
> To: <cballs@mindspring.com>; <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Cc: Ed Gilroy <egilroy@comcast.net>
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 1:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [at-l] No TV/VCR
>
>
> > At 06:34 PM 1/11/02 -0500, cballs@mindspring.com wrote:
> >
> > >attacking my opinions in public, rather nastily I thought,
> >
> > But ....at 12:49 PM 1/11/02 -0500, cballs@mindspring.com wrote:
> >
> > > And how like an obedient American consumer to avoid all things
> > > controversial and "thought provoking." You've learned well.
> >
> > What goes around, comes around.....
> >
> > To ignore TV is as useful as ignoring the color blue. It is totally
> > intertwined and to a great degree, responsible for many of the changes
> > or at least the speed of the changes in our society. I agree with you
> > that TV changes the watcher but would add that all things change you,...
> > time changes you.....watching a turtle take a duckling changes you.
> > The thing to discuss is the nature of the change...for good or ill.
> >
> >
> > > without a single coherent, rational reason for why television is a
> good
> > thing
> >
> >
> > 1) Preferring to cacoon myself from the content of the force
> > that is shaping generation after generation of my fellows, does
> > not seem like a good idea. I do not choose to plunge in to
> > the degree that some people do. I do choose to understand
> > how deep the sh*t is and what monsters lurk in the depths.
> > To me, doing otherwise is sticking your head in the sand.
> > Ignorance is bliss....until the sh*t hits the fan. I prefer to
> > know which way the breeze is gonna blow.
> >
> > 2) The idea that, on TV, "everything has the same value from
> > God to Chia pets ' is even moreso an issue with the Internet.
> >
> > Visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/ and http://www.whitehouse.com/
> >
> > WARNING..the second addie is a XXX Porn site.
> >
> > Both are professionally done websites delivered at a click....both
> presented
> > equally. The internet _is_a million voices. A million unfiltered
voices
> much
> > of which is lacking even the shadow of authority or even authenticity.
> > Yet we choose 'this' and not 'that'. We can apply the same discretion
> > to TV. Or we can choose to shoot our computers.
> >
> > 3) Just as the internet _can_be a good thing or an life wrecker,
> > TV_can_ be an amazing tool.
> >
> > On 9/11 as I sat reading at-l. the news was on in the background.
> > I heard the alert about a plane crash and focused on the tube. I saw
> > history. I saw the beginning of a war. I've read much about it since
> then....
> > many author's impressions from many angles through many filters. But
> > I saw history with my own eyes. Granted, I saw what the cameraman
> > was shooting and the directors chose to show me. It was edited. But
> > what I saw and felt could never be reproduced by anything that I have
> > since read or was told. In that vein:
> > I watched man walk on the moon.
> > I watched the birth of a child.
> > I watched the valve replacement surgery that my Mother was about to
> undergo.
> > I watched a lioness hide in the bushes until she launched at a gazelle.
> > If I didn't watch TV, I would have missed all these things and a
thousand
> more.
> > Not the real thing. Not as good as being there, but for sure, _better_
> > ...more
> > accurate and useful than my imaginings.
> >
> > Finally, I watched the "edited due to time constraints and
> > content" version of the
> > director's, producer's and sponsor's vision of what Rosie chose to share
> about
> > her Thru. For good or for ill, I learned that people hiked from end to
> end.
> > Even middle aged round women. And so it began....for good or ill.
> >
> > I find it hard to believe that most people aren't, at one time or
another,
> > launched into a dream by something they saw on TV. Some image or
> > idea that came to them through the tube that fired their imagination,
> > touched their soul. Subtracting TV from the inventory of sources of
> > inspiration and information seems foolish to me. Just as foolish as
> > relying on it as your sole source for same.
> >
> > OK..that's it for me.....this is busting my hard hiked high and I can't
go
> > out and recapture it 'cause I'm stuck inside at work.
> >
> > BTW......a riddle. Why, when serching for an accurate quoting of
Curtis's
> > words, did I find 357 hits on the word Chia in my inbox? <VVVBG>
> >
> >
> >
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