Pure Evil......

[trc123]

You can't even watch the news during this time of year (Halloween) without being accosted by a trailer for a slasher movie. Just the commercial for that trash (Saw V) makes my stomach turn. I don't understand what anyone would see in a movie like that, it's just pure evil if you ask me.

The amazing thing to me is that it is only rated "R." Why in the world wouldn't they rate that "X?" To me that junk is even more offensive than those movies with immodestly dressed women and men.

I just don't understand the depth of the depravity of man. I suppose if I truly did I would cry continually over our (humanity) sins without ceasing.

[John81]

It's the nature of man. Sinful mans loves wickedness. Typically he starts out with smaller doses but soon wants more. Consider the history of horror flicks. What once passed for horror flicks no longer phases people because they have become so desensitized. That means each year the horror flicks have to become more and more vile and wicked in order to draw an audience and feed viewers appitites for blood and guts.

For the most part, horror flicks no longer have much of a real story line at all. It's all about setting up one scene after another featuring horrific violence with ever more gore and realism.

My brother-in-law works away from home a lot and the guys he stayed with one night watched one of the Saw movies. He said that movie was so terrible he had nightmares and he wouldn't watch it again.

I've never seen that movie, or any other horror movie for a great many years, and I don't want to.

[Anon]

Oh I know, I don't watch alot of tv but we dare not have prime time tv on, even news, in front of the kids anymore. TV is horrible. I personally don't care for it anyway...I watch an occasional dvd movie, that's about it.

[John81]

I know what you mean Suzy. We have the basic Family package on Dish Network. There are not that many channels and we don't get the local channels because we don't want network channels.

Of course, even with the limited channels, we must be careful to monitor what is on the various channels before allowing viewing; which is rather limited anyway.

[Anon]

We had cable for awhile but then ditched it...we still have cable modem but save a few bucks a month by not paying for unnecessary tv. We just have an antenna and converter box to watch the main sports and then news if needed.

I really do not like tv...except it is nice to put dvds in for the kids!

[John81]

[quote="Kitagrl"]We had cable for awhile but then ditched it...we still have cable modem but save a few bucks a month by not paying for unnecessary tv. We just have an antenna and converter box to watch the main sports and then news if needed.

I really do not like tv...except it is nice to put dvds in for the kids![/quote]

We had cable years ago but the prices kept going up and the channels were mostly useless to us. With the Dish Network Family package it only costs us $19.99 per month and we get Fox News, Animal Planet, Discovery ID, Weather Channel, some "Christian" channels which do sometimes have something worth watching on (TBN, Daystar, AngelOne, Inspiration), Boomerang, TVLand, Biography, Science, NASA, and a few other channels.

We don't watch that much TV but it's nice when we want to watch something and it's good for select DVDs.

[HappyChristian]

These horror movies have made a progression. You know, "spooky" cartoons like Scooby-Doo (when they first came out, the kids always just solved myteries...but slowly moved to the point where all of their mysteries are ghostly). Fun shows like Bewitched, Sabrina the Teen-Aged Witch, etc. A lot of people scoff at that because those shows were so benign. But what happens is that the viewers get desensitized. Then, shows that are just a bit more scary come on. And shows that have interesting plots, but use people that are psychic or have strange powers from somewhere...until it gets where we are today. Horror and the occult are everywhere. Halloween celebrates it. People decorate for that almost as much or more than they do Christmas. And scary is thrilling.

*sigh*

When I was in college, my Revelation class professor was talking about the future. And he pointed out that it was going to get worse and worse (using the cutesy show "smurfs" as point of reference - Papa was a good wizard, and the bad wizard was either named or had a pet named Beelzebub (can't remember)...and the good magic always won. Rev. 21:8 says:
"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." He explained that the term "sorcerers" was from the word pharmekai - and it indicated drugs as well as magic.

One of the things that really disturbs me about this is that my sister loves those kind of movies. And she allows her girls to watch them...they are 10 and 6. They have watched that kind of stuff all of their lives. Breaks my heart.

[Salyan]

Oh, that's why Smurfs were bad! My mom never let me read/watch them, and I couldn't figure out why. Now I know. :thumb

[Guest Guest]

Yes. Just a little dabble into any kind of sin becomes excessive in the long run. The "flesh is weak."

Now that we don't have cable or anything, except...plain old TV, what are we supposed to do, when they require that thing on the TV? Isn't everyone required to get cable? You know...in the End Times? The government needs to watch our every move. :lol That is how dangerous they think we are. LOL.

[Anon]

You don't have to get cable...just that digital converter box.

[Guest Guest]

Okay...thanks. That will cost money, though. Right?

[Anon]

Well the government is offering a $40 coupon towards one, you can download it online...and then it will only cost you $10-$20 out of pocket after that. But then its done, you don't have to pay for anything else, its just a box that converts the signals so your tv can read the digital signals.

[Guest Guest]

Thanks, kita. I would love to take the TV's to the curb...personally. :wink

[Anon]

I like having them so the kids can sit quietly and watch something good sometimes. Or play their games. But yeah I don't miss cable a BIT (Ok except food Network...) and rarely watch regular tv either.