A Timely and Accurate Article: Brokeback Mountain (fwd to me from rublevpupil)

[arlie]

I dare suggest that the message herein needs to be conveyed to our fellow Christians from EVERY Orthodox pulpit!

For those who are not aware, the film being discussed herein has been nominated for eight Oscars...

Comments

[robo_tom]

"Making sure it drums in its message in no uncertain terms, the film keeps switching back and forth between the two contrasts. The great outdoors, wild and free, close to nature, close to God, close to hot gay sex without any negative consequences. Back inside the dark little messy box of marriage, with horrible in-laws, demon spawn children, berating nagging wives, endless pressures and even the loveless, passionless sex has hanging over it the dread of producing more parasitic offspring"

such an astute point about propaganda... and of course nobody will listen that they're being brainwashed.... afterall, it's us backward hicks in the churches that are being brainwashed.

[robo_tom]

I know priests that advise that.... an OCA priest I know refers to TV as "the Brain Drain"

and anyone reading things like unseen warfare or the ladder, would know that watching TV is not adviseable...

I suppose typical American "Christian" leaders don't immediately shun TV is because of their willingness to use it for televangelical purposes... also their efforts to uproot the problem by using the instrument of the problem with shows as hopelessly sterile as 7th Heaven - an outright denial of the problems of the world...

now if Sarah Jessica Parker got herpes, aids, and date-raped on a regular basis, maybe Sex in the City would take on a more positive influence by showing the problems caused by promiscuity and lack of chastity... but then that's Planned Parenthood's "condom cue" because, obviously abstinence is not an option... and I suppose it's not, when their ideology is centered around the belief that sex=love, and that without sex it would be impossible to love anyone or express love to anyone.

[robo_tom]

I've seen movies that had rape scenes and attempted rape scenes that were not in the least bit sexual - and this with the common agreement of my friends who would watch porno regularly and were rather de-sensitized to watching sex.

it's not so much a matter of showing the act - like hentai does - and believe me, in my pre-christian days I have seen my share. but it's a matter of showing the aftermath... I don't remember the name of the movie, my friend rented a movie about a lady that became a prostitute in vegas, and one night she was raped, the next morning you see her in the shower, bleeding from her orifices (they didn't show the orifices) - but the point was very clear in taking any sort of glamour about the idea of the body being this rosy sexual temple.

[robo_tom]

because our culture talks about the propaganda pieces, wholly unaware of the other side of the coin

[arlie]

My grandfather always called the tv the "boob tube". Once we were married Isaac said no tv, but I had to be able to watch the 2004 Olympics. We only had tv for a month. Its really much more peaceful without it. We started listening to radio a lot more when we broke out cable addiction. We have since gotten tired of radio except for news and sometimes background noise. Isaac has started listening to a lot more classical music. We are able to work on other goals other than spending an hour or more starring at the tv. Isaac can read a book, call a friend, write a letter, etc. There are much more important things that need to be done than watching tv and with Americans watching an average of more than 4 hours of TV each day its surprising they get any work done!

[robo_tom]

the only exception I would point to is the History Channel, because you actually learn something