"But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken." Matthew 12:36

As a father of a very busy soon to be 5 year old, the thought of not having a television around is enough to make me want to scream and holler until they lock me up in the looney bin. I think it is time though. Here is a few random observations on my own behavior after watching television:

1) After watching an episode of The George Lopez Show recently I found myself at Safeway talking to the store clerk. The clerk was Latino, and my speech pattern towards him was so demeaning...and just like the way George Lopez talks on his show. To me it is ignorant and uneducated sounding. Unfortunately, it is also funny and it sucks millions of Americans to the television every night.

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2) I was recently at Wal Mart and I was doing some of the shopping for the groceries. When confronted with two choices of an item I choose the item that is a name brand only because I could recall the slogan on the television that told me how good it was.

3) I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person. I like to have discourse with a person and talk about big ideas, innovations, subtle articulations...all without having to interject my conversations with references to what happened on C.S.I. last night or on the latest episode of survivor. The only C.S. I want to talk about has Lewis at the end of it.

In short, I feel that it is time to read more, even though I knock out a fair share of it on my own. My son is beginning to read, and he is memorizing scripture like nobodys business (hooray and thank you LORD!) I would rather fill his memory with the bible than what happened on network television.

I will write on this more soon. These are just a few random and quirky thoughts that came up after scratching the surface. I am sure that I can find an almost neverending source of why nots in the near future.

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