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Television
May 22, 2023 18:53:44 GMT -5
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Post by midwest on May 22, 2023 18:53:44 GMT -5
What is your guess for percentage of the friends that have a TV? Now days every computer and smart phone can be considered a TV. My question is focused just on actual TV sets. Still a very small percentage?
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Post by guest8 on May 23, 2023 0:08:55 GMT -5
Do you mean a TV set in the bedroom wardrobe or in the lounge?
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jwatt
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Post by jwatt on May 23, 2023 1:43:56 GMT -5
Plenty of them have hidden tvs plus all the smart phones and devices are being used as tvs.
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Post by jennyfromtheblock on May 23, 2023 17:04:21 GMT -5
Plenty of us don't hide our TVs, especially if they're hanging on the wall. I don't think the poll should be whether or not someone has a TV, but on how many have netflix/streaming accounts. Even non-Christian/non-2x2 people are going away from owning TVs, lots of people out there that watch shows on their iPads or other devices. But in respect to the 2x2'ers my guess is most people in Gen X and younger have streaming accounts. Its not about the device you're using but the type content you're consuming. The workers should know this. The small little screen they take in the privacy of their rooms is what gets them in trouble... not the big tv hanging on the wall in the living room. Your kids are safer watching shows in the living room, than taking devices into rooms where creepy strangers (possibly even someone in the work) could be communicating with your kids through an app. There's even been concerns raised with the YouVersion Bible App, predators can communicate with your kids through the chat portion of the app. Scary stuff. Stick to TVs in the living room. And if workers question it, maybe ask to look at their website history on their devices.
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Post by Pragmatic on May 23, 2023 17:19:51 GMT -5
Plenty of us don't hide our TVs, especially if they're hanging on the wall. I don't think the poll should be whether or not someone has a TV, but on how many have netflix/streaming accounts. Even non-Christian/non-2x2 people are going away from owning TVs, lots of people out there that watch shows on their iPads or other devices. But in respect to the 2x2'ers my guess is most people in Gen X and younger have streaming accounts. Its not about the device you're using but the type content you're consuming. The workers should know this. The small little screen they take in the privacy of their rooms is what gets them in trouble... not the big tv hanging on the wall in the living room. Your kids are safer watching shows in the living room, than taking devices into rooms where creepy strangers (possibly even someone in the work) could be communicating with your kids through an app. There's even been concerns raised with the YouVersion Bible App, predators can communicate with your kids through the chat portion of the app. Scary stuff. Stick to TVs in the living room. And if workers question it, maybe ask to look at their website history on their devices. I have suggested on here before, if you're suspicious at all, when the workers come to stay, put your modem/router into diagnostic, or verbose logging mode, while they are there. Regardless of what they erase from the cache on their devices, the history is stored in your log file. You can usually see that Mac address (a unique hardware identifier) of the device that connected to the site.
The whole TV thing was a load of bunkum, and I refused to kowtow to such nonsense over 30 years ago. I vowed to never hide what is simply technology from any worker. If they got offended, they could go elsewhere. Being offended by the object of a man-made regulation was their problem.
TV's as they were know then, a CRT with analogue receiver are long gone. They are simply monitors that receive digital signals from various devices, be it cable, satellite, or Internet. The only difference between it, and a laptop, is the screen size, and speaker quality.
As for "letting the world into your home!" Really? Was that any different to going to the library?
Sure, it could be a time waster, and some with an addictive personality could get hooked on certain things, but that is a different issue, and not a spiritual issue that was the concern of the workers. No, it was the "control" over the laity. That's where it came from.
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Post by tulip2 on May 23, 2023 18:32:25 GMT -5
As for "letting the world into your home!" Really? Was that any different to going to the library? Yes it's quite telling, the righteous brawn that went into keeping TVs out of friends' homes. Yet seemingly little or no concern about allowing sexual (SA/CSA) predators into the homes of friends. Where they had access to children and perhaps the lady of the house, often alone (stories of friends even leaving some of these predators - with the blessing of those TV cops - to mind the kids while the parents took a break). And we haven't even touched on homosexuality in the ministry, and that can of worms when it comes to allowing workers into friends' homes. But at least we were spared the angst of dealing with TVs in the home, as well as everything else that got in with manifold blessings!
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Post by Pragmatic on May 23, 2023 18:58:12 GMT -5
As for "letting the world into your home!" Really? Was that any different to going to the library? Yes it's quite telling, the righteous brawn that went into keeping TVs out of friends' homes. Yet seemingly little or no concern about allowing sexual (SA/CSA) predators into the homes of friends. Where they had access to children and perhaps the lady of the house, often alone (stories of friends even leaving some of these predators - with the blessing of those TV cops - to mind the kids while the parents took a break). And we haven't even touched on homosexuality in the ministry, and that can of worms when it comes to allowing workers into friends' homes. But at least we were spared the angst of dealing with TVs in the home, as well as everything else that got in with manifold blessings! I thought I'd leave those chestnuts for others to post, but yes
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2023 18:34:21 GMT -5
Plenty of us don't hide our TVs, especially if they're hanging on the wall. I don't think the poll should be whether or not someone has a TV, but on how many have netflix/streaming accounts. Even non-Christian/non-2x2 people are going away from owning TVs, lots of people out there that watch shows on their iPads or other devices. But in respect to the 2x2'ers my guess is most people in Gen X and younger have streaming accounts. Its not about the device you're using but the type content you're consuming. The workers should know this. The small little screen they take in the privacy of their rooms is what gets them in trouble... not the big tv hanging on the wall in the living room. Your kids are safer watching shows in the living room, than taking devices into rooms where creepy strangers (possibly even someone in the work) could be communicating with your kids through an app. There's even been concerns raised with the YouVersion Bible App, predators can communicate with your kids through the chat portion of the app. Scary stuff. Stick to TVs in the living room. And if workers question it, maybe ask to look at their website history on their devices. I can vouch for that seen a bit of TV before 1977 then after 1990 till 2000....UGH...a different world indeed...
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Post by cornsilk on Jun 2, 2023 16:57:50 GMT -5
2 in my house. Very large, and mounted on the wall.
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Post by mrdobalina on Jun 2, 2023 17:22:05 GMT -5
Pro tip. To find a TV when visiting friends houses, activate the Bluetooth on your phone & search for nearby devices. If they have a TV with Bluetooth it will pop right up, naming the brand and model type.
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Post by cornsilk on Jun 4, 2023 12:43:19 GMT -5
Pro tip. To find a TV when visiting friends houses, activate the Bluetooth on your phone & search for nearby devices. If they have a TV with Bluetooth it will pop right up, naming the brand and model type. But….who cares?
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Post by mrdobalina on Jun 4, 2023 18:42:00 GMT -5
Pro tip. To find a TV when visiting friends houses, activate the Bluetooth on your phone & search for nearby devices. If they have a TV with Bluetooth it will pop right up, naming the brand and model type. But….who cares? Strangely, only those that are hiding them . . . . Poorly.
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