@esmeelafleur I think there is a place for TVs in the home if they are used responsibly. Local weather if there's bad weather coming, or a really good old movie, ballet or symphony, cooking, gardening, carpentry, art lessons, sewing and quilting lessons. Most of the rest on tv is terrible, tho. Caring and watchful parents have to keep tv, like any other weapon, locked away from the kids.
I stopped watching TV in 2013 and I don’t miss it. Although I do watch RUclips videos, I am selective and try to watch reliable Christian content. I also avoid all computer games, for their violence and ugly and mostly demonic scenes. Instead, I try to devote a half hour or more every day (even during vacation) to silent prayer, and when possible to read books to help me grow in my faith. I also associate with friends who are Christians and attend Christian events. This way one can detach from the worldly things. This has really helped me draw closer to Jesus, and with each passing year I hate the world more and more. My real home is with Jesus in heaven, not this world.
i know people who don't play games or watch tv and they live worldly lives, sex, drugs, drinking, living degenerate life. now you might say they "used to" but im telling you nobody needs a video game or a tv to tell them to be sinful and live a degen life style now it can be all around us wherever we go. also your comment on games having violence and demonic stuff so does the bible it has murder and moments that talk about demons and stuff like that mainly what im getting at is if you have a weak mind you can be poisoned by anything so avoiding certain things for you if it helps is good.
11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men-extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’ 13 And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be [d]humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
I'm 43 years old and was raised on television, been watching it all throughout my childhood and adulthood. In my lifetime I've seen how progressively worse it's gotten... you can't even watch a commercial anymore without seeing homosexuality and all forms of degeneracy. I finally cut it out of my home, I don't want my children being influenced by it.
exactly, I liked to watch television in 90's... golden times. but i was infected by erotic movies anyway (was very tempting for teen's mind... they were transmitten after 10PM ) . watched also lots of action/shooting movies, lots of kills going around... in that time, I didnt find it disturibing ,with it was, for young mind. Lots of explosions, you know, from movies like pulp fiction. some of them were good tho (not like garbage movies after 2005). I watched also lots of socialistic movies, they were transmitted quite often in 90's and early 2000, as we were socialistic coutnry with lots of good movies... those movies were not so cancerous... they were good. And without sexual stuff. I still watch them from time to time (they are christian compatible, particular family ones, but without faith of course, as comunists didnt try to show christians) But after 2005-2010, television started to be so garbage. I stopped to watch it in late 2011 - early 2012.
And they do not do this for the money. They have all the money in the world. They do this because they are truly evil. They are the children of the devil
Unfortunately the people who have controlled every ounce of "news" and "history" (both used ironically as both are almost always antithetical to truth and reality) as well as entertainment for most of the past century exist to destroy Christianity as well as European Western norms and morals. They genuinely see our extinction as a necessity for their survival and thriving
Men are seen kissing each other on the lips in these commercials. Blow up the TV! Fight evil with all your might. We are surrounded by the enemy. Don't give up. Be in prayer 24/7
@@hikedayley9309 I am very particular with what I watch on TV, some cooking shows, documentaries like David Attenborough and Travel/culture programs. Thats it. The advertisements are brainwashing, a form of mind control. I mute them and turn over when they are on.
An hasidic jew in London was asked during a tv documentary why he didn't have a television in his home, and he said "Because it's the spiritual equivalent of having an open sewer running through your living room,". The powerful image always stuck with me but sadly it was a full 25 years before I reached the same conclusion and unplugged from the matrix
@@swervsplatt9672 yeah. I've been saying the same thing too. Do they not realize the other double standard that they've set for themselves that they have the internet which they have much more free access to the so-called vulgar and evil content they're fighting against? No they don't.
I watched so much television, violence and porn in my younger days that it is very saddening to think about. The damage it had on my soul is very big. But through looking at holy icons and praying my soul has healed, not entirely though. There is hope for everyone.
Im 35 and have been addicted to porn and weed. Im done with it... but i know my soul is damaged....i need healing. May i recieve some prayerd to heal me.
I quit watching TV when I moved out of my parent's house at 18. It's been another 18 years now and although it seemed fine to me growing up, now when I go to someone's house and they have one on it's repulsive to me.
We needed priests and teachers like you so badly in the 70’s and 80’s. My parents left us alone our entire childhood and left the television to raise my siblings and I. We were exposed to sexuality and nudity as very little kids from horrible shows. Children need physical and social affection and attention from their parents everyday. This technology has to stop.
Sadly, it is now not only television. Messages on our phones also call out, "Look at me!" I don't watch television. But when I go to RUclips to watch a video as wholesome as this, other videos (e.g. "news", which is propagandized) call for my attention.
The internet as a whole isnt at all the same as years previous. Near everything is ai run now, & it's geared at throwing you back into the paradigm(s) of the system. I had basically phased out *all* of youtube's (artificial) home page for close to a decade, then it started getting "recommended" to me anyway
Father, please pray for my baby boy and myself. We came down with a very bad virus. It has been three weeks now. We ended up in a hospital last night. God bless you❤️
I'm roman catholic, and I agree with you one hundred percent. I used to watch TV up to 10 hours a day. As soon as high School started, and I got my first job, I dropped the remote, and never looked back. That was 25 years ago. Still no regrets. Life is too short to waste it away in front of a television set.
During this Fast of the Nativity (Winter Lent), I began to think about the hold that television (and electronic media in general) has on me. Fr. Spyridon’s message is timely. I must take the message of St. Paul much more seriously: “See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” Ephesians 5: 15-16.
It’s absolutely insane what we allow into our homes. I’m guilty of it, and I can’t even be angry with the world. It’s meant to test us. It is a shame though, that my kids can’t even watch a cartoon movie without hints of homosexuality be dropped every five minutes. When our priest blessed our home last year, he was distraught at how our children had tvs in their rooms to help them fall asleep at night. We immediately took them out and our life has calmed down in regard to sleep schedules and such. Even children shows on RUclips, pornography pops up…on a platform that has banned all outlets of sanity…the insane and evil is applauded. Since my teenage years I’ve been into punk rock music, and the line that permeated many songs was “smash the discos” for its promotion of drugs and such. Now, I say “smash the televisions”. Lord have mercy.
I don’t own a tv and feel liberated from it. Last time I was at a relative’s home the family was watching Shameless. How sad for my grandchildren. I do what I can….
@@jacksonrelaxin3425 Well, if you don't have underlying health conditions or medication you take, you could try some pseudoephedrine to decongest your sinuses and possibly relieve some of the pressure.
It's Christmas 25th December 2022 and I'm alone although for me there's nothing more honourable than listening to the words of a very wise person. The words sent by God Himself. Thank you and God bless you, Holy Merry Christmas. Yes, Christmas is Christ.
Another incredible and providential video! My fiancé and I were reading some St. John Chrysostom this week and agreed that with how he spoke about the theatre, he’d definitely agree that watching movies and TV is really, really bad! Some quotes to consider… “Why do I talk about the theatre? Often if we meet a woman in the marketplace, we are alarmed. But you sit in your upper seat, where there is such an invitation to outrageous behaviour, and see a woman, a prostitute, entering bareheaded and with a complete lack of shame, dressed in golden garments, flirting coquettishly and singing harlots' songs with seductive tunes, and uttering disgraceful words. She behaves so shamelessly that if you watch her and give consideration, you will bow your head in shame. Do you dare to say you suffer no human reaction? Is your body made of stone? Or iron? I shall not refrain from saying the same things again. Surely you are not a better philosopher than those great and noble men, who were cast down merely by such a sight? [275] Have you not heard what Solomon says: "If someone walks onto a fire of coals, will he not burn his feet? If someone lights a fire in his lap, will he not burn his clothing? It is just the same for the man who goes to a woman that doesn't belong to him." For even if you did not have intimate relations with the prostitute, in your lust you coupled with her, and you committed the sin in your mind. And it was not only at that time, but also when the theatre has closed, and the woman has gone away, her image remains in your soul, along with her words, her figure, her looks, her movement, her rhythm, and her distinctive and meretricious tunes; and having suffered countless wounds you go home. Is it not this that leads to the disruption of households? Is it not this that leads to the destruction of temperance, and the break up of marriages? Is it not this that leads to wars and battles, and odious behaviour lacking any reason? For when, saturated with that woman, you return home as her captive, your wife appears more disagreeable, your children more burdensome, and your servants troublesome, and your house superfluous. Your customary concerns seem to annoy you when they relate to managing your necessary business, and everyone who visits is an irritating nuisance.” “The cause of this is that you do not return home alone, but keeping the prostitute with you. She does not go visibly and openly, which would have been easier. For your wife could have quickly driven her away. But she is ensconced in your mind and your consciousness, and she lights within you the Babylonian furnace, or rather something much worse.” “Therefore I lament and am in torment, because after receiving such a brutal outrage you return from the theatre, and for the sake of a small pleasure you undergo continual pain. For even before the punishment of Hell, you demand the ultimate penalty here. Tell me, does it not merit the final punishment, to nurture such a desire, to be constantly enflamed, and to carry everywhere the furnace of unnatural love and the condemnation of your own conscience?”
Father Spyridon hello from Athens Greece. A saint monk and apostle of ours who was also a great prophet who lived during the Othman occupation of Greece spoke so: There will be a time that the body of the devil will be in the house and his horns up to the terrace. Body meaning the television and horns the tv antenna. His name was saint Kosmas the Aitolos . I attend your vlog and give you my regards.
Finally! It’s rare to see someone from the Orthodox community with enough courage to say this. The only other people I’m aware of that speak of television in this way are Roosh V and Fr. Kosmas. I struggle with this temptation, but with God’s strength it will be overcome.
Nobody talks about it because this sounds like a outdated topic from the 50s that really just needs to stop being talked about. It's not the technology that's the problem, it's the content being put on it that is.
I only once had a dream in which I saw our Lord Jesus Christ. I saw him from a great distance sitting in the inner court of a temple surrounded by saints listening to his teachings. I did not feel worthy of approaching, so I turned to walk away. I then heard His voice in my ears saying “Guard your eyes”. I am still trying to follow this command the best I can to this day, but television and other media are full of evil temptations indeed. Nonetheless, guard your eyes!
If we don't think that the things we hear, or see, or pay attention to, don't affect us at all and we can compartmentalize our life, why do we even bother coming to Church, listening to Church services, saying our prayers, reading scripture and lives of saints? If one has no effect, the other likewise won't. If we participate in these things, let us not at least be deluded.
Matthew 6:22-23 - “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
I got rid of my TV around 1998 and have never looked back... in fact, when I'm around a TV displaying something it seems very strange/fake/plastic... and though RUclips, Bitchute, Odysee, etc. all have their own banality one can sift them for helpful content, too, with a critically discerning mind.
Father, I converted to Catholicism because of the writings of the Church Fathers. I do not understand the rifts within the Church, but your wisdom is of great value to me. And I do not doubt your authority as a priest.
Amen father. We have been telling our flock here in Mississippi about tv. Very few fully believe us. We expanded it to them like you. I’m glad to hear you teaching on this, gives us hope . Thank you keep sharing. We like your how you bring the word. It’s inspiring to teach our flock in the outdoors more then in a building. God bless you.
Wise wise words as usual. I haven't really watched any television for about 15 years now, but I'll never forget what it did to my perception as a young man. Took me years to rebuild my self reliance and ability to think critically. Endless hours of battling with my own cognitive dissonances. I think social media is the real devil these days though... These upcoming generations are literally hooked up 24/7 for most of their childhoods. It's going to be difficult for a lot of them to be able to break free from the digital shackles.
Great Sermon Father Spyridon,technology is worse than tv. I call it "digital heroin" so many totally enslaved to this,so sad.. Lord have mercy on us all🙏☦️
It is so obvious when watching the primetime shows how their scripts all promote the values of the LGBT+ community and the Feminist agenda. Even Hallmark has succumbed to this pressure, unfortunately.
I needed to be told this father. For years I have watched BBC news at first because I thought that it simply would not do to be ignorant of the world, but as much as I listen to the tragedies they offer and inform me of, they offer nothing by way of instruction. I am brought back to the religious fantasy of Dante, in which he describes 'informers' as having their place below, and I look upon the world in which so often the only instruction that people are willing to take is for the sake of their livelihood. To discern God's will is something I yearn for, should I summon my instructions or somehow put my need for instruction to God as a matter of prayer? I find a man can only do what is inside him, but instructions are instructions, and so I thankyou for your insights into guarding my soul by way of watchfulness of my intake. The Father bless you
Beautifully and insightfully said. I wonder if or how important it is to keep up with the world to prepare-is that a rationalization? Seeing so much darkness has allowed me to go inward and deeper in silence and prayer, am praying this place brings me closer and closer to the ground of our being: Our Father. Otherwise it seems to me, it’s just recycled nihilism.
Thank you, dear Father Spyridon. Media is so powerful and is manipulating the world on the path to destruction. We need to be so careful how we use it: the less the better, except for things that are truly godly and helpful to our spiritual life & growth! There are so many wonderful things available to fill our hearts, minds, and time which will keep us close to God. May many take heed & be delivered from these snares! ☦God bless you!
I Don't watch TV. When I do see it in other people's homes it strikes me as absolutely insane. A disgusting intrusion on the mind and spirit. Thankyou Father Spyridon.
Neil Postman wrote a book more than 25 years ago that was an excellent commentary on just this very thing. It was about how the age of television ushered in all sorts of bad things. The title of the book is "Amusing Ourselves To Death."
Since being born again, (6 months ago) I haven't had much desire to watch secular things or listen to secular music. When I would try to in the beginning of my faith, I got the sensation of being pulled away from Him so I stopped. Since then, there have been times I have been times I have been exposed to it in my environment (work, or out in public) and I have become so sensitive to the evil that's coming out of it I become irritated by it. I notice every Blaspheme, every curse word, and the despicable teachings. It feels like a bombardment of pure evil. I am so greatful to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for softening me to these things and chipping away my old self. I invite him to continue working on me so I can follow Him better and better everyday. In Jesus name, Amen🙏
I gave up the tv years ago. But these smartphones are a menace, far worse than tv for the interactive artificial experience they give us. This causes me massive problems.
Thank you, Fr Spyridon. This is a message, a warning really, that the whole world needs to grasp and come to terms with more than ever. Unfortunately, I'm not so certain it's as simple as ditching TV, but ditching the communities that uphold these norms and attack others for not obeying them (Not allowing your child to watch TV is likely to arouse suspicion in the child's school if they show signs of being too detached from the disney culture of today, leading to a visit from CPS). Those of us who have already partially escaped (none of us are truly out of the belly of the beast, yet.) have a lot of big questions to ask ourselves nowadays.
Thank you! This will be my focus for 2023. That is to be watchful. I will ask for strength to resist that which displeases God. I know he will protect me from evil. He will forgive me , through Jesus Christ, when I fail. I’m going to make a sincere effort to let the light of His mercy shine ✨ in my life wherever I go. ♥️
A very sad time of tribulation for the children of Israel. I love you all, together we can break these chains of enslavement. Together with god and love in our hearts.
Father, I have been praying over and contemplating this very issue recently. Thank you for your message. I've given up all social media over a year ago, gaming, television and most films. I struggle with the music I listen to, however. I have been working on this. This message is so relevant for me and every brother and sister in Christ. God bless you!
As a music lover, I can tell you that listening to Orthodox choir, classical and jazz is a very enriching experience. Instrumental music is generally spiritually safe and even beneficial. If the music you listen to is full of sinful content, it's more than likely being produced for the sake of greed (money), and not for the art itself. It's spiritually corrupted.
@@jorschu I mainly listen to old jazz and classical and orthodox chants on the whole; though classic jazz that are pop songs and not strictly instrumental have questionable themes at times, even those from the 1920s. It's heavy metal that would not be considered edifying to the spirit or giving glory to God and its been challenging for me to give it up entirely, which I suppose speaks for its hold on me and increasing need to cut it out, I suppose. Anyway, I do agree with you and those are forms of music that are uplifting and enriching and I have a love for them.
Thank you Fr.Spyridon. Television is at best an awful waste of time and of course it can be used by the authorities to steer the viewers in any direction they choose. You are truly a wise man Fr.Spyridon
For awhile I did a TV fast and only watched things that was going to help my heart and my mind. I felt like I was closer to God then. Since I've had a hard time controlling my mind, my thoughts and my lips. Lord help me and show me again how to control my tongue
That quote at the end about how the devil will inhabit a box & shout was so prophetic. Thank you Father Spyridion for another inspirational video. You have covered a topic that is especially relevant to my own experience. I am trying more and more to spend my time in ways that lift the spirit & of course that includes this wonderful channel. I am also increasingly leaving behind any viewing & music that is toxic. Ironically a commercial for an extremely dark, violent movie came on during this clip - part of a horror franchise l wish l had never seen. But by the grace of God l see that a change needs to be made. This is such an important topic & l would love to hear more of what you may have to say on this subject, Father.
If you download and install into your computer a thing called 'Adblocker' [quite free of charge] you'll never again see any commercials during clips like this or any other kind.
@@robwilde855Thank you so much for your advice. I just set up an ad blocker. Sorry for the late reply but l must have had my 'reply' notifications turned off, l was just watching this video again & saw your comment. Take care 😊
It is poison. The content definitely, but also, just how much time we spend on it. I had a nightmare the other day that I was trapped in the digital world and couldn't get out. After watching this video I realized that that nightmare is my reality! My phone is the last thing I put down and the first thing I touch when I wake up. If I can't stand still and watch something, like I'm doing chores or going to the store, I listen to a podcast. I'm always plugged in, always consuming. The father called it an enslavement, and it is true. It's time I got out of this enslavement I've created for myself.
The last saying of Saint Cosmas was amazing description! As Saint Paisios said, when he was asked what the devil looks like, "you see him every day you just call him television". Family, we have to be careful of what enters through our Sense Organs but most of all the mind!
Good to see TV being called out. It never ceases to amaze me how people can be aware of the corrupt nature of TV but still support it through the voluntary BBC TV tax. Stop financing them!!
Appreciate the wisdom you share in your channel, have been watching all your videos for a number of years now and they have really helped me innmy own journey , bless you in Jesus name.
If I may venture to make the encouragement that you Father Spyridon have succeeded in anchoring me to my walk with God. At this time in my life your consciousness objection continues to re- orient me towards Christ. In spite of my fallen nature. I am so grateful that your work has this kind of gravity in my life. Please continue with this work. Grace has shown itself to me and has let me down gently to begin again and again. Thank you father for your unwavering vigilance.
My good old granny died back in 1999 aged 88 said she had in her lifetime watched people around her go from believing the world was flat driving in horse and carriage and growing their own food making their own furniture and clothes totally self sufficient and an reliant upon others outside of the large families in which they lived And during the course of her lifetime she had witnessed them claim they had landed on the moon and discovered the planet was round not flat gone from teaching flat earthed around her in her Catholic Irish school gone from horse pulled carriage to horseless carriages powered by electric which we never believed and thought she must’ve heard it from somewhere and win the first supermarket Safeway open in Bude in Cornwall she started to view the modern world with some suspicion to the degree that she said none of the fruit or vegetable in the supermarket was any good and she went back to growing her own and got my mum into planting an orchard and starting a vegetable garden to save on shopping Was very clever and I remember her saying to me when I was a teenager before she died that she questioned whether anything she had seen happening her life in the last nearly 2 centuries had been genuinely true she said it seemed unfeasible that we could’ve come from such a live to the existence we had come to know in the late 90s this is before the days of the Internet mobile phones and she had become entirely distrustful of what was written in any of the newspapers and entirely distrustful of what was being said on television often claiming that she knew they had changed history😮 what an incredible level of discernment that women had considering the time in which she grew up it’s funny because she seemed the least susceptible to programming of anyone in the family and I know it worried her deeply the effect that modern life was having on her daughter her son-in-law and her grandson! (God bless you Mary Smith You will be forever missed and never forgotten xxxRIPxxx)
My grandmother was Irish,and died in the 1970s. I wonder what she would have made of now. She was from County Mayo, and even thought the Moon landings were useless and dangerous. She never lost her faith.
I stopped watching tv, primarily to avoid the ads and the brainwashing. My Wife still watches it, what I despise the most is she watches the witchcraft shows like charmed, and I do not want that in my house. I think I will stop paying my dish bill and just claim can't afford it no more.
It’s up to us to make the decision to stop sin right in its tracks and sincerely march forth in our lives. I can humbly tell you that the benefits are far more than worth the price-all of the right things are just more righter, if that makes any sense. Jesus gave a commandment to the adulteress, and us all: “….Go, and SIN NO MORE (emphasis mine).”
This is evidenced by my language lately when bad things happen. I have become less guarded over the podcasts and music that is being consumed. Thank you Father.
"This shouting box." Exactly. Although, when I decided to kick the TV out back in 2016, it was because I caught myself shouting at it and asked myself "Why am I paying to have these people come into my house and talk to me in this way?" I was literally being infuriated by these self-righteous liberals lying to me day after day. I've long called it "The one eyed monster in the corner."
I am to be baptized on Sunday. Glory and thanks to God.
Wonderful!💛🙏
May the Lord Bless your walk
Glory to God! Please pray for us!
Glory be . Bless you.
May God bless you
I haven't owned a TV in 35 years, but I have had to live in homes of others who own them. They are a menace to our souls and to our society.
@esmeelafleur I think there is a place for TVs in the home if they are used responsibly. Local weather if there's bad weather coming, or a really good old movie, ballet or symphony, cooking, gardening, carpentry, art lessons, sewing and quilting lessons. Most of the rest on tv is terrible, tho. Caring and watchful parents have to keep tv, like any other weapon, locked away from the kids.
I'm worried about my phone more than a TV. I don't have a TV but I'm a little bit glued to my phone, which has a screen too.
@@spiderlily4386 certainly, but many, myself included, have a difficult time resisting the temptation when it is sitting in front of us.
@@nothanks7475 our phones are also a huge temptation, absolutely. The New Media Epidemic by John-Claude Larchet is well-worth reading in this regard.
@@EsmeeLaFleur i totally understand.
I stopped watching TV in 2013 and I don’t miss it. Although I do watch RUclips videos, I am selective and try to watch reliable Christian content. I also avoid all computer games, for their violence and ugly and mostly demonic scenes. Instead, I try to devote a half hour or more every day (even during vacation) to silent prayer, and when possible to read books to help me grow in my faith. I also associate with friends who are Christians and attend Christian events. This way one can detach from the worldly things. This has really helped me draw closer to Jesus, and with each passing year I hate the world more and more. My real home is with Jesus in heaven, not this world.
Amen!
i know people who don't play games or watch tv and they live worldly lives, sex, drugs, drinking, living degenerate life. now you might say they "used to" but im telling you nobody needs a video game or a tv to tell them to be sinful and live a degen life style now it can be all around us wherever we go. also your comment on games having violence and demonic stuff so does the bible it has murder and moments that talk about demons and stuff like that mainly what im getting at is if you have a weak mind you can be poisoned by anything so avoiding certain things for you if it helps is good.
11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men-extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’ 13 And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be [d]humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
@@Alex-hz2xg Amen. Was just discussing this same theme with my mom on the phone this morning.
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I'm 43 years old and was raised on television, been watching it all throughout my childhood and adulthood. In my lifetime I've seen how progressively worse it's gotten... you can't even watch a commercial anymore without seeing homosexuality and all forms of degeneracy. I finally cut it out of my home, I don't want my children being influenced by it.
Exactly through every aspect of our lives now.
Good luck with that.
Imagine one of your kids end up being gay. That would be hilarious. Tv doesn't turn people gay btw. Good luck
@@gabgarcia9935 no one "ends up being gay", it's learned behavior. Usually learned by being molested.
exactly, I liked to watch television in 90's... golden times.
but i was infected by erotic movies anyway (was very tempting for teen's mind... they were transmitten after 10PM ) . watched also lots of action/shooting movies, lots of kills going around... in that time, I didnt find it disturibing ,with it was, for young mind. Lots of explosions, you know, from movies like pulp fiction. some of them were good tho (not like garbage movies after 2005). I watched also lots of socialistic movies, they were transmitted quite often in 90's and early 2000, as we were socialistic coutnry with lots of good movies... those movies were not so cancerous... they were good. And without sexual stuff. I still watch them from time to time (they are christian compatible, particular family ones, but without faith of course, as comunists didnt try to show christians)
But after 2005-2010, television started to be so garbage.
I stopped to watch it in late 2011 - early 2012.
We give ourselves so freely to people who despise our faith.
Such truthful and powerful words Fr Spyridon.
And they do not do this for the money. They have all the money in the world. They do this because they are truly evil. They are the children of the devil
Unfortunately the people who have controlled every ounce of "news" and "history" (both used ironically as both are almost always antithetical to truth and reality) as well as entertainment for most of the past century exist to destroy Christianity as well as European Western norms and morals.
They genuinely see our extinction as a necessity for their survival and thriving
Men are seen kissing each other on the lips in these commercials. Blow up the TV! Fight evil with all your might. We are surrounded by the enemy. Don't give up. Be in prayer 24/7
@@hikedayley9309 I am very particular with what I watch on TV, some cooking shows, documentaries like David Attenborough and Travel/culture programs. Thats it.
The advertisements are brainwashing, a form of mind control. I mute them and turn over when they are on.
An hasidic jew in London was asked during a tv documentary why he didn't have a television in his home, and he said "Because it's the spiritual equivalent of having an open sewer running through your living room,". The powerful image always stuck with me but sadly it was a full 25 years before I reached the same conclusion and unplugged from the matrix
Thank you, I’m posting this comment on my FB page. It’s so true. God bless you.
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Yet here you are, typing a comment on youtube via your smartphone or computer...☠️
@@swervsplatt9672 yeah. I've been saying the same thing too. Do they not realize the other double standard that they've set for themselves that they have the internet which they have much more free access to the so-called vulgar and evil content they're fighting against?
No they don't.
I watched so much television, violence and porn in my younger days that it is very saddening to think about. The damage it had on my soul is very big. But through looking at holy icons and praying my soul has healed, not entirely though. There is hope for everyone.
That's my live before. Glory to God I came out of it. But I still need healing. Pray for me a sinner
Im 35 and have been addicted to porn and weed. Im done with it... but i know my soul is damaged....i need healing. May i recieve some prayerd to heal me.
I am sending you some prayers. 🙏🙏🙏
@@emmanuellebediat1653 if your a sinner,your still going to hell.born again people are no longer sinners.
God bless you, Thank you for sharing that with us. It gives hope to many.
A shouting box of devils. I gotta say that’s pretty accurate
U nail itu right all right lol.
I quit watching TV when I moved out of my parent's house at 18. It's been another 18 years now and although it seemed fine to me growing up, now when I go to someone's house and they have one on it's repulsive to me.
so true
We needed priests and teachers like you so badly in the 70’s and 80’s. My parents left us alone our entire childhood and left the television to raise my siblings and I. We were exposed to sexuality and nudity as very little kids from horrible shows. Children need physical and social affection and attention from their parents everyday. This technology has to stop.
I think technology has really destroyed the western world..
51 year old father of four here. Got rid of the poison three years ago. Best move ever..
Sadly, it is now not only television. Messages on our phones also call out, "Look at me!" I don't watch television. But when I go to RUclips to watch a video as wholesome as this, other videos (e.g. "news", which is propagandized) call for my attention.
The internet as a whole isnt at all the same as years previous. Near everything is ai run now, & it's geared at throwing you back into the paradigm(s) of the system. I had basically phased out *all* of youtube's (artificial) home page for close to a decade, then it started getting "recommended" to me anyway
Father, please pray for my baby boy and myself. We came down with a very bad virus. It has been three weeks now. We ended up in a hospital last night. God bless you❤️
I will pray as well.
Jesus Christ please heal them soon. 🙏🏻
Praying 🙏
Father God please wash them clean from their sickness 🙏🏻🙏🏻💕
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I'm roman catholic, and I agree with you one hundred percent. I used to watch TV up to 10 hours a day. As soon as high School started, and I got my first job, I dropped the remote, and never looked back. That was 25 years ago. Still no regrets. Life is too short to waste it away in front of a television set.
During this Fast of the Nativity (Winter Lent), I began to think about the hold that television (and electronic media in general) has on me. Fr. Spyridon’s message is timely. I must take the message of St. Paul much more seriously: “See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” Ephesians 5: 15-16.
If you haven't read it already I can't recommend enough Cardinal Sarah's book The Power of Silence
@@Millingtorres oh i have this one. Iike it. With the carthusian superior also.
Yes.
I’m going to get this book 📖
It’s absolutely insane what we allow into our homes. I’m guilty of it, and I can’t even be angry with the world. It’s meant to test us. It is a shame though, that my kids can’t even watch a cartoon movie without hints of homosexuality be dropped every five minutes. When our priest blessed our home last year, he was distraught at how our children had tvs in their rooms to help them fall asleep at night. We immediately took them out and our life has calmed down in regard to sleep schedules and such. Even children shows on RUclips, pornography pops up…on a platform that has banned all outlets of sanity…the insane and evil is applauded. Since my teenage years I’ve been into punk rock music, and the line that permeated many songs was “smash the discos” for its promotion of drugs and such. Now, I say “smash the televisions”. Lord have mercy.
"And yet he cleaves to innocence"-Job 2:3
Let us Christians cleave to innocence in thought and heart! Thank you, Father Spyridon!
The endurance of ancient Christian truth and wisdom is infinite
I stopped watching television more than 10 years ago and don`t miss it
I don’t own a tv and feel liberated from it. Last time I was at a relative’s home the family was watching Shameless. How sad for my grandchildren. I do what I can….
keep praying for them and for their parents
Dear father Spyridon, your videos are always an asset.🕊☦
@@jacksonrelaxin3425 May God send you healing.
@@jacksonrelaxin3425 from a head cold? You must be in bad shape or very old and sickly
@@jacksonrelaxin3425 yeah I was just angry sorry I mean nothing matters though so guess just sorry 4 ya
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You could always see a doctor if it's that bad.
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Well, if you don't have underlying health conditions or medication you take, you could try some pseudoephedrine to decongest your sinuses and possibly relieve some of the pressure.
Amen and amen . In the 1950s pastors, preachers and priests were saying this same thing . TV was a major problem .
And look what television has done .
It's Christmas 25th December 2022 and I'm alone although for me there's nothing more honourable than listening to the words of a very wise person. The words sent by God Himself. Thank you and God bless you, Holy Merry Christmas. Yes, Christmas is Christ.
God Bless you now and forever!
Amen father Spyridon! Our fathers used to say it's an icon of satan and it truly is!
Thank-you Father Spyridon, for another important sermon, .🙏☦️
Another incredible and providential video! My fiancé and I were reading some St. John Chrysostom this week and agreed that with how he spoke about the theatre, he’d definitely agree that watching movies and TV is really, really bad!
Some quotes to consider…
“Why do I talk about the theatre? Often if we meet a woman in the marketplace, we are alarmed. But you sit in your upper seat, where there is such an invitation to outrageous behaviour, and see a woman, a prostitute, entering bareheaded and with a complete lack of shame, dressed in golden garments, flirting coquettishly and singing harlots' songs with seductive tunes, and uttering disgraceful words. She behaves so shamelessly that if you watch her and give consideration, you will bow your head in shame. Do you dare to say you suffer no human reaction? Is your body made of stone? Or iron? I shall not refrain from saying the same things again. Surely you are not a better philosopher than those great and noble men, who were cast down merely by such a sight? [275] Have you not heard what Solomon says: "If someone walks onto a fire of coals, will he not burn his feet? If someone lights a fire in his lap, will he not burn his clothing? It is just the same for the man who goes to a woman that doesn't belong to him." For even if you did not have intimate relations with the prostitute, in your lust you coupled with her, and you committed the sin in your mind. And it was not only at that time, but also when the theatre has closed, and the woman has gone away, her image remains in your soul, along with her words, her figure, her looks, her movement, her rhythm, and her distinctive and meretricious tunes; and having suffered countless wounds you go home. Is it not this that leads to the disruption of households? Is it not this that leads to the destruction of temperance, and the break up of marriages? Is it not this that leads to wars and battles, and odious behaviour lacking any reason? For when, saturated with that woman, you return home as her captive, your wife appears more disagreeable, your children more burdensome, and your servants troublesome, and your house superfluous. Your customary concerns seem to annoy you when they relate to managing your necessary business, and everyone who visits is an irritating nuisance.”
“The cause of this is that you do not return home alone, but keeping the prostitute with you. She does not go visibly and openly, which would have been easier. For your wife could have quickly driven her away. But she is ensconced in your mind and your consciousness, and she lights within you the Babylonian furnace, or rather something much worse.”
“Therefore I lament and am in torment, because after receiving such a brutal outrage you return from the theatre, and for the sake of a small pleasure you undergo continual pain. For even before the punishment of Hell, you demand the ultimate penalty here. Tell me, does it not merit the final punishment, to nurture such a desire, to be constantly enflamed, and to carry everywhere the furnace of unnatural love and the condemnation of your own conscience?”
Some things in here hit me real hard! Lord help me and deliver me from such torment.
@@VincentTamer You're on the right path...stay true🙏
Claire-such an appropriate and insightful post-thank you and blessings to you !🙏
Father Spyridon hello from Athens Greece.
A saint monk and apostle of ours who was also a great prophet who lived during the Othman occupation of Greece spoke so:
There will be a time that the body of the devil will be in the house and his horns up to the terrace.
Body meaning the television and horns the tv antenna.
His name was saint Kosmas the Aitolos .
I attend your vlog and give you my regards.
Thank you for sharing. Yes, Father Spyridon actually includes this quote at the very end of the video. God bless.
Love orthodox fathers, they are so based.
Finally! It’s rare to see someone from the Orthodox community with enough courage to say this. The only other people I’m aware of that speak of television in this way are Roosh V and Fr. Kosmas. I struggle with this temptation, but with God’s strength it will be overcome.
Nobody talks about it because this sounds like a outdated topic from the 50s that really just needs to stop being talked about.
It's not the technology that's the problem, it's the content being put on it that is.
@@theunknowncommenter725 Yea the content, but also the pursuit of entertainment and distraction from God that’s also a problem.
Even adverts now are extremely corrupting.
I only once had a dream in which I saw our Lord Jesus Christ. I saw him from a great distance sitting in the inner court of a temple surrounded by saints listening to his teachings. I did not feel worthy of approaching, so I turned to walk away. I then heard His voice in my ears saying “Guard your eyes”. I am still trying to follow this command the best I can to this day, but television and other media are full of evil temptations indeed. Nonetheless, guard your eyes!
I stopped watching tv (and movies for the most part) in 2013 and I truly believe it allowed the Holy Spirit to renew my mind
Such a timely and piercing message, which must be shared with those who are blind to the world's deception. Thank you 🙏🏼
One of the most important messages of our time. Programming and the wrong influences are what are driving people away from God.
We love you Father. Thanks for this
Thank you, Father. Glory to Christ forever. Lord have mercy on this putridly transgressive and demonically compromised world.
If we don't think that the things we hear, or see, or pay attention to, don't affect us at all and we can compartmentalize our life, why do we even bother coming to Church, listening to Church services, saying our prayers, reading scripture and lives of saints? If one has no effect, the other likewise won't. If we participate in these things, let us not at least be deluded.
God bless you Father !!!
Matthew 6:22-23 - “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.
Thank you for your words Father.
I'm looking forward to this.
I got rid of my TV around 1998 and have never looked back... in fact, when I'm around a TV displaying something it seems very strange/fake/plastic... and though RUclips, Bitchute, Odysee, etc. all have their own banality one can sift them for helpful content, too, with a critically discerning mind.
Father, I converted to Catholicism because of the writings of the Church Fathers. I do not understand the rifts within the Church, but your wisdom is of great value to me. And I do not doubt your authority as a priest.
What's the matter with writings of the church Fathers ? Would you explain what did you experience that made you convert ?
Amen father. We have been telling our flock here in Mississippi about tv. Very few fully believe us. We expanded it to them like you. I’m glad to hear you teaching on this, gives us hope . Thank you keep sharing. We like your how you bring the word. It’s inspiring to teach our flock in the outdoors more then in a building. God bless you.
Hey from the Delta! How cool to find fellow Mississippians here- 🔥💪. Love Father S. Merry and blessed Christmas to all🎄❤️🎄
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Wise wise words as usual.
I haven't really watched any television for about 15 years now, but I'll never forget what it did to my perception as a young man.
Took me years to rebuild my self reliance and ability to think critically. Endless hours of battling with my own cognitive dissonances.
I think social media is the real devil these days though... These upcoming generations are literally hooked up 24/7 for most of their childhoods.
It's going to be difficult for a lot of them to be able to break free from the digital shackles.
Great Sermon Father Spyridon,technology is worse than tv.
I call it "digital heroin" so many totally enslaved to this,so sad..
Lord have mercy on us all🙏☦️
It is so obvious when watching the primetime shows how their scripts all promote the values of the LGBT+ community and the Feminist agenda. Even Hallmark has succumbed to this pressure, unfortunately.
I needed to be told this father. For years I have watched BBC news at first because I thought that it simply would not do to be ignorant of the world, but as much as I listen to the tragedies they offer and inform me of, they offer nothing by way of instruction. I am brought back to the religious fantasy of Dante, in which he describes 'informers' as having their place below, and I look upon the world in which so often the only instruction that people are willing to take is for the sake of their livelihood. To discern God's will is something I yearn for, should I summon my instructions or somehow put my need for instruction to God as a matter of prayer? I find a man can only do what is inside him, but instructions are instructions, and so I thankyou for your insights into guarding my soul by way of watchfulness of my intake. The Father bless you
Beautifully and insightfully said. I wonder if or how important it is to keep up with the world to prepare-is that a rationalization? Seeing so much darkness has allowed me to go inward and deeper in silence and prayer, am praying this place brings me closer and closer to the ground of our being: Our Father. Otherwise it seems to me, it’s just recycled nihilism.
Thank you, dear Father Spyridon. Media is so powerful and is manipulating the world on the path to destruction. We need to be so careful how we use it: the less the better, except for things that are truly godly and helpful to our spiritual life & growth! There are so many wonderful things available to fill our hearts, minds, and time which will keep us close to God. May many take heed & be delivered from these snares! ☦God bless you!
I Don't watch TV. When I do see it in other people's homes it strikes me as absolutely insane. A disgusting intrusion on the mind and spirit. Thankyou Father Spyridon.
Neil Postman wrote a book more than 25 years ago that was an excellent commentary on just this very thing. It was about how the age of television ushered in all sorts of bad things. The title of the book is "Amusing Ourselves To Death."
Since being born again, (6 months ago) I haven't had much desire to watch secular things or listen to secular music. When I would try to in the beginning of my faith, I got the sensation of being pulled away from Him so I stopped. Since then, there have been times I have been times I have been exposed to it in my environment (work, or out in public) and I have become so sensitive to the evil that's coming out of it I become irritated by it. I notice every Blaspheme, every curse word, and the despicable teachings. It feels like a bombardment of pure evil. I am so greatful to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for softening me to these things and chipping away my old self. I invite him to continue working on me so I can follow Him better and better everyday. In Jesus name, Amen🙏
Thanks for you poignant and lovingly honest sermons. I have benefited..
I gave up the tv years ago. But these smartphones are a menace, far worse than tv for the interactive artificial experience they give us. This causes me massive problems.
Thank you, Fr Spyridon. This is a message, a warning really, that the whole world needs to grasp and come to terms with more than ever. Unfortunately, I'm not so certain it's as simple as ditching TV, but ditching the communities that uphold these norms and attack others for not obeying them (Not allowing your child to watch TV is likely to arouse suspicion in the child's school if they show signs of being too detached from the disney culture of today, leading to a visit from CPS).
Those of us who have already partially escaped (none of us are truly out of the belly of the beast, yet.) have a lot of big questions to ask ourselves nowadays.
homeschool your child. we did
Thank you Father Spyridon.
All I can say is AMEN 🙏
I adore you Father Spyridon. You are a pure soul.
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I don't have a TV this 20 years fr praying for your Intentions Brother 🙏
Thank you! This will be my focus for 2023. That is to be watchful. I will ask for strength to resist that which displeases God. I know he will protect me from evil. He will forgive me , through Jesus Christ, when I fail. I’m going to make a sincere effort to let the light of His mercy shine ✨ in my life wherever I go. ♥️
A very sad time of tribulation for the children of Israel. I love you all, together we can break these chains of enslavement. Together with god and love in our hearts.
Father, I have been praying over and contemplating this very issue recently. Thank you for your message. I've given up all social media over a year ago, gaming, television and most films. I struggle with the music I listen to, however. I have been working on this.
This message is so relevant for me and every brother and sister in Christ. God bless you!
As a music lover, I can tell you that listening to Orthodox choir, classical and jazz is a very enriching experience. Instrumental music is generally spiritually safe and even beneficial.
If the music you listen to is full of sinful content, it's more than likely being produced for the sake of greed (money), and not for the art itself. It's spiritually corrupted.
@@jorschu I mainly listen to old jazz and classical and orthodox chants on the whole; though classic jazz that are pop songs and not strictly instrumental have questionable themes at times, even those from the 1920s. It's heavy metal that would not be considered edifying to the spirit or giving glory to God and its been challenging for me to give it up entirely, which I suppose speaks for its hold on me and increasing need to cut it out, I suppose.
Anyway, I do agree with you and those are forms of music that are uplifting and enriching and I have a love for them.
Very well done.
I hope you have further success.
I know how difficult it is.
Thank you Fr.Spyridon.
Television is at best an awful waste of time and of course it can be used by the authorities to steer the viewers in any direction they choose. You are truly a wise man Fr.Spyridon
Father Spyridon please pray for me. Commemorate me an Orthodox Christian if possible.
He is so unbelievably based
Thank you, Father
For awhile I did a TV fast and only watched things that was going to help my heart and my mind. I felt like I was closer to God then. Since I've had a hard time controlling my mind, my thoughts and my lips. Lord help me and show me again how to control my tongue
That quote at the end about how the devil will inhabit a box & shout was so prophetic. Thank you Father Spyridion for another inspirational video. You have covered a topic that is especially relevant to my own experience. I am trying more and more to spend my time in ways that lift the spirit & of course that includes this wonderful channel. I am also increasingly leaving behind any viewing & music that is toxic. Ironically a commercial for an extremely dark, violent movie came on during this clip - part of a horror franchise l wish l had never seen. But by the grace of God l see that a change needs to be made. This is such an important topic & l would love to hear more of what you may have to say on this subject, Father.
If you download and install into your computer a thing called 'Adblocker' [quite free of charge] you'll never again see any commercials during clips like this or any other kind.
@@robwilde855Thank you so much for your advice. I just set up an ad blocker. Sorry for the late reply but l must have had my 'reply' notifications turned off, l was just watching this video again & saw your comment. Take care 😊
Thank you Father for sharing your wisdom with us
Amen, we are what we eat, we become what we consume, physically, mentally, and spiritually.
wonderful words of wisdom, makes me rethink what movies and TV shows I watch...
Life as a christian can sometimes be a non stop endless barrage of fire and artillery.
Modern Saint! Our Lord speaks through him is thier any else who can give us more hope!
I always thought it was funny my uncle would refuse to watch TV or any movies. Now I see why
It is poison. The content definitely, but also, just how much time we spend on it. I had a nightmare the other day that I was trapped in the digital world and couldn't get out. After watching this video I realized that that nightmare is my reality! My phone is the last thing I put down and the first thing I touch when I wake up. If I can't stand still and watch something, like I'm doing chores or going to the store, I listen to a podcast. I'm always plugged in, always consuming. The father called it an enslavement, and it is true. It's time I got out of this enslavement I've created for myself.
Tell-lie-vision. Broadcasting programming. It's in the name!
Channels.
Evening programming.
The last saying of Saint Cosmas was amazing description! As Saint Paisios said, when he was asked what the devil looks like, "you see him every day you just call him television". Family, we have to be careful of what enters through our Sense Organs but most of all the mind!
Thank you so much for your ministering, Father Spyridon. Remember us in your prayers.
People used to have altars at home for the practice of any religion in the world. Now they have altars for the tv.
Good to see TV being called out. It never ceases to amaze me how people can be aware of the corrupt nature of TV but still support it through the voluntary BBC TV tax. Stop financing them!!
So true...
Happy belated nameday father Spyridon!
Such an inspiring channel, bless father Spyridon.
Father Spyridon , your talks are very healing and soothing to the Soul !
I have not owned a TV for 4 years, and i don`t miss it.
Appreciate the wisdom you share in your channel, have been watching all your videos for a number of years now and they have really helped me innmy own journey , bless you in Jesus name.
If I may venture to make the encouragement that you Father Spyridon have succeeded in anchoring me to my walk with God. At this time in my life your consciousness objection continues to re- orient me towards Christ. In spite of my fallen nature. I am so grateful that your work has this kind of gravity in my life. Please continue with this work. Grace has shown itself to me and has let me down gently to begin again and again. Thank you father for your unwavering vigilance.
My good old granny died back in 1999 aged 88 said she had in her lifetime watched people around her go from believing the world was flat driving in horse and carriage and growing their own food making their own furniture and clothes totally self sufficient and an reliant upon others outside of the large families in which they lived And during the course of her lifetime she had witnessed them claim they had landed on the moon and discovered the planet was round not flat gone from teaching flat earthed around her in her Catholic Irish school gone from horse pulled carriage to horseless carriages powered by electric which we never believed and thought she must’ve heard it from somewhere and win the first supermarket Safeway open in Bude in Cornwall she started to view the modern world with some suspicion to the degree that she said none of the fruit or vegetable in the supermarket was any good and she went back to growing her own and got my mum into planting an orchard and starting a vegetable garden to save on shopping Was very clever and I remember her saying to me when I was a teenager before she died that she questioned whether anything she had seen happening her life in the last nearly 2 centuries had been genuinely true she said it seemed unfeasible that we could’ve come from such a live to the existence we had come to know in the late 90s this is before the days of the Internet mobile phones and she had become entirely distrustful of what was written in any of the newspapers and entirely distrustful of what was being said on television often claiming that she knew they had changed history😮 what an incredible level of discernment that women had considering the time in which she grew up it’s funny because she seemed the least susceptible to programming of anyone in the family and I know it worried her deeply the effect that modern life was having on her daughter her son-in-law and her grandson!
(God bless you Mary Smith
You will be forever missed and never forgotten xxxRIPxxx)
My grandmother was Irish,and died in the 1970s. I wonder what she would have made of now. She was from County Mayo, and even thought the Moon landings were useless and dangerous. She never lost her faith.
I stopped watching tv, primarily to avoid the ads and the brainwashing. My Wife still watches it, what I despise the most is she watches the witchcraft shows like charmed, and I do not want that in my house. I think I will stop paying my dish bill and just claim can't afford it no more.
God bless you brother 🙏
Great message Father. Thank you for this. This is the true message of Christianity
It’s up to us to make the decision to stop sin right in its tracks and sincerely march forth in our lives. I can humbly tell you that the benefits are far more than worth the price-all of the right things are just more righter, if that makes any sense. Jesus gave a commandment to the adulteress, and us all: “….Go, and SIN NO MORE (emphasis mine).”
Visionary🔥 Father! Thank you for speaking and preaching Truth. God bless you. 💪🔥🎄🌹🙏🏻
☦️ Through the prayers of our Holy Father's LORD JESUS CHRIST OUR GOD have mercy on us and save us
As an alternative to television, I am truly glad that people like yourself can reach out us, in the battle for our minds and souls.
Wow! Truth bomb. What I say to anybody who'll listen is "Rubbish in, rubbish out." Can't stand TV, scourge of our time.
This is to me, one of the most beneficial and timely messages I’ve heard from you Father. Glory to God for your words!
Gave my tv away in the 1980s and long for God. Visited Eastern churchs. One was filled with Spirit filled people. Others were ethnic associations.
This is evidenced by my language lately when bad things happen. I have become less guarded over the podcasts and music that is being consumed. Thank you Father.
"This shouting box." Exactly. Although, when I decided to kick the TV out back in 2016, it was because I caught myself shouting at it and asked myself "Why am I paying to have these people come into my house and talk to me in this way?" I was literally being infuriated by these self-righteous liberals lying to me day after day.
I've long called it "The one eyed monster in the corner."
Quite amazing that St. Cosmas of AEtolus' phrophecy was in the 17th century!
Social media, internet in general too. Life was so beautiful without the "smart" phone.
It’s amazing how much time we have to read the scriptures and pray when the television is removed from the house.