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Forums / Catholic General Discussion / Re: Giving up Television to Save your Soul
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on: April 20, 2013, 08:11:07 AM
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Stella - I grew up devouring secular fiction as a hobby and as an escape from a painful life. It is now almost like an old addiction that lurks in the background. Every time I try to give up my excessive time on-line, I end up back with a book.
But lately, I can't find much worth reading. When I was protestant, I began to realize the harm that romance novels were doing me & my friends & I actually had a bonfire & burned them. I began reading more action/adventure or mystery books. BUt more & more, these contain the same types of impurities or descriptions of other evils that I do not want to read. I miss old fashioned books like Agatha Christie's Miss Marple or the Perry Mason novels, etc.
I took a big step yesterday in asking the admins of both the other forums I belong to to de-activate my accounts. I am a little nervous, but I think it is the right thing to do. I have had the admins put me on a self-imposed ban at times and during those times I did much better. As soon as the ban was over, I was right back there. So I am going to cut myself off totally. Wasting time on line does NOT help me in my vocation as wife and mother.
I also sent an e-mail to my priest asking for a little advice & help with some good Catholic reading to replace my secular reading. He says my reading of blogs to learn things about the faith is ok, but what I really need is a good Catholic book to replace the on line time with.
So I am beginning this journey of eliminating unhealthy things.
Pray for me, please.
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Forums / Catholic General Discussion / Re: Giving up Television to Save your Soul
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on: April 19, 2013, 11:49:11 AM
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I am curious if any one here has wanted to give up television but had a family opposed to it?
I myself find the noise horrible and refuse to let my kids watch it after school. Some days I break down and allow 1/2 hour - but then I find the shows annoying and stupid.
My hubby watches a lot of TV and is not willing to consider getting rid of it. If I want to spend time with him in the evenings, I need to watch TV. There are only 2 or 3 shows left I will watch - crime/cop shows all of them - because in them I don't usually have to worry about impurity.
If it was up to me, I would throw it out today.
ANd I find that secular novels - whose plots read like TV series - addict me as much as TV. I can sit and read for hours. That will be harder for me to break than the TV habit! I am having problems finding anything good to read, though. I have been asking the homeschooling mothers at my TLM what they read and will be taking my recommendations from them. Secular literature is beginning to bother me like TV does.
I also am struggling with how much time I spend on line. I read mostly Catholic stuff, but I am currently trying to discern if any of it actually helps me.
This is my first post here - so HI to all of you! ( I have been lurking for a while.)
I am debating about giving up other forums that seem to thrive on controversy.
Please, all of you, pray for me.
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