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Popular culture and sex - 11/18/2008 10:30:03 PM
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deermousie
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Have you ever noticed in movies (and I assume TV) that a lot of plots have a handsome guy and an unrelated, unsuitable but pretty gal thrown together? They have to work together, and when they are physically close, they give in to their desires of getting/being married, emotionally and (by inference) sexually?
On the contrary, in the Christian walk as I understand it (and I'm still learning) that men have a life to get on with and so do women. And somewhere along that path while they are growing in their relationship with God and learning life skills, their path cross... and they are a match. Same God, same godliness, same readiness. They carefully pursue a relationship within the confines of their Christianity and discover they are indeed compatible for marriage. They marry in honor and then let the atom bomb go off.
The first reduces people to the level of animals that may go unnoticed by people who get their living skills from the media. The second allows people to grow from their Bible reading into maturity and life skills so they can have a full marriage in all that God intended it to be.
Thoughts?
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RE: Popular culture and sex - 11/18/2008 10:44:51 PM
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Thoughts? Yes, this sounds about right ... right as in how life appears from my vantage point. In fact, what comes to mind is a preacher who gave a sermon on this very topic, and if I remember correctly, his comment was something along the lines of "... people acting like dogs in heat." Crude and quite shocking, but he called it as he saw it.
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RE: Popular culture and sex - 11/18/2008 11:26:47 PM
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In this part of Canada where I live -
I'm getting tired of tv shows that have
people doing the marathon sex-athon
during most of the storyline.
Last night we were watching a movie and during
the commercial break there's this ad running featuring
a nice looking couple --- in the background a voice said
"this is a married couple"(man and a woman} {Good so far right? Wrong!}
then the voice goes on to say - "they're married... but not to each other."
On the screen appears these words: Life is too short - have an affair.
From there the ad reveals the phone number/website that married people can join and have affairs with other married people!
* I wish we could get more Christian tv programming!
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RE: Popular culture and sex - 11/19/2008 8:21:38 AM
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Atom bomb? Things blow up that badly?
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RE: Popular culture and sex - 11/19/2008 6:16:21 PM
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I heard someone quote an article from like 1642 that said basically the same thing, though. People have thought since the minute Jesus went back up into Heaven that he was coming back any second. And almost every generation on the planet has thought they lived in the worst, most degrated time in history. I'm not saying it's not bad, just that we can't just from here with our current perspectives. God's the only one that has the big picture.
But I am also looking at this a little differently now. Dh and I have had some things come up and he's recently confided just how much he does struggle with the sex that's pervasive in our society. I'm much more attune to it now and it's really starting to bother me. I don't think it's a problem most women can really appreciate. When you start to pay attention, though, it'll really make you pray harder for your dh's and ds's! Satan wants to derail them at virtually every turn.
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RE: Popular culture and sex - 11/19/2008 6:20:48 PM
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small_creation
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quote:
ORIGINAL: jaimestarcross
In this part of Canada where I live -
I'm getting tired of tv shows that have
people doing the marathon sex-athon
during most of the storyline.
Last night we were watching a movie and during
the commercial break there's this ad running featuring
a nice looking couple --- in the background a voice said
"this is a married couple"(man and a woman} {Good so far right? Wrong!}
then the voice goes on to say - "they're married... but not to each other."
On the screen appears these words: Life is too short - have an affair.
From there the ad reveals the phone number/website that married people can join and have affairs with other married people!
* I wish we could get more Christian tv programming!
That's quite shocking to me that social mores have dropped so low that this IMO dispicable practice is solicited to the masses via tv.
However, I am repulsed by all the "male enhancement" commercials and their clever ways of portraying, um, flacidness.
That's it! I'm a priss (and proud of it).
j
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RE: Popular culture and sex - 12/15/2008 3:06:17 AM
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pjclutterbuck
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There are two metaphors that are commonly used about the progressivization of values. One is the pendulum (it'll all swing back the other way eventually), and the other is the tugboat (the avantgarde pulling the rest of us 20 years behind them). Unfortunately, after almost a century of sexual revolution, and seeing even conservative bastions giving in to the tide of lawlessness, I'm thinking it's more likely to be the latter. Just when you think these things can't get much worse, ... ah, actually they do.
God forbid that I should ever be called a fundamentalist, neo-Gnostic dualist, or even all that conservative in some things (social and economic policy, for example), but I can tell you I've never looked forward to the next world and the next life like I have this year. I just hope all my church friends repent before the end happens.
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RE: Popular culture and sex - 12/15/2008 1:42:15 PM
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It is sad. It's also sad that Christian characters are being portrayed the same way many times.
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