I suffer from nostalgia.

[Gerioke]

Gerioke,

Rick and I have started renting and/or purchasing the old shows on DVD because the new stuff we can not watch. I check the newspaper each Friday to see what is showing in the theatre by going down the list, looking first at the rating and then what the movie is rated for. Mostly what I see now days is sexual situations, sexual humor, crude humor, language, nudity, extreme violence, etc. listed under each movie title. I won't even read what it is about unless I don't see these things listed in the ratings. That just about leaves us with cartoons, and so many of those are doing the homosexual tolerance thing.

So, we've returned to watching the old TV shows if we watch anything at all. We don't watch regular TV except for the news, history channel, discovery channel, weather channel, etc., because there just isn't anything decent to watch.

Oh, if only we could return to life when things were more simplistic.

What I am trying to figure out is if there really was such a time?

We get all of our TV stuff from the library. Sometimes even the unrated shows can throw you a curve ball. One of the reasons we dumped cable is because even the youth channels and family channel would air some very questionable programming. We could not leave the kids unattended wih any channel. If the shows weren't horrific, then chances are the commercials were.

[angels4u]

I remember those shows like Bonanza and love their theme song, how about Rawhite and Ivanhoe?

I loved those shows, I have to borrow those old Bonanza shows neighbor!

[Gerioke]

I remember those shows like Bonanza and love their theme song, how about Rawhite and Ivanhoe?

I loved those shows, I have to borrow those old Bonanza shows neighbor!

They will make you cry.

[Bolts]

Hi Gerry,

I enjoy nostalgic moments. It reminds me of my first love. Our experiences of salvation are all so diverse, because we worship a God who is soo diverse and cannot be put in a box. He is the same God yesterday, today and forever, he never changes.

[Gerioke]

Different memories, alhough mostly good, bring about different emotions in me. With Bonanza, I enjoy the show but knowing hat mos of those actors are dead makes me sad. The era died with them. Peanuts does the same thing to me. I love the comic srip but now that Charles Schultz is dead, Charlie Brown died with him. You cannot go back but the memory remains.

Old music like doo wop and the Beatles makes me feel good because it is the music that touched me more than the people who played it. With TV characters it's more like losing an old friend because you saw them and they communicated both audibly and physically.

[InternalFlame]

I think there is nothing wrong with a little nostalgia...but too much of it is harmful. We can't live in the present if we live in the past.

Despite all of the terrible things happening now, we have a lot to look foreward to...such as the coming of our savior!

[Christ's Free Servant]

We get all of our TV stuff from the library. Sometimes even the unrated shows can throw you a curve ball. One of the reasons we dumped cable is because even the youth channels and family channel would air some very questionable programming. We could not leave the kids unattended wih any channel. If the shows weren't horrific, then chances are the commercials were.

That is so true! Even when we watch the news, sometimes we have to not only mute the commercials but turn our heads. And, sometimes the news itself is in very poor taste. We used to love to watch Fox News on the Fox News Channel, but lately it seems they are talking about sex or sex crimes all the time and they regularly are showing half naked women. Sometimes we just change to another news station, which is sad, because we really do feel we get a more balanced approach to the news on Fox.

We are very selective about our TV watching. We don't have little ones anymore, so we don't have to worry about that. When our kids were little, we had maybe 4 TV stations and no cable and no DVD's or VCR's,, so we watched a few shows but mainly we read books and played games with the kids. We did watch a lot of Sesame Street and Mr Rogers. I loved those shows!

[Gerioke]

I have no idea what is on TV nowdays, and I like it like that

[Christ's Free Servant]

I have no idea what is on TV nowdays, and I like it like that

I don't either. The last time I looked, and that was a long time ago, it was not good - I'm talking TV shows. I am a news watcher - you get that way the older you get. And, I think also the older you get the more interested you become in history, at least that has been the way it has been for me. And, my husband likes an ocassional sports program, though not much. We mainly keep the cable TV for the news and an ocassional old classic movie.

[Gerioke]

I have no idea what is on TV nowdays, and I like it like that

I don't either. The last time I looked, and that was a long time ago, it was not good - I'm talking TV shows. I am a news watcher - you get that way the older you get. And, I think also the older you get the more interested you become in history, at least that has been the way it has been for me. And, my husband likes an ocassional sports program, though not much. We mainly keep the cable TV for the news and an ocassional old classic movie.

I have the internet for news and the library for movies and even some old tv shows. I have been able to introduce my kids (6,4) to Lost in Space, Star Trek (original), Shirley Temple, Superman, and a whack of B movies from the 50s & 60s. The library is awesome.