The blessing of TV was-Pastors Leading the flock?

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>>Anneliese
>(Disclaimer: Just giving some food for thought, "devil's advocate"-for lack
>>of a better term.  Anneliese does *not* necessarily agree with the
>>following.  There will be no "smileys", I'm not trying to be funny.):
>
Bro Jeff wrote:
>If all these things that you go onto list make sense to you and they follow
>good logic and you have a conviction in your heart then SO BE IT!

>
>If not then you are being a hypothetical extremist and have become that
>which you detest.


Anneliese replies:
Actually, I was attempting to put into practice a "logic" technique I
studied in college.  Its technical term is "skepticism", developed by Hume.
It is not necessary that I actually believe in the extreme nature of the
argument.  The structure of the argument is only to show that the original
premise however accurate or inaccurate -- TV has *some* evil on it,
therefore we should throw it out -- has an illogical or weak basis.  Whoever
posited the original thought, re: TVs, did not support (and in my humble
opinion still is not supporting) the argument in a fashion that gives
strength to the supposition "if there is *some* evil in object A, then we
should throw out object A".  I demonstrated this by substituting a number of
items for "TV" (the original object A) and followed through with an
*argumentum ad absurdum*.

>Either way it comes down to simply *YOUR* conviction.  If God sees fit to
>place you in a church that has more conservative leanings then, like Job,
>who are you to give counsel to the Lord???


I think you missed the point (and at least three reminders) that I was not
trying to be specific or personal.  I was simply trying to demonstrate the
original argument about TVs to its logical (and ultimately illogical)
conclusion using the exact same line of thinking as the originator of the
thought.  Please note, I did not attempt to elaborate on the moral issue
(TV=right or wrong), only filled in several examples that fit the original
qualifier of having *some* evil in it.


Anneliese