Turn that lousy television off my friend. You'd be absolutely amazed at what
you could accomplish in life if you'd just turn the TV off and use your time
constructively.
Television is so destructive to the mind and a big waste of life. Instead of morally corrupting yourself with the TV, why don't you start a hobby—learn how to cook, take up a musical instrument, build a website, study history, learn basic computer programming, build musical instrument, et cetera.
Look at the awesome Chinese egg rolls that I made this week. I took a photo before I gobbled them all down... emmm! I'm always busy, always thinking of things to do, always trying to help others by sharing with them the things I have learned. That's Jesus Christ in me, shedding abroad the love of God in my heart. I love sharing things freely with others, especially sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ so that people might be saved.
You ladies, go buy a sewing machine and learn how to make your own unique and stylish clothing that no one else has. Sewing or crocheting is something awesome for girls and ladies; making your own clothes. EVERY young girl should be taught the simplicity of crocheting a hat or a scarf. It's so simple to learn and a lifetime skill once learned. Although more difficult, knitting is something that every girl and woman should know. I admit that I learned to crochet as a young teenager and loved it. You don't know the joy of crocheting a homeless person a scarf for the winter. Scarves are easy to make. Hats are also fairly easy. You can go to Benjamin Franklin or any number of stores to find tons of colored yarn and fabrics to work with. If you ladies don't know how to sew, knit and crochet... you are missing out of homemaking. TURN THAT STUPID TV OFF!!!
Every young girl should learn to cook (safety first). Every girl and young woman should know how to bake delicious French bread and 60 minute rolls. I love cooking. I've finally started cooking again after a long battle with depression. When I came back from my second neck surgery in April-May of 2010 and my arms felt doubled in size, I felt suicidal. It's a whole new way of life when your arms feel twice their previous normal size. My arms still feel puffed up but I've gotten used to it. Keep this in mind if something like this ever happens to you... you WILL adjust and become accustomed to the weird feeling, I assure you. If we were born with puffed-up-feeling-arms, we'd never know it was abnormal. It's all in the mind.
Do you know how I learned to play the Hawaiian and pedal steel guitar? I turned off the TV!!! I have numerous websites. I'm working on my cooking webpage, but it's not done. I'm presently testing new recipes and updating old ones to make sure they're the best. I just learned that SOY SAUCE is the fastest way to ruin any fried rice. Don't add even a drop of soy sauce. That's why your rice never comes out right. It's that overpowering salty, vinegary soy sauce. Soy sauce is great for marinades, but not for fried rice. Here's a much better recipe for the best Chinese fried rice.
Every young boy and man should learn how to cook. Men make the best cooks because men love to eat!!! Every boy and man should learn how to slow-cook-barbeque at 140 degrees for 6 to 8 hours, smoking meats and making ribs where the meat falls of the bones. Brisket that falls off the bone. Making your own barbeque sauce, Kansas style verses Memphis style. Every young man should be taught how to barbeque, I mean really barbeque! America has gone insane with anti-gun laws. Every young man should know how to hunt, kill, prepare, store and cook game meats. Urbanization has ruined this nation. Most kids grow up thinking meat comes from grocer-land and clothes come from Wal-Mart. Children are taught their ABC's and 123's in preparation for working factory jobs the rest of their life.
Young men ought to taught woodworking and carpentry. Every boy and young man should know how to catch fish, gut them and cook them camping overnight under a full-moon. I feel sorry for tens-of-millions of American children who grow-up in big cities and only know about drugs, pimps, whores, drive-by shootings, gangs, drunkenness, revenge, prisons and street violence. Those kids don't stand a chance at having a normal life. They sit glued to a TV 4-6 hours per day, having their minds programmed with garbage, smut and filth. TURN OFF THAT TV!
I was thinking this week about all the board games we used to play when I was a kid... Hoosker Doo, Mouse-Trap, Chutes-N-Ladders, Chinese Checkers, Chess, Risk, Monopoly, Operation, Candy Land, et cetera. Those games were really neat. Every teenage boy should have one of those electronic kits from Radio Shack where you build your own projects at home. You follow the instructions and connect the wires to each spring. You lift the spring and fit the wire in the spring. Some projects are simple and some are harder. You get everything you need to make hearing aids, sirens, metal detectors, moisture detectors, radios, you name it. The pre-made circuit-board comes with diodes, transistors, capacitors, transformers, resistors, a battery-power supply, and a bunch more to make electronic gadgets that work. Teenagers ought to be spending time with educational stuff like that instead of the darned TV.
It's a fact that babies and young tots who are exposed to music mentally develop at a more intelligent rate than kids who don't. Every small child should have one of those musical keyboards that does everything. They're only about $50. With all the crafts using Elmer's glue, glitter, felt, and tons of stuff kids can do that's constructive, parents should find better things to do than watch TV. We used to have this place in Chicago on west Belmont avenue called METRO. They sold everything you could think of for making crafts... felt, fake eyes, Styrofoam shapes, construction paper. I can't remember all they carried, it's been so long ago.
I used to love looking around in hobby shops, seeing all the model trains and all the supplies for building a little city. Model airplanes that flew with real gas engines were awesome, but I never got into that unfortunately. I've seen older men seriously get into model planes, flying them in competition in a big field. I used to stop on the way home from work and watch them fly by remote control. I always liked the miniature gas-powered helicopters. There's so many wonderful things in life besides the TV my friend.
When I was a kid, trains were popular. There were three different scales (sizes) of trains that I remember. I never built anything elaborate, but a friend of mine had a piece of 4 x 8 plywood that had been converted into a train track city. It was really nice. I never got into the tiny scale, but it was so fascinating seeing how small and detailed they were (and expensive). I loved going to hobby-shops as a kid and looking around. I glued together quite a few plastic models (back then we didn't sniff the glue to get high). On the 4th of July each year I blew them all up with firecrackers, M-80's a Sliver Salutes (M-100's). An M-80 would blow your hand off if you held it tight and it went off. They are outlawed today in every state because too many idiotic drunks were tossing them around and blowing little children's eye's out (which I saw a drunk do at our local park. Blood was everywhere and the little girl was screaming. Beer and explosives don't mix!).
Fireworks are still legal in state like Texas outside of city-limits. I love lighting off fireworks. I'd love to visit Beijing, China where they're mostly made. If I weren't a musician and valued my fingers I'd probably go work at a fireworks manufacturer. I love B-class fireworks (professional mortars, tubes that propel a package of fireworks into the air). You haven't heard loud until you've lit off a mortar on a nice quiet night... BA BOOM! Car alarms would go off for miles all around!
I didn't have any certain direction to take this article. I just wanted to encourage people to try new things, get a hobby... anything to turn off the damned to Hell television. Whether it be cooking, music, woodworking, oil painting on a canvas, sketching with chalk. There are several different degrees of softness and hardness of pencil lead. A number 2 pencil is a 2H (hard). My favorites are the softer pencil for writing and drawing. I used to go to a special stationary supply store to but soft pencils in high schools. I used a 6B I think it was. I can't recall, it's been so long. There are so many interesting things to learn in life. I encourage others to visit an arts and crafts store and see what your interests are.
There's nothing worse than a bum who just wants to sit around on the couch for hours watching TV, watching sports games, soap operas, and crap like Dance Moms. Granted, one who works all day wants to come home and rest. However, watching TV is such a waste of time. Even the evening news is as immoral as can be these days on TV. Fox News has become sexually indecent, disgusting; featuring whores in miniskirts on all news programs.
Sadly, ungodly heathens spend all their spare time indulging in pornography, booze and wickedness. Shame on America!
