Reply To: Dose of reality: Kids kicked out of school

Aries

I really don’t have the energy to debate back and forth. However I will say that you are from the old generation and you likely don’t understand todays generation. Additionally, your comparison of TV from when you were a kid or from when the Gedolim were kids has nothing to do with todays Tv. You REALLY don’t get how destructive TV has become.

I will just drop the name of one TV show. It is actually a cartoon. It has wrecked the minds of all Americans who watched it and specifically the neshamos of our young kids who have watched it. There is a show called Family Guy. It is full of filth and leitzanus from beginning to end. I know many kids who have watched it as well as many bochurim (when I was in Israel in the Mir) who were watching it and it turned them off. No they didn’t go OTD but their neshamos are DEAD inside. No interest in anything Torah and an antipathy for Yeshivos, Rabbanim….

You think I’m naive, I’m not you’re the naive one. Go watch TV for a day and come back to me. I used to watch TV until about 2 years ago I KNOW what’s out there.

Oh and don’t lecture me about MO watching TV and learning. I have spoken to MO who watch TV and “learn.”

Their Hashkafos are rotten. No Kavod Hatorah, no respect for Rabbanim zero yiras shomayim. No concept of right from wrong.

What you don’t get is that TV movies….robs you of your ability to think clearly and see right from wrong. If a kid watches 1 hour a week fine. But most of these kids watch EVERY NIGHT AND THAT WARPS A PERSONS BRAIN AND ROBS THEM of an ability to see right from wrong or to desire Torah.

Torah isn’t math or science. Its not a subject. For it to penetrate it can only penetrate a clean vessel. If your mind is full of shmutz it won’t penetrate.

Stop underestimating the power of the yetzer hora and the shmutz. Kids are NOT strong enough to resist the temptations because clearly most adults aren’t strong enough!

You sadly live in an idealistic fairytale land and you need to splash some cold water on yourself and wake up.