I just finished watching "Just In Singapore", a Chinese series on Channel 8, which has been running for a few weeks already. I decided to follow up on this to see what comes next. Though entertaining, I was quite troubled by the contents of this TV serial.
It speaks about families which are from the lower income category. That was fine but it was more of what each family does which caused some concerns on my part as a viewer and for the younger generation.
Below are just some examples:-
1) One family has a daughter (a graduate) who decided to severe all relationships with her family just so that she can attain her goals in winning the heart of a rich man's son and also to wealth and status;
2) The mother of that same family showed prejudice against her other daughter (a non-graduate), who sells food at a night market (pasar malam) and sings part-time at the Hungry Ghost Festival concerts - always putting her down;
3) There is another family comprising of a grandmother and her grandson. The grandson is always creating problems for his granny; in a couple of scenes he threatened to beat her up whenever she did not support his wayward habits;
4) Then there is also this family where the parents are loafers and they even encourage two of their three children to cheat on others especially their money. The third child (the eldest son) always tell his family off about their wrongdoings but he was always put down for talking nonsense;
5) Next came another family which has this vat that has a market value of S$5 million dollars. A few series showed how the children fought with each other to get their hands on the treasure, not even caring about the feelings of their parents who own it;
6) Of course the neighbours got to know of the valuable vat and because of that, they resorted to unscrupulous ways to attain it. One scene showed two of the neighbours breaking into a house to steal the vat;
7) Then came a couple of scenes where there was a case of a missing winning 4-D slip. An Indian man in the series lost the slip which had a S$150K winning number. Again, when the neighbours got to know about it, instead of helping the man find the item, they started to covet the man's money;
8) There are also scenes where the wayward grandson started to lust over his neighbour's wife, who is a Vietnamese. It even showed a scene where he drugged her and then had sex with her.
I can write more examples. I am basically troubled by how TV serial like this can actually corrupt the minds of the young and also to advocate that such actions are acceptable.
There were so many cases of dishonesty, theft, lust, adultery, prejudice, disrespectfulness, covetousness, etc and they were all being glamourised!
Yes, I know it is JUST a TV programme and that I should not read too much into it. Sorry. I will not subscribe to that - frankly many cases of deliquency and crimes are caused because of television.
I remembered watching a cable programme where they showed a true story of two young men who decided to rob a bank in Los Angeles because they watched a movie which glamourised bank robbery. They acquired several weapons and off they went to rob this bank. To cut the story short, they did not get the money; they injured more than 10 police officers and 7 passers-by during the shoot-out. In the end, one of the men took his own life when he was cornered and the other died of 23 gun-shot wounds inflicted by the officers.
In Japan, children, at a very young age, take their own lives because they watched television programmes on suicide being the best solution to end their troubles. In that same country, children started terrorising their peers because they were taught that hooliganism is cool through movies.
Well, please do not tell me it is just fictional! The bad influence of television and movies have been so rampant - the thing is people and authorities are just brushing all these problems aside perhaps due to economic reasons. Who will want to watch a goody-two-shoes programme or movie which will not generate high viewership and in turn revenues? "Boring!" and "Not Profitable!", many will cry out.
Anyway, I felt I needed to share the above-mentioned on today's blog because I am just overwhelmed and saddened.
This week so far has been easy-going though not to the point of me staring into blank space and not having anything to do. At least I can breathe better since Monday. Praise the Lord!
I shall end here and go wash up! I was playing with my doggy - she is always licking me whenever we wrestle. Haha!
Good night, everyone!
"A discerning man keeps wisdom in view, but a fool's eyes wander to the ends of the earth." Proverbs 17:24
"We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" — but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ." 1 Corinthians 2:6-16
It speaks about families which are from the lower income category. That was fine but it was more of what each family does which caused some concerns on my part as a viewer and for the younger generation.
Below are just some examples:-
1) One family has a daughter (a graduate) who decided to severe all relationships with her family just so that she can attain her goals in winning the heart of a rich man's son and also to wealth and status;
2) The mother of that same family showed prejudice against her other daughter (a non-graduate), who sells food at a night market (pasar malam) and sings part-time at the Hungry Ghost Festival concerts - always putting her down;
3) There is another family comprising of a grandmother and her grandson. The grandson is always creating problems for his granny; in a couple of scenes he threatened to beat her up whenever she did not support his wayward habits;
4) Then there is also this family where the parents are loafers and they even encourage two of their three children to cheat on others especially their money. The third child (the eldest son) always tell his family off about their wrongdoings but he was always put down for talking nonsense;
5) Next came another family which has this vat that has a market value of S$5 million dollars. A few series showed how the children fought with each other to get their hands on the treasure, not even caring about the feelings of their parents who own it;
6) Of course the neighbours got to know of the valuable vat and because of that, they resorted to unscrupulous ways to attain it. One scene showed two of the neighbours breaking into a house to steal the vat;
7) Then came a couple of scenes where there was a case of a missing winning 4-D slip. An Indian man in the series lost the slip which had a S$150K winning number. Again, when the neighbours got to know about it, instead of helping the man find the item, they started to covet the man's money;
8) There are also scenes where the wayward grandson started to lust over his neighbour's wife, who is a Vietnamese. It even showed a scene where he drugged her and then had sex with her.
I can write more examples. I am basically troubled by how TV serial like this can actually corrupt the minds of the young and also to advocate that such actions are acceptable.
There were so many cases of dishonesty, theft, lust, adultery, prejudice, disrespectfulness, covetousness, etc and they were all being glamourised!
Yes, I know it is JUST a TV programme and that I should not read too much into it. Sorry. I will not subscribe to that - frankly many cases of deliquency and crimes are caused because of television.
I remembered watching a cable programme where they showed a true story of two young men who decided to rob a bank in Los Angeles because they watched a movie which glamourised bank robbery. They acquired several weapons and off they went to rob this bank. To cut the story short, they did not get the money; they injured more than 10 police officers and 7 passers-by during the shoot-out. In the end, one of the men took his own life when he was cornered and the other died of 23 gun-shot wounds inflicted by the officers.
In Japan, children, at a very young age, take their own lives because they watched television programmes on suicide being the best solution to end their troubles. In that same country, children started terrorising their peers because they were taught that hooliganism is cool through movies.
Well, please do not tell me it is just fictional! The bad influence of television and movies have been so rampant - the thing is people and authorities are just brushing all these problems aside perhaps due to economic reasons. Who will want to watch a goody-two-shoes programme or movie which will not generate high viewership and in turn revenues? "Boring!" and "Not Profitable!", many will cry out.
Anyway, I felt I needed to share the above-mentioned on today's blog because I am just overwhelmed and saddened.
This week so far has been easy-going though not to the point of me staring into blank space and not having anything to do. At least I can breathe better since Monday. Praise the Lord!
I shall end here and go wash up! I was playing with my doggy - she is always licking me whenever we wrestle. Haha!
Good night, everyone!
"A discerning man keeps wisdom in view, but a fool's eyes wander to the ends of the earth." Proverbs 17:24
"We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" — but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ." 1 Corinthians 2:6-16
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