Sleeping Patterns

[reverendjeremiah]

One of the benefits to hardcore, no sleep for days, perhaps walking around not truly awake insomnia is that you are exposed to the wide breadth and variation of late night (and early morning) infomercial entertainment, as well as a heaping dose of televangelism and donation drives.

the televangelism alone is enough to shun cable AND tv. Which is pretty much what I have done. I once called my cable TV provider with a list of channels I didnt wish to support "I HATE sky angel, and I dont want The Bible network, nor do I wish for my money to support such scoundrel snake oil cultists" they reply "You cant pick and choose. You have to pay for those channels in the package."

Well fuck it...turn my tv channels off and I will just have internet. I did that 3 years ago and my life has been better since then.

I heard that around the time I asked to dump those channels, that there was a movement within the Christian cultist community of trying to force cable TV to do the same thing. To allow people to pick and choose which channels they wanted. That way, they figured, they could more control the other channles "Do what we Christians want you to do or lose your payments"..

Well, it completely backfired on them. Once the word got out to people like Pat Robertson and TBN, they started screaming "NO!!! True Christians dont break up cable TV packages!" Why? Because the snake oil salesmen are well aware that most of their money comes from govt. grants and people being FORCED to buuy their package in a group. If you make it all optional, then they lose both. Because only a tiny, TINY percent of Americans would actually purchase these networks.

Of course, they didt say THAT was the reason. No, that would be too much like telling the truth. Something that evangelists are loath to do. No. Instead they reminded their sheep that forcing the unbeliever to pay for bible programming saves souls every day.

Does anyone else remember when this happened?