12 Step Program for Reality Junkies
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Ginger1218

Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 05:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, things are getting bad now, I have For Love or Money on Mondays, Tuesdays, Idol Juniors, Last Comic Standing - Wednesday, Fame, Big Brother is starting for 3 nights Tues, Wed & Friday. I am no longer going to have any life. I need help desperately.
We need a 12 step program for reality show junkies - I need to have a fun summer. HELP

Hermione69

Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 08:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
THE TWELVE STEPS
OF RTA
(REALITY TELEVISION ANONYMOUS)



1. We admitted we were powerless over Reality Television — that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to watching saner programming.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives and our remote control over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves and our viewing habits.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs and our guilty Reality Show pleasures.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character and these channels from our lineup.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings and our desire to keep viewing.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and neglected by watching Reality Television and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others, and vowed to spend more quality time with said people by conversing, playing board games, working jigsaw puzzles, or engaging in other more meaningful pursuits.

10. Continued to take personal inventory, admit our wrongs, and when we accidentally stumble across a Reality TV show, pledge to immediately change the channel.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us, the TV shows he would have us watch, and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other Reality TV addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Ladytex

Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 09:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ummm, I'll come back and look at this after Big Brother, lol

Crazydog

Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 09:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL.

I vow to not watch all of the stupid ones regularly. Once in a while for a few minutes is OK, but do not become a slave to the garbage that is Paradise Hotel, For Love of Money, those other nameless ones that are cropping up faster than dandelions on my front lawn.

Grannyg

Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 09:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm with Lady, when I realize I have a problem, I'll come back and check this out. Because I really don't have a problem. Some say it is denial but I totally disagree with them.

Hermione69

Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 09:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP


So Big Brother actually starts THIS Friday? I'm not that into Big Brother (famous last words?). I joined this board last summer in a fit of boredom doing the same thing I am doing right this second-- passing time while working as summer school librarian. I enjoy reading the boards more than I do the show itself!

Monkeyboy

Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 10:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Don't say that Hermi!!! I said it once and now im tailess!!!

BB ROCKS!!!

Trishan

Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 04:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hello, all. I did not watch the first BB--found BB2 on 3rd episode (on a Sat. night, no less, after a cancelled date--needless to say, I never saw that guy again) ...

During BB2, started liking this reality TV thing, so I graduated to The Real World, Road Rules & The Bachelor (I was out of the country during 1st Bachelor finale, so I asked one of my brothers to tape it for me & he did!).

Then there was no BB, no Bachelor, no Real World...what to do? Well, I found a BB type Spanish reality TV on the Telemundo network! (That's NBC's sister Spanish station). Last Friday was the season finale of their 3rd installment of the show, so I'm going through withdrawal symptoms.

But I needn't fret, there's Real World & Last Comic Standing, until July 8th, that is! (I must confess to being guilty of tuning in to Tyra Banks' take on reality tv, the show is so dreadful it is actually painful to watch--I kid you not--that's the reason I've only watched it twice)

I'm pretty sure I'm one of those who needs the 12 step program.

I've never watched Survivor (and never will), nor Amazing Race.

BB3 is the reason I started lurking last year...went to another site, found the link to TVCH & Bunny's Tales. Yay!

Texasdeb

Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 05:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have found my answer: when I started posting in TVCH about 2 months ago I realized I had stumbled on something else to enjoy in the evenings instead of whatever Reality TV that might be on. Well friends, let me tell ya - I have not paid attention to as many Reality tv shows in the last couple of wks (they're on in the background & I can hear them though). Now I have this new addiction of "playing" in the TVCH threads. I like how I don't have to watch the shows I'm not really interested in - I just go in their thread & find out all the good stuff.

Admin

Monday, August 04, 2003 - 06:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Do you think being admin means I've got this disease badly?

Grannyg

Monday, August 04, 2003 - 06:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes and you are speading it to every one of us!!

Zachsmom

Monday, August 04, 2003 - 06:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yep Admin..you're our supplier

Urgrace

Tuesday, September 09, 2003 - 07:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Don't forget that reality tv is now year 'round, and so is TVCH!
T V C H ROCKS!