MountainWings       A MountainWings Moment

#10026            Wings Over The Mountains of Life

Laugh to Death... and beyond
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A comment on the issue, "The Most Powerful Book in America"
http://www.mountainwings.com/past/1099.htm

According to A.C. Nielson Company, the average American watches
four hours of television a day. That's two months out of every
year. And if you live to be 72 years of age, that's a dozen
years of your life you'll spend watching OTHER people become
millionaires.

Zig Ziglar calls television "the income reducer and the morality
buster."

Dr. James Twitchell, author of Carnival Culture, says that in
our culture, by the time a person is six years old, the average
boy or girl will spend more time in front of the electronic
babysitter than they will in conversation with their fathers
- for the rest of their lives.

Gene Roddenberry, speaking at Indiana University, said,
"Television exists for one reason only."

Do you know what it is?

Not entertainment, education, or escape.

It's to SELL you something.

The rest of it is just a reason to get you to watch the
advertising.

I just recently found this out about television:
During situation comedy shows, the producers kick off a laugh
track every ten to fifteen seconds.

Do you know that people don't really laugh like that anymore?

Do you know where they recorded that laughter, by and large?
From people watching the Red Skelton Show live back in the
1950s. (There was no dialogue to interrupt their laughter.)

So, in other words, those people you hear laughing during those
sitcoms of today... they're dead!

~A MountainWings Original by Ted Janusz, Hilliard, Ohio~

From CrazyAboutTV.com:
"In the final comedy sketch of most episodes, Red Skelton would
perform mute. The only noises were sound effects and the
audience's laughter and applause. Only one guest star (Groucho
Marx) ever appeared during that sketch. For several decades,
the audio from those Red Skelton Show segments was used as the
laugh track for most other TV comedies and it is sometimes used
to this day!"

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MountainWings       A MountainWings Moment

#10057           Wings Over The Mountains of Life

Praying Wrong
==========

It had been seven months since our vehicle broke down.

It went down on Christmas Eve. We had a shade tree mechanic
look at it and he gave us bad news: He thought it was going
to be expensive and needed to be done in the shop.

We had no money to even have it looked at, so it sat for seven
months. We had to borrow vehicles from family members to make
it through.

We prayed so hard for God to help us get the money to fix it
and believed He would. The more we prayed, the more road blocks
came. Still we kept praying to no avail. The stress was getting
to us bad and we were getting nowhere.

Then, out of the blue and in a short period of time we got
a brand new car. As we drove off the lot, I had a MountainWings
Moment.

It dawned on me that we had been praying wrong. All this time
we prayed for the repair money and never for a new car.


~A MountainWings Original by Mark Zaring, Bonner Springs, KS~


Forward this issue to a friend or send them the link below:
http://www.mountainwings.com/past/10057.htm

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Change a life, give a friend MountainWings.
See you tomorrow.

                           

MountainWings       A MountainWings Moment

#10026            Wings Over The Mountains of Life

Laugh to Death... and beyond
===================

A comment on the issue, "The Most Powerful Book in America"
http://www.mountainwings.com/past/1099.htm

According to A.C. Nielson Company, the average American watches
four hours of television a day. That's two months out of every
year. And if you live to be 72 years of age, that's a dozen
years of your life you'll spend watching OTHER people become
millionaires.

Zig Ziglar calls television "the income reducer and the morality
buster."

Dr. James Twitchell, author of Carnival Culture, says that in
our culture, by the time a person is six years old, the average
boy or girl will spend more time in front of the electronic
babysitter than they will in conversation with their fathers
- for the rest of their lives.

Gene Roddenberry, speaking at Indiana University, said,
"Television exists for one reason only."

Do you know what it is?

Not entertainment, education, or escape.

It's to SELL you something.

The rest of it is just a reason to get you to watch the
advertising.

I just recently found this out about television:
During situation comedy shows, the producers kick off a laugh
track every ten to fifteen seconds.

Do you know that people don't really laugh like that anymore?

Do you know where they recorded that laughter, by and large?
From people watching the Red Skelton Show live back in the
1950s. (There was no dialogue to interrupt their laughter.)

So, in other words, those people you hear laughing during those
sitcoms of today... they're dead!

~A MountainWings Original by Ted Janusz, Hilliard, Ohio~

From CrazyAboutTV.com:
"In the final comedy sketch of most episodes, Red Skelton would
perform mute. The only noises were sound effects and the
audience's laughter and applause. Only one guest star (Groucho
Marx) ever appeared during that sketch. For several decades,
the audio from those Red Skelton Show segments was used as the
laugh track for most other TV comedies and it is sometimes used
to this day!"

Forward this issue to a friend or send them the link below:
http://www.mountainwings.com/past/10026.htm

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Change a life, give a friend MountainWings.
See you tomorrow.


                           

MountainWings       A MountainWings Moment

#10057           Wings Over The Mountains of Life

Praying Wrong
==========

It had been seven months since our vehicle broke down.

It went down on Christmas Eve. We had a shade tree mechanic
look at it and he gave us bad news: He thought it was going
to be expensive and needed to be done in the shop.

We had no money to even have it looked at, so it sat for seven
months. We had to borrow vehicles from family members to make
it through.

We prayed so hard for God to help us get the money to fix it
and believed He would. The more we prayed, the more road blocks
came. Still we kept praying to no avail. The stress was getting
to us bad and we were getting nowhere.

Then, out of the blue and in a short period of time we got
a brand new car. As we drove off the lot, I had a MountainWings
Moment.

It dawned on me that we had been praying wrong. All this time
we prayed for the repair money and never for a new car.


~A MountainWings Original by Mark Zaring, Bonner Springs, KS~


Forward this issue to a friend or send them the link below:
http://www.mountainwings.com/past/10057.htm

Thank you for inviting MountainWings into your mailbox.
Change a life, give a friend MountainWings.
See you tomorrow.