Comments on: Hot Dogs, Big Screens, & Excess

By: Josh Experiments: Challenging Excess, Eating on $1 a Day at Trying to follow

Josh Experiments: Challenging Excess, Eating on $1 a Day at Trying to follow — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:51:08 +0000

[...] I think they are the sorts of things that begin to help us question our current lifestyle. One Josh writes: It’s a shame that as a culture we are so used to excess that we don’t even recognize it [...]

By: Tank

Tank — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 05:06:45 +0000

Umm, it was half sarcasm and half poking fun at him because I lived with him and we played xbox 360 non-stop on my HDTV (not the one mentioned in the big house, I am house sitting) and now he has to play on his regular tv which is a big step down when playing XBOX. I really don’t think he should buy an HDTV, but at the same time they are pretty sweet.

Sorry, I know that context of my comment is unknown to most.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:43:09 +0000

Tank,
That’s the point. Instead of questioning why anyone would need an Xbox 360, we asking the question (or stating in your case) should it be played on an HD TV. I don’t know why Josh blogs, but I assume in some ways it helps others keep him accountable to the morals and kind of person he wants to be. You can always justify your excess by pointing to someone else’s. It’s not a matter of balance, and from as much as Josh blogs about this kind of stuff, it is a question of faithfulness to the virtues he believes in. I don’t see how we keeping missing that so we can argue balance. “sell everything and give it to the poor” are the words, not how functional is it, or since I don’t buy anything else. I don’t live up to those words at all, but if someone blogs about their own hypocrisy towards them, we owe it to them to help where we have failed.

By: Tank

Tank — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:53:54 +0000

Here is what’s sad. I watched Joey eat those hotdogs on a 60″ HD television in a house that easily cost a million dollars (and that is in Tulsa, I can’t imagine what this house would cost in ATL). How’s that for Hot Dogs, Big Screens, & Excess.

I think that the XBox 360 can’t be played without an HD television if you really want to have the full experience.

By: Nathan Myers

Nathan Myers — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:33:34 +0000

Though Eric raises a good point of consideration about the TV…