On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]>wrote:
> Angus T. Jones has discovered JAY-sus and in a video posted by a Seventh > Day Adventist group, is telling people that they shouldn't be watching his > show if they want to live a good life (although he seems to be still > showing up for work and collecting the paycheck and the syndication and FX > residuals): > > > http://www.vulture.com/2012/11/two-and-a-half-men-angus-t-jones-christian.html?mid=twitter_vulture > > Well, Chuck--are you gonna do a vanity card about this? > There are several interesting and worrisome aspects to this story. Jones did not just "find religion", and he did not just join an extremely conservative, sectarian denomination. He has joined an extreme and fanatical sub-culture of that extremely conservative sectarian denomination. This sub-culture is dominated by what are best described as conspiracy theories. It is unfair and misleading for me to point out that David Koresh and the Branch Davidians were also an extremist derivative of the Adventist church; the people Jones is hanging out with are unlikely to be violent, and are still part of the institutional denominational structure. But if you take the Branch, remove the violent and sexual fetishes, and dial down the crazy about 50%, you will have a feel for what these guys are like. I am not worried that Jones is going to do something violent, but I can say that most people who are sudden converts to a group like this (as opposed to having been born into it) tend to have some very serious psychological problems. If he were my relative I would be only slightly less worried than had I heard he had become a methamphetamine addict. I don't know anything about this kid (I have never seen this show) - the best possible outcome is that this is some kind of passing phase and 6 months from now he has shaken it off. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
