Category archive: Misc Blogs
What’s totally real about social networks…
We’ve all seen Matrix, and probably Avatar, maybe Surrogates (2009, w Bruce Willis), and no doubt other films where the movie’s characters inhabit either a real or an unreal world via another self: an ‘avatar’, a surrogate, or a computer programme. Most of us today inhabit some kind of on-line world at least a part…
DetailsThe Happiness Industry is making us miserable
The Happiness Industry is made up of all those books and articles and public speakers and organisations and motivational videos, AND yes, facebook pages, whose focus is about getting us to be happy. Happy, positive, confident. All good stuff. And I do believe we should be these things. Of course. It’s just the whole business…
DetailsA Facebook page owner’s day
I started my first facebook page, Trying God’s Patience, at the end of October 2011, and as at the end of 2012 it had near-on 75,000 followers. It started more-or-less as an experiment, but with every new comment from its readers, it took on its own life. – Every day, someone says “that was just what…
DetailsIf I lose what I have
If I am what I have, and I lose what I have, who then am I? Erich Fromm I saw this photo on a Facebook page, seeking to invoke sentiments of love and compassion among that page’s viewers, apparently because this obviously homeless man had a dog that he was caring for. I assumed that…
DetailsTrying God’s Patience
What does it mean to “try God’s patience”? Since God is the perfection of all human virtue, I don’t really believe His patience is being tried. Nonetheless it is a phrase, and one reminiscent of a humbler god that rolls his eyes in exasperation every now and then at the failings, stumblings and sheer stupidity…
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