Computer fasting...
Though I don't know if it will merit any spiritual significance, I am sick and tired of the computer. If it's possible to hold animosity toward an inanimate object, I do! For one, it consumes way too much precious time. Two, it is a potential stumbling block. Three, there is no inherent value in the computer.
I look forward way too much to somebody writing me or finding out new precious tidbits on facebook. Sad. Thus, I have just made the rash decision to fast from my personal computer this week. After I click "Publish Post," my little cyber world will disappear and I'll recall that life does have meaning outside of it! There is a bright, shining, world out there, and we really do live in it. Though the classification "live" possesses several meanings, breathing and taking up space as a tech-obsessor does not cut it for me. Alas and sigh. This will be good. If I want to talk to you, I guess I'll call you, huh? Or you'll call me. Before residing in Colorado, I spent perhaps 20% of the time on it as I do now. Whoa, I guess it's easy to do when you're by yourself, but there is more...Oh so much more out there! :)
Just an FYI before I am severed from your world: condemnation can consume us, but freedom resides in the blood of Christ. I learned that today. Perhaps it actually sunk into my opaque skull this time.
posted by Ash at 7:01 PM
8 Comments:
You should not discount anything based on its potential to be a 'stumbling block', if you did, you would have to discount your very life as it is has the most potential for being a 'stumbling block'.
I cannot believe you said there is 'no inherent value in the computer' (actually I can, but the foolishness of it greatly surprises me). This is a lie, and you are decieving yourself if you actually believe this.
PS- I get the feeling by reading your blog that you are not very intelligent
Hmmmm. Sounds like someone has proven Ash's point.
a few things.
1. i dont know who these people are calling you unintelligent because i think by pushing aside such technology as the computer, you are quite intelligent.
2. whenever you read this, i want you to know that i commend you for fasting for a bit. the computer can be a silent little addiction that we dont look at as such. i probaby check my email a dozen times or more each day sometimes and that is excessive. i feel terrible if i dont check it and feel like i owe it to people to respond within one day. honestly, though, i have a life! a real live life!
3. in my internship class someone gave a case presentation on a client who has a hard time socially. she said that she finds joy in her Myspace account. i am so glad that she can at least do something and initiate somewhere. i really am. it's better than nothing. however, i think that this generation faces that. we can have anything we want at our fingertips on the internet and without even making face-to-face let alone voice-to-voice contact with another human being. before you know it, we will just need good computer skills...forget social skills training-it will become obsolete!
The use of technology is not an addiction.
Next you'll be telling people to fast from medicine and filtered water, because they are a 'silent addiction'.
I do not look at these, or computers, as a 'silent addiction' because I am sane.
So...it's not possible to become addicted to/obsessed with medicine (that's news to me)? Or obsessed with having to be clean? Or obsessed with your weight?
Honestly, I don't know who you are, but I think you are ignorant.
We can be smart about the different things we put into our lives. Television shows, websites, pictures, music, sleeping pills, guns, etc. There is nothing inherently valuable or evil about those things. They just ARE. It is what WE do with them that gives them any value. Obviously, to you, computers hold great value. To me, I am thankful for them because our society is dependent upon them, and it makes paying bills easier (plus, I do enjoy emails), but I would still live, this body would still live, if all the computers crashed and burned. In that sense, a computer is a brilliant contraption that can both save people's lives and trap them. But in the end, it's still just a contraption. The computer can't change anything when we're dead now, can it.
There's nothing more yellow than an anonymous commentator. You should screen all your comments like I do. I will allow ANY comment as longs as it isn't anonymous. There's an option in the setting to do it.
I think the yellow bastard makes a good point, but you may have a point too.
I think you should be careful writing off an inanimate utensil (computer), when it is the user who creates any potential for temptation, misuse, etc.
Anything can become an addiction, but we need to draw the line when people begin to blame the object of their addiction (or temptation) instead of themselves.
Opaque: exhibiting opacity : blocking the passage of radiant energy and especially light (as defined by Merriam-Webster online dictionary).
Perhaps with a revision you could use "thickheaded" instead, because it seems to fit the sentence better, as well as the overall theme of the message. "Thickheaded" is the reasoning behind your post, and "thickheaded" is the failure to realize the irony in your post, as well as the failure to accept it once it has been pointed out to you.
Seriously. You've gotta feed the beast, man...
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