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Deadly Selfies: When technology strikes back

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship

C.S. Lewis

Burnt Impressions is selling this toaster that toasts selfies onto bread. For just $75 you can have a very vague depiction of your face on a piece of toast

#selfie toast

An excellent review of how technology affects the way we think. And of course it has its own website.

#culture #social media #submission

http://themetapicture.com/he-was-right-all-along/

#culture #social media #trends #submission

“Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. Does that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom, Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”-CS Lewis

Mere Christianity

#identity #submission

When my daughter was 3 years old, her preschool teacher asked me during a parent-teacher conference if she might not be watching too much of The Wizard of Oz. Apparently a lot of P.’s playtime at school was focused around the movie: initiating pretend games with other kids in which...

The long read: Philosophers and scientists have been at war for decades over the question of what makes human beings more than complex robots

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is, that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office.

Henry David Thoreau

#truth #preach!

The other day, I pointed out the pink sunset between the cluster of bare winter trees behind our house to my five-year-old daughter, and she turned to me, her face blank and said, “Is that real?”

#trends #technology terror

The traits users choose to create avatar characters in online worlds, such as Second Life and World of Warcraft, give powerful clues about personality. Gaming experiences also can affect the way people behave in real life.

papermagazine

Report: Karl Lagerfeld hates selfies and ugly people.

#selfie hate #fashion people

Neil Postman's Lecture on his book Technopoly. Golden!

#postman

Check this out (and watch the movie too if you haven't).

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