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Dan
Re-evaluating my use of Substack and this blog
Over a year ago I made the move to Substack and kept this blog present so if I didn’t like Substack, I could come back here. THIS ARTICLE is part of my evaluation as I think through how to navigate the “blogging” world. I still love blogging and posting. Has this site been more effective than Substack? Could you give…
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Dan
Week 12: The Affections of Christ and Silence
This quote from Thomas Merton is incredibly wise… and hard. Do everything you can to avoid the noise and the business of men. Keep as far away as you can from the places where they gather to cheat and insult one another, to exploit one another, to laugh at one another, or to mock one another with their false gestures…
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Dan
What has formed you? (The flip side)
I asked the question HERE about the good things that have formed our lives. The other day I was reminded of a question that was posed about the things around us and how they form us. There is formation going on all the time. As Dallas Willard would say, “Everyone gets an education. It’s just a matter of what kind.”
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Dan
The unvarnished private thoughts and opinions
“I, like all other human beings, expose to the world only my trimmed and perfumed and carefully barbered public opinions and conceal carefully, cautiously, wisely, my private ones.” — Mark Twain Tough in the age of social media. My opinions aren’t exactly carefully barbered, but they are somewhat cut to look a little neater.
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Dan
The last ten years have re-wired us, Part 4
Part 1Part 2Part 3 In his article, “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid,” Jonathan Haidt has laid out the case for the downfall of practical thinking and directly correlates it to the rise of social media. He likens it to the Tower of Babel, how we all communicated with a common language, to the…
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Dan
The Last Ten Years have Re-Wired Us, Part 3
Part 1Part 2 “… Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and a few other large platforms unwittingly dissolved the mortar of trust, belief in institutions, and shared stories that had held a large and diverse secular democracy together. ” — Jonathan Haidt
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Dan
The last ten years have re-wired us, Part 2
Part 1 is HERE. I want to walk through Jonathan Haidt’s article because it is worth breaking down and considering. BONUS: Haidt gives possible solutions for discussion, which is a highlight of his writing. What social media created any 2012 were new algorithms to play UP posts that would create hate and animosity. The goal for users has become the…
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Dan
The last ten years have re-wired us
In February 2012, as he prepared to take Facebook public, Mark Zuckerberg reflected on those extraordinary times and set forth his plans. “Today, our society has reached another tipping point,” he wrote in a letter to investors. Facebook hoped “to rewire the way people spread and consume information.” By giving them “the power to share,” it would help them to…
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Dan
The love/hate relationship with social media
How many times I’ve tried to quit social media… and failed. I take breaks. I look in less often… and yet, there it is. Do I stay engaged? There are times when it irritates the living daylights out of me because there is far too much lack of discernment about those I thought to be “Christian” and I am too…
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Dan
Zuckerberg, Facebook, and “truth”
Mark Zuckerberg was testifying again on Capitol Hill about Facebook ads and “truth.” This gets into the area of “free speech” and “fake news” and “false advertising” and at the end of it all we have a mess. But it’s not the mess Mark Zuckerberg created.
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