Comments on: Mainly they’re just making us run into poles alot. http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/mainly-theyre-just-making-us-run-into-poles-alot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mainly-theyre-just-making-us-run-into-poles-alot Where The Christian Faith Meets The Common Knowledge of Our Age Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:38:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Richard Clark http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/mainly-theyre-just-making-us-run-into-poles-alot/#comment-56402 Richard Clark Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:41:56 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=5138#comment-56402 Yeah, good point. Yeah, good point.

]]> By: The Dane http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/mainly-theyre-just-making-us-run-into-poles-alot/#comment-56399 The Dane Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:26:43 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=5138#comment-56399 <blockquote>I should point out, though, that I currently don’t attend any classes. I have to admit… wifi and a laptop would be a huge temptation.</blockquote> I just used a pencil, notebook paper, and my imagination to ignore my teachers. High tech isn't necessary to be successfully unkind. I would probably be even more successful at fading out of lectures with pencil and paper than I would with an iPhone. Yeah, I'm that good.

I should point out, though, that I currently don’t attend any classes. I have to admit… wifi and a laptop would be a huge temptation.

I just used a pencil, notebook paper, and my imagination to ignore my teachers. High tech isn’t necessary to be successfully unkind. I would probably be even more successful at fading out of lectures with pencil and paper than I would with an iPhone.

Yeah, I’m that good.

]]> By: Richard Clark http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/mainly-theyre-just-making-us-run-into-poles-alot/#comment-56391 Richard Clark Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:30:07 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=5138#comment-56391 I should point out, though, that I currently don't attend any classes. I have to admit... wifi and a laptop would be a huge temptation. I should point out, though, that I currently don’t attend any classes. I have to admit… wifi and a laptop would be a huge temptation.

]]> By: Richard Clark http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/mainly-theyre-just-making-us-run-into-poles-alot/#comment-56390 Richard Clark Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:28:02 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=5138#comment-56390 Yeah, I can't say I've used my phone to avoid conversation with anyone, though i do use it to avoid boring lulls in my day... but what's wrong with that? Nonetheless, i would say the iPhone (like we've seen with Bluetooth headsets especially) can aid people in the jump from thoughtless to total jerk. This is unfortunate. Yeah, I can’t say I’ve used my phone to avoid conversation with anyone, though i do use it to avoid boring lulls in my day… but what’s wrong with that?

Nonetheless, i would say the iPhone (like we’ve seen with Bluetooth headsets especially) can aid people in the jump from thoughtless to total jerk. This is unfortunate.

]]> By: The Dane http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/mainly-theyre-just-making-us-run-into-poles-alot/#comment-56385 The Dane Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:42:24 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=5138#comment-56385 It's not the tech that makes one unkind. The tech acts as the mask behind which the unkind person hides, while he points to the mask and says, <i>Look at this unkind thing, fortunately, it's not me that's unkind but the mask.</i> People who aren't jerks use their iPhones for good, people who are jerks use their iPhones to be unkind. It's that simple. The iPhone didn't make you unkind any more than the devil made you do it. You were unkind because <i>you are</i> unkind. Honest appraisal on oneself is the first step toward fixing oneself. It’s not the tech that makes one unkind. The tech acts as the mask behind which the unkind person hides, while he points to the mask and says, Look at this unkind thing, fortunately, it’s not me that’s unkind but the mask.

People who aren’t jerks use their iPhones for good, people who are jerks use their iPhones to be unkind. It’s that simple. The iPhone didn’t make you unkind any more than the devil made you do it. You were unkind because you are unkind. Honest appraisal on oneself is the first step toward fixing oneself.

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