Posted on 01/23/2014 8:04:46 AM PST by Biggirl
The Internet, in particular, offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God. —Pope Francis
No, your holiness, quotes like these are the gift.
In this papal statement released Thursday, the pope throws his considerable influence behind the idea that social media, and the other tools of the Internet, can be one of the means to unite the world and perhaps rectify the gap between the rich and poor—an emerging theme of his papacy. "We should not overlook the fact that those who for whatever reason lack access to social media run the risk of being left behind," he said.
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Al Gore is gonna be pissed.
Thanks Al, without it we'd only get the Liberal's news.
Or, if you believe that the internet just offers more opportunities for arguing and fighting, then it must have come fromm the other fellow.
The internet doesn’t force anyone to argue. It just provides the means.
The media is sucessfully running the same pattern against the new pope and his every utterance that proves so successful against conservatives.
The predator either devours the weakest laggerts among the herd, or strikes the Shepherd to scatter the flock.
Indeed, where else could I see this? :)
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cd8_1390436089
Yah'shua said: Marxism !
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
"For you always have the poor with you; but
you do not always have Me. (Matthew 26:11)
During the years previous to the fall of communism in eastern Europe, it was a common tactic of those who passed information around secretly was to put speeches of Ronald Reagan on cassette tape and make a bunch of copies and pass them out. It worked.
Right now in North Korea, laptops and cell phone sim cards able to do international calls are being smuggled in.
I remember attending a conference in 1984 where the speaker announced that we are entering a new information age. This was around the time that personal computers were being introduced.
I went with a friend to a "computer" store shortly after that and I had never seen anything like that.
The Renaissance was a result of the discovery of the writings of Aristotle which increased information at the time exponentially. And after that was the ability to print.
The Internet is really a humungous bulletin board made available for everyone's use.
The Good Lord is going to use every avenue available to Him for His return.
That is the context of Pope Francis's remarks.
Thank-you for making my day with that comment.
Actually, I think Gore would see this as the Pope validating Gore’s own image of himself ...
My pleasure.
LOL!
“It just provides the means”.
No it doesn’t......that’s five pounds please,,,,for the argument. :)
(Montypython)
Sounds pseudo-Marxist to me.
That’s just too cute!
One of the negative consequences of the internet, for example, is that our perceptions of both time and eternity are deformed, when they are not swept aside. We are flooded with extremely powerful stimuli of a kind that is unprecedented in the entire history of mankind—in the entire history of the human brain. This quantum leap has occurred within a single generation. One might call it the internet generation, for whom the exterior world is perceived and experienced inwardly. Cyber-interaction. Intimate e-relationships. Avatars and spammers and firewalls and blockers and bloggers and twitterers—with disconnects spreading in every direction, all justified by the illusion of human connection—which is the longing within each of us for human communion, which in turn is a foretaste of the complete and eternal communion of Love which we will know fully only in Paradise.http://justinpress.ca/
A dear friend of mine, a Catholic philosopher and author, refuses to be sucked into cyber-world. He uses the antiquated medium of pen and paper.... [He has threatened to destroy his computer with an axe.] I'm also thinking of my own axe, even as I type into my computer and stare at the screen.
Does the apparent connection to a global community offered by the internet give us a genuine communion, or does it offer us a dangerously misleading pseudo-communion? Does it disconnect us even as it tells us it is connecting us? Is it merely a new tool of communication, or is it a palantir, the "seeing stone" in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, opening the portals of mind and soul to the eye of the Dark Lord at the tap of a computer key?..... -Michael D. O'Brien, Waiting: Stories for Advent, "Communication or Communion"
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