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You Cannot Turn it Off: News Addiction
BizangoBob writes: "In this time of madness, I find myself staying up later than usual, watching more tv than ever before, tracking more channels, with more open browser windows than even I did before. As though KNOWING more will somehow help. There's a great piece about news addiction in the Washington Post. It made me feel I'm not the only one."
Keep watching the news folks, it will include interesting bits such as the Australian Government psychofantically (that's how you spell it isn't it?) jumping onto the 'More Internet Regulation' bandwagon. Clearly, these guys used free internet encryption and anonaminity to smuggle plastic blades and bomb threats onto these planes.
You people can rest assured that we will remove every one of your liberties necessary to preserve ours. What a coincidence that the media has spun this low tech attack into a call for tighter internet regulations. It almost turns their fight from a battle to protect DVDs and CDs to a battle for our lives.
Anyway, repeating that news, ludicrously tight internet restrictions will be announced for Australia. The government is currently rubbing it's hands together and dreaming up all sorts of things. And we'll finally be able to get that grubby little arsehole that's been impersonating me on slashdot too.
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha wheeeeze ha ha ha ha ha ha cough
Sen. Hon. Richard K R Alston
Australian Federal Minister for Communications, Information Technology
There's more to life then this... more to life than what we see. It amazes me that an entire nation can go through the motions and yet have so many people continue to miss it. Prayer.
/. so diligently flames... until I read that book for myself.
Today America prayed.
This nation was founded as a Christian nation on Biblical principles. We are a nation that built a government to protect freedom and liberty through a system of laws that God created.
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
Have you ever actually read the Bible? Ya know, the most translated, most printed book in all of history... You ever actually read it? I used to be the standard hypocritical WASP that
Our lives are made up of more than cable TV and broadband internet. Everyone is searching for a meaning, for destiny and a purpose. The purpose of the creation is only found in the mind of the creator. Have you talked to Him lately?
Prayer.
Don't nock it till you've tried it.
GOD bless America.
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Apples and oranges. You can't compare the life of some illiterate Cambodian living in a mud hut located 100 miles from nowhere with that of a New Yorker. Face it, some life is worth less than others. Educated, cosmopolitan financial brokers are worth more than some jungle-dwelling, bamboo-eating half-monkey.