Or going out and sledding in the snow with my daughter. Have a white Christmas everyone!
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 11:28 AM, John Pratt <jpra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to tell everyone on this list about something I found. > > Maybe someone out there hears what I say, thinks I am pretty > crazy for saying it to an entire mailing list, but appreciates it. > > That is the kind of person I am sometimes. I might tell a CEO > not to use high-class mustard on a hotdog and genuinely wonder afterwards > why he gets angry. So, similarly, I am going to tell all of you to > go to FalunDafa.org because this is the best thing I have done > to extricate myself cognitively from computer prison that we > all live in. > > It is true that computers are impressive, but they are also injurious > in other respects and if people won't acknowledge the downsides > to what they do to our cognition, I don't think that is ok, either. I am > actually a generalist on this subject, so I don't take technical stances > on this minor subject or that minor subject inside the vast field of > computer science. But what holds true for me also holds true for you, > that computers draw you in to a certain, narrow type of thinking that > needs to be balanced by true, traditional, *human* things like music or > dance or art. > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > >
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