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The Digital Desires Inbox, Volume 1: Taken by the Tetris Blocks, Conquered by Clippy, Invaded by the iWatch

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A drift away from what we have heard with our ears — in the form of a nautical metaphor. It tells us the importance of holding a ship’s course toward a fixed point, to avoid being pulled off course and drifting away. Social media and gaming and Netflix binging — the whole spectacle age is all built on one lie: If you give more of your life to your screens, you will become more satisfied. And that’s a false promise. It will never deliver. Hebrews 1 is one of my favorite portraits of Christ, in the glory of his atoning sacrifice for sinners. Hebrews 1 ranks up there with Colossians 1 in offering us a Spectacle of the supremacy and majesty of God’s Son. In fact, Hebrews 1 is so compelling that it calls for urgent application. And so, we return again to Hebrews 2:1: I’m talking here about a digital detox — getting away from our phones and streaming services for a whole week (or more). These practices are how we say to the world, “The endless cascade of digital spectacles on my phone is not my god. And the praise I get in social media isn’t the source of my happiness either. God alone is.” Thailand will waive visa requirements for arrivals from India and Taiwan from next month to May 2024, a government official said on Tuesday, in a bid to draw in more tourists as high season approaches

Especially in the book of Hebrews, fixing our attention and affections on Christ becomes one of the grand callings of the local church. It’s a collective work. I am called to be aware of your affection for Christ. You are called to be aware of that in me. Together we refuse to allow one another to drift. In the midst of an age that will grab your eyes and your attention in a thousand ways, we are brothers and sisters, each helping one another fix our minds and hearts on Christ. Google's Head of AI in the UK, Demis Hassabis thinks that generative AI is a very big threat to humanity, almost as dangerous as climate change. Hassabis said that AI needs an independent governing body for AI, similar to the UN's ' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCCWorld Apple is preparing to pump billions to bring AI to iPhones, integrate it with Siri, other apps women closeup eyes piercings digital desire magazine victoria valmer faces 1680x1050 People Eyes HD Art blondes women models short hair digital desire magazine faces hayden hawkens 1920x1200 People Short hair HD Art Lord, make this true of us right now. Capture us by Christ. We live inside Vanity Fair. And this playground of digital amusements has never been more addictive and eye-grabbing and time-consuming and affection-dulling. Save us from wasting our lives by giving our precious attention to what ignores you and to what dishonors you. Capture us. We don’t trust in ourselves here. We are not confident in our own powers to delight in eternal things. Do this work inside us, in the new life you give us and in the reborn affections inside us. Controversy in any form makes for a captivating spectacle to grab millions of eyes. And as our media gets faster and faster, it becomes more fragmented. Now the most miniscule public slip of the tongue or passive-aggressive celebrity comment or hypocritical political image can become a spectacle. More collectively, spectacles take the form of public protests and riots framed for the camera. So, a spectacle is some moment captured and published to hold a collective gaze for a particular purpose.

brunettes blondes women beach high heels digital desire magazine sunny leone 2000 Nature Beaches HD ArtWhere our eyes go, so goes our heart. Where our heart is, so go our eyes. Attention and affection are linked. So, if you glut yourself on the spectacles of this world, your heart must drift away from Christ. We all must get honest with that reality inside of us. Lead your kids and lead your church from this starting point of personal honesty. No one is exempt. 2. Apply the concept of fasting to the buffet of digital media. blondes women closeup digital desire magazine izolda a faces belorussian 2560x1600 Nature close-up HD Art From one angle, the age of digital spectacles is all about wealth, advertising, coercion, popularity, and grabbing more and more attention from us. But even more problematic, the digital spectacles do something worse, worse because of what we, sinners, do with those spectacles. At root, sinners feed on diversions to escape God. This is the root problem I mentioned at the start.

So, as we “consume” spectacles, we don’t merely ingest them; we are constantly responding to them. Visual images awaken the motives inside of our hearts. Images tug the strings of our actions. Images want our celebration, our awe, our affection, our time, and our outrage. Images invoke our consensus, our approval, our buy-in, our resharing power, and of course our wallets. A series of panel discussions titled Data Societies, organised by Economic and Political Weekly and the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, was held in Mumbai on 5 February 2020.So here we are, celebrating the centrality of the word, celebrating the ear, in the golden age of image — in the age of the eye. It’s been called “the age of spectacles.” Fitting. Leaders like Sunak and others are increasingly joining the sector to argue that the rules and expertise currently available for frontier AI is probably insufficient for the issues it will face

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