Flickering Pixels (edit title/settings)

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• Paul: Add a description of this character.
• Chris
• John
• Matthew
• Andrea
• Mcluhan
• Elahi
• Dianne
• Thomas
• Benjamin

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• “"Using email to mediate conflict is like baking a cake without a mixing bowl or an oven. The very ingredients that make reconciliation possible are absent. Reconciliation comes in the context of clear communication, meaningful listening, shared understandings, civility, openness, and a lot of patience. The medium of email inevitably removes these delicate ingredients"”

  Author Shane Hipps

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• You can’t change methods without changing your message—they’re inseparable.

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• Every medium, when pushed to an extreme, will reverse on itself, revealing unintended consequences.

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• Wisdom, however, is knowing how, when, and why we use our understanding; wisdom is settling into our understanding without being too enamored by it.

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• The Internet has a natural bias toward exhibitionism and thus the erosion of real intimacy.

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• If oral culture is tribal and literate culture is individual, the electronic age is essentially a tribe of individuals.

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• The second dimension is that every new medium makes an older technology irrelevant or obsolete.

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• In pre-literate societies, a person’s identity is bound to the tribe; the notion of the individual has little importance. However, the technology of writing, regardless of content, weakens and even destroys tribal bonds and profoundly amplifies the value of the individual.1

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• The linear arrangement of pews in churches didn’t exist before the printing press. The medieval church didn’t have pews—just a wide-open space for standing. After the printing press, church seating started to mirror the page of a book.

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• When we fail to perceive that the things we create are extensions of ourselves, the created things take on god-like characteristics and we become their servants.2

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• Conversion for the disciples was marked by an unfolding series of discoveries. Their conversion was not a single event so much as a gradual process.

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• America

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1. Shane Hipps (Author)

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• Dewey: 261.52

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• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Christian Living