Is it a Pagan Ritual to Worship Your Smart Phone?

Indeed, many people who have challenges in their life turn to their invisible friend for help. They call this invisible friend; God. I suppose that is a good name for an invisible friend, after all it is not a four-letter work; it's three. Plus, in reality they are really asking themselves the question in their own minds. Now folks are relying on their smart phones to give them all the answers they seek, yep, on just about every topic known to humankind. Okay so, isn't that really a substitute for their "invisible friend" or their God if you will?

In a way this brings them back out of their selves and puts their focus on an object, one which is becoming a very important tool, a crutch, and a tool which helps them maintain confidence, constantly feeding their ego, self-esteem, and validating them as important, all thanks to a group of invisible virtual friends of course, where their whole identity is lost in a sea of information, which somehow has them believing they are an important fish in the mob of humanity?

For those who go longer rely on an invisible friend, and have completely turned to technology to answer all their questions, including; where do I go, what do I do, how do I live my life, and where would I like to go today; in essence they are relying on a little device to give them answers, rather than using their own reasoning to decide what they're going or what they are going to do. Worse, all this mobile technology is also streamlined with information flows from social networks.

Why is this a problem you ask? Because the whole of humanity, with all of its problems, and the political correctness involved with groupthink is causing people to make choices that are outside the realm of common sense. In other words they are making choices which are not in their own best interests. Some would say yes, but that's okay because now they belong to the whole and are making decisions which are better for everyone.

Of course, therein lies a problem; if everyone is making decisions for everyone else excluding yourself, then no one will be happy with their lives, or the choices they've made. In fact they are no longer making their own choices, as they are making the choices that everyone else in society is expecting them to make. Whereas, someone who is talking to an invisible friend, is still talking for themselves, even if they don't know it or have convinced themselves they are talking to their god.

Are you beginning to see the problem with the pagan ritual of worshiping your smart phone? Be careful what you wish for, and be careful when you ask questions on your mobile technology devices.

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The Smart Scientists

(Calling Woof...!)

"Ninety percent of the world for ten-thousand years has been off their rocker," says the smart scientist. "There really, truly, isn't any God!" We've been fooled, they say. Somewhere along life's long line, we've been hooked like a fish, brought to believe this fairytale story; perhaps someone, somewhere, had a delusion-I don't know, the Neanderthal maybe, and everybody fell for it, you know, kind of fell into that black hole, the scientist created out of nothing or perhaps out of gravity-not figuring out how gravity works yet, or how it was created, but gravity nonetheless: everyone but them smart guys got sucked in.

Well, since there is no God, there mustn't be any devil either. And since there is no devil, there is no such thing as sin, now we got what is called: right and wrong in question, it now is a personal thing: values are according to those each and every person owns: you know what I mean, what a person values is his value (it is where he puts his heart and soul, his money and efforts, and loyalty, and...you get picture)-right or wrong doesn't matter (it's not relevant), it is similar to a feeling-it just is, it is just that, no more. So there shouldn't be any guilt, in taking from one another his life, limb, or liberty, he has no one to answer to: no God, no Devil, and man, well, they all have their own values-mine is just as good as the next person's; thus, taking his wife, child or girlfriend, is inconsequential, the stronger person, perhaps the more rights he has-this is his value. Who's to say-God isn't around nor the Devil, possibly should we look back for the answer from the scientist? He's suppose to have all the answers-my guess would be he'd bring up the Golden Rule, but perchance rules are made for those who value them (for example: Russia and China do not value the same rules America does, likewise North Korea does not value the same rules South Korea does).

Conceivably what the scientist values, is what we are supposed to value, that is what it comes down to anyhow: that makes him God though, and remember that can't be, he just got rid of Him. This can get confusing, society acts out of fear, and now you took God and the Devil away, should we fear the scientist, or anarchy. These are the ones we can see, as the scientist would put it. God and the Devil, the invisible ones, might be a better choice now? Perhaps the scientist, better think twice about taking something away, and giving back nothing; you see, when you take something from someone, you got to give him something better, lest you hang yourself. It is sad but true, scientists cannot get along with having a God above them, and yet, much of what they've discovered, is based on theory-or, the invisible.

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