tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post116037231488835317..comments2024-03-25T19:00:40.046-06:00Comments on The Constructive Curmudgeon: Data Decrease, Relative Silence, and ThouDouglas Groothuis, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08766692378954258034noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-1160498112002100222006-10-10T10:35:00.000-06:002006-10-10T10:35:00.000-06:00Over the past few years I have come to appreciate ...Over the past few years I have come to appreciate your challenge to take 'media fasts' and have challenged others to do so as well. Through my work in churches this has often come to align well with holy week activities as a way of focus on the cross and Christ.Michael Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17535833766942754590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-1160464105644719752006-10-10T01:08:00.000-06:002006-10-10T01:08:00.000-06:00I don't think Prager is a distraction, exactly; bu...I don't think Prager is a distraction, exactly; but consider some silence as well. I think Prager would approve.Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08766692378954258034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-1160400150722883262006-10-09T07:22:00.000-06:002006-10-09T07:22:00.000-06:00Doug,I was thinking about your post, and I honestl...Doug,<BR/><BR/>I was thinking about your post, and I honestly think that there are many of the younger set (Gen-Xers or younger) who would simply not know what to do with a data decrease and relative silence. Their lives are dominated by noise.<BR/><BR/>But then I thought about a Will & Grace episode I saw a few years back. Grace, an interior designer, built a design to display at an exhibit. The design was a "meditation room."<BR/><BR/>I was a bit taken aback. Why, exactly, would someone as materialistic and secular as Grace have an interest in meditation? Answer from the Curmudgeon: data decrease and relative silence. But what is missing here is the <I>Thou</I>.<BR/><BR/>Meditation is something of a fad these days. Ultimately it is only about self-actualization if the <I>Thou</I> is absent.Jonathan Erdmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234688186113838474noreply@blogger.com