The Internet

3/23/2012

The internet is the place you can believe whatever you want to believe, find evidence to support your belief, and then triumphantly proclaim that you found the truth. The internet is the place that allows you to rearrange reality and rewrite history. There are no absolutes on the internet. No laws. No standards. No authority. No solid place to stand. There is NO True North to calibrate your compass to. The internet is a place where you can find a clock with 100 minutes to every hour and a scale that starts at negative 10 to make you ten pounds lighter. It’s the place where you can squeeze 22 inches into a foot and make your thermometer never register higher than 98.7 degrees so you’ll never have a fever. The internet is a marketplace that gives you a trillion truths to choose from—just pick the one you like best…the clock that gives you more time, the scale that tells you you’ve lost weight. On the internet, there is no True North to calibrate to, only a million rivers of sewage that miraculously become crystal clear and sparkling the more polluted you become by them. Grazing and clicking on the internet: at best it will turn you into a blathering zombie—at worst a blood thirsty animal, a danger to yourself, your family, and a menace to society. The “web” is listed as the primary force of the destruction of 50% of marriages and families that fail, and millions of flesh-seeking souls. If “bad company corrupts good character” as God has said, there is no worse source to be corrupted by than by those hiding behind a flat computer screen and keyboard, with no life, but millions of “expert” words to pontificate to the naive. The internet is the place you can believe whatever you want to, find evidence to support your belief, and then triumphantly proclaim you found the truth. Probably the flesh-animals of curiosity, carelessness, pride, lust and such ought to be subdued by a “fruit of the Spirit”—self-control? For the Lamb and His Glory?—Charis