[This was found on YouTube by teacher Brad Zook: “I’ve been a teacher at an American public high school for 26 years. There’s an eerie silence now in the commons before school and the cafeteria at lunch as 100s of teenagers sit at tables with their “friends”, all of them staring at tiny boxes connected to earbuds and disconnected from those around them. I’ve had to enact rather serious consequences for using phones during my class. Many good kids do it anyhow. It’s like they can’t stop. I feel like I’m living in an episode of The Twilight Zone.”]
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This is really tragic. Everywhere you go, there are people walking down the sidewalk looking down at their phones; people at the grocery store looking down at their phones; people at the restaurant looking down at their phones. No interpersonal communication, no eye contact. The I-Phone Zombie Apocalypse. Whatever happened to the art of conversation?
The Lord created us with one mouth and two ears: which means, we should listen more than we talk. But it is nice to TALK WITH someone and LISTEN TO someone once in a while.
I remember years ago I phoned this pastor at our church. I wanted to talk about a few things. You could hear him on the other side of the phone clicking and typing away on his computer. I phoned him two or three times and finally stopped. He was always typing away on his computer. Was he listening to what I was saying?
People should spend more time with God than with their phones.
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Absolutely true!