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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 10/07/2010 : 18:02:43
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This could void their warranties!
New technologies confuse reality and fiction: Pope
By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, October 7th, 2010 -- 12:31 pm
Pope Benedict XVI said on Thursday that the media's increasing reliance on images, fuelled by the endless development of new technologies, risked confusing real life with virtual reality.
"New technologies and the progress they bring can make it impossible to distinguish truth from illusion and can lead to confusion between reality and virtual reality," the pope said.
"Noting the influence of media on perception of reality in an ever developing world, the Holy Father on Thursday called Catholic communications experts to base their efforts in the truth of the Word of God," reports the Catholic News Agency. "The "Word,' he said, continues to be the 'fundamental and ... essential instrument of communication.'"
Saying that people who work in the Catholic press must "always put God at the top of their scale of values," if they do not wish to be just a 'clanging cymbal,' he told them that their task is "that of helping modern man to turn to Christ, the one Savior, and to keep the flame of hope alight in the world, so as to live worthily today and to adequately build the future.
"For this reason," he concluded, "I exhort you to constantly renew your personal choice for Christ, drawing on those spiritual resources which, though undervalued by the modern mentality, remain valuable, indeed, indispensable."
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Edited by - filthy on 10/07/2010 18:04:15
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 10/07/2010 : 20:57:59 [Permalink]
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| He also doesn't like superstition... |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 10/08/2010 : 05:16:48 [Permalink]
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| Why am I getting this image of pots and kettles? |
Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 10/08/2010 : 07:14:14 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by The Rat
Why am I getting this image of pots and kettles?
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I'm sure I don't know.....
Pot
Kettle
Pots and kettles are good things.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Quickly, turn off your irony meters.....
