"Multitasking erodes cognitive control. We lose our ability to say that this is important, this is unimportant. All we want is new information."
In contrast, when readers open a printed book, "there's nothing else going on except words on a page, no distractions. It helps train us to be deep thinkers."
Carr, 52, told AFP he's not optimistic society will switch off en masse but it's important to look clearly at what it might be losing.
A man’s faith in himself wavers because he knows his foibles and limitations, his fears and doubts. A man’s faith in God may also waver, but not because of any deficiency in the Creator. The more one studies God, the more one’s faith grows.
Click the link above for two passages that illustrate the point, one of them a word of the Lord Jesus Christ.
So several GOP senators are worried that third-party candidates will draw support from tea partyers at the expense of Republican candidates. “I think it’s a very real possibility,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.Oh, BTW, in case you forgot: Murkowski ran as a write-in candidate after she lost the GOP nomination to tea party-backed Republican candidate Joe Miller.
They're running from the wave, not riding it.
One obvious answer is that many more people are in prison than in the past. Experts differ on the size of the effect, but I think that William Spelman and Steven Levitt have it about right in believing that greater incarceration can explain about one-quarter or more of the crime decline. Yes, many thoughtful observers think that we put too many offenders in prison for too long. For some criminals, such as low-level drug dealers and former inmates returned to prison for parole violations, that may be so. But it's true nevertheless that when prisoners are kept off the street, they can attack only one another, not you or your family.
The poverty-crime connection doesn't hold water anymore.
In marriage, a man and woman abandon their interests in outher people to dedicate themselves exclusively and totally to each other. When God becomes our Lord, something similar happens. This was true of Israel, and Moses’ words apply to Christ’s people today:
Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being.
Deut. 10:12 NET
Read the rest of the devotional thought, with strong words, at the tiny link above. In other words, click it.
Just yesterday, [Democratic National Committee chair] Debbie Wasserman-Schultz decided to tear into Republicans who criticize President Obama’s fantastically expensive bailouts of GM and Chrysler by claiming that “if it were up to the candidates for President on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars.” The Hill checked, and discovered she owns a Nissan, whose license plate includes her initials. It takes a special kind of magic to transform yourself into a complete laughingstock with such a dopey little talking point.
I tend to think of religion as something people do rather than something people believe.
In the wake of Harold Camping and Family Radio's recent failed predictions, we got to thinking about what we can know about the end of the world and the great day of judgment. Mr. Camping's prediction is just the latest in what is a long line of such hypotheses that have been submitted throughout the centuries.
Among the many problems with such predictions is the over-stepping into areas in which the Bible does not speak -- a classic example of what God's word means by the following statement: "The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law" (Deuteronomy 29:29). Mr. Camping and others purport to know things from the Bible, and yet a search of the Scriptures turn up no such information.
So, what does the Bible tell us we can know about judgment day?
I’ve had about enough of folks on the right trying to discourage candidates from running by insisting right off the bat that they could never win. Candidates are labeled unelectable, unpresidential, too polarizing, not polished enough, too unconventional, or some other absurd description. And so I ask — what are you folks so afraid of? Why are you so terrified of Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, and others entering the race and showing voters what they’ve got? Whether or not they are able to adeptly articulate their message and/or possess a proven commitment to conservatism will be heard by voters. The American people will make their decision. And I have to question the motives of anyone who wants to silence a candidate before the battle has even begun.
Maybe there are some reasons out there I don’t know about, but here’s my take as to why the media played up Harold Camping’s prediction that the world would end May 21.
Click on the link above for my three reasons, one of which has to do with the Obama embarrassment.