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United States, Medford, OR
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  • A comment on Talk: Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone?

    Apr 13 2012: I don’t use a cell phone and try hard not to use a land line, why... because even before texting went viral it was evident to me that for the most part what seemed important to others didn’t matter to me in the slightest. Most people immediately ask me about the importance of being contacted in case of an emergency. My answer, “If I am meant to know I will when I am told, no sooner or later than that”. I am not greater than God and the knowing that someone I love has been in a terrible accident and is in the grips of death is not a means to a miracle. I love complete silence; I have grown to detest the sound of a telephone and the interference and demand that it makes on people around me.
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    A comment on Talk: Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone

    Apr 2 2012: She is discouraging “Fear of failure” not to be rude but I spent barely a moment reading some of the comments below because it seems that fear has overwhelmed and steered the poster(s) towards a conclusion of disaster. There will always be a military force throughout the world no matter how much the soldiers of peace march and achieve. The button exists and how close it has or has not come to being pressed it has not been pressed. There will be wars and wars are fought with weaponry to a cow so is the device that extinguishes its life to provide carnivores with flesh to devour. Since John Lennon coined the term imagine transcending the world from the notion that imagination was nothing more than a wasteland of time spent dreaming to the realization that without the ability to imagine the greatest life has to offer would float in the minds and hearts of those who dare to dream. All Regina is saying is that there is no last frontier to all things possible unless you decide to believe that you were born to fail. God bless one and all, go in peace.

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