Source: Tamara El-Rahi via mercatornet.com. Reprinted with permission. A case for having kids rather than avoiding them altogether. As The Guardian UK runs a whole series on being childfree, I wonder where they’ve put all the articles that make the case for having kids. Of course there are many reasons for choosing not […]
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Striving for Digital Minimalism: Why We Need a Human-Centric Approach to Technology
Source: Casey Chalk via thepublicdiscourse.com. Originally appeared in The Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton NJ, and is reprinted with permission. Technology promises to solve our problems, but it also creates new ones. That’s because we have failed to apply human-centric approaches to technology. We think in […]
Battling Porn: How to Know if You’re Addicted
Source: The Catholic Gentleman via catholicgentleman.netReprinted with permission Because pornography use is so widely used and accepted today, many people may wonder if they are addicted to it. According to Dr. Mark Laaser (1992) pornography/sexual addiction is “any persistent and escalating unhealthy pattern of sexual behavior. It is compulsive in […]
Boredom, Isolation, & the Internet: The Perfect Storm
Source: catholicgentleman.netAuthor: Peter C. Kleponis, Ph.D.Reprinted with permission. Tom was noticeably upset as he described his frustration with pornography use. It seemed that every day at work he would end up going online and viewing pornography. No matter what he tried, he always seemed to fall into the same pattern. […]