It took me a few days to detach from it. I truly believe we under estimate how much we have been trained to rely on this stupid device. Most people I know remember when a home phone was a dial phone and occasionally a pay phone. Some could see what was coming but as a former business owner I lived on this piece of shit demon. I'm not going to feel bad for those who can't put it down for 10 minutes. They to will get what they don't deserve and that's just too bad.
I actually leave this prick in a faraday bag with other devices and go enjoy the sunshine, especially on a very clear blue day with no poison clouds outside. Life is worth so much more than living in a cage of internet fighting and hatred‼️
I can put it down now and think nothing of it now for a few days. It starts with an hour then half a day. Remember, you still might have a family. Remind them about being a prisoner to the bullshit tech they told us we needed. I can tell them like so many others that they can shove their tech up their fucking Sodomite pedophile abomination asses. Fuck them all. We lived without them for many decades, we can do it again ‼️🔥💯🤣😂🤣😂🖕🧃🖕🧃🖕🧃🖕🧃🖕🧃🤬🤬🤣😂
We installed Ethernet outlets in every room and use Ethernet to USB adapters so we have wired connections. We turned off WiFi. No cell service. We feel better.
I gave up my mobile 6years ago but recently got an Above phone. I hardly use it though, and feel like a real loner sometimes. We are a minority but better for it.
Thank you! Will check it out. So grateful my granddaughter attends a school which discourages screens. No computers there. They cook, take care of farm animals, grow vegetables, create things with their minds and hands. She watches some movies on the weekends. May I say she's doing great!
I never went for having so much of my life on a "smart" phone. I have one, but when I go out it lives in a faraday bag, and I only take it out if I need to call someone or check up on something. At home, I use computers, and only use the phone when people call or text me. (I am a semi-retired freelance audio engineeer, so I work from home most of the time these days.)
I am not surprised at the results of the trial. Constantly peering into a little screen while absorbing whatever stuff TPTSB have selected for you cannot be healthy. We need to get away from being so dependent on these tracking devices.
I did this for a month, and it felt like I was back in the 90s. You quickly realize how much of our society has been forfeited to virtual routines however, as there is basically no public realm anymore where one can simply show up unmediated by one's "online" digital avatar; so to speak. That said, serendipity still reigns supreme, and can only be found out there in the "airplane mode" wild! I loved it, but also felt like any one of those comedic time travel protagonists (e.g. Encino Man) who bluntly approaches the world for what it is, disregarding the hypernovelty of postmodern polite society.
The head monk walking on Peace Pilgrimage to DC has made a plea to parents & adults at almost every stop to have children put away phones for longer periods of time as so many come to the Ft Worth temple w depression. He says for all: "Put your lover down"
And they needed a study to tell us this common sense reality? I've got two phones - neither goes with me in my office, only personal one comes with me to lunch and only because I want to enjoy my break without work and read a book while attempting to eat (while others are stopping by to ask me work questions). Don't check social media until well after I get home finish dinner/feed kids or come back from pilates and it's on my old laptop, no doom scrolling, normal bedtime 9 pm. No problems falling asleep. Walking home ~2 or so miles - still not on either of my phones - enjoying the abandoned area and seeing and hearing birds, deer, wild hares, wild boar, occasional runner or cyclist or people walking their dogs, or just simply listening to the crunch of snow and ice under my feet.
I stopped using a cell phone entirely about 3 months ago and I will never go back. I feel liberated, and when I tell people they look at me like I have three heads. I spent the first 40 years of my life without a cell phone, and I'm quite sure I can live the next 40 years without one as well. In addition, I don't have to worry about my corrupt government tracking me through my phone.
Once you become hardened mentally, you can easily fight the Internet demons or turn them off or ignore them. You can engage with tech, but you have to become the master.
I'm reading this very helpful piece of information on my cell phone.
There's an irony in this somewhere...
I will try it for two weeks; if it seems to work, I will try it for 6 1/2 weeks (Lent).
Sounds encouraging. I’ll try it for two seconds. If that works I’ll try a couple minutes. Who knows? I might be able to make it through all night!
Then you lose the opportunities to suffer that the phone offers you.
Let us know!
This is so important , and something that curiously will get zero mainstream coverage. Thank you Nicholas.
I turned off internet on my phone 4+ years ago - just talk, text & pictures. It frees up my head space for time with family, friends & God ...
It took me a few days to detach from it. I truly believe we under estimate how much we have been trained to rely on this stupid device. Most people I know remember when a home phone was a dial phone and occasionally a pay phone. Some could see what was coming but as a former business owner I lived on this piece of shit demon. I'm not going to feel bad for those who can't put it down for 10 minutes. They to will get what they don't deserve and that's just too bad.
I actually leave this prick in a faraday bag with other devices and go enjoy the sunshine, especially on a very clear blue day with no poison clouds outside. Life is worth so much more than living in a cage of internet fighting and hatred‼️
I can put it down now and think nothing of it now for a few days. It starts with an hour then half a day. Remember, you still might have a family. Remind them about being a prisoner to the bullshit tech they told us we needed. I can tell them like so many others that they can shove their tech up their fucking Sodomite pedophile abomination asses. Fuck them all. We lived without them for many decades, we can do it again ‼️🔥💯🤣😂🤣😂🖕🧃🖕🧃🖕🧃🖕🧃🖕🧃🤬🤬🤣😂
We installed Ethernet outlets in every room and use Ethernet to USB adapters so we have wired connections. We turned off WiFi. No cell service. We feel better.
Mark….that's an important issue but not the same issue this article is talking about. 🙃
I do not own one! Only a computer. When I go out I want to be free from calls etc/ look around ro see what is going on with nature etc!
I gave up my mobile 6years ago but recently got an Above phone. I hardly use it though, and feel like a real loner sometimes. We are a minority but better for it.
Excellent book for parents:
Kids' Brains and Screens
By Melanie Hempe
Thank you! Will check it out. So grateful my granddaughter attends a school which discourages screens. No computers there. They cook, take care of farm animals, grow vegetables, create things with their minds and hands. She watches some movies on the weekends. May I say she's doing great!
Your Granddaughter is IMMENSELY BLESSED to attend an extraordinary school like that!
Timely warning Nicolas. I hope folks take heed. The worst is yet to come. Thanks for watching out for the folks.
👍🏼👍🏼🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
I never went for having so much of my life on a "smart" phone. I have one, but when I go out it lives in a faraday bag, and I only take it out if I need to call someone or check up on something. At home, I use computers, and only use the phone when people call or text me. (I am a semi-retired freelance audio engineeer, so I work from home most of the time these days.)
I am not surprised at the results of the trial. Constantly peering into a little screen while absorbing whatever stuff TPTSB have selected for you cannot be healthy. We need to get away from being so dependent on these tracking devices.
I did this for a month, and it felt like I was back in the 90s. You quickly realize how much of our society has been forfeited to virtual routines however, as there is basically no public realm anymore where one can simply show up unmediated by one's "online" digital avatar; so to speak. That said, serendipity still reigns supreme, and can only be found out there in the "airplane mode" wild! I loved it, but also felt like any one of those comedic time travel protagonists (e.g. Encino Man) who bluntly approaches the world for what it is, disregarding the hypernovelty of postmodern polite society.
The head monk walking on Peace Pilgrimage to DC has made a plea to parents & adults at almost every stop to have children put away phones for longer periods of time as so many come to the Ft Worth temple w depression. He says for all: "Put your lover down"
And they needed a study to tell us this common sense reality? I've got two phones - neither goes with me in my office, only personal one comes with me to lunch and only because I want to enjoy my break without work and read a book while attempting to eat (while others are stopping by to ask me work questions). Don't check social media until well after I get home finish dinner/feed kids or come back from pilates and it's on my old laptop, no doom scrolling, normal bedtime 9 pm. No problems falling asleep. Walking home ~2 or so miles - still not on either of my phones - enjoying the abandoned area and seeing and hearing birds, deer, wild hares, wild boar, occasional runner or cyclist or people walking their dogs, or just simply listening to the crunch of snow and ice under my feet.
I stopped using a cell phone entirely about 3 months ago and I will never go back. I feel liberated, and when I tell people they look at me like I have three heads. I spent the first 40 years of my life without a cell phone, and I'm quite sure I can live the next 40 years without one as well. In addition, I don't have to worry about my corrupt government tracking me through my phone.
Once you become hardened mentally, you can easily fight the Internet demons or turn them off or ignore them. You can engage with tech, but you have to become the master.