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Tamenund's avatar

I'm reading this very helpful piece of information on my cell phone.

There's an irony in this somewhere...

GJTL's avatar

I will try it for two weeks; if it seems to work, I will try it for 6 1/2 weeks (Lent).

Kurt's avatar

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!

Tamenund's avatar

Then you lose the opportunities to suffer that the phone offers you.

Terry Wears's avatar

This is so important , and something that curiously will get zero mainstream coverage. Thank you Nicholas.

Matthew's avatar

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 ‼️🔥💯🤣😂🤣😂🖕🧃🖕🧃🖕🧃🖕🧃🖕🧃🤬🤬🤣😂

Mark Wayne's avatar

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.

Rebecca Beck's avatar

Mark….that's an important issue but not the same issue this article is talking about. 🙃

Susan P ...'s avatar

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 ...

Lisa's avatar

👍🏼👍🏼🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼

Roy McIntosh's avatar

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!

David Kukkee's avatar

Timely warning Nicolas. I hope folks take heed. The worst is yet to come. Thanks for watching out for the folks.

DaughteroftheKing's avatar

Excellent book for parents:

Kids' Brains and Screens

By Melanie Hempe

Robert Auld's avatar

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.

Jason Brain's avatar

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.

Anne McKinney's avatar

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"

M. N. Mead's avatar

I could not bring myself to read this article on my cell phone.

David Truman's avatar

My default wifi setting for my 'phone is 'off' and likewise for aeroplane mode. I use them only when I need to and it cuts down on being bombarded by unwanted EMF emissions.

Jennifer Hargreaves's avatar

I switch off my phone at 19h00 every night. I switch on at 07h00 to book for the gym. Router and WiFi are off from 22h00 until 09h00.