"You’re Welcome."

Unsolicited Advice for Life, Work, Work/Life and Lifework 
Tags


Filed under

society

 
November 17, 2009

File this under "Told You So": Social networking leads to *more* socialising, not less! Can you imagine?

More people than ever will be living large parts of their lives online in 2010. Yet, those same people will also mingle, meet up, and congregate more often with other ‘warm bodies’ in the offline world.
In fact, social media and mobile communications are fueling a MASS MINGLING that defies virtually every cliché about diminished human interaction in our ‘online era’.
via trendwatching.com

Social media is media. A medium is not a thing in itself but a means to a thing.

So why do people think that social networking would result in less relationships? People who get on the road are going to end up somewhere. It may not be where they thought; it might be a surprise. But all roads lead to destinations.

Social networking leads to socialising. Can you say, duh?

So, don't just sit there. Tweet something.

Loading mentions Retweet
Filed under  //   I Told You So   people   relationships   social media   social networking   socialising   society   trends  

Comments [0]

November 15, 2009

"I can give you nothing because you want nothing."

"I can give you nothing because you want nothing." 

This was what my wife said, the other day. It was over something mundane - about passing food to someone who couldn't make up their mind about what they wanted. And yet these words struck me profoundly. 

How do you give something to someone who doesn't want it? You can't. You might leave it at their feet, but it will go to waste. They have no place in their mind for it. 

Likewise freedom, likewise hope. How do you give these gifts to someone who has no hunger for them? 

Fed on a steady diet of life's junk food, the pursuers of purely material, temporal riches have no hunger for something beyond, and so have no capacity to receive it. 

Individually and collectively, we've got to cultivate a hunger for freedom, justice and hope. Lest we starve to death on a diet of cash and concrete. 

Loading mentions Retweet
Filed under  //   #hopemy   hope   life   Malaysia   Project Hope   society  

Comments [0]

November 8, 2009

Enough despair. Tweet your HOPE for Malaysia! [updated]

I want to talk to you about hope - if you're a Malaysian or interested in Malaysia. I'm involved in The Hope Project, which is an artistic effort aimed at raising the temperature of hope among Malaysians and Malaysia-lovers. 

The project involves: 

- A book of writings and photography. 
- A custom-designed tee shirt (I’ve seen the initial sketches - it’s wild). 
- A web site with video interviews (professionally done). 

All these are in production. The website will be up in due course, followed by the book and tee in selected venues. I’ll be tweeting about these at http://twitter.com/alphalim 

Help, I need somebody! 

Where I would like to ask for your help is in the matter of writings on hope: Please tweet your take on hope. Answer one or two or three of these questions: 

- What is "hope" to you? 
- What do you hope for? 
- What will you do to make that hope a reality? 

Please tweet with the hashtag #hopemy and it will be picked up. It may be included either in the book, the website or both; with credit to your Twitter username. [Legalese: By tweeting thus, you agree that your tweet may be used in The Hope Project.] 

There's enough negativity around. Let's do what we can to raise HOPE among Malaysians! We owe it to our children's children. 

Tweet #hopemy!

(If you are not on Twitter, please feel free to leave your contribution as a comment below.) 

Loading mentions Retweet
Filed under  //   #hopemy   faith   hope   Malaysia   optimism   Project Hope   society  

Comments [0]

October 15, 2009

The obsession to not speak bad words is not the same as the passion to speak good words. @chongy

The mistake of this ankle-deep wrangling over Christians and profanity is that it misreads a significant cultural shift—one deeply grounded in intellectual conviction—as a rebellious or apathetic flavor of the moment. No doubt, many a young Christian at university has slipped into colorful language almost involuntarily, without having a well-considered justification for his new vocabulary. Only in a few instances does it require moral courage to utter the word “fuck.” But to imply that most Christians who swear do so out of lapsed scruples, and can be pricked back into conscientiousness with a quick devotional from their favorite journal of “progressive culture,” is to profoundly misunderstand the change that has prompted so many of them to dismiss the petty social preoccupations of their forbearers.

via patrolmag.com

The paragraph above is a mind test. If, after reading the para, you only recall *one particular word* from it, you need to expand your mind a wee widdle bit more ;).

I remember when Dilbert used the cuss phrase "Jeepers Cripes", Scott Adams received angry letters at his profanity.

Adams responded that he became afraid that because of his choice of words, "Gosh" would "darn" him to "heck".

If you ask me, profanity is to take the sacred and treat it commonly. Those who make mountains out of molehills when someone drops the F-bomb, have sex as their god, in my opinion. More accurately, they worship the god of antisex. Which is the other side of the coin of sex obsession.

(Thanks @chongy for the link!)

Loading mentions Retweet
Filed under  //   Christians   commentary   culture   language   opinion   profanity   society   weird   world  

Comments [0]