Running Gator Posted June 8, 2017 Group: Royal Member * Followers: 8 Topic Count: 91 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 10,596 Content Per Day: 3.66 Reputation: 2,743 Days Won: 25 Joined: 06/16/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted June 8, 2017 I heard a fascinating segment on NPR this morning while driving to work later than normal. The discussion was about “reality bubbles”, that each of us live in, and how over time for most people the bubble gets smaller and smaller. Most live at point A and work at point B and almost always take the same route from A to B and back again, normally at the same times each day. Radio stations are pre-programed based upon preferences so rarely, if ever, do things outside of that bubble on the radio get into our reality bubble. Information sources are chosen based upon political preferences and over time those sources get to be more and more specific. Thus rarely, if ever, do things outside make it into the reality bubble. This holds true for every aspect of people’s lives, churches are chosen based upon preferences, as are eating out experiences and other forms of entertainment. People go to the same restaurants and order the same food time and time again. The longer a bubble goes without additional input the smaller and smaller it gets and the less the person sees of reality outside of their bubble. This process can be exacerbated by technology, as it makes it even easier to close off the bubble and keep out the rest of the world. Facebook can be used to limit those who have different views, the internet can be used to pick specific sources of information that align to the bubble. But the good news is that technology can also help to burst the bubble, it can be used to randomly pull in sources from outside your own preferences. The person in the report made an APP that randomly picks an event in their town that was put on Facebook, even if he does not know the people personally. And then he goes to the events and tells them why he is there. Almost always he is welcomed in and he expands his bubble a little bit more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da_man1974 Posted June 8, 2017 Group: Senior Member Followers: 25 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 726 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 575 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/22/2010 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/30/1974 Share Posted June 8, 2017 Are you saying we can get out of our own little box??? How absurd. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zemke Posted June 8, 2017 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,028 Content Per Day: 0.23 Reputation: 451 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/24/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted June 8, 2017 Well it's impossible not to. There was a time when an educated person could know everything there was to know. Moses may have qualified. I believe they are called mellenium men. But there is just so much information today it's impossible. Even brain doctors specialize on one area of the brain because there is way more information about the total brain than a brain can focus on. That's why to succeed today one must have a specialty. There is no such thing as a know-it-all. We will not get through the day without creating that bubble. For people to think they live outside the bubble is a deception and impossible because that in itself is a reality bubble. I think it's called arrogance. Humans live as slaves and the truth of being set free is in Jesus Christ. We are all slaves to something. We confine ourselves to this world but we are really citizens of the world to come. "In the world but not of it." The true "reality bubble" is setting our sights on things above and not on the things of this world, an anti christ influenced mess. We need to be checking ourselves and actions with who we are in Christ. I, as we all do, fail at this at some point everyday but thanks to a gracious forgiving Lord we don't have to end our day in a worldly reality bubble. Do not let the sun go down on your anger. It's theologically impossible to be so heavenly minded we are no earthly good. That's a sentiment of a worldly "reality bubble". Jesus was 100% earthly good because He was 100% heavenly minded. He only did what He saw His Father doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Running Gator Posted June 8, 2017 Group: Royal Member * Followers: 8 Topic Count: 91 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 10,596 Content Per Day: 3.66 Reputation: 2,743 Days Won: 25 Joined: 06/16/2016 Status: Offline Author Share Posted June 8, 2017 32 minutes ago, da_man1974 said: Are you saying we can get out of our own little box??? How absurd. LOL I am saying you can actively work to make your box/bubble bigger, and that it can happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da_man1974 Posted June 8, 2017 Group: Senior Member Followers: 25 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 726 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 575 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/22/2010 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/30/1974 Share Posted June 8, 2017 But then that would require us to get out of our comfort zone. HAHA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Running Gator Posted June 8, 2017 Group: Royal Member * Followers: 8 Topic Count: 91 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 10,596 Content Per Day: 3.66 Reputation: 2,743 Days Won: 25 Joined: 06/16/2016 Status: Offline Author Share Posted June 8, 2017 5 minutes ago, Zemke said: Well it's impossible not to. There was a time when an educated person could know everything there was to know. Moses may have qualified. I believe they are called mellenium men. But there is just so much information today it's impossible. Even brain doctors specialize on one area of the brain because there is way more information about the total brain than a brain can focus on. That's why to succeed today one must have a specialty. There is no such thing as a know-it-all. We will not get through the day without creating that bubble. For people to think they live outside the bubble is a deception and impossible because that in itself is a reality bubble. I think it's called arrogance. I do not agree at all. One cannot know everything, but one can know more than they know today. One can do something tomorrow they have never done before and expand their bubble. There is no reasons a person needs to get all their information from one side of the spectrum or the other, they can absorb both and look for the common ground in the two sides. There are many things we can do if we try to expand our bubble. Yes, we can never get out of it as it is us, but we can make it bigger and more inclusive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Running Gator Posted June 8, 2017 Group: Royal Member * Followers: 8 Topic Count: 91 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 10,596 Content Per Day: 3.66 Reputation: 2,743 Days Won: 25 Joined: 06/16/2016 Status: Offline Author Share Posted June 8, 2017 4 minutes ago, da_man1974 said: But then that would require us to get out of our comfort zone. HAHA True, this is a major problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Running Gator Posted June 8, 2017 Group: Royal Member * Followers: 8 Topic Count: 91 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 10,596 Content Per Day: 3.66 Reputation: 2,743 Days Won: 25 Joined: 06/16/2016 Status: Offline Author Share Posted June 8, 2017 2 minutes ago, Yowm said: Some reality bubbles are ok... Psalm 1:1-2 KJV [1] Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. [2] But his delight is in the law of the Lord ; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Matthew 16:11 NASB [11] How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." Mark 8:15 NASB [15] And He was giving orders to them, saying, "Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod." Or getting outside of the bubble... 13 He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. 14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him. 15 And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 16 And the scribes of[a] the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat[b] with tax collectors and sinners?” 17 And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Running Gator Posted June 8, 2017 Group: Royal Member * Followers: 8 Topic Count: 91 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 10,596 Content Per Day: 3.66 Reputation: 2,743 Days Won: 25 Joined: 06/16/2016 Status: Offline Author Share Posted June 8, 2017 2 minutes ago, Yowm said: Looks like two diferent types of bubbles. Jesus didn't eat with scoffers whether Publican or Pharisee. You make assumptions not supported by the scriptures, likely based upon the bubble in which you view the world. There is nothing to indicate that everyone in the room agreed with Jesus or were not scoffing at him. Seems that is what the "sick" would do that the physician was coming to treat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Running Gator Posted June 8, 2017 Group: Royal Member * Followers: 8 Topic Count: 91 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 10,596 Content Per Day: 3.66 Reputation: 2,743 Days Won: 25 Joined: 06/16/2016 Status: Offline Author Share Posted June 8, 2017 1 minute ago, Yowm said: Ok, so Jesus contradicted His Words in the Psalms, gotcha. No, you just misunderstand the verse from Psalms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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