Thursday, January 17, 2013

Every man is his own worst enemy in using technologies

Technological change is the part of God's plan. The purpose of God is to bring to pass the eternal life of His children (see Moses 1:39), and the prophecy about the gospel spreading throughout every nation, kindred, tongue, and people (see Mosiah 3:20) have been fulfilled today with effective and proper use of technologies. However, there are some harmful influence in our lives caused by technology changes like pornography, idleness, etc. Those harmful influence are still our trials in God's plan. The trial is greatly beneficial for us to get closer to Savior because we can recognize our idleness or mistake, do self-examination, and set a goal for the better control with ourselves. Every man is his own worst enemy in using technologies. Our choice decides if technologies are beneficial or harmful. Recently, many people have suffered from an addiction of gaming. The attractive battle system and beautiful graphics in the gaming can be one reason for the addiction, but they got an addiction by themselves after all. Each day, they lose themselves and implant a bad seed representing a bad choice in their hearts. The seed grows by repeating the same mistake and makes a rose with thrones clinging on their hearts representing an addiction. In technological change, it's important for us to strengthen our mind, heart, and control to make a good choice. Technological change is the part of God's plan and one of our trials to improve ourselves to become like God with our agencies.

1 comment:

  1. I appreciate your point of view on this, Kei. I have been focusing a bit too much on technology as the root of the problem, but it is true that there is always personal agency involved.

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