📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G. Like I always say... it may start out with a great reason to help mankind, but usually at some point, sin gets involved. What can be a good thing can almost always also become a bad thing too - depending on the heart of the user. There are some amazing technological advances, but we have to stop and evaluate if they are truly worth the ease that they bring or are we paying some sort of price by using them? As I grow older, I find myself wishing for the days of my childhood; which were relatively free of much of technology save a tv, microwave, and landline telephone. I long for the quiet and peace of those days where news came one time per day at 6 p.m. followed by national news at 6:30 p.m. I miss a lot of things about that time, but like TR - I am always an advocate of indoor plumbing and running water!! 😉 :mdrmdr: I have a VR headset. I work in an industry where some of my clients manufacture VR. From my experience there are (key word here) currently far more evil and totally ungodly video games, tv sitcom, and general human behavior than in the world of VR. Again, I say “currently”. The technology in and of itself is not evil but the intentions of the heart can be greatly so. Undoubtably, there will come terribly evil things from this technology, just like all the technologies before have produces their share of evil. But in the end it all goes back to the heart of man. Technology is simply an arena. Astute observation David. Indeed the more we learn and grow the more apt we will be to better appreciate not only all that the Lord has done, but how big He really is! TR I'm not sure if Virtual Reality as a form of entertainment is that much worse than other forms of escapism, such as 2-D movies or video games. It is the constant desire to escape real life that I see as the underlying threat. There are plenty who have never tried VR and yet see life through a distorted set of assumptions, chiefly that they can create their own reality through their will. Whether it is by a head set over the eyes, or a veil of deception, we live in a time in which people think they can create their own truth and operate subjectively. Either way, your eyes can deceive you and you wind up walking into a brick wall outside your preferences about reality. Technology is exploding, without a doubt. The worst tendencies of the human mind will be exploited by it, as it always has been. There may be some good things accomplished by the use of such new tools, while the common person will mostly be attracted to it as a diversion from the real world. Don't get me wrong Sis. I thank God for sliced bread and toilet paper every day! The fact that man continues to grow in knowledge and creative effort only speaks to how we can be lickened to our Creator. But like our Heavenly Father, once something is created, it cannot be un-created. As well as also considering the motives of our creating! I truly must say that Man has certainly subdued the Earth and it's enviroments. As we were instructed by the Lord to do so! But intellect and technology does not a God create. TR
