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@lukeburgis The attention span, holy. Have you considered relating to cyberspace as an occasion for deliberate, unceasing, conscious inner work? We live here, after all. I teach it to 20-somethings but there's also room for great nuance with regard to, say, different platforms. Thread, here:

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 24 Nov 2022

@jesuits_ireland I so appreciate this Ignatian contribution to the emerging body of work addressing smartphone meditation - a worthy, profound and effectively essential element of the modern spiritual toolset. How, also, might we interpret the phenomenon in fundamentally Christological terms?

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billy moose
Social media as elaborate self curated performative bullshit
Nick Routledge
Of course. And, as in meatspace, treat each moment as an occasion for deliberate, conscious, inner refinement, and everyday, multi-hour smartphone use becomes a pillar fundamental to shaping us and the world in the image of a divine hierophany. Social media holy, not godforsaken.
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Copy of tweet thread: billy moose Social media as elaborate self curated performative bullshit Nick Routledge Of course. And, as in meatspace, treat each moment as an occasion for deliberate, conscious, inner refinement, and everyday, multi-hour smartphone use becomes a pillar fundamental to shaping us and the world in the image of a divine hierophany. Social media holy, not godforsaken.

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Quoted by@alastairmci @Karl0take @johnrobb Why not take it further by, say, treating everyday, multi-hour Cloud engagement as a psyche-techne pivotal to shaping ourselves and the world in the image of a greater integrity and authenticity? The vernacular here, 'spiritual' but the basic stance transcends such distinctions.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @CarlMcColman 1/ Moving social media engagement to the forefront of spiritual practice amounts to one of the more profound blessings of our era, I find. It's particularly fruitful given the occasion for contemplative reflection and alchemy the medium makes possible prior to posting, isn't it?Quoted by@CarlMcColman 1/ Moving social media engagement to the forefront of spiritual practice amounts to one of the more profound blessings of our era, I find. It's particularly fruitful given the occasion for contemplative reflection and alchemy the medium makes possible prior to posting, isn't it?