{"id":4824,"date":"2009-05-11T00:02:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T00:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/05\/try-this-on-a-computer-life-st.html"},"modified":"2009-05-11T00:02:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T00:02:14","slug":"try-this-on-a-computer-life-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/05\/try-this-on-a-computer-life-st.html","title":{"rendered":"Try this on a computer life style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Walden.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/files\/import\/imgs\/Walden.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px;float: right\" width=\"261\" height=\"320\" \/><\/span>Henry David Thoreau, in <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679418962?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0679418962\">Walden (Everyman&#8217;s Library)<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0679418962\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important;margin: 0px ! important\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>, observed: &#8220;For the improvement of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of [our] existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors&#8221; (11).<\/p>\n<p>That is, we are prone these days to sail away with our observations about how much we have changed, about how so much is different, and Thoreau may just take the wind of those sails. Reduced to its basics, how much has life really changed? What is life about? Has that changed? <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a very good reminder at the beginning of our week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry David Thoreau, in Walden (Everyman&#8217;s Library) , observed: &#8220;For the improvement of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of [our] existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors&#8221; (11). That is, we are prone these days to sail away with our observations about&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Try this on a computer life style - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/05\/try-this-on-a-computer-life-st.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Try this on a computer life style - Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Henry David Thoreau, in Walden (Everyman&#8217;s Library) , observed: &#8220;For the improvement of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of [our] existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors&#8221; (11). 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