sight isn’t always necessary

I saw this on Wired.com, and it made me crack up. Honestly I haven’t done any research on this new iPhone, nor would I want one right now because I already have a pretty cool phone, but it’s a funny commentary on how amazing technology is becoming… to some even magical in it’s infinite power.

Commentary by Lore Sjöberg
Beware the Magical IPhone

06.27.07 2:00 AM
There’s been a lot of media attention directed
at the iPhone recently. Some of it has been positive, some negative, but none
have come forth to acknowledge the obvious, sinister context of Apple’s latest
toy. This device, portrayed as a harmless product of science, is obviously
designed to introduce our children to witchcraft and sorcery.

The central pentagram in Apple’s vile altar of temptation takes the form of
“gestures,” hand movements used to control the device. Wiggle your fingers at
the iPhone and it does your bidding. Does that not sound familiar? Is that not
one of the main ingredients in the blasphemous bisque of sorcery?

Keep in mind as you consider this dire news that Apple is also one of the
main proponents of so-called “voice recognition” technology. Every Macintosh
computer they ship includes this “feature,” allowing you to command your
computer using the power of your voice, much as Harry Potter commands demons to
do Satan’s work.

Another feature provided by the iPhone is the ability to play videos from
anywhere in the world. Think of your child gazing into this device, viewing
events taking place elsewhere on the planet and even looking back through time.
The device itself has a “friendly” rounded look to it. Is this Apple’s way of
introducing children to the concept of a crystal ball? Will the next iPhone be a
perfect transparent sphere? Very likely.

In addition, the iPhone has the ability to sense the environment around it.
For instance, it can tell when you’ve turned it on its side. No doubt you’re
thinking, “You move it? Like a magic wand?”

It’s worse than that, much worse. Certainly there is a similarity to that
obscenely phallic symbol of a sorcerer’s Satan-fueled power, but it goes much
further. The iPhone’s ability to sense motion, proximity and light is clearly
designed to make it seem less like an object and more like a “familiar spirit,”
a sort of witch’s helper explicitly banned by Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

Not convinced? The iPhone also includes a built-in web browser, one that
has no limitations on the sort of filth it can access. The internet is well
known for being willing to answer any question posed to it, at least from an
atheist perspective. Right-thinking people realize that knowledge should be
limited to that which is healthy for the mind and soul, but the internet does
not agree.

And finally, what do iPhone users and witches have in common? Contracts.
The iPhone requires a two-year contract with a cellular-phone company, while
witchcraft requires an eternal contract with the Devil, but the parallels are
clear.

Now consider the implications of all this. A child growing up in this
secular age is introduced to a little technological “friend” that it can control
with gestures and words, one that lets it look at other places and times, one
that is happy to answer any question, especially if the “correct” answer denies
God and the Bible. Shortly thereafter the child — your child — is approached
by a witch or wizard with similar “devices” like magic wands and crystal balls,
which require nothing more than the signing of a contract. Is there any reason
the child would resist these overtures?

This is no coincidence! Apple is not working alone under some sort of cloak
of secrecy. This has been planned for decades, if not centuries! Science-fiction
writer Arthur C. Clarke, a noted secular humanist, gloated over this sort of
“innovation” when he revealed that future advanced technologies would make
people unable to distinguish them from magic.

The media are not the watchdogs of these evil devices that are being shoved
down our throats and the throats of our children, they are Satan’s salesmen!

Avoid the iPhone! Avoid all of Apple’s products, and Microsoft’s as well!
If you’re reading this online, it may already be too late.
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Born
helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually
overcame these handicaps to become an evangelist, a moralist and a
nihilist.

So… I’m constantly just posting dumb videos on this blog, but we finally got our computer working again (keep your fingers crossed), and I stumbled upon this little video clip in a way old archive. So, here it is. Back when Max only smelled a little bit bad (even Connor pushes Max away these days, saying he “smells like fish”), he really was a funny dog. Still is… but just a bit smellier. And a lot fatter – what happened to his diet!?!