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Let's get deep this week.
I want to talk about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his thoughts on technology.
In 1964 Dr. King delivered a lecture the day after winning the Nobel Peace Prize in which he told his audience at the University of Oslo that "material advancement was meaningless without an accompanying moral structure." In other words, the growing abundance of technology is undermining the human spirit. My favorite quote from the article is: "The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually," he said. "We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers."
This week I'm asking you to think, REALLY THINK about Dr. King's words. DO NOT post until Thursday. I want his words to work on you a little bit.
He is telling us that technology advancement needs to go hand in hand with spiritual advancement, or it's all for nothing. THINK. Do you agree with Dr. King? Disagree? WHY? You will answer both of those questions to receive credit this week.
Talk to me . . .
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79 comments:
I dont know about spiritual advancement, but tech should probably help us out morally. In that sense I agree with Dr.MLK. Technology pretty much runs our world today. Then again so does corruption, but I think tech is more potent. So why shouldn't technology help us maintain wholesome moral goals. If it did, we would probably take more note of it. I'm not saying people will listen, but they will know it was there.
Yes, I do agree with him. We do need to advance more spiritually like we have in technology. Because with the advancment in technology is so far up the bar, and spiritually not everyone can say they have a relationship with Jesus Christ or their God. But then again technology is not more important than having that spiritual contact. So they shouldn't go hand in hand. Spiritual recognition should be higher than technology. Thats just my thoughts on that.
First blog. Boo-yaa
I agreee with what Dr. King's saying. Technology is only taking control in our lives today. We can't depend on ourselves for anything unless technology is involved. Spiritually, people are weak but technology wise, we're rich. If technology had a purpose, besides being something to entertain ourselves, maybe we'd see reality more than what tech. gives us.
"The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually,"
i agree with him all the way... we get attach to things that don't even matter at the end of the day because it can break mess up all that... like cell phones you drop it one time to many its broke and blacks out and all that... im attach to MYSPACE and its not even that serious cause you get on see the same thing everyday and it gets boring... so why attach yourself to objects that aren't important?
i don't really disagree with what he said because its true... but some ppl can be attached to items and still have high morally and spiritually standards....
I think I agreed with this quote last time and its only becoming more evident. More people would rather spend more time infront of a tv playing video games rather than spending time with thier parents. Same thing with all forms of tech. We take it for granted, it runs our lives and thats all we care about. Making our lives easier. Family does not apply what so ever when we think about tech. Its really depressing. Thats why majority of teens are the way they are. They always seem to have one problem or another, stating that parents and adults don't understand us. Thats because we don't give them any hints and we don't help them understand.
i agree with mr king because sthe more we grow in technology the more we should grow spiritually. we do put to much on technology in todays world. but on the other hand technology can also deviate us from our spirtual paths. thats the only thing i disagree with on this whole thing. other than that i mainly agree that we should grow spiritually with technology
I agree with Dr.MLK about their needing to be a spiritual advancement along with the technological advancement.I belive that it takes a certain amount of moral to cope with new technology.
I believe at the time, he was correct, in some way. We were advancing in technology, but I do not believe it was because of technology that there was racism, science and invention was just something going on at the time.
I can see what he means though, the further we get into the mass of science and new gadgets, the less human interaction, and that can surely lead to many unintentional outcomes.
It's not as easy as saying "I Agree!" or "Nty *Fingers-In-Ears*lalalala" Because to me, it seems right and wrong.
When he says "The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually," That holds true, at least 80% of the time....
But outright saying technology is killing the human spirit? Not sure I agree with that.
I agree with Dr. King because if you spend your time doing things on technology more than you spend doing on anything else, you will have no life, because your stuck on technology.
I thought about what Dr. King said in aboutour technological advancements. In a way I have to say I agree that as we progressed our technology the moral we should have isn't really as far as the first. Yet, no one will ever be completely pure of immorality. So we can only improve so far. Spirtual and technological I think have basically no relation unless the tech is helping the people learn of their religion.
I don't agree entirely with Dr. King. Technology is taking over our lives and our spirituality, but it is a person's choice whether they want to advance spiritually too. I don't think that they need to go hand in hand, it's your choice.
I completely agree with Dr. King's concern about the world making all these technological advancments and yet not being able to live in harmony with the people around us. I also understand and agree with how technology can take away from you morally and spiritually. I love technology just as much as the next person, but since the discovery of the internet harmful information has become just as accessable as the useful information. A lot has changed since Dr. King's speech, technology being one of the main things, but i think we should listen to what he is trying to tell us. Advancement is a great thing, but without a moral purpose behind it, it will amount to nothing.
I agree with Dr. King, that spirituality, morality and technology should all be in synch. One reason is people are using technology for the wrong reasons. A great example of that is guns, because they were meant for hunting and protection, and if the spiritual side was taught to use guns right, then people will not die. Also if tv wasn't so bad then people would not do so many bad things.
Wooohooo Monika . . . first post!
Maggaly . . . I loved your spiritually poor / technologically rich analogy.
Brandon . . . I hadn't thought about needing a certain amount of morality to deal with new technology in the correct manner.
Daniel . . . I think you hit the nail on the head with the decreased human interaction having unintended consequences. The more we sink into technology the further we get away from one another.
I also see Michael's point about choosing to advance spiritually. I have known people in my life who I refer to as "surface people." Those people never demonstrate growth on the inside. Never get to know themselves. Never seek to grow and change. I consider them like molecules bumping around into other people and never making a REAL difference in this world. You have to CHOOSE to grow. You have to SEEK growth. It normally doesn't just come upon you.
I agree w/ Dr. MLK, He said. "We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers." That's the technology he's talking about.
I agree with MLK I mean if you look at society today we are growing further and further apart. We cant even spend time with each other.while our technology is advancing I say we should do or start doing something were we can advance together spiritually.
I guess I somewhat agree with what Dr.King is saying. In some ways technology has split us apart to the point that we rely on computers not each other. That bond is lost as well as the trust. Because people are so caught up with advancements they don't stop to think of what we really need which comes to spirtituality...Jesus Christ. He is the only one that can lead us not man made technology.Not exactly sure if that is what Dr.King was trying to make a point of but thats how I interpreted it.
I agree with Dr. King in a way that I believe he actually had respect for everyone of every race, and if everyone did that then maybe things would be much easier. But unfortunately he is right, we really cannot advance in our technology if we do not get along with one another. Respect is the key to unity, in my opinion.
I agree with Dr.MLK that the growing abundance of technology is undermining the human spirit. people have become too attached to technology and they have low spirtual standards.
"The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally". i really dont know what to say on this one, but im going to agree w/ him because the more technology we have dosnt mean anything if we are going to use it to do bad things for example a weapons biological or nuclear instead of making it work to do good thing we make them do bad thing and i think thats what he ment when he said that line.
Of course I agree. Technology has no human qualities. No matter how advanced, you won't be able to make a human being, therefore, it is a machine. Advancements in technology are designed to make our lives easier, but sometimes I think we're losing the big picture. What I interpreted from Dr. MLK about morality and spirtual stuff is that we're just going to lose the simplicity of enjoying time together. I know this for a fact because when I go home I'm on my computer, my parents are watching tv in separate rooms alone. All I think he was trying to say was no matter how futuristic it gets, we just need to remember the simple things in life and to still respect everyone.
I agree with Dr. Martain Luther King because to dosent make any sense of us as human beings to depend on materialistic things even though most of us do. And because of the we lose touch with what really matters in life which should be your spiritual connection with whatever religious origin you are from. But one the other side i can quite figure out how technology needs to go hand in hand with spiritual advancement, although it might be ture i just cannot compherend it.
I do agree with what Dr. King says. I agree because we as a nation are furthering ourselves into the technological world, but we are leaving our own people behind. As our technology grows it starts to control how we act and react as people. It is furthering us from our friends and family and morally it is making us a nation of Hermits.
Kids and Teens, as well as adults, now would rather stay at home and talk to their friends on facebook, myspace, or some kind of messanger, rahter than actually meeting at the malt shop like they used to do. And our cell phones are becomming even worse. People would rather send a text than call someone, i can see how this is beneficial if your doing something and cant talk, but is doing it while driving really necessary? yea i dont think so.
I find alot of my friends and even my mom texting while driving, and I have to tell her to stop otherwise we might be killed.
So I do believe that we are becomming richer in technology, but we are becomming poorer morally and spiritually, In the sense that we are straying from our contact lives with our friends and family, and even people we dont know.
I completely agree with Dr.King. It seems to me that the more our technology advances, the farther we stray from our actual humanity. Much of who we are as humans depends upon what we do and how we do it. By allowing technology to do things for us, we are losing sight of what we all acutally are. Is a baker still a baker if his robot is the one making bread? What we do also defines our spirituality. If we do nothing truly on our own, we lose the right to have beliefs based on experience, and spirituality in general crumbles.
Technological advancement can be great in moderation, however, as long as we can still appreciate it from a human standpoint and don't lose sight of what is really iportant.
It appears to me that you guys define spirituality as organized religion. I think it CAN be organized religion, but some of the most spiritual people I know are not necessarily religious people. They are folks that are in tune with their place in the universe and are working diligently to be positive influences on the people and the world around them.
I completely agree. Case in point, have you seen Wall-E? Lots of technology, fat people with bad bones, and pizza plants. The end.
I agree that technology has greatley affected our moral standards. It sometimes seems that the more technology dependent we become the more our free-will is taken away. There is a song by System of a Down called "sience" and it is baisically about this same concept. The chorus is "sience fails to recognize the single most important element of human existence. Leting the rains go to the unfolding is faith. faith. faith..SIENCE has FAILED our world! SIENCE has failed our mother earth"
inspite of knowing that martin luther king invented a technology is awesome i dont know what he invented but i bet it was worth it and worth buying. martin luther king was an inspirational man in everybody life espically mines he made a difference in people lives. and the thought of knowing that he invented technology is a world wide changing bwcause many people didnt know about this
I agree with Dr. King saying. Technology is taking our world today, we depend so much on it. sometimes we feel like technology is controling us instead of us controling technology. But i also think that we can grow spiritually as much as we want to with our without tecnology. Is what we decide to do.
I agree with Dr. MLK about TECH. It is really taking control of our lives.
We act like we cant live without things that dont really matter in life. Its like we get so attached to those types of things so easy. We act like its the end of the world when something mess up break.
I agree with Dr King. The more we grow in technology, the more we should grow spiritually. We are putting too much time, money, and effort on technology in today's world. Technology grows, but spirituality does not. If anything, it's weakening...Spiritual recognition should be higher on the importance scale than tech.
"The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually,"
I believe that spiritual advancement and technology advancement should go hand in hand. The more technology becomes advanced, it seems that people rely more on that rather than the spiritual aspect of life. It should at least be equal or spritual advancement should lead.
i agree with Dr.MLK most the tech that we have now is runing our world today.we do need to bring more spiritual things back and are life.most of the things that we are hooked to are not really important at all. but this is just what i think
I do agree with Dr. King but I think the more technology advancements that take place people forget about whats happening in the spiritual world,They care more about the technology than their spiritual paths...
I completely agree with Dr. King. I understand how the advancement of technology is taking over our lives and soon our morality and spirituality. By using technology to "help" us through the day, we deprive ourselves from actually doing the work ourselves, which would teach and show us more about life. Technology doesn't have a soul and therefore can not teach about life. By cutting back from technology, there is a greater chance to learn about the world through experience.
I definitely don't disagree with Dr. King. Even though I may be one guilty ones who use might overuse technology, I know that technology can't teach us morals and values because it doesn't have a soul.
I am biast with Dr. King about technology going hand and hand with spiritual developement, it is not the primary reason for developement though. People do need to have a relationship with Christ and with ipod touchs you can download a bible abt with almost everything you may need with it. But also with the developement of technology can hinder you spiritually. Some people will stay at home and watch the HD tv rater than go to church. texting in church keeps some people from getting the message of the preacher and so do ipod and portable video games. Laptops can help you to search and get a better understanding of the word for some, but also is used as a center of pornography for others. So all and all, even if spiritual developement goes hand in hand with techological developement, there will all ways be a downside to it.
"Enlarged material powers spell enlarged peril if there is not proportionate growth of the soul."
-MLK states that without spiritual advancement, we are nothing. I disagree with this.
I both agree and disagree with Dr. King. Yes, technology should always be improving for the purpose of bettering our lives, spiritually and morally, through such things as medicine and health. BUT if we were to base our technological advancements solely on morality and spirituality, we would be making a whole lot less progress. Our spirituality and morality cannot be controlled. If they are to happen, it must come from our hearts and minds.
i believe that we have to have a moral advancement within ourselves to be able to continue to use technology to its full extent, if we dont we will become lazy
I agree with Mr. King, because to me it doesn't make sense on how we can put our trust into some technology that we've never heard of, but we cant put our trust into one another. Maybe instead of wasting money to build some super huge sky-scraper for no reason other than to break a record, you could use it to help the ones in need, for instance the people in Haiti, thats just my opinion.
i agree with dr.king. i think technology has taken over us. we are always depending on technology to do our work for us.
but i also disagree because technolofy is there for us when we cant solve a simple problem.
yes, i totally agree! i would say that, but i dont know. i might as well think how MLK would live with a laptop of some kind.
Martin Luther's words have inspired many generations, he conquered many things in his life, he could have done many more things if it wernt for all the hate in the world and if the people would have just stopped and listened to him mabye, just mabye, he would have succeeded in changing the world
Dr. King did infact recognize two points that I believe might be as separate as they are intertwined. Yes, we are advancing technologically, and Yes, there are those among us who are losing morality, however I do not believe both have to be, or even /are/ intertwined. Yes, we are losing some of the 'human touch' as far as interactions go, and that does distance ourselves from others at times, but morality was lost for some long before that. It is perhaps more an unintended consequence of the distance that is placed between us by our withdrawl into our safe place of technology that has us forgetting the golden rule than the fact that technology exists. Technology, like any tool, only brings us the consequences we allow it.
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I think that Dr. MLKJ is right the more rich we become the the poorer we become morally and spiritually. High technology is ruling our world today but we dont have that much morality and spirituality ruling or at least making any effect in our lives(in a positive way)
what mr. king jr said makes me think of a movie i saw once where the world was 500 yrs in the future and everyone was stupid even though they had super high tech looking stuff like virtual tvs and a naming system that barcoded people. i think this is what mr. king meant.
anybody remember the name of the movie? i think adam sandler is in it.
I agree that we should advance more spiritually like technology.Its like technology keeps going up but we spiritually are falling behind and thats not a good thing.I actually think that spiritual should be way higher than the technology advancements...technology is pretty much taking over the world!But thats just what I think!pretty soon robots will be running around and killing people!
i agree with MLK that technology advancements aren't important if you're lagging far behind where you should be spiritually. with technology running our lives we find it hard to focus on the moral and spiritual aspects of life. for instance, people spend a large amount of time on the internet and are easily exposed to corrupt ideas, so they start to have a hard time with morality. without morality some technology can be harmful. the people who made the gas chambers & furnaces during WWII used their technology to kill millions of innocent people. if they had applied moral values when thinking about this, maybe they could've avoided all those deaths.
Uhhm...
So yeah, Mrs. Lanham AKA Favorite Teacher, we just talked about many people thinking that being spiritual means organized religion. Not so much the case, you're right, but that's how a lot of the world looks at spirituality.
I don't see how an athiest could be spiritual... please explain... please...
But I feel that the world is becoming very dehumanized with the use of TOO MUCH technology. Can't even make a phone call without someone answering and saying "TEXT ME" and then hanging up on you... stupid butt lickers!!
Anywho, I wish we could be more social in a face-to-face manner instead of messaging all the time. WE'RE HUMAN!!! WE COMMUNICATE WITH WORDS!!!
i agree with Dr.MLK on the materiall part. the more we advance in technology the more we grow apart as a whole and to get to the point, lazy. and i do believe our morall standereds are dropping in this evergrowing tech world. i also agree with reichert about the song by System of a Down
We fancy technology to the point where we use it everyday and get attached. It's not going to change, the longer we live the more were going to be technologically consumed. We are advancing in technology greatly and i don't see in end to it. The more technology grows the less we interact with people and the less we will interact with God, for those who believe. hmmm but i dont see a problem with technology those who do can go be amish :)
I think that technology yes it has made us dependent on it but i also think its a joy to have it. I agree we should learn more about spritial advancement, but honestly i think were so far ahead with techonology it will take somthing huge to make it catch up.
i do agree with him. we do need more spiritually in technology. we cant do anything without technology. i dont much but thats my opion.
OK so i don't really care about the spiritually part of it, but morally we've always been bad at it, technology is just helping us see how bad at it we really are, so um... tech isn't doing any harm to our morality, its just helping us see how bad it was in the first place.
I do agree with him. The more money and tech we have will put us further away fom God. The more we spend with tech the less we will spend with God. Look at the people a long time ago, they didnt have any tech, so the only thing they did was pray and read the Bible.
"We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers." This is a saying that MLK had said in one of his speaches. What he is saying is that we have come so far with technology, doing things we never thought was even possible but we cannot learn the onoe thing that has always held us back. This is to cope with eachother. It really was a shame that it took so long for people to look at eachother and see no difference, just the way he wanted.
I agree with what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. thought.He said "The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually," it makes perfect sense. When we are given more and more material things our morals and values deplete and we are obsessed with that item, while no longer getting that spirituality that we should. So instead of becoming richer in material items we should become richer in our morals as well helping us become better people.
I agree, and am a bit surprised that Mia didn't have more to say on this subject, as she's commented on at least a few of these blogs about how mankind is becoming more dependent on technology.
Okay, well I agree with Dr King. I know that our world will come up with so much cool technology that we've "gotta have" but no matter what its not going to replace a really human. Talking on the phone isn't as good as speaking to the actual person. I mean think about chatting with your friends on facebook, isn't it better if you actually were hanging out together? To me spirtual advancement was the "human spirit" in a sense. You can't experience the world through television screens or simply a photogrape, you have to actually go out into the world and experience life for yourself. Sure, technololgy is great and I'm glad that its advancing but you cant forget the naturaly world, and that you have a place in it. Go life your life.
i agree with dr.king about technology i do believe it its taking over the world today.i know for show i have alot of tech things at my house and i cant go without them.... sometimes i dont want to get out my bed to go to church but i do.... i could keep going but ummm i think not
i agree with what Dr.King said because the more money you have the more you want and people will do anything to get it..technology is cool and helpful to our everyday lives but other people invent other crap like weapons of mass distruction tht cause nothing but harm
I Agree on the part when he says that we should advance more Spirtually because thats what i believe in, but at the same time not everyone has the same religion, and some people don't even believe in God at all nor go to church. So i don't agree that Everyone will use technology to grow spiritually because some people of different religions don't believe in the use of technology.
"The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually,"
agreed. =)
the advancement in technology, people have become attached to things that are non-lasting. (i can't remember the right word for that...) that one's spirit is low.
I have to say i agree with Dr.MLK.
Our world is basically made up with technology,and here lately,thats all people seem to care about.Instead of getting in touch with their spirtual side.I believe that technological things arent as important as spiritual,And honestly,people need to get it through there head.I know many people may believe that they couldnt live without it,but,the people back in the day did it,why cant we? All anyone wants to do these days is sit around at text,email,get on facbook,myspace,etc.. and its getting pretty old! I think we should all get out and get a life besides the life we have with technology.
i kind of agree with Dr. King's words because some people can be really attached to technology and stil have moral and spiritual standards and others dont. but some people think technology is the most important thing and they think that with out thecnology they have no life but i really dont think is technology thats making us inmoral or inspiritual is ourselfs that make us like that.
I honestly dont agree with Dr. king on this statement. If we have technological advancements or not there are still going to human emtions such as anger and jealousy which cause injustices in society.
I think that advancement should just happen. Be it in tech or in spirituality, advancement in both subjects would help the world amazingly. However, some aspects of these would not always be good. Such as more Jihadists fighting terroristic Religious wars and the next atom bomb.
I agree with him for the most part. The people are growing apart more and more each day and some people think that's the way that people are supposed to be but I think it's possible for most of the world to get along there's no way for everyone to get along all the time.
I totally agree with Dr. King, because if we don't put spritual advancent with the technology advancement technology will overcome the spritual things and make them less noticed. Our focus will have shifted from what it should be to what is neat or cool, so there needs to be a balace between the two to keep the spiritual then and not let it fade away.
i have to say i agree with him we should try and advance in a spirality way like we do technologically. technology isnt no wear near as important butttt i still believe we should step it up on that end
I'm guessing really, since people get richer they seem to grow away from people. How the richer people seem to be snobs and conceded. And the more money you have the more stuff you get, and you end up not going to church because you rather stay home and play your new PlayStation 3.
For the most part agree with Dr King, technology does hurt our morals, it makes many material things easily available which would bring down our morals.
I agree with Dr. King because we use technology alot in mostly every thing we do we dont really do things on our own
I agree with the doc, technology has indeed taken over our lives nowadays. for example, I cant do basic trigonometry without the aid of a calculator, my grandfather on the other can do the stuff in his head. we are indeed slaves of technology.
Mr.Kings words are far more prevalent than than many other facts in this world. Technology is a blessing and a curse, depending on how it's used and who uses it.
Now that i've been thinking about what Dr.MLK has said it is ture.But Technology helps us alot and we sometimes we depend on it these days.
I fully agree with Dr. King in his assertion that "material advancement [is] meaningless without an accompanying moral structure." In my opinion, it is completely accurate to assume that without morality to accompany technological progression, there will always be a void. It is blatant that no matter how technologically savvy our society becomes, we still cannot live in harmony or anything near it. Materialism is a slippery slope that mankind is currently (and has been) perched on, and in my opinion, we are rapidly sliding towards complete decay of morality; while it is abundantly clear that much has changed since the 1960's, if anything, we (as a society) have digressed morally. Technology has made violent and immoral acts very accessible to the youth of America, causing them to eventually become desensitized to the acts themselves. It is utterly apparent that Dr. King was right when he said "the richer we become materially, the poorer we become morally."
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