E-mail: Blessing or Curse?


	E-mail: Blessing or Curse?

arifsali

3-12-2008 11:45 AM

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					<P>I despise spam and the misuses of the internet in blogs which bring out the worst in the worst, but I celebrate the ways friends greet friends, the distant sustain relations, and the hopers spread hope to the disappointed.</p> <SPAN class="home_foot"><A href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/martin_marty/">Martin Marty</A></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/2008/03/email_blessing_or_curse/all.html"><H2><A href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/susan_jacoby/2008/03/its_a_tool_stupid.html">It's A Tool, Stupid!</A></H2>
					<P>I have no idea what this question has to do with faith, except that everything involving computers has become a form of faith in our society.</p> <SPAN class="home_foot"><A href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/susan_jacoby/">Susan Jacoby</A></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/2008/03/email_blessing_or_curse/all.html"><H2><A href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/deepak_chopra/2008/03/the_devil_is_in_the_emails.html">The Devil is in the E-mails?</A></H2>
					<P>At the most mystical level, the Internet is God talking to himself through technology at the speed of light. Not every transmission is obviously divine, but it's not content that I am referring to.</p> <SPAN class="home_foot"><A href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/deepak_chopra/">Deepak Chopra</A></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/2008/03/email_blessing_or_curse/all.html"><H2><A href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/julia_neuberger/2008/03/the_problem_with_email_is.html">You've Got Mail and a Life</A></H2>
					<P>E-mail is only really bad if it stops us talking face to face, if we believe technologies can take the place of people engaging with other people. </p> <SPAN class="home_foot"><A href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/julia_neuberger/">Julia Neuberger</A></SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8B77E54F-8627-4866-AF97-70BD2901B745/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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