I bought a book for my dad on his birthday: Top Ten for Men. The perfect toilet book. Just a load of top ten lists: top ten most obese countries, top ten unusual deaths. It's quite interesting.
Anyway, there was a list of top ten words searched for on the internet.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised but it was worrying to see that the most searched for topics were - how can I put it - very "adult" in nature.
The internet has a reputation for being full of porn sites. And maybe there's some truth in that if that top ten list is right.
So are we, as we go onto the internet, opening ourselves up to a world of dirt and lust? Many of us spend a fair chunk of our time on the net. It's becoming more and more part of our lives.
So what do we do? Should we shun the internet altogether? What makes us vulnerable to the darker side of the web?
There are websites you can sign up to which basically make you accountable to what you look at. Are these a good idea, or are they just highlighting our inability to control our desires?
Thoughts please.
The Internet... is it evil?
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The Internet... is it evil?
by Woodsy on Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:54 am
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Re: The Internet... is it evil?
by stuartmack on Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:38 pm
since your whole job is the internet, id certainly hope not.
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Re: The Internet... is it evil?
by ialex953 on Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:24 pm
I think it kinda depends what u use the internet for, it can be used in a good way like this website or just to be helpfull, its not all bad
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Re: The Internet... is it evil?
by Chimp on Sun Nov 09, 2008 1:55 pm
Firstly you have to work out what is evil about it?
You say that the top ten searches contain that of adult nature, what is evil tho?
If searching adult behavior was acceptable, would that make it evil?
If they believe they are doing nothing wrong, surely they don't think that they are evil?
It is like the argument, is there such a thing as cold? Is there such a thing as darkness?
No...cold is just the absence of heat, and darkness the absence of light
therefore is evil the absence of good?
Yes, the internet may contain many porn sites, and have many websites which we may not agree with, tho it has got websites that we agree upon, it has websites for learning, buying, searching and teaching of God's word.
Does that make it evil?
You say that the top ten searches contain that of adult nature, what is evil tho?
If searching adult behavior was acceptable, would that make it evil?
If they believe they are doing nothing wrong, surely they don't think that they are evil?
It is like the argument, is there such a thing as cold? Is there such a thing as darkness?
No...cold is just the absence of heat, and darkness the absence of light
therefore is evil the absence of good?
Yes, the internet may contain many porn sites, and have many websites which we may not agree with, tho it has got websites that we agree upon, it has websites for learning, buying, searching and teaching of God's word.
Does that make it evil?
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