Comments on: Spirituality and Technology http://zenofnptech.org/2007/01/spirituality-an.html Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:25:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Paul Martin http://zenofnptech.org/2007/01/spirituality-an.html/comment-page-1#comment-93 Paul Martin Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:11:10 +0000 http://www.zenofnptech.com/?p=76#comment-93 Interesting idea here - informing technology with spirituality. I think that until politics and business generally are more informed in this area, we're pretty much in danger of becoming an extinct species in much shorter order than the dinosaurs did! Interesting idea here – informing technology with spirituality.

I think that until politics and business generally are more informed in this area, we’re pretty much in danger of becoming an extinct species in much shorter order than the dinosaurs did!

]]> By: Michael Hoffman http://zenofnptech.org/2007/01/spirituality-an.html/comment-page-1#comment-92 Michael Hoffman Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:19:01 +0000 http://www.zenofnptech.com/?p=76#comment-92 This reminds me of my fried Jacob Ner-David. He is a venture capitalist, living in Jerusalem, who has a blog that addresses some of these issues. You can see it at http://vcinjerusalem.typepad.com/vcinjerusalem/ Thanks for writing! This reminds me of my fried Jacob Ner-David. He is a venture capitalist, living in Jerusalem, who has a blog that addresses some of these issues. You can see it at
http://vcinjerusalem.typepad.com/vcinjerusalem/
Thanks for writing!

]]> By: Deborah Elizabeth Finn http://zenofnptech.org/2007/01/spirituality-an.html/comment-page-1#comment-91 Deborah Elizabeth Finn Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:50:01 +0000 http://www.zenofnptech.com/?p=76#comment-91 Dear Michelle: Thanks for raising these questions. You've inspired to reflect on them and write my own blog article! Warm regards from Deborah Deborah Elizabeth Finn Boston, Massachusetts, USA deborah_elizabeth_finn@post.harvard.edu www.cyber-yenta.org "What is good...but to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your god?" (Micah 6:8) Dear Michelle:

Thanks for raising these questions. You’ve inspired to reflect on them and write my own blog article!

Warm regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
deborah_elizabeth_finn@post.harvard.edu
http://www.cyber-yenta.org

“What is good…but to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your god?” (Micah 6:8)

]]> By: Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector http://zenofnptech.org/2007/01/spirituality-an.html/comment-page-1#comment-94 Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:15:04 +0000 http://www.zenofnptech.com/?p=76#comment-94 <strong>Spirituality and nonprofit technology, Or "how did you get so far off track?"</strong> Spirituality and nonprofit technology, Or “how did you get so far off track?”

]]> By: Afrowig http://zenofnptech.org/2007/01/spirituality-an.html/comment-page-1#comment-90 Afrowig Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:50:48 +0000 http://www.zenofnptech.com/?p=76#comment-90 I enjoyed reading Louis Menand's "The Metaphysical Club" a story about the rise of Pragmatism as a philosophical idea. But in his epilogue, Menand cites Martin Luther King, Jr. as "distinctly non-pragmatic" and rather emblematic of Pragmatism growing out-of-favor after WWII. In Menand's view King's philosophy was all about principles. Menand thinks that the social values as in Pragmatism: contingent, relative, fallible constructions, were not compatible with King's moral imperatives. Okay, raising that seems really beside the subject of spirituality and technology you raise. But the thing is I don't agree with Menand's conclusions about Martin Luther King because of the way I imagine spirituality. It's quite likely I'm wrong about Pragmatism, King, and spirituality. But as an unchurched guy the confluence between my thinking about spirituality and the views of spirituality of the religious people I know seems connected to Creation Spirituality, where prayer is "responding to (with) God, by thought and by deeds." Spirituality is in creation. Dr. King called on us to create. I can make no sense of the radical love Dr. King talked about, imagining love as a principle. Rather love as "relative, contingent, fallible constructions" of real-live breathing people seems to resonate with his ideas. He called on us to create something good. The architect Christopher Alexander implores us to take seriously the "quality which has no name" the quality present when things are alive. And it seems very much like the radical love Dr. King spoke about and lived. Dr. King spoke across boundaries pointing not to principle but the real quality we must take seriously; and that is a quality in relationships between and intertwined, but as Alexander points out that cannot be named as it is not a thing but a quality in relationships. Sorry to babble on so. But I don't see this blog spending so much time on the surface of things. You explore relationships our interactions with technology. Being towards the "completely atheistic" on your continuum of readers, the discussion of relationships comes pretty close to my idea of spirituality. I enjoyed reading Louis Menand’s “The Metaphysical Club” a story about the rise of Pragmatism as a philosophical idea. But in his epilogue, Menand cites Martin Luther King, Jr. as “distinctly non-pragmatic” and rather emblematic of Pragmatism growing out-of-favor after WWII. In Menand’s view King’s philosophy was all about principles.

Menand thinks that the social values as in Pragmatism: contingent, relative, fallible constructions, were not compatible with King’s moral imperatives.

Okay, raising that seems really beside the subject of spirituality and technology you raise. But the thing is I don’t agree with Menand’s conclusions about Martin Luther King because of the way I imagine spirituality.

It’s quite likely I’m wrong about Pragmatism, King, and spirituality. But as an unchurched guy the confluence between my thinking about spirituality and the views of spirituality of the religious people I know seems connected to Creation Spirituality, where prayer is “responding to (with) God, by thought and by deeds.”

Spirituality is in creation.

Dr. King called on us to create. I can make no sense of the radical love Dr. King talked about, imagining love as a principle. Rather love as “relative, contingent, fallible constructions” of real-live breathing people seems to resonate with his ideas. He called on us to create something good.

The architect Christopher Alexander implores us to take seriously the “quality which has no name” the quality present when things are alive. And it seems very much like the radical love Dr. King spoke about and lived. Dr. King spoke across boundaries pointing not to principle but the real quality we must take seriously; and that is a quality in relationships between and intertwined, but as Alexander points out that cannot be named as it is not a thing but a quality in relationships.

Sorry to babble on so. But I don’t see this blog spending so much time on the surface of things. You explore relationships our interactions with technology. Being towards the “completely atheistic” on your continuum of readers, the discussion of relationships comes pretty close to my idea of spirituality.

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