Nice Try

Here is one of the descriptions I put togethere for the talk -- one that did not get into the registration book.

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Achieve Enlightenment with this one stupid trick - spirituality in a time of clickbait, packaged "religion" and transhumanism

Spirituality is as natural and universal as breathing -- and we as Catholics recognize that spiritual development is necessary for becoming fully human

But the path to that humanity can be hard to find today. There are:weapons of mass distraction such as click-bait, fake news, and online pornography. "Spirituality" is becoming just one more consumer product. Explosive progress in artificial intelligence and neuroscience alters for some the idea of what humanity is, and what it might become.

We don't need to retreat to some enclave of imagined safety or to try to ignore the whole thing. Our challenge is to make a pilgrimage back to our roots as a Christian community to understand better not only our own spiritual needs but how to accompany others in this confusing time.
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My experience includes several years as journalism, followed by 20+ years of software development. For the past 10 years i have worked for this diocese in detention ministry and as the sometime webmaster. I'm now a year into being the full time webmaster as part of CommNet Media.