Ditching the phone: the experiment
This is a ten minute watch, shmirat eynayim friendly.
It’s not a frum guy, not even a Jewish guy, just a regular person, who did the experiment of locking their phone away for a month:
I Stopped Using My Phone. The results were shocking
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I’m also now researching the symptoms of Whatsapp addiction….
You might want to do that too.
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This is an even better video, 13 minutes (speed it up to make it even less time-wasting)… and shirat eynayim:
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It’s kind of depressing to me that I have to be arguing the obvious about smartphones here on the blog.
The Rav isn’t telling us stuff to hurt us, make our lives harder, or give us impossible challenges to overcome.
He is simply stating the obvious.
Even enlightened non-Jews can recognise that it’s really, really bad to be on the smartphones… and on the Whatsapp… and all the rest of it.
BH, I give us all a bracha, that Hashem should help us break our smartphone addiction, stop making excuses for how much time we are wasting, and how much ‘real life’ we are missing out on…
Only with God’s help.
IT IS EASIER THAN YOU THINK
JUST TURN IT OFF AND PUT IT IN YOUR POCKET ? THEN YOU WILL FEEL THE ACTUAL FORCE IN YOUR HAND TO TAKE IT OUT ? SEE HOW LONG YOU CAN GO WITHOUT TAKING IT OUT OF YOUR POCKET? YOU WILL VERY QUICKLY LEARN WHAT ADDICTION IS ALL ABOUT
THEN JUST INCREASE THE TIME THE PHONE IS IN YOUR POCKET AND OVER A FEW DAYS YOU WILL AT LEAST BE DOWN TO ONCE IN THE MORNING THEN AT NOON AND PERHAPS ONCE AT NIGHT ?
JUST A THOUGHT AS IT WORKS FOR ME EVEN AT WORK AND HOME
So true! It is very hard to find “dumb” phones, plus people these days don’t call, they text and it is hard to text on those. But it is a weapon. Keep it in emf protective pouch. Ask your friend to put their phone away when talking to you. Did you see these “smart” sunglasses? I am going to look at people with glasses differently too https://www.amazon.com/Recognition-Recording-Translation-Waterproof-Sunglasses/dp/B0G528SSVS/ref=sr_1_10?crid=1UIEYHJOURNIZ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.UyPLiirV4iGAXWOkiDJHxkeWzGfiOHdlHLqiKzzAsROuUHOa9N-L0hmFxoWsmxjnXjUlyNxYaYsVMMDwKnbORx8pqqW9NoNufNIZ44yi89BLqvPFgrQmga-T-4zS7H3KyxDLKXubkwCJFMNsLGoKhD4NMfygFjSIBTZk1-rwUsPFRHsN6ZbIwXWnsjPa56JtJFUnf7O9U4crTqlIsXwi8QHdjFPyeVtBvOI9IKe6uDU.gAMMJyX3ZB06Z4FylS6GTdN1lJObw3AVBBu7XASGa4k&dib_tag=se&keywords=sunglasses+with+camera&qid=1767927331&sprefix=sunglass%2Caps%2C2375&sr=8-10
Have fun out of matrix:)