Dealing with Digital Addiction

Godsplaining

Dominican Friars Province of St. Joseph

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Hot take alert! Do companies use our data? What would St. Thomas Aquinas know of digital addiction as a modern problem? What does excessive stimuli do to our minds? How do we use this technology in a healthy way? Fr. Gregory and Fr. Patrick do a deep dive into digital addiction and how to begin to overcome it on this week's episode of Godsplaining. Subscribe to our channelhttps://www.youtube.com/c/Godsplaining Support the PodcastPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/godsplainingShop our NEW merch store: https://godsplaining.org/store/ Shop Books Written by the FriarsSt. Dominic's Way of Life: https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Dominics-Way-Life-Knowing/dp/1681929392Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly: https://www.amazon.com/Prudence-Choose-Confidently-Live-Boldly/dp/1681927322/ Connect on Social MediaFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/godsplaining/Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/godsplaining/Follow us on X: https://x.com/godsplaining To learn more about the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.opeast.orgTo support the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.dominicanfriars.org

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0:00.0	This is Father Patrick Briscoe.
0:06.9	And this is Father Gregory Pine.
0:08.2	Welcome to Godsplating.
0:09.4	Thanks to all who support us.
0:10.6	If you enjoy the show, please consider making a monthly donation to us on Patreon.
0:15.3	Be sure to like and subscribe to Godspaining wherever you listen to your podcasts.
0:19.7	Father Gregory, it is great to be with you here in our
0:23.4	studio to talk about what I think is one of the most honestly important questions today. You were saying
0:30.6	that you were listening to a podcast recently, or maybe it was a newsreel because it was 1930 and you
0:36.7	were in a movie theater. I don't know why I said newsreel, it was 1930 and you were in a movie theater.
0:38.6	I don't know why I said newsreel.
0:41.0	But it seemed right, a tidbit.
0:50.6	You found a piece of information that was striking to you about the way that our data is used.
0:59.9	And I think that's an interesting place to start because it frames the conversation in what's going on. Yeah, no, I, so I was listening to Johannes Hartel, whom we had on the podcast a couple of months ago, who lives in Bavaria. He runs the Augsburg House of Prayer, and he has a
1:07.1	couple of podcasts, one of which is called Eden culture. So the idea being to cultivate a humane space in which we could be at ease with each other and with God
1:17.7	through conversations on philosophy, theology, sure, but more broadly speaking, psychology,
1:24.1	sociology, art, literature, et cetera.
1:26.6	But he was talking about our inner world and our
1:28.6	outer world and the kind of disconnect, as it were, between inner world and outer world. And
1:34.7	he was describing how the biggest corporations in the world specialize in your inner world
1:40.3	as a way by which to typically manipulate you emotionally and psychologically to generate
1:46.3	profit. So they're very motivated to collect pertinent information. And that might mean tapping
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