Facebook's name change and Donald Trump's new social media platform
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 22 October 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Facebook is changing its company name next week to focus on building the “metaverse,” a virtual world connecting all sorts of digital environments. Donald Trump announced plans to launch his own social media platform, TRUTH Social. In The Daily Article for October 22, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison reminds us of the importance of relationships in God’s design for his people and challenges us to be a light to those in our lives.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
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| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.7 | It's hard to imagine, but it's true. |
| 0:22.6 | An obscure tribe of Egyptian slaves plunges into the desert to hide from pursuit and emerges |
| 0:28.3 | with a code of ten words that is still authoritative today, 34 centuries later. |
| 0:34.7 | We are talking about the Ten Commandments, the ancient rules of the game from God |
| 0:39.0 | that tell us how life works, and how to live if we want to live well. Dr. Jim Denison unpacks |
| 0:45.6 | each of these rules in his 10th volume of biblical insight to tough questions, where he seeks to |
| 0:51.2 | answer questions about how to handle our ambitions, religion, stress, parents, enemies, sex, possessions, lies, and lusts. |
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| 1:11.8 | That's daily article.org. |
| 1:16.6 | John 1.5 proclaims, |
| 1:19.1 | The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. |
| 1:23.8 | Facebook is changing its company name next week to focus on building the metaverse. |
| 1:29.6 | What is the metaverse, you ask? The term was coined by Neil Stevenson in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, |
| 1:37.4 | where it referred to a 3D world inhabited by avatars of real people. |
| 1:42.7 | BBC reports that the metaverse could be to virtual reality |
| 1:46.8 | what the modern smartphone is to the first clunky mobile phones of the 1980s. |
| 1:52.4 | The article explains, |
| 1:54.0 | instead of being on a computer, |
| 1:56.0 | in the Metaverse, you might use a headset |
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