I have a question. Maybe I should say questions plural. On a list where
people think that fifty-two-year-old music recordings are something new
this might not be the best place to ask, but I am not subscribed to any
lists right now where this would be on topic. So since nothing is off
topic here I thought I would at least start here. My land line phone is
acting up. Right now I am lucky if I get a dial tone instead of some
kind of mysterious beeping and incoming calls are being cut off before I
can answer. I have called the phone company to fix it now twice and both
times it started acting up soon afterwards. So I am thinking that the
problem might be in the physical phone rather than the line. That would
call for buying a new phone. If I buy a new phone I am thinking that it
might be about time for me to get myself into the twenty-first century
like everyone else and give up my land line for a cell phone as my only
phone. But if I do that I am going into it blind in more ways than just
that my eyes don't work. I have been wanting a smart phone for a long
time because I am fascinated by the many and varied cool things that one
can do with them, but they are expensive and I don't trust myself to be
able to learn using a touch screen very well. I always have been a lot
better at learning things that you know than I have been at learning
things you do. That is why I used to be able to take a lab and lecture
course and ace the lecture and nearly flunk the lab. I know that
there are a lot of choices that are not smart phones too and some that
actually have buttons. I think I could get along much better with
buttons. But I don't know a lot about all the choices that are available
and which work better for a blind person. Most of the people I know are
so sight oriented that they can't imagine a blind person working any
device. So does anyone on this list have any advice? Do any of you use a
cell phone yourselves? If so, can you say something about why it was a
good choice for you and how much it costs and anything else you might
have to say about it?
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Irvin D. Yalom “Truth," Nietzsche continued, "is arrived at through
disbelief and skepticism, not through a childlike wishing something were
so! Your patient's wish to be in God's hands is not truth. It is simply
a child's wish—and nothing more! It is a wish not to die, a wish for the
eveastingly bloated nipple we have labeled 'God'! Evolutionary theory
scientifically demonstrates God's redundancy—though Darwin himself had
not the courage to follow his evidence to its true conclusion. Surely,
you must realize that we created God, and that all of us together now
have killed him.” ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept