![]() He is identified as a yeoman - a non-noble, free, small landholder - in his original incarnations. ![]() He is traditionally associated with Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, though an important early ballad locates him in Barnesdale Forest in Yorkshire, and later ones as far afield as Scotland and London a late ballad sets his birthplace as Locksley, a possibly fictional village in south Yorkshire or Notts. The oldest surviving ballads featuring him all date from a century or so later the Child Ballads include an entire book solely of Robin Hood ballads. ![]() Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw first alluded to in William Langland's fourteenth century poem Piers Plowman, though the reference indicates he existed much earlier in oral tradition. ![]()
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![]() In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. ![]() So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention-and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions-even abandoning his phone for three months-but nothing seemed to work. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. ![]() In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. ![]() ![]() ![]() We have discreet affinities that keep us out of the mire-“I won’t stoop I won’t bend.” You do not need to, you can be saved by the skin of your teeth if you like you can refuse to let God count you as one separated unto the gospel. ![]() If we do think it strange concerning the things we meet with, it is because we are craven-hearted. “Filling up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ” is not an evidence of sanctification, but of being “separated unto the gospel.” “Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you,” says Peter. The reason they are not true of us who call ourselves ministers of the gospel is not that Paul forgot the exact truth in using them, but that we have too many discreet affinities to allow ourselves to be made refuse. 1 Corinthians 4:13 These words are not an exaggeration. “February 3 The Recognised Ban of Relationship We are made as the filth of the world. ![]() |