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[swayvil]

No, it really is Facebook.

Facebook provides a temptation.

Like a table full of cookies over the holidays. Of course you are going to visit that table a hundred times a day. Even though it isn't really very healthy. And then when the holidays are over your diet will improve.

We are not Nietzschean creatures of pure will. The temptation-landscape significates.

[baby → swayvil]

Temptation is everywhere. Every app today is trying to maximize your time spent there.

[swayvil → baby]

Temptation has legendary threat value.

How does that ancient Christian prayer go? ...Lead me not into temptation...

What did Satan do to Jesus when he was fasting? He zapped Jesus with lightning? No, he tempted him.

What did Mara do to Buddha...