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A few days ago I sat with some friends and watched one of those Rob Bell ‘Nooma’ DVDs. It was called Noise, but it was really about silence – or rather than absence of silence in our lives.
The concept is really clever. As the viewer, you are watching Rob, watching TV. There’s lots of background noise going on. He’s switching channels and adjusting the volume. At times the noise is distracting you from hearing what Rob is trying to say. Then he turns the TV off. There is a blank screen. And there is silence. A silence that you really notice. Which got me thinking. Is silence simply the absence of noise, or is it something more tangible than that? And is it something we should be pursuing?
