================================================ Subject: Re: NCR: the virtual reality - bad aspects 2 From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" To: Date: Thu 31 May 2001 22:31:44 -0400 ================================================ fmn wrote: > Another thought of mine was: What if all of those people who claim to be > virtual friends met? Would they really like each other. I mean (as > you've already mentioned: electronic communication leaves us blind to > the people we're communicating with) getting to know a person by merely > reading his/her emails doesn't tell us much about the actual person and > his/her character. The text you see infront of your eyes is just a tool > for me to let you know what I think and it is a very limited tool. It > doesn't bring out the real me - at all. Look around you, and you'll > notice how different people are, but look at the email messages - don't > they just give you a sense of lost individuality, of digitalisation of > people? (of course there are many options as how to compose your > message, but compared to the variety of characters they are nothing) I was concerned with all of the younger people giving out private information before. So I know what you are talking about trust. On the other hand. I've been to a show that another lister from a seven mary three list went to. We didn't meet at the show and only talked about the show. So it works both ways. You might find good friend or just people that run the same interests. But don't actually meet. Personally, I don't try to meet up with internet friends. But if they were going to be at the same show. Then why not meet up with them. > > Inspite of what I said before about being amazed with the technologial > possibilities of email, sometimes I get the impression that "those" > people in the internet are not real. I think that's because you talk to > so many different people and then lose contact with them and forget > them. It's like you've talked to so many people and nobody really stayed > or made an impact in your life - it's like wanting to fill your > emptiness with thousands and thousands of people that come and go. And > it certainly doesn't fill you - it even leaves you emptier than before. > Ok. I know that there are exeptions, that people meet etc. and some > friends stay, but still... these are just my thoughts now, I write them > down without much thinking about them.. and I think that my personal > situation adds up to all this and why I think what I think.. > > Please don't misunderstand me here. I don't want to offend anyone. Maybe > I even didn't express myself well enough for you to get my > points............... ? > > I'll reply to the other messages you sent me later. Just wanted to share > this first. > > S?odkich snów > > Ewa > > > You expressed yourself pretty good and I understood what I feel you were trying to get across. I myself am pretty much a person that sort of hangs out with just a few people. Most of the time it is with immediate family. > /Pouring my soul / > > /into empty vessels,/ > > /Looking for more/ > > /in death-infected places,/ > > /Forcing my way/ > > /into false beliefs, / > > /Only to find treason/ > > /in deceitful dreams./ > > /-Ewa-/ -- In respect to lock-making, there can scarcely be such a thing as dishonesty of intention: the inventor produces a lock which he honestly thinks will possess such and such qualities; and he declares his belief to the world. If others differ from him in opinion concerning those qualities, it is open to them to say so; and the discussion, truthfully conducted, must lead to public advantage: the discussion stimulates curiosity, and curiosity stimu- lates invention. Nothing but a partial and limited view of the question could lead to the opinion that harm can result: if there be harm, it will be much more than counterbalanced by good." -- Charles Tomlinson's Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks, published around 1850. To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp