I think you have a good point, but you also have to aware of the 'venue' of expression, as it were. Some of us just don't like to express ourselves so personally online, in any format. I definitely think about a lot of things, and as you know, am willing to talk about them in person any time, but I don't feel comfortable sharing myself on the internet like that. I know a lot of people feel MORE comfortable with the anonymity or whatnot that the web gives you, but I feel less safe, because I don't know who I'm talking to or who is listening. It may be logical and it may not be, but blogs are not a place where I really feel capable of expressing myself openly. I think we all just use them for different purposes.
And -- I find snowqueenofhoth's comment really interesting! I don't mean it in a "BWAHA - NAO I'M GONNA BE CAWNFRUNTAYSHUNAL LOL! *troll troll*" way, but in a genuinely interested way. Most people, as far as I know, utilize the anonymity of the interbutts to get their opinions/thoughts/voices out there without having to fear most repercussions of butthurt/rage/offense. (I speak from experience as an occasional anon/nanasi/troll on 4chan and 2chan)
Feeling LESS comfortable because you don't know said person is fascinating. If I may inquire, does it increase the nervousness of offending or upsetting someone else? As I said, I've been a troll in the past, so I can't wrap my brainmeats around this as much as I'd like to. ^^;
I have to think about it. Certainly I'm not afraid of offending or upsetting people, because I'm not particularly bothered about that EVER. XD But... I guess if I don't know the person, they aren't meaningful to me, in a way, in that it's hard for me to deal with them as a person and not just a computer screen. Hard to explain, but I guess I feel people aren't worth my time. Like trolls, as you mention. If I see trolls, I just feel disgusted and "why should I bother with them?" If it were a real life conversation and someone behaved that way, attacking other people, I would probably jump in and try to get them to behave civilly, but online? Maybe it's just that there are too many stupid, arrogant, ignorant people in the world. Usually in real life, I have to deal with them one or a few at a time, and I'm up for that. But the internet makes their numbers infinite and I honestly end up thinking they're not worth my time. Now, I can't say that's a good way to think, but it's probably what I do.
I've learned to let that bounce off of my outer shell too. Now if someone laughs at me for whatever reason, I simply can't be bothered to feel bad about it anymore XD
I do get away from it all every once in a while (probably a sort of mental reflex), and if I can't actually go outside (weather), I just escape to the better world in my imagination. And yes, I know when to come back from that place. In fact, I figure I break up my Imagination into two sides: 1: Fun Time: I just dream away about anything and everything. 2: Utopia: the perfect world. Then I think of how I can make the actual world a bit more like my Utopia. Escapism can be healthy, if you use it correctly ;)
And I've read Fairydustedhope's comment and replied to her ;)
ammandeena has said some things that I was going to say lol that I am also learning to be a bit more selfish because I tend to lose my self in caring for others who just turn around and walk all over me I may not be much of a thinker yet either but everyday I have been getting a bit wiser about people around me and this world I know sometimes my true friends may have to explain things to me and I am learning from my greatest friends I may be slow at it but I do learn
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I think that what hapens in a coma is probably similar to what happens when you sleep. Your soul DOES leave your body, every time you sleep. It doesn't leave it completely, obvoiusly, or else you'd die, but it leaves it enough to experience the oneness and freedom that it yearns to, since that is what a soul is all about. Sometimes reality and the physical world can be really heavy and hard to deal with, so there are many opportunities for the soul to take a break. It is actually the soul that causes the body to sleep to make this happen. After a trauma, I assume it is the same way. This is also why babies sleep so much. The more connected and enlightened you are, the less sleep you need. That's not to say that you shoudln't sleep if you want to be enlightened, and it's definitely not saying that never sleeping is healthy. It's just saying that observantly, the more evolved a person is, the more at peace the soul is with reality, and the lses sleep they seem to need. Ever notice that old people tend to need very little sleep? My
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Well, I would argue that it benefits almost all social institutions to NOT have people think. Thinking can cause people to realize that they aren't happy and something's terribly TERRIBLY wrong - and such nonsense could cause radical changes that those in power, full of hubris while sitting at the top of the shit hole that the world has become (in several ways, not all) will not allow. Things such as -- seeing that capitalism may have run its course and it's time to take care of EVERYONE, not just those who can afford it, or that perhaps calling President Obama a socialist for working toward changes in the health care system is PROBABLY not exactly correct, and might be antagonizing and encouraging people who are blindly fighting
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Well I would argue that most people are not happy to begin with but are not encouraged to think about it in a really substantial, internal, healing way, or think about the worldly aspects of their emotions. Instead their encouraged to buy food or material goods to make them feel better, or go to the doctor and have the medical institution help you, and if you really feel like it you can stomp your feet and protest. They don't mind making you feel like you're being heard. But does it really make a change? No, because that's not on the main agenda of these institutions
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Feeling LESS comfortable because you don't know said person is fascinating. If I may inquire, does it increase the nervousness of offending or upsetting someone else? As I said, I've been a troll in the past, so I can't wrap my brainmeats around this as much as I'd like to. ^^;
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what are trolls?
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I do get away from it all every once in a while (probably a sort of mental reflex), and if I can't actually go outside (weather), I just escape to the better world in my imagination. And yes, I know when to come back from that place. In fact, I figure I break up my Imagination into two sides:
1: Fun Time: I just dream away about anything and everything.
2: Utopia: the perfect world. Then I think of how I can make the actual world a bit more like my Utopia.
Escapism can be healthy, if you use it correctly ;)
And I've read Fairydustedhope's comment and replied to her ;)
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