internets - serious business
Posted 12-16-2008 at 12:37 AM by vertigo0923
before anyone laughs, or pokes fun at my (deliberate) misuse of the word 'internets' ....it is a democrat's joke. president bush (who i have newfound respect for as far as athletic talents i was not aware that he had, in ducking the thrown shoes) referred to the internet, as...'the internets'. plural.
(some people do not understand the difference between plural and singular, present and past tense, i have discovered).
back to the serious bizness of the internets:
this is the first message board i've ever frequented, so i'm a novice. i've chatted and posted on a non regular basis on various political sites for the past 8 years. yes, if you do the math, you will realize that it coincides with the 2000 election. this has nothing to do with that, its just a timetable.
well, if you are just bouncing around from site to site, on the net, you don't make acquaintances. so when you 'settle down', so to speak, you make 'friends'...internet friends. at least that is what you think. in many cases, you would be wrong. i have some friends i have made on the internet that i would truly consider friends. but many....well not so much.(few things are as amazing as the amount of effort people will go to in order to annoy others.)
you don't really know the people on the other end of the keyboard, and revealing any little thing, no matter how irrelevant you may think it is, about yourself, may come up later, as it may plant the seed of envy or dislike, for some reason or another...you may never know why, or you may realize too late, why some people feel the way they do about you. your politics, your way of life, your choice of clothes, who you are married to, what pets you have, the kind of house or home you have..your job....your personal happiness. because what you don't know is that other people may not have what you have, and may dislike you for that. or it could be the opposite reason. someone is condescending to you because maybe they are a doctor or a lawyer or a business owner. no matter what you do or say, there is someone you are going to make dislike you heartily. and you won't even know why. you will shake your head in wonder, surprized at someone's total and complete vitriol, directed at you...so very very weird. and you don't even know this person, or these people. not even a little bit.
with politics, i heard dick armey (renowned republican politician..)talk about his democrat friends (i, myself, am a lifelong democrat) and say, they're great friends, but he does NOT understand them or their way of thinking, to him, they are simply 'wrong'.
as a democrat, that really struck me...as i admit to thinking the same way about republicans. so there you have the brick wall that divides people of different political persuasions.
but back to lifestyles...people want to know 'all about you'!!!! but no, they really don't. they think they do, but if you have something they don't have, their dislike of you will simply ferment and grow...and grow...and grow....
so the lesson learned here is....
maybe anonymity is a good thing.
(some people do not understand the difference between plural and singular, present and past tense, i have discovered).
back to the serious bizness of the internets:
this is the first message board i've ever frequented, so i'm a novice. i've chatted and posted on a non regular basis on various political sites for the past 8 years. yes, if you do the math, you will realize that it coincides with the 2000 election. this has nothing to do with that, its just a timetable.
well, if you are just bouncing around from site to site, on the net, you don't make acquaintances. so when you 'settle down', so to speak, you make 'friends'...internet friends. at least that is what you think. in many cases, you would be wrong. i have some friends i have made on the internet that i would truly consider friends. but many....well not so much.(few things are as amazing as the amount of effort people will go to in order to annoy others.)
you don't really know the people on the other end of the keyboard, and revealing any little thing, no matter how irrelevant you may think it is, about yourself, may come up later, as it may plant the seed of envy or dislike, for some reason or another...you may never know why, or you may realize too late, why some people feel the way they do about you. your politics, your way of life, your choice of clothes, who you are married to, what pets you have, the kind of house or home you have..your job....your personal happiness. because what you don't know is that other people may not have what you have, and may dislike you for that. or it could be the opposite reason. someone is condescending to you because maybe they are a doctor or a lawyer or a business owner. no matter what you do or say, there is someone you are going to make dislike you heartily. and you won't even know why. you will shake your head in wonder, surprized at someone's total and complete vitriol, directed at you...so very very weird. and you don't even know this person, or these people. not even a little bit.
with politics, i heard dick armey (renowned republican politician..)talk about his democrat friends (i, myself, am a lifelong democrat) and say, they're great friends, but he does NOT understand them or their way of thinking, to him, they are simply 'wrong'.
as a democrat, that really struck me...as i admit to thinking the same way about republicans. so there you have the brick wall that divides people of different political persuasions.
but back to lifestyles...people want to know 'all about you'!!!! but no, they really don't. they think they do, but if you have something they don't have, their dislike of you will simply ferment and grow...and grow...and grow....
so the lesson learned here is....
maybe anonymity is a good thing.
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A phrase you used, "but back to lifestyles...people want to know 'all about you'!!!!" strikes me as being reflective of our culture of voyeurism. Magazine stands and TV programming are filled with features that nourish hedonistic desires to know how the other half lives. This kind of insatiable curiosity breeds discontent with what we do have when we get fixated on what we don't have. Better to not have the curiosity at all.
Affirmation of our existence is a necessary element to living a life of purpose. Most of us have a deep felt need to know who we are and why we exist. It's easy to get hung up on the circumstance of our lives that are so easily dictated to us by others. Things don't always proceed in a way we would like for them to go and this can cause dissatisfaction. We find our circumstances don't approach the scale trumpeted by the magazines and TV shows and we are unhappy at our perceived lack.
Our value comes from the fact of our very existence. It does not come in success of our pursuits and schemes to fill a void the media insists we have if we lack the latest trend in technology or the fame bestowed by our American Idol culture. These things are meaningless distractions reducing life to a trivial and insignificant pursuit.
Discovering our purpose in life is a perpetually ongoing adventure best undertaken with as little baggage as possible. That means jettisoning all that weighs you down in the way of resentments, jealousies, grudges, animosities, envies and all other negative behaviors and attitudes that do nothing but trip you up.Posted 12-21-2008 at 03:51 PM by lacuna 
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thanks for 'fleshing out' the rather abrupt 'finish' to that particular blog. that is what i was trying to say, i certainly could not have explained that thought as well as it has been done by lacuna, and thanks.
it was a rough night, and i ended that blog rather abruptly...it is nice to have a good friend come in and follow what i said, or was trying to say, and write a better finish.
and she knows i appreciate her.Posted 12-21-2008 at 08:52 PM by vertigo0923
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