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Thu 5 May, 2005 03:02 pm
We write our ideas here and debate them via text.
I have friends who I do this with via email. The funny thing is, when I meet one of these friends to have a drink with or whatever, we debate the same subjects, and we end up going completely different directions, taking different individual stances, and ending up with different conclusions. Interesting.
I wonder if we were all at a coffee shop or beach or something discussing these same topics, would we come to the same conclusions verbally? Would our ideas change? Would our personal opinions even be slightly different? I think so. I've seen it happen.
Would it even matter where we discussed it? I mean, if we discussed for example dualism vs. non-dualism, would it matter if we were in a coffee shop or at a beach?I think it would.
I think if the same group of people debated these same topics verbally, the threads would go in completely different directions. They would be almost unrecognizable when compared to the written threads here.
Makes me wonder. How much of the medium you are using, the place, and time, and many more factors, affect how you express yourself, how you react, where the debate ends up.
If somehow we could step outside all this. But inevitably, we are in it.
Do you think your thoughts, your ideas, even your beliefs are slightly different when they are processed through your voice, the written word, or left in their raw form in your brain?
Is there always a part of us that cannot adequately communicate with another human?
I mean we're speaking & writing. But could it be that 95% of what we really feel, there are no adequate words for anyway?
Quote:"Three things cannot be retrieved: the arrow once sped from the bow, the word spoken in haste;
the missed opportunity."
- Hazrat Ali, the 4th Caliph of Islam
no verbal backspace key, no googling for fact checking, being within striking or spitting distance, etc. tends to make one cautious.