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Re: One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:17:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Thomas Stangl writes:
Luckily, the times I've seen you
> in real life have been nothing like your persona in here, so maybe it's just
> something that people in this group bring out of you.
Perhaps you are correct. FWIW, I find you very different IRL as well:-)
I'm prone to say that it is the nature of this medium. It is always very
interesting to me when I meet a person IRL after having communicated with them
via the net-- never do they appear as I'd expect. While I enjoy the ability to
freely exchange ideas via the net (and email for that matter), I generally find
discussions time-consuming and cumbersome and a poor substitution for f2f
contact. I am very much a "people" person, and perhaps this form of
communication is not very well suited for people like me.
As I reflect on some of the discussions in which I have participated here, I
found that many times I was characterized as X or Y without being called on my
position first. So for example, if someone had merely said to me in the
beginning, "So, you think all atheists are innocent butcherers?" I would have
of course replied in the negative. There even were times where I
point-blankedly stated my position and was then not believed. I was labeled a
bigot on many topics where I am, in fact, not. Perhaps it is the desire to cut
to the chase to overcome the cumbersome nature of communicating via keyboards
that is responsible, whereas in a f2f conversation such misunderstandings would
be quickly dispatched.
C'est la vie on the net I guess...
-John
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