>Yes! I had to break myself of writing long hand and now block print
>everything because my handwriting is so awful. Writng on line is so
>much different than speaking on the phone, but also v. different from
>"real" writing (either by hand or with the aid of a computer. As for
>the illusion of multi-channels - I don't think it's an illusion.
Well, right now most on-line communication is flat text. You may be
able to add sound or even sight, but you can't add touch, scent, or
taste.
>That's one of the things you can do with text create more channels.
>While images may be carefully crafted writing on-line (at least for me)
>brings a sense of urgency that isn't there in other kinds of writing
Some urgency (less than a phone conversation, more than writing a
letter). Time to review a crafted channel-replacement, but no time to
endlessly polish it.
[...]
>It's hard for me to get at this spirituality/non-RL thingie in that I
>thing spirituality is RL. It's the same kind of question/separation
>that (I think) Poly was trying to get at between RL/cyberspace. I
>think there are strong connections that are v. hard to articulate. And
Of course there is spirituality in real life. I don't understand how
one can truly access/experience their own spirituality without some
real life experience - pain/pleasure and all the other opposites.
In trying to understand what connection spirituality has to cspace (a
question that I'm really starting to ponder just as I type here) first
start with the question: What connection does spirituality have to
creativity? And what is constructed when we Create? A Vision of RL?
Then ask how does Creativity manifest itself differently in cspace?
Well, for one thing there are nobody's expectations save your own that
you must conform to here, so your Visions are in some sense
unconstrained. They may be altered (perhaps beyond recognition) in
cspace, but they flow from you and your needs of the moment in a way
that is not possible in RL. And they can grow in the context of other
Visions in ways that are also not possible in RL.
In cspace is not the meat that is touching (although we are aware of
it), it is not the mind that is reaching out (although there is
curiosity and mostly healthy skepticism), but rather something very
very different. The connections (contacts/collusions/constructions)
that are formed in cspace that are often built on creative/spiritual
foundations.
[...]
>> But what do you do if being many people in one (having many personae)
>> is the way you feel in RL, and that the appalling tension is that no
>> one person seems to be able to deal with all of what you can be? If
>> they were masks you could shed them, but if what they really are are
>> different facets of the same soul, hidden and revealed in complex and
>> subtly shifting patterns, what then?
>
>Let me try again despite MY difficulty in articulating how I feel.
>(Zeitgeyser sighs and sets down his pith helmet. Wiping a stray tear
>away he stands - a bit shakily - rubs the tender spot on his head and
>takes a small uncertain bow.) I'll try not to put words in other
>peoples mouths but *for me* this goofy little man is in many ways me.
And Sym is me, and Lisa on the Roof is me, and so are many of the
characters that I have created through the years. They live and dance
in ways that I do not find possible in RL. Nor do they suffer and
bleed and make tough decisions the way one must in RL. Actually, they
frequently do suffer, and even die, but there is always a Good Reason.
Za, za such a dark mood...
[...]
>The ranch is a very *special* place.
>
>> Speaking of which, Sym and I are about to go visit Zeitgeyser, who is
>> in serious need of some PB&Brimstone, on the porch...
>>
>> Lisa
>
>True and thanks fer the thought. Also thank you for saying things that
>I would have like to have said but didn't.
Happens to me all the time here. Salut!
Oh well, Sym should have the bonfire engulfing the backyard by
now. That oughta cheer me up...