It was in response to a similar subject on another site that I wrote on what I have found re: Cyberspace communication.
"It has been only this year I have discovered Urantia and internet together. And immediately it was realized that a keyboard is not the same as a mouth, lips, and the body language that goes with tone, verve, or nuance. The screen is not the same as eyes and the 140 some odd muscles that go into a smile or frown, which combined... speak volumes."
Comparing discourse through the digital model and personal communing is like comparing roller skates and a Ferrari, or the heat from a match and that of the sun.
Tell you what, being the Techie that I am, the next time I have a child I'm going to make sure I set up a web cam and watch the birth over a computer from far away. Or better yet, I'll have a delivery nurse hold up a cell phone with a camera to properly document the event... that way I won't be hampered by holding my new born when I post all 300 of my friends to tell them what a real experience it was and all that it held for me. Oh, that's right, I would have had to touch another to sire offspring. Oops! wrong again.
Regarding the difference in substance one can draw off these UB sites and one's study group, this is all I have to say:
"Our study group, where it was once one-and-a-half hours is now three or more, primarily because we read together. It is in this spiritual atmosphere our personalities can become impassioned, and a spontaneous discourse occurs. It has never once become acrimonious!! Interesting, isn't it?"
Regarding having good friends, I would rather have three in the flesh than three-hundred on line-text-twitter-my spaced-facebooked-emailed-celled or digitally imaged!
Because the real issue is... with or without the benefits of technology... to insure I control it and it does not control me. In the long run the truth is... actual living experience has no Cosmic substitute.
In Service,
Steven
P.S. Touch someone today! Unless, of course, you would rather reach out and touch someone. After all, Personalities also have no cosmic substitute![quote][/quote]
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