Tuesday, January 31, 2006
How many times have you heard people on the internet aren’t real? The internet is full of kooks? You can’t make real friends on the net? Hundred? More? Me too. So who then is tapping all those keys on the keyboard?
I would agree that most folks use made up names and probably do a little tweaking here and there to make themselves seem …oh…. a little more exciting maybe.
And I would heartily agree the internet is full of kooks. Especially now when they seem to be most bountiful in the world of blogging. Hard to travel anywhere in blog town without running into an apostle borg or 5. All posting the same thoughts over and over with slightly different words. But then that’s the purpose of a collective. You don’t have to think for yourself.
The internet is the land of the invisible. Which enables people to do both great harm and great good. What each person does with that is purely up to them.
A few years ago I used to post with a lady from Canada named Emily. (Milky will remember her well. As all will who knew her.) Emily was a pistol! Feisty as hell. Man could she give you a run for your money. She was quick-witted and most definitely had a mind of her own. I loved giving her a hard time and she loved dishing it right back. Several months went by with all of us playing back and forth then one day there was a post on the board from Em that would forever change our lives and the way we looked at the net.
In that post Emily admitted that she had MS. She was bound to a wheelchair and unable to do much for herself. In short, Emily would not be with us forever because her body, already frail, would continue to deteriorate over time. She was hesitant to admit this to us because as she put it, “Here no one treats me like I am different. Or looks at me with pity.” She made us promise to treat her no differently than we ever had and I can tell you that I for one, honored that request big time. LOL!
Having known Emily. I take particular offense to something recently brought to my attention through 3 different e-mails from 3 different people. (pay close attention those of you involved because it would appear your clique is beginning to dissolve) Apparently at least two of the “popular folks” in blog land have gone out of their way to search out people who have boards which post about religion or faith. They go there and proceed to attack these folks who have done them no harm in an effort to stir up trouble and get the numbers up on their own pathetic blog. And YES, I did say pathetic.
Perhaps it has not occurred to these school yard bullies that faith is the only hope some people have left in their lives. Perhaps they never stopped to think that the people behind the religion blogs may be broken in some way and hanging on to the only thing they have.
These same people continue to rake in the posts being one of the more popular blogs out there I am told. However, they should be warned, there are several people close to them who are becoming disgusted. Thank God for that!
I detest bullies! Always have. They’re sniveling little cowards who only attack people who are not strong enough to defend themselves….and only when they have an audience.
What price would I pay for popularity? Nothing.
Albert Schweitzer
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Thank you, Em. Wherever you are.
I would agree that most folks use made up names and probably do a little tweaking here and there to make themselves seem …oh…. a little more exciting maybe.
And I would heartily agree the internet is full of kooks. Especially now when they seem to be most bountiful in the world of blogging. Hard to travel anywhere in blog town without running into an apostle borg or 5. All posting the same thoughts over and over with slightly different words. But then that’s the purpose of a collective. You don’t have to think for yourself.
The internet is the land of the invisible. Which enables people to do both great harm and great good. What each person does with that is purely up to them.
A few years ago I used to post with a lady from Canada named Emily. (Milky will remember her well. As all will who knew her.) Emily was a pistol! Feisty as hell. Man could she give you a run for your money. She was quick-witted and most definitely had a mind of her own. I loved giving her a hard time and she loved dishing it right back. Several months went by with all of us playing back and forth then one day there was a post on the board from Em that would forever change our lives and the way we looked at the net.
In that post Emily admitted that she had MS. She was bound to a wheelchair and unable to do much for herself. In short, Emily would not be with us forever because her body, already frail, would continue to deteriorate over time. She was hesitant to admit this to us because as she put it, “Here no one treats me like I am different. Or looks at me with pity.” She made us promise to treat her no differently than we ever had and I can tell you that I for one, honored that request big time. LOL!
Having known Emily. I take particular offense to something recently brought to my attention through 3 different e-mails from 3 different people. (pay close attention those of you involved because it would appear your clique is beginning to dissolve) Apparently at least two of the “popular folks” in blog land have gone out of their way to search out people who have boards which post about religion or faith. They go there and proceed to attack these folks who have done them no harm in an effort to stir up trouble and get the numbers up on their own pathetic blog. And YES, I did say pathetic.
Perhaps it has not occurred to these school yard bullies that faith is the only hope some people have left in their lives. Perhaps they never stopped to think that the people behind the religion blogs may be broken in some way and hanging on to the only thing they have.
These same people continue to rake in the posts being one of the more popular blogs out there I am told. However, they should be warned, there are several people close to them who are becoming disgusted. Thank God for that!
I detest bullies! Always have. They’re sniveling little cowards who only attack people who are not strong enough to defend themselves….and only when they have an audience.
What price would I pay for popularity? Nothing.
Albert Schweitzer
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Thank you, Em. Wherever you are.
posted by Crabby at 11:22 AM | 33 moos from the field