12th February 2002, 21:25
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Alternate Reality...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The cyber world is an alternate reality where real people meet only as personalities, most often without knowledge of the shape and texture of another's face. Yet all the personalities are very real. Harsh words can instill in us pain or anger. Kind words can touch our hearts and perhaps even our souls. In this alternate reality we find kinship with like thinking people and sometimes kinship with those that think very differently from ourselves. Relationships are forged here just as they are forged outside the cyber world. In some respects, the relationships fromed here are more real because they are based on very different premises. In the world of Real (not cyber), bonds are often initially formed by what we see with our eyes and smell. Something sensually deemed pleasant is desirable. Something sensually deemed unpleasant/ugly, is shunned. Here, we cannot see what a person looks like on the outside or how they smell, so we don't know if someone has warts on their nose, missing teeth, bad breath, or never bathes. In the un-cyber world we would be inclined to avoid someone with some or all of these traits. There is no sight here except for words tapped out on a keyboard. Yet friendships are formed. Sometimes somehting more than friendship blooms. Emotional embers are fanned and intimate friendships/relationships begin to burn. Still, there is no physical contact, no smell, no sight other than words, nothing physical to fan the flames. And, sometimes the reverse takes place. Words become heated till they too begin to burn, but with dislike, even hatred instead of friendship or love. What is "it" then that forges these relationships? Since "it" has nothing to do with the physical...though we certainly feel the physical responses of our emotions in these relationships..."it" must then be something not physical but psychic, where a spiritual kind of bonding takes place rather than just a physical bonding. *soodna* 
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12th February 2002, 23:06
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Hi Ya Tex,
Except for a very brief comment the other day, haven't seen you on the boards much lately...been kinda busy I guess...This post is just a personal perception based on watching what fingers have tapped out and to some extent, my own relationships with personalities on the various boards. Soodna
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13th February 2002, 01:51
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How real a person is to you depends upon communication. Some people you see every day are less real than someone you write to and never meet.
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 Diderot: A deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.
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13th February 2002, 02:01
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Hi Rikbe,
How's your little nanny doing these days?  I think you of the many people on the boards, know what I was trying to convey with this thread...How's married life these days...hope you are still very happy.
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13th February 2002, 02:13
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Hi Soodna,
It could be better, Neva is back in Russia for taking care of some family business and as her immigration papers are not ok yet, she needs another visa. It can take several weeks, or more.  As she is married to me, she has a RIGHT for a visa but they still need papers, papers and papers.
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Diderot: A deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.
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13th February 2002, 11:54
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There are scientists who claim that how you respond to people in life depends on the compatibility of pheremones released by you and the individual in question. Perhaps so.
-Perhaps on the internet it is compatibility of thought, not scent, that we respond to?
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