Begging EF members for help/vote on Grad Research Project.

[juiceddreadlocks]

I'm bored at work looking forward to actually going out and ''engaging''

 

[*The_West*]

"en-geigh-ging"?

 

[juiceddreadlocks]

"en-geigh-ging"?

yeah, dood kabob central.

 

[*The_West*]

lmao. im not sure i even want to know what you type between the 2 :'s to make that smilie!

 

[-Ariel-]

I just woke up... and am pleased with the excellent feedback, however, kinda makes me feel lame that I'm in the minority with relates to EF more than I do my neighbors...

 

[roadwarrior]

This is what digs at me, this is the first board I've joined, and find C&C addicting... like I really like to log on, and I'm much more stimulated by trains of thought... via text... via 17 inch screen and thats what intrigues me... common sense, right... I know... but it just fascinates me that I would rather communicate through lines of text with a certain demograph that shares similar interests but is rather eclectic than chatting about how time is flying by... which it is, but you get the point. I still get enough stimulation on campus through debating the validity of my arguments... but I dunno even though I share similar interests with my colleagues and its human interaction, I remain captivated by C&C...
And it has nothing to do with my interest in gear either, which is equated with primal brutality -overexagerration- in the transpersonal/integral studies field.

Agree vis-a-vis the addicting nature of C&C. It's like reading a tabloid at the grocery line but you'd never admit it to your IRL friends. It is also very different than IRL discussions in that it is asynchronous and anyone can take as long as they want to write a long detailed post without being interupted or refuted but then you can be blasted for saying something stupid and it is for all to see. Have you tried any sysnchronous on line communities like the old CUworld that I mentioned in my PM? It was an early on line communitie during th elate nineties that was real time video chat. We had to institute monitors to keep it PG13 rated as many pervs used it to flash and more. We tried to write code to detect penis and breasts but found there was too much variability in the images to do it reliably so we had 24/7 mods watching.

Given the change in sysnchronous to asynchronous communications which also lack the nonverbal clues as to intent and subtle meaning of interpersonal communications, do you believe it is affecting the socialization skills of young people? This would extend to texting instead of calling on the phone.

S

 

[musclemom]

I picked the second one BUT I really need to put a major caveat in here. Pagans do not generally fit in with NON pagans, even if you're keeping it on the D/L (which my husband and I generally do not, we don't fly our freak flag but we're ... different from Mr. & Mrs. Whitebread Suburbia next door, that's for sure). We fit in terrifically with a pagan setting and get along very well with "our own kind," (hate saying it like that but it's true), in fact, we're like the vanilla pagans. Before finding a pagan framework in which to hang with other people, particularly since I work from home, I was virtually a recluse verging on agoraphobia and EF was my only social interaction for a very long time.

 

[roadwarrior]

I picked the second one BUT I really need to put a major caveat in here. Pagans do not generally fit in with NON pagans, even if you're keeping it on the D/L (which my husband and I generally do not, we don't fly our freak flag but we're ... different from Mr. & Mrs. Whitebread Suburbia next door, that's for sure). We fit in terrifically with a pagan setting and get along very well with "our own kind," (hate saying it like that but it's true), in fact, we're like the vanilla pagans. Before finding a pagan framework in which to hang with other people, particularly since I work from home, I was virtually a recluse verging on agoraphobia and EF was my only social interaction for a very long time.

Oh come on - you pagans ain't so bad. A couple of my best friends are pagan. They own a tattoo shop in Salem MA.

 

[musclemom]

Oh come on - you pagans ain't so bad. A couple of my best friends are pagan. They own a tattoo shop in Salem MA.

Salem is a very eclectic town with a LOT of openly OUT pagans (thanks in no small part to dear Laurie Cabot).

I live in your standard "white bread suburban bedroom community." To top it off, I'm across the street from a Jehovah's Witness meeting hall.

My husband and I barely know ONE couple in this neighborhood, and their first names, only. We just don't connect with the people around here.

 

[roadwarrior]

Salem is a very eclectic town with a LOT of openly OUT pagans (thanks in no small part to dear Laurie Cabot).

I live in your standard "white bread suburban bedroom community." To top it off, I'm across the street from a Jehovah's Witness meeting hall.

My husband and I barely know ONE couple in this neighborhood, and their first names, only. We just don't connect with the people around here.

Bad place for a good ol' pagan. I'll take the naturist view of universal truth over the god approach any day but I am an atheist.