Posted by Honore on December 14, 2006, at 4:17:47
In reply to Re: Dr. Bob and The Server » NikkiT2, posted by tofuemmy on December 13, 2006, at 22:19:55
sunnydays, I wasn't thinking mostly of your words.
It was more of a general sense that my comments were being seen as such, when I meant them more in the sense that I understand how Phillipa feels.
It reminds me of a time when my upstairs neighbor was knocking frantically on my door in the middle of the night because his cable had gone out. (Where I live you can't get any TV without a cable hookup.) He insisted I look somewhere in hopes that something in my apartment had affected his cable. Seemed quite mad to me. I didn't have a TV at the time-- so I thought his ravings were more than a little over the top.
At this point, if I lost my cable or internet connections, I'd be ranting as hysterically as he was.
So it all depends on what you rely on at any particular to create a sense of connection. If you do depend on this place to have a sense of stable environment, it's disruptive when it goes down.
That's obviously a testimony to how important these connections, and the presence of other people can be. Probably, for whatever reason, NikkiT2 or Emme don't rely on it at this point, in that way-- so they don't identify with the sense of its suddenly disappearing. Perfectly understandable. I wanted Phillipa to know that I did connect to her feeling.
Honore
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