Posted by Larry Hoover on May 31, 2006, at 9:29:19
In reply to Don't y'all think it's weird..., posted by Larry Hoover on May 29, 2006, at 8:45:39
The coffee date thing was perhaps misunderstood. I realize now, what I meant. The chakra/aura thing. It doesn't carry, over the phone. No digital chakra content. No aura roaming charges. The phone is air vibration. Don't get me wrong, it's there, the chakra/aura stuff. But it's not the same as face to face.
And two posters developed long-standing relationships with a distant someone, but the key difference is: they met first, even if only for a short time. They met first, then did the distance thing.
Random quotations, just lifted hither and yon:
"I think it's romantic."
Yes, it definitely is that.
"what's romantic is that it's so deeply, positively felt and maybe doing nice things for Lar' "
Just watch it, missy. I wouldn't be surprised she's reading this thread, and I don't want her getting all swollen-headed and all that. Let's just say that I've never felt better in my life, and leave it unattributed, okay?
"At least in real life, after I've revealed too much or said something crazy, they *know* my heart is in the right place. "
This deserves, if nothing else, some validation. The same thing goes here, dude. But there is a way to know, in real life, that reconfirms the other way of knowing that is embedded in our text communications. *This* version *is* a faith-based version. And I do have faith. In you. In you, verne.
"There is something essential in the relationship that the body experiences, and the body tells you when the feelings are real."
Precisely so. Self-validation. That is what I was trying to put my finger on.
"The thing that’s impossible to know without meeting is whether you’re going to be attracted to the way they smell."
Oh, so very true. Or taste. Or feel. That's also very important to me. I have five senses. I do not even yet have vision at play. I have verbal descriptors, but no picture, yet. Ya know?
But there's another concept at issue. It is such a useful concept, that it comes down to us through the ages. Common sense. It traces directly back to the Parthenon and the Senate of the city-state we now call Athens. I believe it arose in the dialectic between Plato and his student, Aristotle. But common sense has a meaning that is lost to us, today. It isn't used in the way it was first postulated.
We have five senses. Five primary physical ways to sense the environment. Sight, sound, touch, taste, smell. No one has ever convincingly argued to increase that number.
But, a new sense *was* added, called the common sense. It is the sum and synthesis and symbiosis of all five. A supernumerary sense, which is informed by each, yet greater in some way than the contributors themselves.
I cannot yet use my common sense.
I think I have visions of aeroplanes. Strange craft, in the sky. I have always marvelled at them. Strange tubes, crammed full of people. And while you're in the tube, the stage hands change all the scenery. It's really quite dramatic, the effect they can get, with these tubes.
I really appreciate what was going on in this thread. Thank you, all.
Lar
poster:Larry Hoover
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