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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: BlueCoyote]
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I should ad that emoticons are a real good way to express feelings like lol of face to face laughter... they are limited, indeed, but I also can like to recieve a video of yours, where you show me your laughter
:a hides behind desk


Emoticons are a real good way to experience laughter? :lol: no


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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: Microcosmatrix]
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Come on, are you for real or just mocking around ?

Why don't complain about books, monastaries, museums, theatres, television, jojo, meditation,...,..........

Internet is the worst example for that what you want to explain...


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"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."Martin Luther King, Jr.
'Acceptance is the absolute key - at that moment you gain freedom and you gain power and you gain courage'

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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: BlueCoyote]
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For real.

I just think we would be better off without it. Of couse, since I'm saying this on the internet I know already I will hold the minority opinion. That is fine.


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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: headset]
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its hard to build a community, most people dont even think about what their lacking.


indeed


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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: BlueCoyote]
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Why don't complain about books, monastaries, museums, theatres, television, jojo, meditation,...,..........

Internet is the worst example for that what you want to explain...



None of those things (besides T.V.) have ever been so successful at diverting people's attention as to cause a noticible difference in missing people outdoors, or else I would have complained.

I complain plenty about T.V, BTW


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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: Microcosmatrix]
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One of the best things, internet can do, is to link people together...


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"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: Microcosmatrix]
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I totally agree with the general comment looking at the big picture. I got started on message boards at age 34 in March of '03. I know life without it for sure.

The change in my lifestyle before and after is huge. I definitely got sucked in for convinence purposes. It's to easy to be chatting with many people of common interest from all over the world right in my own home, without having to pick up the phone, make plans, get baby sitters blah blah. I'm also a night owl up to 3 in the morning when all of my friends are in bed by 9-10 P.M. (the gotta get kids to school and go to work)

People are active on the net around the clock. It's like the city that never sleeps.

I much prefer real social interaction though. Having become a stay at home mom, I spend much of my time having discussions with children and other moms who I have little in common with. The net has been a great convenience for me.

I also feel sucked in by it too. It is a great wealth of information. I never not want to have access to it. I do think it has made me become lazy from reaching out more to real life friends and family though for sure. 

I can't say its a government plot to put people in cyber isolation because here on the net is where people can unite from around the globe and discuss the government. It can work against them. Then again, they can see what people are saying about them too now.:lol:

I agree that these relationships are not close to the real thing. People are likely to say so much on the net they wouldn't in real life situations. You can click a button and make people disappear from your life on the net. You can't do that in real life. You have to be nicer and work harder to get along in real life. Virtual reality is easy. Real life takes work and effort.

I'm definitely working to cut back. Within a year, I want to be off message boards for good.

The net is a great way for shy introverts to socialize, but I'm an outgoing extrovert so I have no idea what I am doing socializing on the net really. There's got to be people around me who like to talk about spiritual meta physical stuff. Why go find them out there when millions are in my home through the net. Maybe I did get suckered in by a modern convenience. I can see it, admit it, and am working to pull back.

Good post! :thumbup: :heart:


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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: Microcosmatrix]
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Well, the Internet is only a life consumer if you make it that way. For instance, I have been out doing shit all day today. I was not compelled to get on the net while I was otherwise engaged. Now it is dark and getting cold outside so here I sit. I am not interested in watching TV. Surfing the net is at least as healthy. At least you are interacting. I use the computer to learn in many ways. I like to write code, play games, or sometimes I just surf forums. In any case I am engaged in active learning. I consider this equivalent to reading as far as the potential to learn goes. I also like to fish, hunt, hike, camp, trip (out of doors if possible),and listen to music. Tripping is a healthy activity that engages my mind and spirit and often gets me out of the house...it is not physically harmful. The net is just a small part of my varied experience. Government plots are ridiculous. You are responsible for your own internet use...be moderate...follow the middle path.


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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: gettinjiggywithit]
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"I'm definitely working to cut back. Within a year, I want to be off message boards for good."

That sounds very familiar. I used to have a severe drinking problem...I said similar things all of the time. The problem is not the internet, just as the problem I had was not alcohol. One must exercise discipline and self control. The internet is just one source of stimuli...one entre on the plate of life. I like it, but I definitely want a full meal. Going cold turkey didn't work with alcohol...I doubt it will work in this case as well...I always came back to alcohol after an abscence. The key was to learn balence and control.


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"A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda

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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
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porn is something thats a real problem on the internet...

its creating a voyerist culture satisfied with themselves at the simplest levels, and im sure is changing the face of sexuality among young people...

i find this to be a problem with myself anyways.

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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: headset]
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i love internet coz i can plug in to the real deal and discuss whatever the hell i want whenever i want and skip all the stupid ego games, prejudices and shallow pretending people do in real life..

then again i hate internet coz its voluntary amputation, but its reasonable option for killin time when im stuck @city bored to death so im usin it but i also go out and meet real people..

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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
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I understand that and that would be the case if I didn't think the Internet"message boards" were a lazy convenience for socializing with people with common interests.

I'll always want net access for other forms of resourcing.

In all fairness, I'm sure for most, message boards are a nice compliment to their life used in moderation.

The Internet is also no excuse for the major change in my life.

I use to be a total social butterfly and the center of social scenes from day one of my life.

It was when I became a mom that it started to change or was it when I left the islands. More that but the mom thing too. I still maintain friendships and socialize, but it's Nothing like before and now, most of it revolves around socializing with the parents of my daughters friends-people who um well er um arn't my cup of Tea.

I'd rather be alone then just chit chat about the mundane. Before, most of socializing revolved around activities with friends who were all without kids too. Now, everyone around my age has kids and we just can't take off and go golfing or windsurfing. We have to arrange for baby sitters and it's not so easy anymore.

Maybe its because I had my daughter and started a spiritual awakening at the same time. Maybe, I don't socialize as much because, I pulled "mentally" out the mundane world. I like talking about higher awareness spirituality stuff.

When I stumbled upon a message board doing a web search a few years back I was hooked.

I say that it may take me up to a year to pull out for good because, I don't know how to write a social life program  that fulfills my changed needs for socializing while being a parent. I haven't done it before. I have to start writing one and it may take some time to fill in the pages so to speak. I know I want it though and I know I will need something else going on to pull me away.

Just staying away from the computer isn't enough. I have to fill that time and space with something just as fulfilling. Not sure what that would be because, I have changed and being a parent now changes things.

I'll figure it out, I'm not asking for help on that. Just explaining my personal situation for why I got sucked up into the net. It's been an easy convenience.
I often wish a bunch of friends at another spirituality forum, more my age with kids all lived on my block. That would be so cool.

I have made moves to get out there more and .......maybe I live in the wrong area for me or something. Ever since I left islands and have been back in the states, I just don't resonate with most people I meet anymore.

I had a dream last night we moved back to Hawaii. Maybe I need to move. People are so caught up in their material pursuits and competitive games and phony pretentious crap and dramas they think are real and unsolvable and people are so BUSY with tight schedules. Busy with what???? Shopping, doctors appointments, family obligations, thbbbb It wasn't like that in the islands.

We use to sit around soaking up the sun discussing the mysteries of life and just feeling good to be alive in paradise. The pace was so slow and relaxed.

How bout this hue, even though I got sucked up into spirituality message boards, the net isn't the problem. I'm not living in a resonant place which is why the net works so well for me. I love my home and the area is nice. Maybe its just that I have moved a lot in the last 6 years and its more difficult to get re-established with each move at my age.

When I moved to St. Thomas at 25, I generated a wealth of new awesome friends to hang with in no time. Same with Kauai when I was 27 and back to St. Thomas when I was 29. It was when I came back to the states it tanked. I thought the islands weren't a good balanced place to raise a kid. Maybe thats where I went wrong.

Just ignore me in this post okay. Thanks for giving me reason to type this out in front of me. I've thought about it, talked about it with my husband, but haven't put it in front of me like this to look at. I'd rather chat on the spiritual message boards then chat about meat prices at the different grocery stores around here with neighbors. Oh god its so sad. I'll send you a therapy check.:tongue: :lol:

:peace: :heart:


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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: Microcosmatrix]
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If I were still alive today I would use the internet to suck other peoples lives away. They would be suckers to fall for it - Ted


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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: LunarEclipse]
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You're not alive, you say? Care to elaborate?


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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: gettinjiggywithit]
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It is normal that when you have kids your social life declines quite a bit. When mine were very small I was totally tied down. I didn't even have relatives near by to watch them occasionally. Until my kids were teens my wife and I did not go somewhere alone more than 3 times. We were too poor to afford a babysitter as well. The internet would have been a Godsend in trying to remain sane. As it stands now it won't be long before my kids all enter college, and my freedom is once again on the horizon.
Interacting with others over the net is no better or worse than any other form of interaction, but one should try to vary the human interaction a bit for the sake of avoiding boredom. Sometimes in life that is not possible so in that case the Internet can be a substitute...I mean it is better (and healthier) than no interaction at all. I will say that no one that I know has any interest in philosophy, entheogens, or spiritual matters so my discussion of this subject will probably stay online. In the end the internet is a tool...a means to an end. As long as it remains such there is no problem. When people see it as an end in itself it becomes a problem.
It is worth noting that if you go trying to expect other places to live up to Hawaii you will come up short. I lived there myself and as far as beautiful serene places go it can't be beat. On that count you will always be lacking unless you move back. Of course, then you may find that the place you remember is not there anymore...because you are not the same person with the same needs. I recently had this experience of going to a place in the wilderness where my family and myself would go camping when we had a little money and time...years ago when my kids were really small. It was a lifesaver to go out into the forest to this place and let go of stress. I visited this place a while ago and found that it was not what I remembered. My needs had changed...I had changed...the place I remembered only existed in my memory. It just shows that one must let go of the past and always look to the future. Change is our friend and the nature of our reality.


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"A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda

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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
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FEEL ALIVE

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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: Doom]
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Damn straight.


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"A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda

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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
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Thanks for relating about the parent part Hue. I never would be on message boards if I wasn't. The first one I found was doing a search a something about kids and it was a spirituality forum for parents.

If I went back to Hawaii, which could happen in a year or two, I would try Maui out. It has a large spiritual minded community as well and the slower pace that makes socializing easier. Everyones not in a great rush with busy doings. That part of me stuck  and hasn't changed since I left. Islands don't change that laid back factor either. Thats what would be a more resonant environment for me to be in to engage in more socializing off the net. 

You were in Oahu weren't you? Thats crazy city life. I'd move to Kihea Maui. I talked about it again with my husband after my last reply and like I said, with a new promotion he got, it may be doable in another year and we are all for it. He's pushing for new Zealand. I dunno about that. They have some far out energy vortex's there. Maybe I'm getting another calling :lol:

It's really nice where I am in Tampa, I'm just not "feeling it" or what it is I am feeling, I'm not resonating with or something is just not clicking. Same old shit around here as in Chicago only worse. People are so tense. No one is relaxed around here. They are uncomfortable to be around.

In the mean time, the net is filling a void I am well aware of. I'd rather "feel it on the same wavelength" with actual people whose eyes I can see and laughs I can hear.

Thanks again! :heart:


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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: gettinjiggywithit]
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I was primarily on Oahu, but I spent time an all of the Islands...even Kahoolave. I even climbed a good chunk of Mauna Loa once. Most of the time was spent outdoors so I could well appreciate it's beauty. Don't shun New Zealand. The forests are all original growth...untouched and ancient. If you saw The Lord of the Rings movies you know the deal.


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"A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda

Edited by Huehuecoyotl (11/06/05 12:49 PM)

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Re: The internet sucks your life away [Re: Microcosmatrix]
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I was executed in Florida on 1/24/89-Ted.


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