Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kid Rock who wrote (24829)	9/6/1998 10:28:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Tom, your stories and jokes are not bad!!! Most good stuff is hard to understand--goodness knows I had to buy Cliff Notes to find my way through some of the world's best literature that I was forced to read in college. I thought the spatula and Crisco stuff was intriguing, and carried it out mostly because I think the obscenity in the White House has opened the floodgates for open discussions of sexuality of every sort. I guess I was being ironic. Did you get it? It is really hard to understand what most people are doing on the net, because we cannot see your face or hear you singing softly, or catch your wry smile. Bravo on the lyrics over at Ask God! Since I started working I have not had the time to hang out over there, but I read a few posts this morning and was impressed with their thoughtful nature and sheer diversity. Who wrote those lyrics, incidentally?

To: Kid Rock who wrote (24829)	9/6/1998 10:45:00 AM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 108807

Thomas, Well, I really didn't think you were in a chat room waving Crisco and a spatula invitingly at CGB, but the ingredients were provocative enough to send my easily distracted brain into overdrive trying to come up with an activity that involved them all. It bore some resemblance to the "barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen" concept, but I knew you couldn't possibly be trying to put women in their place. Cyber reality still fascinates me. As a child, I spent a great deal of time in books and in fantasy. As an adult, I still do the same. For some of us, the life of the imagination has been more real at times than what is happening around us. We probably threw ourselves more easily and willingly into this medium than others--it was like being able to have the characters in our stories actually talk back when spoken to. For a time, in the same way I find a book that I can't put down (and my poor family knows they have to fend for themselves), cyber life preoccupied me. It eventually took its proper place in my life, but I still love it. The danger is when you try to replace your own reality with the one you are playing with here--but that's true of anything people use to avoid personal unhappiness or problems---books, alcohol, affairs, living through your children, religion....some can be helpful, some more damaging than others. You know maybe that a bunch of us actually got together a year and a half ago in San Francisco for a picnic? And I've sailed around Manhattan Island with a cyberfriend and then stayed with another in DC, had a great time getting inebriated at a Moroccan restaurant and talking all night long, met another in the DFW airport and drank a bottle of wine sitting on the floor in a corner of a terminal, talking non-stop for a couple of hours. My family is bemused, but tolerant. I think the mental health issue is answered by whether this is an enrichment or a replacement. I guess what I'm saying is that you are more than just electrons---and we are as real as you allow us to be. But life is like that. We choose what we want as reality. Cyber life is just so new that there is still lots of confusion about its possibilities and limitations. FOr some, it poses no temptation. Others may find it very destructive, but I think that's true of everything in life. The value or the harm is in what we do with something, not in the object itself.