Blog overload

I recently had a discussion held almost entirely through e-mail. It involved 6 people and was at times complex and wide ranging. The subject matter is unimportant but the learning curve does have a resonance. The problem with the written word is that no matter how well you punctuate and no matter how carefully you choose your words there is always a problem with how it sounds in your head compared with how it sounds in someone else’s head.

The up shot of all of this was that the perceptions of the communication became confused and people misread what was going on.

Ok so what is your point caller? May be what you are asking

Well it is just the way that instant communication media works, or sometimes doesn't. These are problems that Jane Austen never had to deal with.

This brings me back to a question I asked last night. What is Spirituality?

I am not convinced that I answered it in any way on my last blog.

In someway it is about definition. Is it a state of being or something imputed? Or is it a fundamental part of the human psyche, perhaps it isn't real but is just about a feeling that is conditioned in us. I don't know if I fully agree with Pascal's god shape void, but I am still convinced that there is a need within us that seeks for a bigger picture, a meta-narrative.

In a blog - ages ago - I suggested that language is transient, something as an English teacher I see too frequently and with the language used to describe the meta-physical we have the added problem that we are trying to put into words concepts that are perhaps beyond language. This creates an issue verbally, and given the advantage of tone that the voice can give, and more so in written communication.

What does this all lead us to? Well only that I have an idea of what I want to say but as I say it I committee it to a permanence fixed nature which does not reflect that fluidity of thought.

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I talk shite frequently... but it's not my fault... you just don't understand me! v