One of my greatest faults is anger with an aggressive disposition. Thus all throughout my life I was in fighting sports. When I was in law enforcement, I would enjoy physical altercations. In a different context, a warlike nature is good and necessary, but I do not find myself in such a context so it is unfitting.
Since I've turned my attention to the study and practice of the interior life, I have been trying to mortify this passion completely. Now the one thing that moves this passion vehemently is when I observe an injustice, thus my words tend to reflect this.
You can hardly tell anything at all about a person by words on a screen, unless they express their dispositions well through writing.
When I spoke to Elizabeth or Matthew for example, the impression of speaking with the person who you only knew through notes on a screen was pretty drastic. All of their good qualities come into full relief -- they are real people. This observation sounds simplistic and trite, but it is true. This is a very impersonal, almost anti-personal form of communication. The written word, especially quick notes on a message board is meant to be provisional for lack of contact with real people. It is an artificial supply for a defect of ontological interaction. But when the conversation is an endless string of messages with never any contact seems to be detrimental more often than not.
Topic: The Real Caminus (Read 6495 times)