Thoughtful

I believe that many if not most thoughts come from *necessity*, that Great Mother of all invention but also from the intersection of invention with others, their inventions, and all desire combined with experience, opportunity and environment.

For example I have never been a journal writer because I always felt it too much like talking to myself. I find the quality of blogging to provide an important qualitative difference, intentional publicity and interactivity, but while it is more personal and *one to one* it still reminds me of conducting a play in front of an audience.

To that extent I prefer the forum as the medium of exchange as it holds less power for each and more collectively. The dialog is less 1-2-1 and more amorphous in character with no one individual able to really hold court or micro manage the dialog.

Being a person that simply always tries to say what I feel inside and intend to mean even when I don't succeed i have not felt the desire to speak secrets because I try to live a life without them.

The irony I found when living in a glass house and getting rid of the curtains is that no one will care to watch then. Even more strange is the fact that once you are without anything to hide some will resent your freedom from that yoke and still others will cower and try to hide from you for they no their secrets expose them as hiding.

It is strange because those that seek this freedom rarely do it to inflict anything on others but because the wish to purge themselves of the burden of secretes and duplicity, yet as we are a social species this level of total exposure of the self frightens more than reassures most others.

Sometimes it exposes our grotesqueness, others just shared jokes no else understands but most often it invokes the fear reaction that others become aware of our agony.

A pain that few possess the strength to allow their empathy to share. It is fear that makes us keep secrets and it takes courage to starts the journal. Perhaps it requires desperation to bare one's soul to another, and then from there to all others.

The web mind is awakening do you see?

Reviax

I hear what you say about forums. Yes, I agree, however, what I have found is that you have to tow the line of the theme. Ideas run wild without discussion. As I never had a confidant to express my deepest thoughts to, I used my journals to bring my feelings into the light. To see them as they are and in the process they become transformed. It very clearly reveals patterns, which is something that interests me. To find within what seems chaos, reason. In secrecy life is conceived and secrecy it unfolds and develops, until it is ready to push its way through the soil into the light. Will there ever be a time that we have no secrets? As long as the unknown exists, I do not think so. There are so many layers to being human, such immense complexity, always-another secret to unearth. Who even knows all the secrets about themselves? The deeper you go the more mysterious it becomes.

The web mind, interesting. I see it as the physical equivalent to Teilhardt de Chardin's Noosphere. A process that occurs, not through loss of individuality, but through a mutual enfolding of the most personal inwardness of each individual as is experienced through love. I will reveal myself out of love not fear.

I hope what I said was not heard a critical I think there is more than enough room in the noosphere for both forums and blogs, I was only talking of my own experience and learning to appreciate the differences.

I admire your ability to write journals for it implies a type of introspection that I may not be able to do. I simply was comparing notes not being critical.

As for the nosphere becoming tangible through these efforts and the mistaken fear may have of losing individuality, well again I agree.

I think something is happening that is a summation of human spirit not a machine takeover but like a vast tapestry in which we are each represent one knot, the image of what is emerging is lost to most for their proximity while intimate is almost too close and the amount of the image they actually perceive is minuscule.

Reviax

Reviax, not at all, I welcome different perspectives. It makes me look in places that I would not have thought of. So true that the amount of the image perceived in general, is so minuscule. Within each bit lies a piece of the puzzle. Thank you for your input.