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cross-posted misfit? or misperception? for lil your posts always make me think i may not respond to each one but be assured my neurons spin a lil faster after reading every lil message! i believe that the concept of mis fit is a mis perception fit is a judgment call what may appear to fit today may not appear to fit tomorrow depending on how tinted or scrubbed or crazed our lenses are this medium can be seen as a miracle in potential communication if that is what we crave this medium can be seen as a spiderweb of hate and fear if that is what we dread any one thing can be seen as having any attributes which we want need or fear to attach to it the internet (just 30 yrs old) and the world wide web (just 10 yrs old) enable fast communication on a vast scale which can be used to foster tolerance or intolerance truth or illusion love or hate much like a city park can enable personal interaction on a municipal scale which can be used to foster leisure games concerts among residents or stalking drug dealing mugging against residents cyberspace offers unprecedented anonymity in communication which can be used to share ideas emotions and information without racial, religious, disability, lifestyle, and economic 'factors' getting in the way or which can be used to deceive, manipulate, promote, and misconstrue without any apparent consequences or responsibility we are in the throes of a global communications revolution we are the pioneers we are learning as we go the first flush of (possibly naive?) excitement (for me, at least) has been dampened by the cold shock of others' priorities and perceptions and subsequent actions but i would never walk into central park (say) and sit down on a bench donated by columbia university (say) and lay my emotional self bare to a stranger who simply happens to wear a nametag which declares "hi i'm joe and i have pd" would i? would you? in the same way i would never leave my grandson in the care of a stranger who simply happens to wear a nametag which declares "hi, i'm joe and i am a babysitter" would i? would you? the brilliance of the bona fide potential miracle is still there we just need to remember to brandish our raybans in order to banish potential bedazzlement janet janet paterson: an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit perky, parky . pd: 54/41/37 cd: 54/44/43 tel: 613 256 8340 email: [log in to unmask] . snail mail: 375 Country Street, Apt 301, Almonte, Ontario, Canada, K0A 1A0 . a new voice: the nnnewsletter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/janet313/ . a new voice: the wwweb site: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn