Accept Nothing, Challenge Everything

This Question of the Week really attacted me.
Like there was some sort of connection.
So I felt compelled to share my thoughts on this.
My entry may be a little wild due to my perception of what the question is asking.

Stop the press. I have been told to inject humour into this entry in order to keep the people with short attention spans and no real direction in reading interested. So on that fair point, serious readers have the 1-up on you. This means all others fail at Mario games. No but I'm not in the mood at the moment, which was the whole point of the entry. So could you please bear with me before I bring sharp pointy sticks up in your direction.

Sorry if you don't like formality, when I get extremely formal/technical, its probably because its something personal and I try to de-emotionalise it to protect myself.

As my life progressed, I increasingly became aware and interested in social interactions, both through online communication and in real life. This branching probe of curiousity stems from the way of thinking that has been refined over the past four years. The result of this was the construction of unusual social situations just to see how certain aspects of humanity reacted. I have experiments with social psychology, designed to locate more definite parameters to social dogma as well as trying to remove inhibitions and/or other standards of humanity.

Communication wise, experience has seemed to prove that somethings are easier said online, yet would be more meaningful said in real life. Some of you may have realised this already, as I know others who agree with the above. It is easier to express feelings online, as all that is required is the input of a few typed characters and the click of the 'send' button. However, the degree of influence that these words have grow diminishingly low as the emotions expressed have been done too many times, often under different intentions and thus one just disregards the meaning all together. The most common example of this is the three word phrase "I love you." Online, this serves little impact due to the failure to impart voice, facial expressions and gestures on the recipient. These three qualities are the foundation for successful communication and sadly is only effect in real life. But in short term, online communication is fast, versatile, adaptable and allows general conversations. It is also barely acceptable to break bad news over online communication as it is much easier, psychologically, on the speaker. However, arguements online are virtually fruitless as it comes down to typing speed and repeated immature insults. Online, it is a lot harder to make someone understand.

Real life communication is infinitely more rewarding, and I say so with the clearest example in my mind. Even if your spoken words do not fully convey your intentions, the look in your eyes and other non-verbal indicators can definitely impart the most vivid emotion. That moment of total understanding between one person and another. Though for me, it is a slightly harder thing to achieve, real life communication. Not giving the impression that I am a total social degenerate but the way I have progressed mentally and emotionally is a double edged sword which allows me to be an excellent listener naturally but makes it harder to impart my personal emotions.

When we chase communication and deny any motive is it even worth it? To bond for no reason that you will accept except for the sake of it and prehaps rationalise that it will be useful in the future. Why can it not have a use now? Why not that that risk – because taking that risk could, within seconds, destroy a reputation that was years in the making. Then what good is a reputation where you yourself cannot experience more intimate encounters despite fears and instead confine yourself to play the puppetmaster and guardian. But then maybe it is because you know it is not the time or maybe you just delude yourself with that so you find the incentive to go through each day.

Away from me, online in general seems to be the save haven of virtual reality that some people decide is better than the harshness of real life. It is those people who spend more time on the computer, on networking sites talking to people they have never met with a friends list of six hundred and thirty two people they do not know who have chosen to foresake reality and conveniently remove themselves from the human gene pool. Online people can be whoever they want to be, further slipping away from the restraints of real life. There, they can be some sort of idol where in real life they are a deadbeat failure of a garbage collecter. No offense to carbage collectors. That said, there still remains an element of privacy in that form. Of course, not all of us seem content to leave things as it is.

AxiomFable – lit 'A truth that is assumed to be self evident.' and 'A deliberately false or improbable account.'

This encompasses the Machiavellianism side of me, where there is always the base possibility of deception and miscommunication. However, to clarify on that matter, I do not act much differently from real life and the online persona besides the anonymity. By the removal of all triggers of stereotypes and stigma, I have attempted to gain at least a neutral standing in my endevours.

~AxiomFable