Archive for June 7th, 2008
What’s the difference?
subtitle: Standing your ground vs. falling on your face.
subsubtitle: What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
Witches, witches everywhere, and not a drop to drink. The Internet provides a unique opportunity to offend someone without realizing it. In “Real Life”, you can see and often recognize the effect your words are having on the person you are speaking to. Even as the words come out of your mind and over your tongue.
The Internet doesn’t provide this kind of “Real Time” response. You have to wait until someone has reacted to your words before you realize they were taken differently than you meant them.
Before I go any further, I want to make a subtle distinction between action and reaction. I don’t believe reaction is a sin. I’ll have to define this a little more to make the distinction; by reaction, I mean a mental, emotional or physiological response to some stimulus or action by someone or something around us.
There are all kinds of sermons, lessons, even entire religions based on controlling and/or modifying these reactions, but they pretty much boil down to learning to control the actions one takes based on these reactions. These actions can be sin. Or the resistance to sin.
This should be pretty obvious to you aliens, right? (grin) More after the more break.
