Spontaneous Musings

One of the drawbacks of reading one's flist on Sat and Sunday morning - is that you are reading these posts "one-five" days after they've been posted, in which case, you really can't respond to them...well you can, but don't expect the writer to remember what in the heck they wrote or understand the context of your response. Be like waiting five days to respond to an email. Letter's this was doable. IM messaging, lj posts, and emails - in an age in which everyone has instant access and apparently 0 patience, not so much.

The other drawback - is it is a tad overwhelming to read 100 posts in two hours. Although fun too. I scan. Also most people just post pictures or five sentences - so not a problem.

There were, however, at least five different posts, I'd love to comment on. One that really intrigued me was by rahirah and it sort of covered everyone elses' as a theme:

The fact is, when something is important to us, we want to fit it into our pre-existing structure of Important Stuff, a structure we've been building since we were two years old and that rotten kid next door stole our fire engine. Love or duty? Justice or mercy? Pleasure or virtue? Relatives or absolutes? False dichotomies or excluded middles?

We all construct our own moral geometries, be they Euclidean or hyperbolic or absolute, and when parallel lines comes along, we'll force them to meet - or not - based more upon our own expectations than upon the behavior of the lines. But the lines, however we interpret them, will remain. Chugging off towards infinity, two by two.

The context? Oh, an old fandom battle over the ability of a vampire without a soul to be redeemed.

Within the comments of this post, was another equally interesting bit, by peasant
about how sometimes you just want to explore something, discuss it - you don't care if people agree or disagree - you are not attempting to persuade, you are merely sharing your thoughts.
Which is what I'm doing here, by the by. But some people don't seem to get that - they feel the need to persuade you, convince.

Other interesting bits courtesy of flist:
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DVR's are really cool things by the way. Apparently I can now, rewind, fastforward and pass during a live television broadcast, even re-watch bits while it is live. Sooo cool.

Finished making gluten-free brownies, filled out some forms for tomorrow, and just vegging.
Low-key day.