MrBishop
Well-Known Member
The internet is becomming a place to meet people. People who you would normally not have had any opportunity to meet, converse with, argue with...or...fall in love with!
The world is getting smaller, and geography just isn't the wall that it used to be. In one day, I can talk with people literally all over the world, and that's just here on OTC. If you include email, I have most of the world in my virtual pocket. I've gotten to know people...some of which I consider good friends, and most of whom, I have never met face-to-face, nor do I think, I ever shall...unless I get rich quickly.
Love - an emotion linked with finding someone who has the same/similar thoughts, feelings, joys, pains, likes and dislikes as you do. IRL, this is linked with that person's looks as well... online, people can exchange photos, video, econference...but it's not the same thing really...so it tends to fall back to people being attracted to each other through their 'selves'...that is...who they are beneath their skins.
If you consider that IRLove is often linked to lust for at least the first 8-10 moths, where sex is something that you do when you're not asleep, and you sleep as little as possible, and that internet love doesn't have such a direct-contact, couldn't it be said that since e-Love isn't muddled with lust that it is a more pure love?
Are internet freindships likewise, more pure?
hmmm???
The world is getting smaller, and geography just isn't the wall that it used to be. In one day, I can talk with people literally all over the world, and that's just here on OTC. If you include email, I have most of the world in my virtual pocket. I've gotten to know people...some of which I consider good friends, and most of whom, I have never met face-to-face, nor do I think, I ever shall...unless I get rich quickly.
Love - an emotion linked with finding someone who has the same/similar thoughts, feelings, joys, pains, likes and dislikes as you do. IRL, this is linked with that person's looks as well... online, people can exchange photos, video, econference...but it's not the same thing really...so it tends to fall back to people being attracted to each other through their 'selves'...that is...who they are beneath their skins.
If you consider that IRLove is often linked to lust for at least the first 8-10 moths, where sex is something that you do when you're not asleep, and you sleep as little as possible, and that internet love doesn't have such a direct-contact, couldn't it be said that since e-Love isn't muddled with lust that it is a more pure love?
Are internet freindships likewise, more pure?
hmmm???