Comments on: Voices in my head http://ultraviolet.in/2008/12/04/voices-in-my-head/ A SITE FOR INDIAN FEMINISTS Mon, 21 May 2012 04:13:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: opit http://ultraviolet.in/2008/12/04/voices-in-my-head/comment-page-1/#comment-1082 opit Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:44:55 +0000 http://youngfeminists.wordpress.com/?p=377#comment-1082 But we are so many voices, are we not ? Not that we think of ourselves that way...we suppose ourselves integrated and unified. Blogging is a particularly difficult medium as opposed to carrying on a conversation, because we must try to make things self-sufficient. I am reminded of a wry quip by a psychiatrist that became popular many years ago : people want to control many things they cannot. I do not post personal thoughts on my site much as I run it like a news resource and am not engaged in discussion. Blogging is more like talking down a well to listen to the echo ! So the uncertainty remains. Words are not just notes but rather tools of thought. As to that, we 'understand' words to mean one thing in our own way ; but there is always the flaw of imprecision. I read the Reader's Digest Condensed Book on the Charge of the Light Brigade many years ago. It was caused by lack of proper punctuation causing reversed meaning on a telegraph message! But we are so many voices, are we not ? Not that we think of ourselves that way…we suppose ourselves integrated and unified.
Blogging is a particularly difficult medium as opposed to carrying on a conversation, because we must try to make things self-sufficient. I am reminded of a wry quip by a psychiatrist that became popular many years ago : people want to control many things they cannot.
I do not post personal thoughts on my site much as I run it like a news resource and am not engaged in discussion. Blogging is more like talking down a well to listen to the echo !
So the uncertainty remains.
Words are not just notes but rather tools of thought. As to that, we ‘understand’ words to mean one thing in our own way ; but there is always the flaw of imprecision.
I read the Reader’s Digest Condensed Book on the Charge of the Light Brigade many years ago. It was caused by lack of proper punctuation causing reversed meaning on a telegraph message!

]]> By: kbw http://ultraviolet.in/2008/12/04/voices-in-my-head/comment-page-1/#comment-1081 kbw Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:29:06 +0000 http://youngfeminists.wordpress.com/?p=377#comment-1081 great post and threads....as part of day 10 on take back the tech, i discuss these threads and also the challenges/possibilities/problems of using social networking sites esp in regard to relationships, VAW, control over posting-images, adda on social networking sites and internet, how we respond to others who use our images-information, and so forth. http://pagolnari.blogspot.com/2008/12/day-10-secure-online-communications.html looking forward to more of your thought provoking posts! take care, kbw (pagol nari) great post and threads….as part of day 10 on take back the tech, i discuss these threads and also the challenges/possibilities/problems of using social networking sites esp in regard to relationships, VAW, control over posting-images, adda on social networking sites and internet, how we respond to others who use our images-information, and so forth. http://pagolnari.blogspot.com/2008/12/day-10-secure-online-communications.html

looking forward to more of your thought provoking posts!

take care,

kbw
(pagol nari)

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