Roger Morrison wrote:
What about it Doc, is the Mormonized structure open for discussion?
Everything is open for discussion.
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Personally, I think "exposure" broadens, strengthens and immunizes one to handle life, than does cloistering, insulating and isolation...
And you're entitled to your opinion.
Certainly all of us have been exposed to the very worst stuff you find here ad nauseum out there in the real world. To use your words, we've all been strengthened. We've all been immunized. We can all handle life.
But when we're home, kicked back with our shoes off, some of us want to escape all that. When we're surfing a message board after a hard day at work, we don't want to be exposed to the same stuff we've been exposed to all day long already. This board is, at the end of the day, a form of enlightenment and entertainment for the people who visit and/or participate. Therefore, it should offer people a certain refuge from daily life. To use your words again, when people surf message boards, they do it because it brings enjoyment, so they sometimes want cloistering, insulating, and isolation. Just like how when you're on vacation, you want cloistering, insulation, and isolation from what you deal with the rest of the year at work.
See how that works?
(Ironically MSN Sympatico's home page this AM features an article, "...Nastiness On The Internet". Worth reading to gain further understanding of the topic.)
"See how that works?": Well appreciated and understood! However, i question: "We can all handle life." "ALL" is too much of a generalization IF it is to suggest "equally well". Obviously we can't, and don't, as some message boards reveal; for too many reasons to go into here.
Am i picking up that "This board..." is a form of 'escapism'? Such as doing a 'Cross-Word' might be: "enlightening and entertaining"?
I think you might have misappropriated my words, "cloistering..." et al, from my meaning of the negatives of parochialism and segregation, to yours of Happy Holidays?? Yet too, that's very subjective. Some choose challenge and adventure for vacation time... Some what irrelevant to the discussion of how best to build a responsible community of posters...
Maybe there is a better-way (there always is :-)... Thoughts??? Warm regards, Roger