h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I enjoy your thinking, Otto! Thank you for understanding
I thoroughly enjoyed your thread with Woodpigeon following your Journal entry on liberalism.
with your pondering!
I am an outsider, an onlooker and it's a pleasure to be able to relate to people's thinking

Hello, thanks for your message.

No need to be an outsider or onlooker unless you want to be - you're always welcome to chip in

Just thought this might ring a bell and make you smile:
Hristos Voskresie! (the Russian for 'Christ is risen')- pity you can't answer with 'Voistinu Voskresie!'
Did my Russian Easter greeting make you smile?
Elena

Happy Easter to you too!

I hope you had a good one. A four day weekend is always a pleasure!

Hope this finds you OK. Haven't had time nor wish to lurk recently...
Do you mind talking to a complete stranger?
How are you these days? In any terms...
Elena

Oh, I'm fine, thanks. Hope you're okay too.

There's no such thing as strangers, not on this site

Don't exaggerate, of course there is
I am glad you answer. I enjoy your quiet ways, the way you speak is comforting for the old o. I even enjoyed Cod philosiphy, much as I dislike cod.
We are having gorgeous weather, though perhaps too gorgeous for the exam season.
What's your landscape like? Do you get glimpses of nature apart from the sky and the sun?
Take care

Weather here is mixed - sunshine and showers. The dandelions and daffodils are out, and there are leaves on the trees again.

I'm glad you liked the Cod Philosophy - I didn't think anyone still read that stuff!

Hello
What still surprises me in those old texts of yours is the idea that all this playing with the net somehow does not constitute an important part of people's Real Life, this distinction between cyberlife and RL. I've heard this idea more than once since my cyber doings started, and it does seem strange. I mean, people do get intellectually and emotionally involved, don't they? Or is it only the fate of women? What do you think now?
Best regards,
Elena

I'm really sorry, Otto, if I'm bothering you with my posts - the only reason why I may hope you'll forgive me is that I don't turn up too often (being a working mother of five etc,etc)
Once in a while I go lurking - and come across somebody saying things that I can relate to. I want you to know I appreciate what you are doing. I've said it before, I'm saying it again.
Good luck,
Elena

P.S. Should my experience as an 'un-philosophising' believer be of some interest to you despite the differences in background and mentality, it would be great to try to talk to you about it.

Sorry, I meant to send you an answer but obviously never did - sorry. Very happy to talk.

I suppose the point I was trying to make wasn't that the internet wasn't important to people, and that the friends and acquaintances they make aren't important. Of course they are - just look at the phenomenon of online gaming for evidence of that.

I think I just meant that the rules of your favourite website aren't as important to you as the rules of your country or community. If this website vanished tomorrow or stopped me doing something that I liked doing here, I would be annoyed. But it could never affect me in the way that changes to, say, the health or education system might.

Of course
Every minute I spend talking to (or even thinking of) my invisible online aquaintances is stolen from the time which belongs to my family...How miserably uncharitable!
Speaking about religious experience - what is, to your mind, the most important thing that non-religious people seem to be...I'm trying to avoid saying 'missing out on'... well, don't seem to experience?
Good night, Otto, must
need a fine 'goodvibes/prayer'smiley...only I don't like smileys