01-14-2013, 04:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-14-2013, 06:18 PM by Tenet Nosce.)
Last night while browsing, I found a thread that seems to have since been erased...?
I believe there was a request for discussion about how this forum could more closely emulate a 4D environment. Not exactly sure if that was it... but I think it was the general gist.
Anyhow, I had some discussion to contribute. So I will make it here.
In a word: Transparency.
If, for example, it were possible for every member to view every other member's activity in the forum... not just their posts, but actually which threads they were reading and their actual navigation path through the forum... then it would be simple to discern who was lurking, who was trolling, and who was actually creeping and stalking other members.
Similarly, if we were to take the "P" out of the "PM" system and instead every message that was sent between members was transparently available for all other members to see, then it would be clear who were the gossips, the trash-talkers, the instigators, and the manipulators, all the while attempting to present a false front or playing the "innocent victim" in the public side of the forum.
Of course, this will probably never happen. Nor am I suggesting it as a real possibility. Just musing out loud about what would make this forum more 4D-like.
Yet, I would surmise this paucity of honesty is precisely why we are here in this 3D environment, and not in a 4D environment where all of these things would be completely transparent, and where there would be no "behind the scenes" from which people could be pulling strings, playing two sides against the middle, gossiping and trash-talking, and engaging in other forms of spiritually adolescent behaviors.
If we were capable of behaving ourselves in 4D environment- we would be in one, rather than here in this environment, playing "hide n seek" with each other in this childish fashion, and complaining about why we need to follow all these "stupid rules."
Consider this... it is even possible for two 4D entities to have a conversation about a third 4D party without the third-party knowing about it?
I believe there was a request for discussion about how this forum could more closely emulate a 4D environment. Not exactly sure if that was it... but I think it was the general gist.
Anyhow, I had some discussion to contribute. So I will make it here.
In a word: Transparency.
If, for example, it were possible for every member to view every other member's activity in the forum... not just their posts, but actually which threads they were reading and their actual navigation path through the forum... then it would be simple to discern who was lurking, who was trolling, and who was actually creeping and stalking other members.
Similarly, if we were to take the "P" out of the "PM" system and instead every message that was sent between members was transparently available for all other members to see, then it would be clear who were the gossips, the trash-talkers, the instigators, and the manipulators, all the while attempting to present a false front or playing the "innocent victim" in the public side of the forum.
Of course, this will probably never happen. Nor am I suggesting it as a real possibility. Just musing out loud about what would make this forum more 4D-like.
Yet, I would surmise this paucity of honesty is precisely why we are here in this 3D environment, and not in a 4D environment where all of these things would be completely transparent, and where there would be no "behind the scenes" from which people could be pulling strings, playing two sides against the middle, gossiping and trash-talking, and engaging in other forms of spiritually adolescent behaviors.
If we were capable of behaving ourselves in 4D environment- we would be in one, rather than here in this environment, playing "hide n seek" with each other in this childish fashion, and complaining about why we need to follow all these "stupid rules."
Consider this... it is even possible for two 4D entities to have a conversation about a third 4D party without the third-party knowing about it?
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