04-17-2011, 08:59 AM
(04-17-2011, 08:40 AM)zenmaster Wrote: This is unfortunate (or is it really?), because in this illusion the unbridled predominance of intuition will tend to keep an entity from the greater polarizations due to the vagaries of intuitive perception.
I will add to it that psychological projection of our emotional state to the words presented can further distort the range of understanding, in my opinion.
Let us say that someone was fired from their job, then on the board the same day, anything said even obliquely critical may immediately trigger an inner tsunami. It may be poured onto the forum in words, but more often than not, it would be suppressed inside and let out in small doses over an extended period across different posts. The person who initially triggered the emotional tsunami would most likely be targeted through the period, even though, in the original post, the referent poster had no clue or knowledge about the former's psychological state. To put it bluntly, it was not the individual's problem.
On top of that, when responding to someone, it is quite likely that we may operate from the wellspring of our stereotyped image of the other. A tendency we may most likely catch if we are careful in analyzing our thoughts while posting.