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Subject: Discussion board Author: Merv [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 22:40:44 01/07/04 Wed Sunny Wrote: Written communication is also conducive, even victim of MISUNDERSTANDING/misinterpretation very often! Surely every reader can remember a time when they were told they were arrogant, judgemental, resentful or something that they absolutely, honestly 100% were not...at the time! I know I have, and this further brought my awareness to the fact that we write from our frame of mind and heart, and every individual reader reads it filtering it through their frame of mind at the moment. OY VEY..indeed! I have been accused of having emotions I DID NOT have, by some posters I respect and know are pretty savvy...so... Merv: Yes. That is true....and this can cause anger which then starts to bounce back and forth. There is a tendency to misinterpret and accuse falsely on a message board depending on how hostile your mind set is in the first place. Sunny: proves to me that the written word is at the mercy of gross misunderstanding. I can't say it enough, that if Roy had never been on radio and we had never heard his voice, and he had started posting all of his strongest LOVE on his board, at various times each of us would have thought he sounded venomous, at least once, etc...surely you get my point. Merv: Yes. However Roy is on a radio program answering inqueries from listeners who are looking for help from him. The list members are not answering questions and they are not the authority that is dishing out "tough love". When you call Roy you know the possibilities if you have listened to him before. I don't think tough love works as well in writing. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]