what is poetry?

[Scheherazade]

Merged with another similar thread, which has also been started by Blaze.

[SleepyWitch]

Technology has defintely triggered our capacities for sharing. Yet I feel or am nostalgic about a time when I used to write a letter to my friend on paper and get it posted and the effect of that is more profoyund than the email now I use in its stead.

what's preventing you from writing snail mails? does the invention of the car mean your not allowed to walk if you wish to?
i write snail mail letters to people all the time, and I think it's a bit black and white to claim that real letters = profound, email= superficial. you'd be surprised at the amount of meaningless dribble people can write in a snail mail (including myself)

Uncle Virgil, you are so predictable after I read halfway through your post I was about to hit the reply botton and say "yeah, and what would you do without toilet paper?"... (wipe our a**** with grass probably) hehe, if you go on like this, I'll write you a letter on toiletpaper one day . hehe, please don't be cross, I agree with you for a change. technology and emotions are certainly not mutually exclusive. i'd even hazard to say that with technology taking some work off our shoulders we've got more time left to 'wallow' in our emotions.

[Virgil]

I agree with several above posts in that it is very difficult and wrong to judge the world on such a black and white basis of ¨evil technology¨ and ¨human feeling¨. Technology, like art and poetry, is a creation of mankind, used for many shades of bad and good.

Very well said, Drama.

Uncle Virgil, you are so predictable after I read halfway through your post I was about to hit the reply botton and say "yeah, and what would you do without toilet paper?"... (wipe our a**** with grass probably) hehe, if you go on like this, I'll write you a letter on toiletpaper one day . hehe, please don't be cross, I agree with you for a change. technology and emotions are certainly not mutually exclusive. i'd even hazard to say that with technology taking some work off our shoulders we've got more time left to 'wallow' in our emotions.

Hehehe, I'm not cross. I guess being here almost two years now, there is not much different than i can say. As to the toilet paper, I was reaching for an example so mundane and yet so palpable that one could feel the difference. Plus toilet paper is made out of wood, and i love the image of cutting down trees (the horror! ) and grinding it down with machinery just so man can live better lives. Nature is there for us to use, not the other way around. If you disagree, then go live like a cave man and see if you like it.

[SleepyWitch]

I don't wanna argue about environmental issues with you (at least not at the moment) I was just teasing you about the toilet paper because you've used that example so many times before.

[Niamh]

moved from general literature

[blazeofglory]

what's preventing you from writing snail mails? does the invention of the car mean your not allowed to walk if you wish to?
i write snail mail letters to people all the time, and I think it's a bit black and white to claim that real letters = profound, email= superficial. you'd be surprised at the amount of meaningless dribble people can write in a snail mail (including myself)

Uncle Virgil, you are so predictable after I read halfway through your post I was about to hit the reply botton and say "yeah, and what would you do without toilet paper?"... (wipe our a**** with grass probably) hehe, if you go on like this, I'll write you a letter on toiletpaper one day . hehe, please don't be cross, I agree with you for a change. technology and emotions are certainly not mutually exclusive. i'd even hazard to say that with technology taking some work off our shoulders we've got more time left to 'wallow' in our emotions.

Not always technology has been an impediment, and not mutually exclusive either. In my case I am a Nepali. I write in English and technology helps me to write, like computers, the internet, even dictionaries etc.