Thursday, November 20, 2008

Can we ever fully understand one another?

Its a cold Thursday night in November and I am sitting in front of a small single log fire, mentally picking apart the days conversations.  In normative shuffle of converging I'm not sure we ever really understand one another.  As John Peters points out, perhaps the closest we can get to truly understanding one another in an embrace.  Any thought we try to share can always be misconstrued, misunderstood, or never heard at all.  We then, do we even attempt to communicate?  I suppose we would be sub-human if we did not.  Is communication, or the attempt to communicate, the very fabric of socialization and culture?  Do we not long for, and desire communication, if only with ourself?  It is quite interesting to think that I can sit and have a conversation in my head, with my self, and still through thought, uncover meaning clashing into other meaning. 
In a more applicable since, I don't think we can ever expect our communication to fully mature, and as Peters suggests in his perspective, Communication as Dissemination, communication can happen in one or many places at one or many times.  It is amazing that the person sitting right in front of me still hears what I am saying after I have said it.  There is no verbal communication that is immediate and in the moment.  Perhaps only supernatural communication, taken place between angles or God and ourselves will be only perfect in the since of time.
Oh how we long for communication to happen freely, and without interruption.  The desire to understand and be understood.  What can man ask for more than that?  After all what point does any life have without someone to share it with?  If no other was around, we would not even survive, for we are nurtured with communication as we are with the bottle.  There is no avoiding it if we are to live, as there is no avoiding communication which lacks perfection in all perceivable senses. 

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

In Transition

While trying to transfer and compile previous posts from an older blog I have found myself in a social media limbo. Hopefully I can compile all posts soon, yet I may have to start from scratch.
Thanks for the patience.