D2's Friday Five, Internet Absurdities

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[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

I gave your phrase a high absurdity rating for two reasons:

1. It included the phrase "online sensei"
2. You would be unlikely to have an online sensei at all if it weren't for your parents teaching you things like how to read. Not to mention other basic skills like, say, feeding yourself. And providing you the education that allowed you to get online in the first place. So I think any online sensei would have a lot of catching up to do, even if you find his teachings more applicable in the present.

[ex-roomette173.livejournal.com]

I agree.

Probably because right now I'm teaching a baby to eat, which is a royal pain and not not nearly as instinctual as I thought. And potty training. One can't get far without potty training - right?

As far as senseis go, does it matter if a teacher is online or not? I have to mull that one over.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

As far as senseis go, does it matter if a teacher is online or not? I have to mull that one over.
Buddhist koan sound.

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

While parents may instill the basics of life through example and instruction (and not all parents teach their children to read, remember), there comes a point when some parents just shrug their shoulders and say things like "find out yourself."

If the phrase had included the word "good" before parents, I would completely agree with you. However, I have known many people that had to learn about life themselves, and sometimes having someone to help you up that slippery slope, be it an online sensei or someone face to face, can be better than going it on your own.

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

I dunno, it seems like letting someone lay all the tough groundwork, and then say that someone else teaches you more about life because he makes a few good posts is a cop out ;)

Of course, all parents, just like all online senseis, are not created equal.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Actually the cop out would be saying that you don't know which has more value...the teachings of your parents or the teachings of your sensei.

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

I indeed know people who met their SO online, but I only know these people online. So I don't *really* know them I guess, they're not people I chat with regularly either.




As for the absurdities on the net : some people will rather believe what a website tells them, even if IRL they experience that it isn't true. But because it's on the net ( which replaces the age-old adagio "if it's printed, it's true" ) they will still claim that's not how it goes.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

[sarcasm]But, I can link to it! It's gotta be real if I can link to it, right?[/sarcasm]

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

exactly.

[blergeatkitty.livejournal.com]

I have to say that the Internet is responsible for me meeting my significant other even if we didn't meet there.

Because through LiveJournal, I met laughingirl, through her I met alcestis, through her I met dujrock and through him I met Kip.

Ta-dah. The Internet is responsible for everything.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

The six degrees of Blerg...

[baronbrian.livejournal.com]

I actually met my wife online.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! ;)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Almost anyone can teach you more about life than your own parents.

Parents are there to be reacted against and/or ignored.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Parents are there to be reacted against and/or ignored.
I'm going to have to say that's a pretty strong statement...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I speak as a parent.

But mainly I speak as a son who was disrespected by his parents. I've got issues.....

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Join the club. ^_^

[stella-x3x3.livejournal.com]

As for the kind of...



I choose that because it is me.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you, Lana.

[stella-x3x3.livejournal.com]

=D. I love him.

[exrandu.livejournal.com]

The only thing a parent can teach you that the internet cannot is how to access the internet.

Since you can't learn if you're not there.

[exrandu.livejournal.com]

However, anyone can learn from a parent, but it takes a sort of intelligence to be able to teach one's self.

[exrandu.livejournal.com]

Furthermore, I met my SO online.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I see.

(Just makin' the point, that's all.)

[exrandu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sorry about the multiple comments there. I had just gotten back from my trip and was being rather scatter-brained.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I see.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I see.

[gentleeleos.livejournal.com]

My fiance, Q, and I met online. But we also met very quickly thereafter in person.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I see. So eHarmony is more of a matchmaking service than a dating service. ;)

More seriously, I would say there's nothing inherently absurd about meeting someone through the Internet. After all, it's a form of communication like any other. Just a bit absurd to this arrogant jerk, that's all. ;)