(February 11, 2015 at 5:30 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote:(February 11, 2015 at 1:03 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: This is just a suggestion, but maybe some of you should spend less time compiling lists and more time reading.
It takes about 20 seconds to add a book to my amazon wishlist and a helluva lot longer than that to read the book. It's not like if I stopped looking for new books to read I could read everything on my list in the time I'm saving.
I would reply with, you could be twenty seconds into a book... but unfortunately, tone of voice, facial expression, and body language, all are important parts of communication that are lost in online threads. I realize that there are smilies that people use, but they are a poor substitute for reality, and they also tend to give the game away immediately, as they are noticed before the text is read, even if they appear at the end (with the exception of really long posts, but even then, they are noticed long before the end of reading the text). And without these extra parts, very often people take the bare words in the worst possible way. It is one of the causes of online misunderstandings and disputes, though obviously not the only cause of such things.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
