Got a question Now what ?

[jadedmosaic.livejournal.com]

Hi Its me Toni and Shelby and Jade and Elaine here,

We have a question. We thought if we were writing in our own personal journals we could write as much as we wanted and use whatever fonts and not worry about Lj cuts. Now I am confused if something from our personal journal we just wrote made a problem for the commuity, I am sorry but I thought it was kinda personal so went into Outlook and got creative with the text and copied it into the journal. I didnet know we had to do Lj cuts in our personal journal! Do we? Or should we lock private when we want to write like about are day and have allot to say?Thanks the mosaics

Alexander

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, everyone, for letting Alexander have free reign to say whatever the heck he wants to, especially when he pushes me aside when I'm posting as fayanora. He has his good points, but he has the unfortunate tendency to define himself by his anger. We keep telling him not to sully the body with his anger, and it doesn't help. Gods, though... I'm just glad to know I have control over him now if I exercise it. (Before I understood what was going on, I didn't understand where his anger kept coming from.)

From now on, he's confined to his own journal. And I'm going to make him write positive entries now and then, see if we can cure him of his anger problems. He is so much more than his anger*, but he's afraid to let go of that since I guess he sees himself as protector... I hope I can teach him that he'll still be around without his anger. Wish me luck, please. (Though it's not hopeless... I used to think he had no sense of humor at all, but I recently got him to laugh with genuine mirth.)

Blessings;
---Fayanora-Tristan

* For example, he's great to debate with (at least within our system), though it takes a lot of concentration and carefully chosen words for me to diffuse his anger.

Some observations on communication

[stealthdragon.livejournal.com]

I'm finding that when someone is at the front, it's clear that they're thinking in words. As one gets farther from the front, thoughts communicated to the fronter seem to be stripped of language - closer to pure concept. It makes communication a bit difficult, since the fronter often has to stop and parse whatever concept was just handed to them.

Since language is linked to memory, this may be why most of us don't have the same kind of access to memories of when we're not fronting. On the other hand, none of us seem to notice any subjective difference between thinking in a way that the others percieve as words, and in a way that comes across as wordless.

Does anyone else have this sort of thing going on? And if so, have you found anything in particular that makes communication easier?

Thanks,
-Us