Things like Sl seem even more insignificant than ever.

hear ya

you'll have to forgive - i think so many things today and just cleaned a bathroom with bleach and no ventilation. AND sometimes my instincts are faster than my brain can flesh out what i mean...

but i disagree that things like SL are insignificant. SL is a platform wherein we have the ability to reach people, persons - we have the ability to make ripples in the pond.

talking out how you feel is absolutely not insignificant. i often stop myself from doing and saying because of a shitty little goddamn southern voice (named something, i'm not being anti southern, she

happened to be from the south so the goddamn voice is a twang) in the back of my head says no, stop... you don't matter and no one cares what you think.

but that's fucking bullshit.

because EVEN if you disagree with me - we are HAVING the conversation, giving it life - it will affect us both and from there it ripples out and it might not be visible or obvious but goddammit that can do

some real fucking good some day

I don't know about forgiveness in this matter even though I know that in the end it is the only way to move on. I think there are times that anger is justified. I don't condone violence or see it as a solution

I see it as a symptom. Just like depression can be seen as anger turned inward.

ding ding ding (am on the phone, but that's part of what i was going to ramble in a sec)

awww, yeah Apatia. Perfect. That's exactly why SL matters. It brings people together in a way they would never be together in a non-virtual world. It allows a level of honest discourse that we all need

with people we might otherwise not

it is absolutely a symptom of systemic problems that go far beyond this immediate situation.

absolutely

and go far beyond this country's borders.

it is the institutional disenfranchisement of one people by another people, which does not only happen here.

I think it's good to be able to talk about issues that bother you and that is never trivial. One thing that the internet does give us is a way to communicate and make friends with the world

Maybe one day that will help the violence stop everywhere