Comments on: Slow Language and dealing with internet noise http://principleddiscovery.com/2009/08/12/slow-language-and-dealing-with-internet-noise/ If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do? --Psalm 11:3 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:53:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Cathi-Lyn Dyck http://principleddiscovery.com/2009/08/12/slow-language-and-dealing-with-internet-noise/comment-page-1/#comment-1098895 Cathi-Lyn Dyck Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:18:38 +0000 http://principleddiscovery.com/?p=1217#comment-1098895 I need quiet time after everyone goes to bed. (Like now.) I tend to be overwhelmed by internal noise anyway, but I find the internet can make it worse at times. Today, we were out sailing, and all 6 of us were on the boat. Forget listening to the water lap the hull. Forget hearing the breeze in the sails. The kid static was almost unbearable. We've tried to use boat time to teach them to be listeners, but it seems to drive them frantic. Now, they're not netizens, or very computer-oriented at all. Nor do they watch a lot of TV. So how does a moment's quiet make them crazy? Is there something I've failed to teach them? Sometimes I wonder. I need quiet time after everyone goes to bed. (Like now.) I tend to be overwhelmed by internal noise anyway, but I find the internet can make it worse at times.

Today, we were out sailing, and all 6 of us were on the boat. Forget listening to the water lap the hull. Forget hearing the breeze in the sails. The kid static was almost unbearable. We’ve tried to use boat time to teach them to be listeners, but it seems to drive them frantic.

Now, they’re not netizens, or very computer-oriented at all. Nor do they watch a lot of TV. So how does a moment’s quiet make them crazy? Is there something I’ve failed to teach them? Sometimes I wonder.

]]> By: Dana http://principleddiscovery.com/2009/08/12/slow-language-and-dealing-with-internet-noise/comment-page-1/#comment-1098864 Dana Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:49:22 +0000 http://principleddiscovery.com/?p=1217#comment-1098864 Shawna, right now, two of my children are running in a circle through the house yelling "Charge!" I'm longing for the quiet of last night as I wrote this, even with the baby just beginning to fuss. I can only take so much of "just noise." Shawna, right now, two of my children are running in a circle through the house yelling “Charge!” I’m longing for the quiet of last night as I wrote this, even with the baby just beginning to fuss. I can only take so much of “just noise.”

]]> By: Shawna http://principleddiscovery.com/2009/08/12/slow-language-and-dealing-with-internet-noise/comment-page-1/#comment-1098859 Shawna Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:43:59 +0000 http://principleddiscovery.com/?p=1217#comment-1098859 The inability to hear myself think drives me beyond frustration. Noise--I feel violated by the constant noise... and then after a bit too much quiet and reflecting, I seek it. We live in much too noisy a society, imo. Hearing oneself think seems to be fading from our human experience. I watch my youngest child and he seems lost if there isn't noise and activity around him. Of course he is quite the extrovert; he thinks by talking; he makes sense of his world out loud. That is beyond my abilities, or even my desires. I like having a private world of my own, in which I can think, create, ponder... and nobody is there to interrupt or critique or divert. Which characterizes my relationship? It's a constant battle in which the noise is winning. The inability to hear myself think drives me beyond frustration. Noise–I feel violated by the constant noise… and then after a bit too much quiet and reflecting, I seek it.

We live in much too noisy a society, imo. Hearing oneself think seems to be fading from our human experience. I watch my youngest child and he seems lost if there isn’t noise and activity around him. Of course he is quite the extrovert; he thinks by talking; he makes sense of his world out loud. That is beyond my abilities, or even my desires. I like having a private world of my own, in which I can think, create, ponder… and nobody is there to interrupt or critique or divert.

Which characterizes my relationship? It’s a constant battle in which the noise is winning.

]]> By: JJ Ross http://principleddiscovery.com/2009/08/12/slow-language-and-dealing-with-internet-noise/comment-page-1/#comment-1098856 JJ Ross Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:30:27 +0000 http://principleddiscovery.com/?p=1217#comment-1098856 Slow language, my specialty! ;-) I've even been called impenetrable! Slow language, my specialty! ;-)
I’ve even been called impenetrable!

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