Is the current from of communication causing problems?

Question

If I could only let you feel what I feel. Do you think that communicating through verbal and written media causes us to get misconceptions because words can have so many different meanings. Nobody generally sees themselves as bad people ,but everyone is always labeling the other as "evil" or "hateful". I think if we can show everyone how we feel emotionally (chemicaly) then there might be less misunderstanding and hatred towards one another. Jimi Hendrix once said the 'politics is just a war of words a.k.a a big eago scene and that someday we may have to rely on a more earthy substance like music to communicate'. Or we might just learn how horrible the human mind really is. Do you think there is a communication form that can nurture reason and reduce the eagos and errors in describing our feelings to each other? Is this an already talked about idea?

Answer 1

Our perceptions are guided by our emotions, and our emotions are guided by our self-outlook and "filtered" by our baggage we carry from our past experience.

We each have out own perceptions, perspectives, and emotions. We are unique, just like everybody else.

Your "war of the words" refers to semantics, which is a powerful yet subtle means for implying a message without actually stating it (or taking responsibility for it).

We all have our own needs, priorities, and opinions. We all feel that our actions are justified. We have our reasons. That's called Self-preservation. Many times our views, needs, priorities, and ideas conflict with one another.

We all DO show others how we feel emotionally, even if we try to hide it. Our behavior and how we treat others is a direct reflection of how we feel inside about ourselves. We think we are fooling people when we try to hide our displeasure, insecurity, doubt, anxiety, desire, jealousy, intimidation, and contentment.

And sometimes we do fool others. But that is merely because they have their own things to be worried about or concerned with, so they can't see clearly.

When we can clear our minds of all that noise, and focus purely outside ourselves, we can see more clearly what others feel. I say "see" figuratively. It's more like "sense".

It's not likely that all of us would ever discuss our feelings with others. Lots of emotions we have are not ones we are confortable having or admitting to others. For example, ANGER is really a combination if fear, frustration, and anxiety. But ANGER is something more people will admit to having than what it really is.



By the way, it's spelled e-g-o. Ego.

Answer 2

The only way to clear up misunderstanding or the potential for misunderstandings is to keep communicating. You communicate. Someone gets 60% of what you meant. You communicate about the the 40% he missed. This time he got an additional 20% of what you originally meant. You communicate again. This time he gets another 5%. Now he understands 85% of what you meant. Sometimes you have to wait until next time around to try to get the other 15% of what you originally meant through to this person - but all you can do is keep working at it. The alternative is to allow misunderstanding to just sit forever.

I pretty much think words are the only way there can ever be factual understanding. Reason is the only thing that can overcome emotional stuff. I don't know about anyone else's, but my mind is not the least bit horrible.

Answer 3

The pondering is laudable, and I would only add that you have created a bit of an oxymoron with mixing "emotionally and (chemicaly)". There is no doubt that the downstream impact of an emotion on ones body has some chemical constituents to it, but ones emotions are within ones MIND, which are not physical in the sense they can be measured directly.

Secondly, how one feels is what ones MIND allows one to acknowledge, and feelings are usually masking the actual emotions within ones MIND. So to give expression to what one is feeling is a bit dishonest in itself. And, since ones MIND most often dissociates from ones feelings by projecting responsibility for them upon people, places, and things outside of oneself, it is often this dishonest projection that initiates misunderstanding between people. I would not encourage more of this, would you?

Jimi Hendrix was a guitarist, whose twang was a bit abrasive for me, but that's me. As for politics being a war of words, I believe not. I believe it is a politician saying whatever will, in the opinion of the politician, be acceptable to those to whom he/she is speaking.

As far as the MIND is concerned, it is simply insuring that one adhere precisely to experiencing ones Fate Karma, and the MIND does an excellent job of this. It only becomes a bit "horrible" when one wants to move in a direction other than the one ones MIND wants one to go.

Peace

Answer 4

oh yes, there are most definintely flaws in the ways we communicate now, especially if people are joking or sarcastic.