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Baraka_Guru · 11-01-2010, 08:03 AM

I think the problem for many—well, for me at least—is that it's a situation of too much information. A distinction should be made between information and knowledge/wisdom. A distinction should be made between useless/trivial information and interesting/discovery-based information.

I think it's a situation of too much information. We can only process it so fast, and we often gloss over and filter out information before we can do anything meaningful with it because we move on to something else. There is always more information to be had. There is always more information that we can ever take in. It's like an all-you-can-eat buffet and we're never sated.

I regret not spending more valuable time with something as powerful yet unwieldy as the Internet. For example, I wish I would spend much more time at places such as UbUWeb than I do at places like Facebook, YouTube, and Wikipedia.

I've fallen into a rut on the Internet, where I spend 99% of my time here at TFP and at Facebook, YouTube, and Wikipedia. I need to branch out to something more diverse and valuable—more knowledge/wisdom, less information.

11-01-2010, 08:03 AM	#3 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru warrior bodhisattva Super Moderator Location: East-central Canada	I think the problem for many—well, for me at least—is that it's a situation of too much information. A distinction should be made between information and knowledge/wisdom. A distinction should be made between useless/trivial information and interesting/discovery-based information. I think it's a situation of too much information. We can only process it so fast, and we often gloss over and filter out information before we can do anything meaningful with it because we move on to something else. There is always more information to be had. There is always more information that we can ever take in. It's like an all-you-can-eat buffet and we're never sated. I regret not spending more valuable time with something as powerful yet unwieldy as the Internet. For example, I wish I would spend much more time at places such as UbUWeb than I do at places like Facebook, YouTube, and Wikipedia. I've fallen into a rut on the Internet, where I spend 99% of my time here at TFP and at Facebook, YouTube, and Wikipedia. I need to branch out to something more diverse and valuable—more knowledge/wisdom, less information. __________________ Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing? —Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön Humankind cannot bear very much reality. —From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 11-01-2010 at 08:10 AM..