Words or Pictures WAS Re: Adult Forum Needed for Adult Topics

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My question to you is this: do you respond more to the written word or

> to visual imagery?

Visual imagery and titles, typically I don't have the patients to read

in depth. My mind goes to fast and having patients for it is a

difficulty.

There are ways to understanding the world that are beyond words. I

prefer that over words.

Universals and subjectivism.

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> Okay, let me try again. My question is about preferred method of

> perception. Since I have never studied this topic formally, I'm afraid

> my language is going to be imprecise, so feel free to correct me (that

> goes for everybody).

> I love to read but it is a form of distance, boundary setting, second

> hand experience because I am hypersensitive to visuals I realize now.

> My preferred language is visual, I'm discovering as I teach myself to

> draw.

> Words feel alien, dear to me as they are. But they make me tired,

> sometimes I feel that too much of my brain has been devoted to words

> for entirely too long. Interesting to think how short a period that

> humanity has spent with the written word in any sizable percentage.

>

> My question to you is this: do you respond more to the written word or

> to visual imagery? I originally wrote about violence because

> that is what causes a reaction in many people, but you could pick

> anything that gives you joy as well. So, something that makes you very

> happy, would it give you more joy to read about it or to see it on tv?

> We don't have

> to continue with this if you don't want to, but I've been fighting

> an internal battle with myself related to this topic so thank you for

> inspiring me to 'talk' it out. :-)

>

> Jill

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