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The "WAY" people have conversations today. Your famous quote to describe conversation in 2011:

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edited October 2011 in Buddhism Today
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  • riverflowriverflow Veteran
    What was true in the mid-1960s is still true today, if not more so... from Thomas Merton:

    "When men live huddled together without true communication, there seems to be a greater sharing, and a more genuine communion. But this is not communion, only immersion in the general meaninglessness of countless slogans and clichés repeated over and over again so that in the end one listens without hearing and responds without thinking. The constant din of empty words and machine noises, the endless booming of loudspeakers end by making true communication and true communion almost impossible...
    Mere living alone does not isolate a man, mere living together does not bring men into communion."


  • riverflowriverflow Veteran
    Just imagine what Merton would've thought about the internet! :hair:
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