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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5047529" data-attributes="member: 18280">I think a need to communicate is important to us all.&nbsp; We would not be human if it were not.&nbsp; From that perspective, all posts (this included) come from the same taproot.I tell my children that there is a human dialogue that has been ongoing since before recorded history, in which we all participate.&nbsp; It was started with the first words, and will be finished with the last.&nbsp; It is a priviledge to be part of it.&nbsp; I believe this to be true.Sometimes I believe that it is better to be known (understood) than to be loved, and that we fling our missives out into a seemingly-hostile world so that someone might know/understand that small part of us, and in doing so we gain a form of quasi-immortality as long as the ongoing dialogue lasts.&nbsp; Long after no one remembers who Shakespeare was, his words will influence the dialogue that follows.&nbsp; So too does the first sentence spoken, though no one now knows what it was, and so too will your last post, and your next, to some degree no matter how infintesimally small or profoundly enormous.(Shrug)That's the way I see it anyway.You asked what the posters are hoping to gain.&nbsp; My answer is, the same thing you are hoping to gain from posting here.&nbsp; Communication.&nbsp; Validation.&nbsp; Another way of looking at things.&nbsp; A chance to see something that, outside of that dialogue, they would never have seen.If that is not an answer, then I am not sure what kind of an answer you are looking for.RCEDIT:&nbsp; Sorry.&nbsp; No pun for you this post.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 5047529, member: 18280"] I think a need to communicate is important to us all. We would not be human if it were not. From that perspective, all posts (this included) come from the same taproot. I tell my children that there is a human dialogue that has been ongoing since before recorded history, in which we all participate. It was started with the first words, and will be finished with the last. It is a priviledge to be part of it. I believe this to be true. Sometimes I believe that it is better to be known (understood) than to be loved, and that we fling our missives out into a seemingly-hostile world so that someone might know/understand that small part of us, and in doing so we gain a form of quasi-immortality as long as the ongoing dialogue lasts. Long after no one remembers who Shakespeare was, his words will influence the dialogue that follows. So too does the first sentence spoken, though no one now knows what it was, and so too will your last post, and your next, to some degree no matter how infintesimally small or profoundly enormous. (Shrug) That's the way I see it anyway. You asked what the posters are hoping to gain. My answer is, the same thing you are hoping to gain from posting here. Communication. Validation. Another way of looking at things. A chance to see something that, outside of that dialogue, they would never have seen. If that is not an answer, then I am not sure what kind of an answer you are looking for. RC EDIT: Sorry. No pun for you this post. :( [/QUOTE]

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