To Much Discussion About Me or You!

Joseph Burgo said:
"What I long for, and find rare, is the kind of conversation where we’re not talking about me or you but about an idea or current event, maybe a good book one of us has read. I enjoy the back-and-forth of discussion, one person adding to or disputing what someone else has just said. I want to feel I’ve learned something, or that in the conversational give-and-take, we’ve both come to a new understanding."

I find facebook a blessing to me, just as Joseph Burgo expresses his desire for conversation to be about concepts and current events, rather than personal accomplishments and adventures.

Our culture is full of bragging in order to elevate oneself. A little discussion on these things is alright, but when this is all we encounter or mostly what we encounter, that's when I exit the scene.

Learning about people, not the things they've done, but their beliefs and ideas about life and God are far more interesting than their accomplishments, although their accomplishments say a little about them, they do not give a picture of what is going on inside of them.

Getting to know a person is far more than knowing the things they do even though those the things they do can be one out of many clues!