Noah
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ORIGINAL: MadRabbit Let me take a shot at giving you some real answers before I log off for the day...doubt you will get many. "Real answers" Okay. quote:
I dont have experience because I have zero interest in long distance or "online training", but I can give you a healthy dose of reality from some past experiences. So Real Answers commence by contradicting themselves. I'm learning things here. quote:
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And do you feel you can really be dominated or serve a Mistress /Master online as well as in person? No, because how? Can they bring the Mistress their coffee online or cook them a steak? Short of doing Internet research or sending them money, they cant really provide a real service online. If by "online training", you mean a long distance relationship with the Internet as a medium, then the answer is still no. Even the most experienced submissives are going to have a hard time following the orders and rules of a dominant who's physical prescense isnt there. Just as the entire membership of your civil legislature must ride in your car with you if you are to be expected to obey the rule which recommends stopping at stop signs. Yes. This much is clear. Have you really and truly met someone whose ability to follow an instruction was inversely proportional to his or her distance from the source of that instruction? Well then. That's fine too. If that is the way it works for some people then God bless them. With luck the dominants who are unable to assert their will except while physically touching their partner will link up with the submissives whose submissiveness evaporates whenever master's "RT" image is no longer upon their little subbie retinas. I am all in favor of this sort of coupling, since either of these sorts would be useless as tits on a boar hog to the rest of the kinky population. quote:
My prevois submissive lived in a neighboring city and came into town to stay with me and serve. Outside of that time, I have very little influence on her life, because I wasnt going to set myself up to fail or get frustrated when she wasnt doing what I wanted long distance. Okay. Now we're getting somewhere. You saw a risk and you fled from it. That's cool. There are plenty of risks I flee from just as well. I do try to remember not to call the situations which give rise to them non-existent, though. I mean that would make me look rather silly, wouldn't it? Maybe next we can have a thread which polls people as to whether they are surprised that your timidity and fear of failure itself failed to inspire your partner to see you as someone worth submitting to. quote:
So when they say "online training", most likely what they mean is cyber/roleplaying. Not having ever met "them" I'm in a weak position to discern anything here. quote:
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Do sub/slaves really stay with it for the long term? With cyber/roleplaying, I'm sure they do. Anyone can type out a roleplaying scene online and pretend to be a slave or Mistress. Its cheap and easy thrills when people arent willing or interested in the hard realities and effort required for doing it in RT. You began by very baldly and explicitly contradicting your own account of your experiences. Now you move on to a more nuanced form of self-contradiction. Whereas earlier you said: "Even the most experienced submissives are going to have a hard time following the orders and rules of a dominant who's physical prescense isnt there..." Here you maintain that doing things in "RT" is the hard thing. Do you actually have any idea which of these two opposing opinions you'd like to hold on to at the end of the day? quote:
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How involved does the training get? Mistress : You will call me Mistress from now on Slave : Yes, Mistress Then the slave remembers to type out Mistress during his 30 minute roleplaying session he has once a day. Thats pretty much about it. Your ignorance is racing your arrogance to the stratosphere, sparky. You have made it clear for us that you have no first hand knowledge of what goes on in successful long-distance relationships. So what do you do? You expound, derisively, about what goes on in long-distance relationships generally. A person begins to form a certain sort of impression of a guy who proceeds in a manner like that. quote:
Some people attempt to use the notion of "online training" in preparation for a real relationship, but once that real relationship begins, they are usually in for a surprise when reality sets in and their "online training" hasnt really modified the behavior of the submissive all too much. Some people recognize that the human will is not a physical object, unaffected unless physically pushed or shoved. Some people recognize that dominance and submission are matters of will. Other people feel that WIITWD is a matter of rubbing up against one another, and only rubbing up against one another. Some from this group apparently lack the nerve to even issue a command unless they can be present to verify in "RT" that the command is or isn't being carried out. Thiss probably a good policy to adopt once one proves to himself empirically that no one will pay any attention to what he wants once he gets in his car and drives to the next town over. May a thousand flowers bloom. You have established for us that your online training efforts were a crashing failure. A wonderful thing that people learn as they mature is that others differ from ourselves in terms of abilities and accomplishments. Some people can climb mountains and some can't. Some people can assert their will without first binding their subject to chair, others--your group, presumably--can't. Very little of my own education was imparted by my "masters" grasping my hands and manipulating them for me. For the most part, ideas were imparted verbally, via speech or text. Many of the "masters" who played powerful roles in forming by world view and habitual responses to the world have been dead for years. Have you ever read, say, Kierkegaard, and thought: "Pity I can't benefit from this man's wisdom and example since he isn't here to tie me to a chair"? So ideas were imparted to me verbally. Then I worked, mentally, physically, or spiritually with the ideas presented. How do the schools work down your way? quote:
But someone solely interested in "online training" is just looking for cyber most likely. Ah yes, and maybe next you can tell us what "the blacks" want, or what "women" want, or what "foreigners" want. I mean why bother yourself with the messiness of interacting with an individual? As you mentioned earlier it does set you up for the possibility of yet another failure. One great way to avoid failure is to avoid initiative altogether. One great way to avoid understanding anyone in particular is to deem that you already understand everyone in general. Meanwhile, there stands lovely, complex reality--whose name you so love to take in vain--observing you ass-up with your head in the sand.
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