ftw!

¶ filters Posted 21 years, 6 months ago on July 13, 2004
Think of the thoughts that go through my mind as a continuous signal with numerous frequency components, with the spectrum being all the different feelings and emotions I could have. If you could read that signal directly, you'd know everything that I ever thought and felt. Every ounce of happiness, despair, impulse, and desire.

When I speak to different people, parts of this signal are transmitted to them. But the signal is filtered, with a different filter for every person. For people I don't know, it's a narrowband filter. I only show very select frequencies of the signal of my mind. If I don't know you, you don't get to know when I'm sad and depressed, or when I'm hungry or sleepy. As a person becomes closer and closer to me, the band widens, and more frequencies are passed through. Each individual frequency component is also filtered over time, usually with a lowpass filter to smooth it out. I'll tell good friends how I feel, but I won't tell them every time my mood changes. For my closest friends, even those lowpass filters aren't very selective, and any time they tune in, they see a lot of the variations and changes going through my mind.

But I don't think anyone will every be close enough to me to get that raw, unfiltered signal. Somehow, it's just not something I would do.

This blog pretty much gets the complete stranger filter.

Re: filters

Posted 21 years, 5 months ago by Sonic • @ www • Reply

This "Luke" character sounds like a total dork. As for me, I almost never talk to people "unfiltered", which is incidentally the same word I use. I have done it once or twice in recent memory and, well, it's not exactly fun. I think it'd be ideal, fuzzy, and nice in a happy-go-lucky world if there are people (or one person) who you dont' mind talking unfiltered to but even I'm not that naive to think that this happens regularly in the real world. Honestly, I personally do resent the fact that I talk to most people with a filter sometimes. Whether that's rational or not has no bearing on whether I think it is so. It just feels as if I "should" be able to talk to at least one person unfiltered, but I'm not this "Luke" here. He's probably not writing cause he's not sure, the vacillating nincompoop.

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