P3D Passing the Red Button

[Linnstaedt@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 97-11-27 08:10:21 EST, you write:

<< I personally recommend that when a viewer is passed around, people should
 keep their glasses on.  I don't think it is polite to pass around a 
 misadjusted viewer.
  George Themelis >>

These posts about Dr. T's experience with mature church folks points me in
another direction of inquiry.  These folks are actually wiser than we.
 Someone should have asked why it was not good, and then listened.   Duh!
 There's a gentleman in my church without stereopsis who watched a 3d slide
show of the Holy Land.  He enjoyed that (though without stereo effect), but
he dismissed the red button, because his brain interprets it as 2 pictures
rather than 3d.  He's a retired aerospace engineer, so I believed him when he
said he couldn't see stereo.

But another possibility:  Looking at a big screen projection and looking in a
red button viewer are different as regards...sanitation.

The eyes are an easy entry point for infectious diseases.  Imagine a group of
folks who are passing around a Red Button, giving each other colds, flu, pink
eye, or worse.  It is more sanitary to pass a lollipop around the room! your
mouth has much more defense than your eyes.  When a Red Button viewer is
passed around during flu/cold season, would you dare put it in your mouth
(even if it fit)?  So why should you put it up to your eyes?  Yuck!

 ...Or, maybe their reaction was an expression of "oh yes, we've already seen
that one; just a moment ago...and that one...and that one...and that one...."

My Rule of Pastoral Visiting, "Leave them while they still wish you
wouldn't." has a corrolary you've heard before:  Always leave them wanting
more.

Robert


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