I've scanned the actions vs words exchanges and don't get what it's about, but maybe I just didn't read enough of them.
It reminded me, though, of the discussion of whether the people we know on SI we know in a "real" way. Whether SI is "real," in a way.
And I heard on the radio a few days ago that several of the men who had died in the twin towers had had, it turned out, two families. A second, secret one. Amazing, really. It's resulted in lawsuits to enable the biological children (DNA will prove it) of the men who died to take advantage of the education funds, etc.
I think that we know very little about people, who are always 'selecting,' and 'censoring,' either here or in 3D, for the most part. But I do feel I know a lot more about those I've talked to, and read the thoughts of, and witnessed the reactions of, for years, here, than I do about some individuals I've known for twenty years in 3D.
Facial expressions only go so far.
Why am I positive that Neocon isn't a bigamist? That X doesn't have a boyfriend on the side? That kholt isn't a schizophrenic?
Because, in a real if incomplete way, I "know" these people.
But I don't know for certain any of those things about my ten nearest neighbors. |
