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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (56227)	8/31/2002 8:19:22 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

"Each sphere of one's life calls on a different "self." This a commonplace" I totally disagree with the way you have put this. So we see the world very differently. You know your idea of the "rights" you have not to be defamed (i'm sorry- the rights your Alias has), are pretty funny, considering your no holds barred style of repartee. The only rights you and your "E" have, imo, are the ones you can enforce. And those are the TOU, perhaps not even those now. More rights than that you do not have. Beyond that point what you have are expectations. I'm sure you see CH as a very sick individual. You keep repeating it, as if that will make it so. I see you and others as very sick, sicker perhaps than CH- although I certainly don't want to try to rank you all. You all are very different, and have very different problems (imo). Sickness is clearly in the eye of the beholder. I talk to him, I talk to you- to me, you are very similar. He is polite, and has quit trying to criticize me for our differences, you are much more confrontational, and are clearly still hostile about our differences. If you ever get to the point where you can be less confrontational I will respond to you in the same way I respond to him. Please never confuse that with my being your "ally."

To: E who wrote (56227)	8/31/2002 8:42:22 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I know many people here much better than I know the people who have lived across the road from us for twenty years. More accurately, you know character they present to the SI environment. That certainly has some relationship to the "real" person, but nobody knows how much. As to the person who lived across the road for twenty years, you presumably had some idea of the kind of people they were, whether they were movie stars or farmers, whether they were crippled of deaf, whether they put pink flamingoes on their lawn or flew a battery of US flags. You know none of these things about the people on SI, other than those you have met in person. They may SAY things about themselves, but you don't know whether those are true or inventions. Sometimes I think I know people from books better than I know people in real life. And in some sense, I do. But I always have to remember that the person who created them was a real person, but that the character is not and never has existed in actual life. It's like that here.