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

To: Solon who wrote (56901)	9/5/2002 8:36:04 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I had hoped we were done with that subject, but I liked your summation, a post I read beyond the fourth paragraph. <g>

To: Solon who wrote (56901)	9/5/2002 8:52:29 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

A name is not a person, and neither is a post of words. The person who wrote the words is the person, but this post- right here- which you are reading, is it a person? yes? Just the one post. Assume you had read nothing else but this post. Is it a person? If not, then how many posts a person make? The name on the post, imo, is only as real to you, as a person, as the words in the post make it. In 3d you have much more than words. 70%, possibly more, of who we are is communicated by non-verbal messages. All that information is not available to you on SI. That information gives you clues to the person they may not even wish to give- but we cannot help giving, because that is the nature of our non-verbal selves. A tree, as far as I know, does not post on SI, and so cannot project a persona. But you can take a picture of a tree, which might be analogous to the post of a person. Is the picture of the tree, the tree? I say no. You might say yes. A post is not a person, and a picture is not a tree. They are related, but they are not the same. What people say about Solon, is not really about Solon. What people say about you is (imo) first and foremost their own mental constructs bucking up against the words the person who created Solon chooses to write, and secondly, a reaction to a false mental construct of who the "real" Solon is. We all have these constructs for people, but if we are wise we realize they are mostly false, and are creations of our imagination, and serve our desires. (For example, people we do not like are "unhappy people", we want them to be unattractive, we want them to be failures, and people whom we like, the opposite.) Interesting perspective that you have there, but I don't agree.