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

To: Neocon who wrote (57449)	9/9/2002 5:21:17 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Ok. I've thought about your post, and reflected. Something I wouldn't get to do in a "normal" conversation. Now I probably will put my thoughts in order, check the logic, decide if I've said anything that might imply something not consistent with my prior posts, and try to predict if you will infer something in the post that is inconsistent, then I will post. After all that, what you end up with is highly filtered and edited (imo). It is true that in 3d we do keep back much- but maybe the keeping back is as much what makes a "real" or "total" person as the spewing of thoughts. Maybe the sum total of a person is the keeping back and the letting out- taken in total- along with all the 75% of the information you get on the non-verbal channels. What if your friends who are nothing but schtick in 3d become Kant on the net- who are they? Obviously they have a hidden persona, hidden from 3d anyway, lurking in their brains. But how real is the persona we do not use in 3d? I don't know. I'm sure it is personally real, to the creator of the persona. Others would simply have to decide, what was more real- expecially if you knew the 3d and the net personas- either you put them together, and average them, or you believe one and not the other, or you apportion them. Anyway you look at it, an interesting proposition (imo).