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Submitted by tj on April 24 1999 at 01:12:31
In reply to Thank you. Submitted by d on April 23 1999 at 18:41:17
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d, again, spending time wondering "how" you should act, comparing yourself to other posters and wondering how your "perception by BCrs" differs from theirs, endeavoring to "find" ways to be accepted... ...all are the currency of someone who is hiding something. to people whom have been hiding all their lives, such behavior is virtually transparent and universally indicative of something to hide. are you new to the internet (the last 6 months)? respectfully submitted, your entire cyber approach smacks of someone who "believes" that they can use the internet to "disguise" themselves. while anonymity protects your "identity", it can hardly disguise "yourself". how it is that people think that the medium of exchange can somehow account for wholesale changes in human perception is truly beyond me. IMHO, it shows a remarkable lack of insight into the human condition. put more succinctly, your motives are still muddled. had you come out, like Heather, letting it "all" hang out and dismissing suspicion for the respect "honesty" can bring, or better yet had come as d_TX declaring what you are and making no "apologies" or "concessions" for it, you would have been far less threatening to many. Another aspect to all of this for which you cannot even seem to muster a comment is the notion of how known observation changes the behavior being observed. The suspicions of you, by many in BC, key on this fundamental "flaw" in the "research/learning" substantiation. and lastly, d, it is the callous manner in which you apply your "mission". offering to help those who have never asked you for it nor feel you have what it takes to do so (many in BC feel that; who can expect "expert advice" when seeking marriage counseling from a "catholic priest" kind of a view) and for that reason is forever beyond your capacity given your "stance", is always a harbinger of exploitation to the oppressed. people, in the end, will fight for dignity over anything. many a prisoner of war, inmate, or other "captive soul" (my metaphor for bL) has accepted death fearlessly with their human dignity intact. while you make many a valid point about "suspicion" that only each individual poster can know or accurately describe, in lieu of that sort of assessment you are going to have to accept human nature for what it is, and has been for epochs. the times have changed a lot but man himself has changed very little. and making assumptions that humans can be counted upon to react differently to life's stimuli given a "fresh" new venue for communication should be merely another way to prove to you how little man has changed. when "posters" can react as angrily to "thoughts/electrons" as they might with the same words shouted and slathered directly into their face, it ought to be proof enough of that for you. wielding the Golden Rule to "christians" as a way to chide them into "better behavior" is almost too depressingly ironic for me! even cynical me! treating people in ways that allow their dignity to remain intact is not so much a menu of choices to make in any given situation as an entire way of life and living. i can think of no better way to say it after all this "prose". lvoe, tj |