i'm a liar. i lie all the time. in fact, i'm lying right now.
Do You Generally Believe Posters on the BBS?
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This is how I feel as well. The Internet is a very anonymous environment. What have you got to hide (or at the very least, gain from lying)? Lying by means of pretense, falsification, or exaggeration is very irrational.
So you're saying that since I have time to phrase my post, I'm lying? I consider that quite silly a notion. In my currently slightly bemused emotional state.
The thing with a message board, it's quite easy to edit out what might be true, rather than just adding lies to something. It's also easier to hide one's emotional state (though not many hide their aggression in an online argument), so you'd never know if someone is upset and distracted about other things while posting, or they might be taking their time to phrase something to have just that little bit more emotional 'oomph' than what they'd be able to muster in RL conversation.
Get some exercise then. Lying all day is bad for your back.
So you're saying that since I have time to phrase my post, I'm lying? I consider that quite silly a notion. In my currently slightly bemused emotional state.
The thing with a message board, it's quite easy to edit out what might be true, rather than just adding lies to something. It's also easier to hide one's emotional state (though not many hide their aggression in an online argument
Indeed its a silly notion, what I'm trying to get at (badly, shows how much time to form one's post helps
) but what you might say outright in real life, either through impulse, or not knowing how it will come out could easily be different if you were posting, since you can look at what you're saying, and decide what's superfluous, or given the choice, not say at all. Omnission is not necessarily lying, but some may see it like that.
People lie to make themselves look better.
The net is like the newspapers used to be. During the honeymoon period, everything seems gospel truth. Eventually it goes to a point where you believe almost nothing, and finally settles in to it being more entertainment than anything else.
There are some very decent threads and thoughtful people around, but as long as people can remain anonymous and hold no accountability for what they say or write, I take it all with a LARGE grain of salt, and generally rely on my intuition.
Or, I could be lying.
--Ted
There are some very decent threads and thoughtful people around, but as long as people can remain anonymous and hold no accountability for what they say or write, I take it all with a LARGE grain of salt, and generally rely on my intuition.
Or, I could be lying.
--Ted
See, that's the key. DON'T believe everything you read about on the Web or in e-mails. I try to tell a group of people who send me mass political e-mails and urban legends to take everything with a grain of salt. Since this is a discussion forum with people talking about their everyday lives and observations, I assume the majority of people tell the truth or facts from their POVs and if something sounds suspicious, I use common sense and good judgment.
I just point them to www.snopes.com
Especially my older friends who fall for any shock value crap. "If you're an American, you'll pass this on" or "If you're truly a Christian, you'll pass this on".
And poor Andy Rooney. How many poorly written fabrications have been attributed to him?
--Ted
Yes.
Hey I've got Aspergers so I'm crap at reading in real life anyways, so it's not that huge a difference for meSo you're saying that since I have time to phrase my post, I'm lying? I consider that quite silly a notion. In my currently slightly bemused emotional state.The thing with a message board, it's quite easy to edit out what might be true, rather than just adding lies to something. It's also easier to hide one's emotional state (though not many hide their aggression in an online argument
Indeed its a silly notion, what I'm trying to get at (badly, shows how much time to form one's post helps
I generally believe most things, until I see a reason not to. Everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt. Even a compulsive liar must tell the truth occasionally.
Telling fibs on a message board has to be the lowest form of entertainment there is... anyone who would resort to that probably wouldn't seem interesting to me in the first place.
Telling fibs on a message board has to be the lowest form of entertainment there is... anyone who would resort to that probably wouldn't seem interesting to me in the first place.
So you're saying that since I have time to phrase my post, I'm lying? I consider that quite silly a notion. In my currently slightly bemused emotional state.The thing with a message board, it's quite easy to edit out what might be true, rather than just adding lies to something. It's also easier to hide one's emotional state (though not many hide their aggression in an online argument
Indeed its a silly notion, what I'm trying to get at (badly, shows how much time to form one's post helps
It works the opposite way with me - given the time to formulate my thoughts I'm much more likely to say something
Just a quick point (to the general thread) - just because I assume you guys are telling the truth, doesn't mean I'm going to believe everything I read on the net!
And any e-mail sent to me that says "pass this on to your friends" could be telling me that grass is green and I'll assume it's a scam.
I swear, this is a moment of absolute truth: I hate those and chain mails and chain messages as well. Stuff like that has damn near gotten people deleted of friends lists I hate them so much.
Me too. He is the most honest and honorable person on this board.
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Generally speaking I believe people when they post on this board.
I don't mind people like MajorBarcalow and MadBaggins who are/were obviously personas.
But a few years ago we did have a member on this board, can't quite remember her name but it was Miss Something or Other.
She befriended many people on this board and was quite popular. Her friends were overjoyed when she announced she was pregnant.
One day a new member arrived saying he was Miss Whatever Her Name's husband and that she had been injured in a car accident and had lost the baby.
She eventually came back to the board after getting out of hospital and everyone sympathised with her.
A few weeks later she informed us in a thread had caught her husband playing around with their Latino maid and that he had left her. Once again people sympathised with her.
Then she announced she was getting her marriage annulled (not a divorce, an annulment). People started getting a little suspicious of her and started to investigate.
It turned out that Miss Whats-Her-Name was actually a guy pretending to be a woman and all of the stories were total fabrications.
I don't mind people like MajorBarcalow and MadBaggins who are/were obviously personas.
But a few years ago we did have a member on this board, can't quite remember her name but it was Miss Something or Other.
She befriended many people on this board and was quite popular. Her friends were overjoyed when she announced she was pregnant.
One day a new member arrived saying he was Miss Whatever Her Name's husband and that she had been injured in a car accident and had lost the baby.
She eventually came back to the board after getting out of hospital and everyone sympathised with her.
A few weeks later she informed us in a thread had caught her husband playing around with their Latino maid and that he had left her. Once again people sympathised with her.
Then she announced she was getting her marriage annulled (not a divorce, an annulment). People started getting a little suspicious of her and started to investigate.
It turned out that Miss Whats-Her-Name was actually a guy pretending to be a woman and all of the stories were total fabrications.
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