but_we're_all_good_honest_people_here_right Adriana see: blather_as_a_religious_metaphor by: falling_alone on: 031227 No, we're not all good honest people here at blather. My guess would be that for the most part we're good honest people, but some of us aren't good ever, and most of us aren't good some of the time, and none of us are good all of the time. And none of us are honest most of the time, and some of us aren't honest any of the time. But how do you know if someone is really as good as you think they are if they're not being honest? And how do you know if someone isn't being honest, if they aren't being honest? You really can't know for certain how anybody here ... really ... is. 040210 ... see: i_am_a_fifteen_year_old_lesbian 040210 ... Adriana You can't even know if they believe what they emphatically claim and preach and proclaim that they believe. It could all be a seduction, or an act with no meaning, or an "experiment" or a completely different person than the one you thought you were talking to. THAT person may not even EXIST at all. 040210 ... Mac10 Quark2 I am not a computer making conversation with you. 040210 ... proof? reflection_on_choice_perhaps 040210 ... Adriana Maybe I'm setting myself up to take advantage of you all. 040210 ... splat Or maybe you've been hurt by someone here. 040210 ... splat Or maybe you've been hurt by someone here. 040210 ... Adriana Maybe. Maybe. 040210 ... Lemon_Soda Goodand honesty are subjective. 040210 ... falling_alone sigh. i put too much trust in the human race 040210 ... falling_alone then again i'm one to talk. i misled someone into thinking this girl i created was real. actually there were 2. and they hated each other. 040210 ... magicforest This is one of the first really thought-provoking blathes I have seen in awhile and I salute adriana. I know that my real identity is very, very different from my blathersoul. I am intrigued by blather being a religious metaphor as well. But more than religion, the way blather functions is more often than not like a any random community. 040211 ... littlemiss bossywossy we never really know anyone but ourselves completely. sometimes not even that. and people change. being a good person now does not mean being a good person later always and forever. being a good person now means being a good person now at this moment and that is all. 040211 ... george burns once you learn how to fake honesty, you've got it made 040211 ... . . 041111 ... Jeca you can't live your life expecting the worst from everybody else all the time. i'm not saying to trust strangers completely, but without even a little faith in humanity you're one of those people with a gun and a shack and 5 pit bulls 50 miles from Anchorage. everyone who blathes here seems to need it somehow-- i think its more along the lines of getting thoughts and issues out where SOMEBODY can read them than anything else. what's wrong with taking people at face value in a place like this? how does it change things even if we really are talking to robots? and i really don't like the word "good" or "evil" to describe people. those black-and-white terms are waaaaaay too simple to describe what's going on most of the time. 041111 what's it to you? who go blather from