I have had a lot of discussions online
Some heated, some otherwise. I have had a good number of opinions that I have expressed fairly carefully over the years, and some, no matter how carefully, I express them, people manage to get them wrong.
I cannot enumerate the times that people have had an argument with the avatar of me that exists only inside their head, regardless of me attempting to disavow them of their delusion. Eventually, I just have to stand back and let them fight it out amongst themself.
I suppose there are two or three people that understand what goes on inside my head. Why they aren’t in institutions I don’t know.
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If I understood half of the people I call friends, I probably would be in a mental institution.
When I hear stories about what I said or what I did that eventually get back to me, I often wish I was that exciting, devil may care rogue of a guy throwing caution to the wind and enjoying all sorts of illicit delights.
Correcting the record is something I’ve given up on years ago as I learned the hard way that certain people would rather believe a lie even if the facts prove otherwise than the truth, if it puts me in a good light. If I have to work that hard to win the person back, I don’t want him or her around in the end anyway.
Why would anyone need to have a mental avatar of you, when you’ve got your portrait so openly posted at the top-left corner of your blog?
Seriously though, you did hit a button as to how a lot of people interact with the world. They interact with their image of the world, seldom or never checking to see if their image has any coincidence with reality.
It’s easy to pick on liberals for this, but really, it’s more prevalent among just lazy-minded folks of all stripes.
Takes a bit more mental diligence to step back and read the trail for sign, instead of just crashing ahead through the brush, hoping to find that elusive unicorn.
And a whole lot of folks out there are chasing unicorn. Whether one exists, or not.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
I only agree with myself about 50% of the time, so I’d be darn surprised if I agreed with anyone else more than that.
I suppose there are two or three people that understand what goes on inside my head.
How many of them are you?
Fortunately, none.
I hate this computer. Compose a thoughtful message and it wipes it from the face of the earth.
If we are crazy the computer caused it.
Says you!
Seriously though, isn’t that always the problem? Short of telepathy, we will always misunderstand one another, as soon as telepathy is realized on a mass scale humanity devolves into planetwide warfare, anarchy and chaos.
Oh, sure. But dont assume you are a telepath.
Yeah, that’s the ticket. Send someone a singing telepath.
That’d be one hell of a earworm now, wouldn’t it!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Now that is just wrong, and I’m proud to know you.