Dilemma of Friendship...on USMB

[goldcatt]

Treat your friends like family and family like friends.. Sometimes.

That gets kinda complicated, doesn't it?

Only if you're they type to get confused easily..

Or have odd friends and even odder family.

 

[strollingbones]

i have two radically different friends on here.....on speaks to me on and off..over my friendship with the other....i just try to be friends to them both and stay out of their fuss...

 

[dilloduck]

I've made some friends on the USMB Board, left , right and middle.

Sometimes I find myself caught in a dilemma, two or more friends are just going at it sometimes to the extremes. Since, I know them in calmer times and know them to be sensitive and caring people you wonder at times, if you should get involved or just watch things take there course.

The interesting part is if they knew each other, they would probably get along quite well and have reasonable disagreements.

You may be too sensitive to have friends here, Lumpy.

 

[xotoxi]

I've made some friends on the USMB Board, left , right and middle.

Sometimes I find myself caught in a dilemma, two or more friends are just going at it sometimes to the extremes. Since, I know them in calmer times and know them to be sensitive and caring people you wonder at times, if you should get involved or just watch things take there course.

The interesting part is if they knew each other, they would probably get along quite well and have reasonable disagreements.

All you do is stay out of it.

Or at the most, you say "Settle down, boys!"

 

[Sarah G]

I've made some friends on the USMB Board, left , right and middle.

Sometimes I find myself caught in a dilemma, two or more friends are just going at it sometimes to the extremes. Since, I know them in calmer times and know them to be sensitive and caring people you wonder at times, if you should get involved or just watch things take there course.

The interesting part is if they knew each other, they would probably get along quite well and have reasonable disagreements.

You may be too sensitive to have friends here, Lumpy.

That's good advice.

 

[dilloduck]

I've made some friends on the USMB Board, left , right and middle.

Sometimes I find myself caught in a dilemma, two or more friends are just going at it sometimes to the extremes. Since, I know them in calmer times and know them to be sensitive and caring people you wonder at times, if you should get involved or just watch things take there course.

The interesting part is if they knew each other, they would probably get along quite well and have reasonable disagreements.

You may be too sensitive to have friends here, Lumpy.

That's good advice.

Let it all out ,Lumpy. You can always break up and make up-----it's hard to do tho

 

[Sarah G]

You may be too sensitive to have friends here, Lumpy.

That's good advice.

Let it all out ,Lumpy. You can always break up and make up-----it's hard to do tho

One the loneliest number that he ever knew.. da da dum de dumm

 

[dilloduck]

That's good advice.

Let it all out ,Lumpy. You can always break up and make up-----it's hard to do tho

One the loneliest number that he ever knew.. da da dum de dumm

but it 's a real character builder---you can discover who you really are

 

[Sarah G]

Let it all out ,Lumpy. You can always break up and make up-----it's hard to do tho

One the loneliest number that he ever knew.. da da dum de dumm

but it 's a real character builder---you can discover who you really are

That's true. If he works on it, he might even get to the point where he can actually disagree with someone he likes.

 

[Conspiracist]

Treat your friends like family and family like friends.. Sometimes.

That gets kinda complicated, doesn't it?

Only if you're they type to get confused easily..

*Raises hand*

 

[Conspiracist]

Message boards bring out the worst in people. Because we are all here in anonymity, we drop much of the social convention that makes society civilized. There's no way we would all act as bad if we were all together in a room.

Its a fascinating look at human psychology on several levels.

I can tell you I act little different at work as I do on this board. I have learned you should be yourself even when you know you're an asshole

 

[PixieStix]

Being who you are, and knowing who you are is key in being in a dilemma or not.

 

[Truthmatters]

Message boards bring out the worst in people. Because we are all here in anonymity, we drop much of the social convention that makes society civilized. There's no way we would all act as bad if we were all together in a room.

Its a fascinating look at human psychology on several levels.

That is why I love it.

The ideas people hold can be tested intellectually without the restraints of social conventions.

I face to face real life you can not challenge peoples false beliefs without major emotional consequences.

On this series of tubes everyone knows your ideas are fair game for srcutiny.

It forces Me and my fellow converser to fully defend our ideas in the white hot light of reality.

 

[dilloduck]

Message boards bring out the worst in people. Because we are all here in anonymity, we drop much of the social convention that makes society civilized. There's no way we would all act as bad if we were all together in a room.

Its a fascinating look at human psychology on several levels.

That is why I love it.

The ideas people hold can be tested intellectually without the restraints of social conventions.

I face to face real life you can not challenge peoples false beliefs without major emotional consequences.

On this series of tubes everyone knows your ideas are fair game for srcutiny.

It forces Me and my fellow converser to fully defend our ideas in the white hot light of reality.

oh if you were only able to do that.

 

[PixieStix]

Message boards bring out the worst in people. Because we are all here in anonymity, we drop much of the social convention that makes society civilized. There's no way we would all act as bad if we were all together in a room.

Its a fascinating look at human psychology on several levels.

I can tell you I act little different at work as I do on this board. I have learned you should be yourself even when you know you're an asshole

Agreed
I am the same, no matter where I am at. I do not know why anyone would try to do otherwise.

 

[dilloduck]

Message boards bring out the worst in people. Because we are all here in anonymity, we drop much of the social convention that makes society civilized. There's no way we would all act as bad if we were all together in a room.

Its a fascinating look at human psychology on several levels.

I can tell you I act little different at work as I do on this board. I have learned you should be yourself even when you know you're an asshole

Agreed
I am the same, no matter where I am at. I do not know why anyone would try to do otherwise.

I just say whatever comes to my mind-----It's why I don't have any real life friends anymore

 

[RadiomanATL]

I have all the friends I need in my head, thank you very much.

 

[PixieStix]

I can tell you I act little different at work as I do on this board. I have learned you should be yourself even when you know you're an asshole

Agreed
I am the same, no matter where I am at. I do not know why anyone would try to do otherwise.

I just say whatever comes to my mind-----It's why I don't have any real life friends anymore

Me too

 

[Conspiracist]

Message boards bring out the worst in people. Because we are all here in anonymity, we drop much of the social convention that makes society civilized. There's no way we would all act as bad if we were all together in a room.

Its a fascinating look at human psychology on several levels.

That is why I love it.

The ideas people hold can be tested intellectually without the restraints of social conventions.

I face to face real life you can not challenge peoples false beliefs without major emotional consequences.

On this series of tubes everyone knows your ideas are fair game for srcutiny.

It forces Me and my fellow converser to fully defend our ideas in the white hot light of reality.

You leave out some reality, admit it.

 

[Conspiracist]

I can tell you I act little different at work as I do on this board. I have learned you should be yourself even when you know you're an asshole

Agreed
I am the same, no matter where I am at. I do not know why anyone would try to do otherwise.

I just say whatever comes to my mind-----It's why I don't have any real life friends anymore

Well, when what is on your mind is actually the truth about them and they cannot handle it you are better off without them.