Sometimes, in on-line discourse, I get the feeling I’m talking to the same person who uses different names.
Do I feel this way because:
a. it’s true
b. there are a finite range of communication styles and conveyable emotions/concepts
c. I’m paranoid.
d. I’m wishing I was talking to person R, so I turn every person into person R.
If the answer is “a”… do they use different usernames because:
They like trying on new hats and it not being interpreted as flaky.
They want to see how many different kinds of reactions they’ll get from people who liked them under one hat, but have this totally different reaction when under another hat… it is a weird way to “people watch” or to find out which ones have the most ‘personal integrity’…
They want to see if people will be able to recognize their “core self” regardless what hat they’re wearing – a weird way to find a genuine friend or something – or just an interesting thought experiment which asks, “does a ‘core self’ even exist?”
They feel tied down when they commit themselves to one hat – their personality is multifaceted, so much so that people don’t really know how to handle it, so instead of showing all facets under one username, they break it up into different usernames, so as not to ‘shock’ people and scare them away.
If the answer is ‘b’ it is something I have never experienced/realized before ILP (whenever I suspected one person was using different names, outside ILP, I was always right about it)… before this, everybody was distinguishable frome everybody else (besides the people using different names)… and I don’t see ‘everybody’ in everybody else…
If the answer is ‘c’ then why am I paranoid, and why don’t I ‘feel’ paranoid? Maybe paranoia could be read into the fact that I don’t just accept that each individual username stands for a whole different individual – except for the fact that people have admitted it before (with or without me asking first) and the phenomenon is not my imagination.
If the answer is ‘d’, how pathetic is that?! However, it could be ‘a’ at the same time – and who, among these different usernames (used by one person)… is the real “R”… or are they each genuine aspects of one person?
I’m not comparing notes with anybody, so don’t ask what makes me think I am talking to the same person under different usernames.
Some of you may mess with me now and pretend to all be the same person – hardy har har.
How do you feel about people trying on different hats? It doesn’t bother me. Unsolved mysteries bother me when I can’t quite solve them.
Being aware of the fact that many here use multiple usernames can hardly be classified as symptom of paranoiya. Why did you alter your identity and underwent such length to delete all her posts one by one?
Uniqor, you have posted under at least threee different screen names that I am aware of.
[Pureasonist]
[Pureasonist - Uniqor]
[Uniqor]
So do you have any insight into what might motivate a person to do that?
It was a different poster who edited his/her screename to [removed by management] and deleted all of his/her posts. His/her former screen name was abgrund. ilovephilosophy.com/phpbb/pr … ile&u=2141
No such username [Uniqor - Pureasonist] exists in the current memberlist. If it did then you had four different screen names.
Still, what can you tell us about what motivates a person to have different screen names?
You had said, “Why did you [somenewname] alter your identity and underwent such length to delete all her posts one by one?”
To which I replied, “It was a different poster who edited his/her screename to [removed by management] and deleted all of his/her posts. His/her former screen name was abgrund.”
Where did I assert that abgrund was the only user to ever delete all of his posts? I only meant to say that it was not somenewname who did that.
Hey, leave the new Jesus alone… he has just as much freedom to dictate ten new commandments just as much as he can smoke your entire weed supply and get away with it. (Assuming you have a weed supply.)
[Disclaimer: Sagesound does not affirm the words above are spoken by him, in which case, they were never written - you are hallucinating.]
actually future man seems to be alot improved since i last seen him months ago, you all might not notice cause you’re exposed daily to the torrent of truth, but get away for a bit you will. either that or i havent read enough of his newest prose.
just to confirm, somenewname is in fact she, right ?
oh, also, there is a guy called Pureasonist - Uniqor in the thread you quoted xander ;p
Still Xanderman, you took the wrong idea of zenofeller’s leave, and that thread you quoted proves that. I don’t why there is no Uniqor - Pureasonist in the member list, you can ask ben about that, if you want. And why even mention abgrund in the first place? I maintain my position, you are the one who’s got the stuff unclear!.. yep, I’m bored.
My posts move you in what way Xander? The impression that you’ve been giving me is that my posts offend you, disgust you, bore you and repell you. That’s all there is on my side of the story, I’m as simple as you can get. There is no word I ever wrote in my posts that is pretentious in anyway, there is no idea that I ever expressed is pseudo-nice or pseudo-high - I am pround of that little fact - I am the biggest pragmatist there is. What about you man? Tell us a little about yourselves people, we’ve been here for what, 4 godamn years and we still mess around with each other as if we are born bitches and dicks… I am utterly sick of that. I decide to do better and get closer to my real nature.
Yep I’m aware that you’re back detrop, and thanks for the 3 golden american local proper… I was just trying to make up some, like recently I’ve came up with asswipe, dickhole, chickendump and suckwarm…
In prison lingo a “punk” is a guy that takes it in the ass. Perhaps, a “punkface” could add a new dimension that indicates an oral soloist?
It’s worth thinking about.
Ok, it’s not.
it gets a little spooky when the muds (developed characters) start fighting amongst themselves, then there seems to be a mass exit from the forum with a lot of good-byes and I’m leaving…about every 3-4 months.
