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It's a curious thing about the internet and its alleged connections: On the one hand, people seem to be dying to tell their most intimate secrets, explode with a hidden rage, or post pictures or videos of themselves in a state of undress.
On the other hand, their deep desire to express one nakedness or another is accompanied by an unwillingness to use their given names. Not even a first name and not even in as tame an environment as, for example, this one.
It's a kind of masturbation -- dying to get naked without getting naked. Dying for the pleasure without taking a step that the actual pleasure requires.
Yes, I can hear the important and sissified reasons for withholding and camouflage. But still it makes me curious -- what the hell is wrong with the name you use in your walk-around life? My given name is Adam ... or Adam Fisher. I seriously doubt than anyone -- even the scam artists from Nigeria -- give much of a shit.
And if I don't want friends and acquaintances to know something about me, I try to follow Dorothy Parker's (approximate) observation, "How can we expect others to keep our secrets when we can't even keep them ourselves?"
It may not be a serious matter, but I think it's worth considering.
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"kind of masturbation"
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Your attitude towards anonymity head-in-the-sand stupid at best and arrogant & insulting at worst.
Since you have decided to play lawyer for the prosecution, jury, judge and executioner on this issue I don't see any benefit in addressing it further. Nor will I ask you to reconsider what you have written. Just know that you are wrong.
Have a nice day.
Wrong about what?
ReplyDeleteDorothy -- Charlie beat me to the punch, as usual. I can appreciate your high dudgeon, but wonder what the particulars of your point of view consist of.
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