ppine
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HikerJoe is a button pusher.
Honesty on the Internet?
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Judy Ann
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:-( I had heard that he was ruggedly handsome.
catspa
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Raggedly handsome, just like me.
Parker
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Judy Ann
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Raggedly and/or ruggedly handsome would be ok ;-)
Necromancerdeath
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You like the disgusting hippie look?
catspa
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More like the scruffy blue-collar redneck look, here. My hair's too short to be mistaken for a hippie.
Parker
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Lamebeaver
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I know we're not supposted to tell the truth in this thread, but I do actually know Joe. We live in the same area. We've even backpacked together. His hair is rather short and he does willingly share his flask of Sambuca around the campfire. He's also too young to have been a hippie in the 60s.
I agree but it is all done for humor's sake. There's nothing wrong with picking a fight as long as it is designed to stimulate the mind into debate and does not deteriorate into mindless name calling.
wvbreamfisherman
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There is a difference between button pushing and gratuitous insults and belligerance.
I think a good majority of people you find on Facebook are selectively truthful. They're not going to post vacation pics of when they only went to Walmart.
catspa
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I'd expect to see more of them claiming not to be married when they really are...
Parker
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ppine
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The subject I am trying to generate discussion about here is honesty. It is one of the human traits I take very seriously, and I don't really see the humor in it. Honesty is one of the fundamental tenants of all close human relationships. Like my close friend Rudy says " Our friendship is based on no bull ****."
Lamebeaver
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I am naked
catspa
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That's what I like about you LB, no pretending to be clothed when you're not.
Ppine, I wonder how close two people can be whose only contact is online. Seems to me like in the current "Facebook age", the word "friend" doesn't always mean what it used to.
Parker
Ppine, I wonder how close two people can be whose only contact is online. Seems to me like in the current "Facebook age", the word "friend" doesn't always mean what it used to.
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Lamebeaver
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You'd be surprised. In Colorado we have a big get-together at Pickle Gulch Campground once a year in September. People travel from all over the US to attend. People often organize trips and many have known each other for years. The common ground is the forum sponsored by Backpacker Magazine.
Personally, I like the way this forum works, and is managed, much better, but there are still people on the other site I consider friends....and I don't just mean virtually.
Personally, I like the way this forum works, and is managed, much better, but there are still people on the other site I consider friends....and I don't just mean virtually.
Judy Ann
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It is hard to talk openly and honestly with a person when you don't even know their name and when you cannot watch their eyes while talking with them. Body language also is important when trying to figure another's honesty. There are a multitude of "tells" that a person has that I might unconsciously be noticing when having an open and honest heart to heart discussion.
Regarding honesty. Have you studied the window theory? Draw a rectangle on a piece of paper and then draw 2 intersecting lines so that you are looking at a window with 4 panes. Number each one with one number 1-4.
The readers digest version states that in:
Pane #1: This area represents your honesty with yourself 100%
Pane #2: Represents that part of you that you chose to share with others
Pane #3: Represents that part of you that others see that you don't know about yourself
Pane #4: This is the area that no one including yourself knows
In this age of identity theft everyone has to be careful. Women and men both need to be careful about information that they divulge about themselves.
So, let's apply this theory to another area. You live in NV so we can use casino theft as an example. You sit down at any game in the casino and suddenly you start winning a lot of money. You know 100% which card counting or money management system you are using and you have perfected it and have never been caught. THE PERFECT SCAM. Pane #1.
Pane #2 where you pretend not to be using a system to decrease the house advantage.
You purposefully deviate from a winning advantage
Pane #3: What you don't know...you have attracted attention to yourself soon after you started betting certain ways. Your face has been scanned to see if you are a known cheater. Multiple people have been using their "talents" to see if you are lucky or cheating. You are guilty of course, but proof must be made before you are kicked out. The new dealers brought in to try to use their luck to beat your luck will not be cheating you with deck manipulations. They will however be trying to beat you because they like to win!
Pane #4: Sometimes a person is lucky and is not cheating. They dropped $2 on a blackjack table and ran it up to $40K. It was beginners luck. The casino never figured out the scam because there was nonne.
The gambler spends the rest of his life trying to recreate that session in the casino. His wife divorced him, he lost his job, lost his savings, his children won't talk with him, he eats at the Mission, sleeps under a bridge in good weather, begs in a high-end strip mall parking lot and spends every penny trying to get rich. He uses a computer at the local Library to join OBC because someday he wants to go hiking around Lake Tahoe. He can be found panning for gold somewhere above Virginia City these days.
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Judy Ann
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Just another TALL TALE grandpa! You know that I have a vivid imagination... ;-)