[Marsha]
Am I naive to expect trust and honesty between posters?
[Arlo]
Trust and honesty are not tied to some "real identity", Marsha. How are the
value of my words tied to some corporeal image and whether or not that image is
"my actual body"? How does Arlo's "alter egos" or "other personae" detract from
whatever quality my ideas here may hold?
The only "Marsha" I know is the one whose "reality" has been constructed here,
from her words, and from whatever information "she" has chosen to add. I do not
care if this "Marsha" is different from any other identity ("Marsha" or
otherwise) that also resides in the gray matter of some particular corporeal
body somewhere. The "Marsha" I care about is the one that exists here, indeed,
that is the only "real" Marsha I will ever know. And the value of your words
are based on that, not on some expectation that all your personae have some
continuity that is mistakenly portrayed as "honesty".
[Marsha]
Are Krimel, SA, Margaret, Chris and Ron just Arlo amusing himself,?
[Arlo]
And if you found out all these did share the same corporeal host, how would
that detract from any value you've found in their words? Besides, maybe we
should let the cat out of the bag and let everyone know that "Marsha" is one of
my alter-identities.
[Marsha]
And that's not a problem?
[Arlo]
It would be a problem for you, I suppose, if you based the Quality of their
words on the illusion that they all inhabited different gray matter. What that
has to do with anything, I don't know, but it's the only problem I could see.
When we read Lila, for example (or any book), we have the illusion that the
characters are "different people", but Lila, Rigel, Phaedrus, all of them are
"just Bob" amusing us with his narrative. Along the way we've learned a lot
from this chorus of Bobs, and we quote them here as if "Lila" really said
something, or "Rigel" said this, when in actuality it was all Bob.
Does that make the value of what "Lila" said any less, Marsha? I'm guessing
not, since you quote "her" very often in this forum.
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