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I like the internet  [message #26288] Wed, 28 September 2005 18:39 Go to next message
timmy

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Well, mostly, anyway.

I totted up the number of people I've met in real life whose first point of comtact was online. It comes to just under 30. I have not yet been disappointed, upset or hurt.

A number of the people I've met online have proded not to be so nice, ranging from the spiteful to the plain weird. That is kind of OK, because they and I will never meet.

I've met some wonderfully ordinary people, and some extraordinary people online. The thing I like the most is that even the shy ones can decide not to be shy online.

I worked out long ago that the people who come here are not all "whole" people. I am not whole myself, so why should they be? We are all learning to be whole, that's the thing. And we make progress at different rates, and learn who we are. I like that.


Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
Re: I like the internet  [message #26291 is a reply to message #26288] Wed, 28 September 2005 20:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
marc is currently offline  marc

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I've been alot of places and seen alot of things meeting all sorts of people along the way.....

One thing I can say about each and every one of them is that not one were "whole"...... Some were somewhat together..... some were litterally in pieces..... the rest maendered in the middle of those two extreemes.....

But whole...... no......


Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
Re: I like the internet  [message #26302 is a reply to message #26288] Fri, 30 September 2005 13:30 Go to previous message
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woot woot. right on timmy
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