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Is anyone real anymore?

 
Gradient
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Is anyone real anymore?
Throwing out a Saturday morning topic.....


Why is it that it seems everyone these days is always someone else? It seems that there is an underlying motive or personality that always rears in the times when doors are finally being opened.

Are the days of the handshake deal really gone? If not, where are these people that mean what they say and say what they mean?

Trust, to humanities detriment, has become a multifaceted term that at one time meant something. Something that was attached to a length of time. These days, it's 'trust while convenient'. Don't hand out something whole, unless you are ready to get it back in jagged pieces, tied to mendacious reasoning.

"Let's make a deal", "I'll pay you back", "I mean what I say"


Why is this getting so bad?

Last Edited by Gradient on 06/04/2011 01:15 AM
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Nice to see ya again G !! hf
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06/04/2011 12:12 AM
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Everyone is somebody else. Our fractured egos don't know how to remain present.
"Buy the ticket, take the ride."
Gradient  (OP)
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Nice to see ya again G !! hf
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1413796



Same to you whomever you may be hf

Everyone is somebody else. Our fractured egos don't know how to remain present.
 Quoting: ObeyTheOctopus




Maybe so, but does not the ego focus on one unique area of time when dealing with another singly?
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06/04/2011 12:17 AM
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I am very real.
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Favorite Quote - "I just fucking love outer space, it has all those planets and stars and shit." - Mister Obvious 2009
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06/04/2011 12:20 AM
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Maybe so, but does not the ego focus on one unique area of time when dealing with another singly?
 Quoting: Gradient


I don't know. We all play different roles depending on who we're interacting with. Maybe you should look at your own behavior when you're encountering an unreal person. Perhaps you could force the other person to play a different role?
"Buy the ticket, take the ride."
Rahb Wells

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Yes. But not everyone. My first thought is to say when people have "social contracts" they tend to fit the bill whenever they can to act like they're following these contracts. Especially when their peers can observe it as such.
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The causes of these social contracts are the result of the environment they breed in I guess. Tieing in with what octopus said about you effecting them.
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funny you make a post like this, with an avatar like that.
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06/04/2011 12:27 AM
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I am very real.
 Quoting: D. Bunker


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I AM REAL.
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Throwing out a Friday topic.....


Why is it that it seems everyone these days is always someone else? It seems that there is an underlying motive or personality that always rears in the times when doors are finally being opened.

Are the days of the handshake deal really gone? If not, where are these people that mean what they say and say what they mean?

Trust, to humanities detriment, has become a multifaceted term that at one time meant something. Something that was attached to a length of time. These days, it's 'trust while convenient'. Don't hand out something whole, unless you are ready to get it back in jagged pieces, tied to mendacious reasoning.

"Let's make a deal", "I'll pay you back", "I mean what I say"


Why is this getting so bad?
 Quoting: Gradient


People used to feel confident in their future. We do not anymore, and for the first time in a long time that includes the rich.
Romney has a Swiss bank account and you have a double-wide. The American Dream! Vote for You Dummy!
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I blame TV.
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you mean like people pretending they are alien gods ???
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I am very real.
 Quoting: D. Bunker


Many here are more real behind a screen than in life. Not talking about you, but true none the less.


funny you make a post like this, with an avatar like that.
 Quoting: Ceraphic


At least you aren't bigoted, right?
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DERAIL

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I am very real.
 Quoting: D. Bunker


bsflag
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LOL


MODS aren't real




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Re: Is anyone real anymore?
and just what is it that makes you think we have ever been real?
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I lost over 75k on a handshake deal. That was the last time I trusted anyone in business dealings I should say....

But it was by the shaking of the hand, looking in the eyes and meaning what we say. I delivered and when it came time for the payday.....well you know the rest of the story...
OMNI-TARD

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I am very real.
 Quoting: D. Bunker


bsflag
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chuckle
It gets hard not to judge, until I look in the mirror.
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no.
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Re: Is anyone real anymore?
Because they're weak and easily conditioned and live life like a charade or tv character.
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POPPYCOCK!

Keep yourself adaptable and on the move.

Never put too Much Trust in Friends; learn how to use enemies... and use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your Victim... LOL!
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I am very real.
 Quoting: D. Bunker


Me too. I'm the same all the time. I was born with a bullshit meter so I can't help but be anything else.

It tends to get me in trouble at work now and then lol
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Re: Is anyone real anymore?
The human race is on severe decline morally, physically, spiritually.

Thing seem to go faster toward something that will change us drastically on every level or destroy us to restart another species that will be more fit.

Just look at the dinosaurs it look like someone start playing with lifeforms and figured that the dinosaurs were not fit enough so he destroy the work and start again with another life form that evolved in humans.

And my feeling is that someone is ready to destroy the new life form seeing it is not behaving the way he like.

What would the new specie would be remain in that someone idea.
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I lost over 75k on a handshake deal. That was the last time I trusted anyone in business dealings I should say....

But it was by the shaking of the hand, looking in the eyes and meaning what we say. I delivered and when it came time for the payday.....well you know the rest of the story...
 Quoting: Mukk1234


Trust but confirm!

Sorry about your bad event. That sucks. Hope you were able to go after the bastard.
Gradient  (OP)
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I lost over 75k on a handshake deal. That was the last time I trusted anyone in business dealings I should say....

But it was by the shaking of the hand, looking in the eyes and meaning what we say. I delivered and when it came time for the payday.....well you know the rest of the story...
 Quoting: Mukk1234




That would be the business side of what I am talking about. I had a deal like that with a 'friend'. It was only a grand, but I never saw any of it. He avoids me like the plague now. Funny that.
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Everyone is somebody else. Our fractured egos don't know how to remain present.
 Quoting: ObeyTheOctopus


We must learn through time to trust ourselves. Be kind to others but don't give yourself away.
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I am very real.
 Quoting: D. Bunker


Me too. I'm the same all the time. I was born with a bullshit meter so I can't help but be anything else.

It tends to get me in trouble at work now and then lol
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1412275


i misunderstood the question... thought 'real' was meaning like sincere..not being fake sometimes..
thought that made them real fake..:)
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I lost over 75k on a handshake deal. That was the last time I trusted anyone in business dealings I should say....

But it was by the shaking of the hand, looking in the eyes and meaning what we say. I delivered and when it came time for the payday.....well you know the rest of the story...
 Quoting: Mukk1234




That would be the business side of what I am talking about. I had a deal like that with a 'friend'. It was only a grand, but I never saw any of it. He avoids me like the plague now. Funny that.
 Quoting: Gradient


That isn't new. That has been happening since we started. BUT...there is a new and different feeling lately....Too many of us?
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you mean like people pretending they are alien gods ???
 Quoting: MoToRcItY


Or Inchworms and unclesantas?





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