Posted by Toph on January 21, 2006, at 18:17:36
In reply to Re: sharks, posted by Dr. Bob on January 21, 2006, at 17:07:01
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> > I come to Psycho-Babble not to agitate but rather to associate with others like myself.
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> With sharks?
I realize that the shark metaphor was mine, but I think you know I was speaking abstractly about posters who disrupt. Do you really think of me as a shark? Though I may have bitten a few people, I am hardly a predatory killer that others fear here. God, at least I hope not.> ...Maybe some people stay, even though they feel uncomfortable, because they hope for acceptance. They see how accepting in general it is here.
Yes, acceptance, that's important to me. And Babble is indeed a place where acceptance is commonplace.
> And others know what it's like to be rejected. To be treated like a shark. So they empathize.I'm too far down the food chain to understand this one. Maybe someone else can interpret for me.
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> Maybe some are here to defend. Maybe to them I'm the alpha shark. Maybe they accept feeling uncomfortable because they consider it to be for a good cause.
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> BobYou are alpha shark, Bob (so how's that T-shirt project coming?). And Babble is a good cause.
Toph
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