Posted by Honore on August 18, 2007, at 15:24:17
In reply to Re: Do we actually know one another at all? » Honore, posted by LlurpsieNoodle on August 18, 2007, at 12:41:03
I meant in a much more practical sense, though. Not a philosophical one. There may be hidden wellsprings of feeling and unknown thoughts, quiet disquiets, that everyone harbors, that could spring out one day, and surprise one, no matter how many exchanges one has had with that person.
But I mean, how much do we really know, beyond the pruned, well-groomed parts of ourselves that we (or I, or many of us) show to one another, while we secretly nurture resentments, levels of detachment, critiques, annoyances, or old hurts. How do you know that I'm not very different from the person I show myself to be-- or you from the person you would like me to think you are, and are successfully leading me to have faith in? (I don't mean you, Llurpsie, but anyone here, including myself?)
And yet I feel this naive confidence that things are as they seem, that those who are friendly or compassionate-seeming, are friends or are caring. I don't know-- I wonder if it isn't something that leads us into being deeply hurt or put on the spot, or made to feel foolish, in ways that then come to seem our own fault, for being so gullible.
Honore
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