Posted by yesac on June 27, 2003, at 13:50:05
In reply to re: yesac's another answer » yesac, posted by lil' jimi on June 26, 2003, at 16:05:31
> ... .. ... so i'm at a loss here ... ... i appreciate knowing you're a girl ... ... i don't know how to ... deal with how i didn't know ... ... because i don't need an excuse or anything since i haven't read you enough, which goes without saying ... ... and everything i feel about this new information to me is .. .... obvious and doesn't need saying ... ... (he looks at the floor and shuffles his feet) <sigh.> ... ... well, i'm glad you're a girl ... ... i like girls. .... thanks for letting me know .... oh! ... i'm a guy.Wow, sorry, I didn't mean to ruin your whole sense of stability in the world and with yourself. I hope that you can manage to once again find peace (if you ever had it to begin with).
Oh, and I did think that you are a guy, with the name Jim, BUT of course I really don't know if that's your real name, so it could very well be a ploy to keep your identity secret!>
> <ahem> ... "unfair" is so intrinsic to life that it stands to be asked in reply "Would we recognize it if life was fair?" ....
> .... and then perahps, "Would it be interesting?"Probably not to both questions. And, if life was "fair," then somehow people would still believe it wasn't. Utopia just isn't possible. And it probably would be more boring...
>
> OR
> perhaps its unfairness provides the challenge that makes life sporting .... .... say life was analogous to tennis ... ... the unfairness is the net ... ...Do you think that it is the net that is the unfairness? Because, since the net is equal for both players, then they really have equal opportunity, don't they? But yes, unfairness does provide a sense of challenge in life, like, if someone is less smart than others, he/she might want to challenge himself to work harder to achieve the same goals... but then, maybe it's impossible for this person to ever achieve the same goals, and he/she then just must dwell on the unfairness of it all, or learn to accept it. And then it might lead to low self-esteem, depression, and on and on. So whether this "challenge" of fighting the unfairnesses in our lives is good or bad, well that is another question.
>
> OR
> life is unfair in order to provide the dramatic tension to support meaningful narrative structure(s) ...True. It does lead to a lot of interesting conversation, whether directly or indirectly.
poster:yesac
thread:236630
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20030626/msgs/237531.html