| Grex > Agora46 > #123: The Theater of the Absurd |
| response 18 of 28: | 
Jul 26 20:28 UTC 2003 |
See what I mean..even a little faggot from england can post here
| response 19 of 28: |
Jul 26 20:36 UTC 2003 |
Nah, sabre wouldn't do #13. It's much safer to hassle people on a mostly anonymous system like Grex, versus that big scary outside world where people can actually *touch* you.
| response 20 of 28: |
Jul 26 23:32 UTC 2003 |
Exactly. The sociological comparisons of cyberspace compared to society offline are precisely like that. A lot of people will do things in the former that they wouldn't dare do in the latter. Inhibitions seem to lessen, people may misrepresent themselves, etc. I have seen repeated examples of it. I'm inclined to agree with Eric here because the explanation in #0 sounds more like some experiment in amusement than any carefully thought out, scientifically backed experiment. It reeks of ethical misjudgment if it ever were to be considered a legitimate social study. Sorry-- I don't believe this was for real (legitimacy). But yanking the chain and battling other trollies had its occasional quirks.
| response 21 of 28: |
Jul 27 01:09 UTC 2003 |
Another twit exposes himself as someone with too much free time and not enough sense. Somehow this really doesn't surprise me.
| response 22 of 28: |
Jul 27 02:01 UTC 2003 |
Sabre in resp:16 :: Ah, the old "cyberspace isn't real life" ploy again. *shrug*. I had lunch with about 10 people from Grex and dinner with a few more. They all looked like people with real lives to me.
| response 23 of 28: |
Jul 27 02:15 UTC 2003 |
I have a real life? That's news to me. . . .
| response 24 of 28: |
Jul 27 04:37 UTC 2003 |
Well, it may not be a 'life,' but it is real. :)
| response 25 of 28: |
Jul 27 06:02 UTC 2003 |
Define real?
| response 26 of 28: |
Jul 27 06:45 UTC 2003 |
'Life' too while you are at it. anyway you all should not be insulting a .. err .. a researcher ..
| response 27 of 28: |
Jul 27 07:08 UTC 2003 |
Tian gao huang di uan. On the surface it is an excuse and justification for immoral behavior which is why the current regime in the middle kingdom hates it and somewhat discourages that school of philosophical thought. The meta message is that one is ultimately responsible for one's own character which is what that state truely fears.
| response 28 of 28: |
Jul 27 18:59 UTC 2003 |
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