[FRIAM] On Blankfaces

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Here it helps to be a monist.  Whenever we love, what we love is what we experience the other person as.  What ever that "girl" became, you still loved "her."  Your love was true, even though the "girl" wasn't.  

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Nick Thompson
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https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

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Ha! Yes, my first brush with the severe cognitive dissonance of "out there" was after about a month long virtual relationship over Minitel, with a very nice girl. I learned later through meatspace channels that she was not so nice, and perhaps not even a girl. It broke my tiny little Texas reared brain.

On 8/5/21 9:56 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Remember when there was an "out there" that was tantalizing and seemed just out of reach?   I once fell asleep on a long-distance call to Houston using a 1200 baud modem just to get some new program from a BBS.  I was probably watching Night Line before nodding off.
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> No. I don't think I've ever watched Night Line. >8^D In the late '80s, I spent almost all my time arguing on bulletin boards and using ftpmail to download things like Minix. The Russians I knew didn't talk about politics at all.
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> On 8/5/21 9:40 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
>> Do you remember that moment, when the USSR was crumbling, that the Russians on Night Line suddenly developed facial expressions?


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