The unexamined life...

[DesEsseintes]

...is not worth living, according to Socrates/Plato. What has Lit taught you about yourself - good or bad? What have you learned from your interactions here?

For myself, I have learned:

1) That most people are genuinely lovely, and even those with a tough front can often be remarkably kind. I need to remember that more often in my own interactions.

2) I am interested in many more things than I thought.

3) That I suffer fools more gladly online than in real life. But still not very gladly at all.

4) I should be more open to changing my mind if given sufficient evidence - even in areas that are sensitive and important to me.

So: do tell. Look squarely in that Lit mirror and tell me what you see that was not there, or not so visible, before you joined.

 

[smoothg103rd]

I realize that I could actually care for people that I don't physically know. Sometimes I don't even care for the people that I do know. So I thought caring for someone that I don't know will be impossible. But being here changed that.

 

[DesEsseintes]

I realize that I could actually care for people that I don't physically know. Sometimes I don't even care for the people that I do know. So I thought caring for someone that I don't know will be impossible. But being here changed that.

Wow. Thank you for sharing that, seriously.

I need to work on my points 1 and 4.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Nothing comes to mind. LIT and every board I know of is filled with ignorant dolts and posers, with 4-5 exceptions.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Nothing comes to mind. LIT and every board I know of is filled with ignorant dolts and posers, with 4-5 exceptions.

So you have at least learned that you are an exceptional person, Mr Johnson. Or did you know that before you came here?

 

[DallasDonna]

...is not worth living, according to Socrates/Plato. What has Lit taught you about yourself - good or bad? What have you learned from your interactions here?

For myself, I have learned:

1) That most people are genuinely lovely, and even those with a tough front can often be remarkably kind. I need to remember that more often in my own interactions.

2) I am interested in many more things than I thought.

3) That I suffer fools more gladly online than in real life. But still not very gladly at all.

4) I should be more open to changing my mind if given sufficient evidence - even in areas that are sensitive and important to me.

So: do tell. Look squarely in that Lit mirror and tell me what you see that was not there, or not so visible, before you joined.

#2 stands out for me.

 

[smoothg103rd]

Wow. Thank you for sharing that, seriously.

I need to work on my points 1 and 4.

I'm not lovely nor kind. So you could leave point 4 out for me.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

So you have at least learned that you are an exceptional person, Mr Johnson. Or did you know that before you came here?

I believe all have their talents and gifts, and few have a clue these exist or how to use them. I have 3-4 myself, and I stick to my knitting rather than invite failure.

Like, if they ever offer a Nobel Prize for Trivia Pursuit its mine. I know trivia better than God. I have a 6th Sense for women in heat. And I'm maybe 6 cuts better than Master Gardener. If I stick a pencil in the soil it will sprout a cedar tree.

 

[parodyluvr75]

1) that people who use than when they should use then or vice versa, make me want to punch them.
2) that I like people being more attracted to my personality than what I look like.
3) that posing as a wacky granny helped me attract an amazing bluebird.
4) that British men talk funny and look delicious covered in jam.

 

[Fata Morgana]

That most people couldn't tell the truth if their life depended on it. Knew it before Lit, but this place certainly hammered it home a few times for me.

If I was to leave today and never come back I'd take more negative than positive but that's down to a lot of stuff I've never posted about and never will.

 

[Que]

I like the idea of the thread.

 

[DesEsseintes]

That most people couldn't tell the truth if their life depended on it. Knew it before Lit, but this place certainly hammered it home a few times for me.

If I was to leave today and never come back I'd take more negative than positive but that's down to a lot of stuff I've never posted about and never will.

Oh Fata.

If you were to leave today and never come back, we'd all take more negative than positive. Sorry to hear about the liars and fakers.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Oh Fata.

If you were to leave today and never come back, we'd all take more negative than positive. Sorry to hear about the liars and fakers.

Aah bless your marmalade heart.

Not all doom and gloom though, had some fucking good laughs and met and interacted some lovely folks on here too over the past decade.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Aah bless your marmalade heart.

Just call me Paddington.

Not all doom and gloom though, had some fucking good laughs and met and interacted some lovely folks on here too over the past decade.

And as of yesterday I can now hear exactly what every word of that would sound like.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Just call me Paddington.



And as of yesterday I can now hear exactly what every word of that would sound like.

Same here. You sound like a sexy Oxford don.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Same here. You sound like a sexy Oxford don.

Is there any other kind?

 

[butters]

being here has confirmed things i already knew about people, but also lent that knowledge greater dimension....

it's shown me that i'm still capable of being surprised at other people's behaviour or thinking: shocked at times, delighted at others.

it's confirmed that some take to me well and others don't, but it's not a thing i lose sleep over.

it's confirmed my understanding that people can seem fun and nice but are really be deeply ugly inside, whilst others are just decent people through and through even if we're all fallible.

that, despite my familiarity and skill with the english language, it's embarrassingly easy to not make myself clear - that brit/american divide thing

i've learned that people are more complex, wonderful, desperate, tender, messed up, bigoted, brave and strong than i knew before, and that some of those things apply to me too.

being here has opened my eyes (and hopefully my mind) that bit wider to how people tick in different ways and that most of us could use a little loving maintenance - a little tweak and buff - from time to time, a few turns of the screwdriver.

most of all i've learned that someone loves me for me (and it's entirely requited), and that surprises can be good! taking a risk can be scary but so rewarding.

one other thing: i'm a practical person and dreamer combined, but when i open that thread 'should you really put that in there?' my practical side is like why? just . . . whyyyy???

 

[butters]

Just call me Paddington.



And as of yesterday I can now hear exactly what every word of that would sound like.

paddington

ha

 

[DesEsseintes]

Forgot to add...

5) I'm a little bit in love with Butters.

That was gorgeous.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Forgot to add...

5) I'm a little bit in love with Butters.

That was gorgeous.

She reminds me of a silly aphorism writer of the 1890s. I never fail to anticipate from her something along the lines of YOU ARE A CHILD OF THE UNIVERSE...AND WHETHER YOU KNOW IT OR NOT THE UNIVERSE IS UNFOLDING AS IT SHOULD.

 

[FrozenHeartz]

1) that people who use than when they should use then or vice versa, make me want to punch them.
2) that I like people being more attracted to my personality than what I look like.
3) that posing as a wacky granny helped me attract an amazing bluebird.
4) that British men talk funny and look delicious covered in jam.

I must say I would be very curious to know how #4 came about...

1) I truly enjoy talking to people I've never met and are highly unlikely to ever meet.
2) I'm open to far more than I ever thought I would be
3) Listening to Pretty Women from Sweeney Todd while RPing as an older women is an incredible turn on (strange, I know)
4) I make a very 'good' naughty girl
5) That most of the people on Lit are truly, genuinely kind

 

[butters]

Forgot to add...

5) I'm a little bit in love with Butters.

That was gorgeous.

are you wearing your hat and duffle coat right now?


it's entirely possible to love how multiple people's minds work


and i should have kept it just to this part: i've learned that people are more complex, wonderful, desperate, tender, messed up, bigoted, brave and strong than i knew before, and that some of those things apply to me too.

 

[Fata Morgana]

are you wearing your hat and duffle coat right now?


it's entirely possible to love how multiple people's minds work


and i should have kept it just to this part: i've learned that people are more complex, wonderful, desperate, tender, messed up, bigoted, brave and strong than i knew before, and that some of those things apply to me too.

I like that.

 

[DesEsseintes]

are you wearing your hat and duffle coat right now?

Maybe...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

If diplomas from Harvard were worth a bucket of warm manure America's institutions wouldn't be so pitiful. Run a youth thru Harvard or West Point and you must spy on them till they die, to repair the ill they do. One grad says whores and gofers profit as much from Harvard as the grads.