Dear Robb: Are we at the end? I am an idiot also. Been on this particular newer site for only a year ( started when Integral started). I did not know the difference since I needed the CD's to share and use and cannot sit at a computer as long now that I have had knee and hip problems. So I signed up for that
For the rest of us. Seems that there are very good points for both sides. This occured to me today. Words are so powerful that I have actual bodily feelings about them as do some other people. So I wondered if there was a way to find out anything about altitude about Handles and/or annonyminity? Some poor souls are given ridiculous names at birth or think they are And others find a ridiculous name for a handle.. I am embarrasssed to tell you what my first computer "handle" was. My son told me that was not very proffesional and that I needed to change it. So I did. Actuallly the person who set up my computer gave me my ann. name and she called the main file "Fuckin Horses" after this crazy hilarious story I had watched on one of those Toasts the night before on TV. We were having fun and great laughter over this. I left it that way for several years.
Now I see some of the names and wonder what people are thinking. Some sound like little kids not grown up, Some are scarey. Some are after heroes and godesses and pets. Some will use their real name for some people and use their "handle " for others. And some mean something we do not understand. This can be funny, fun
outrageous, stupid (mine was stupid) ugly and so-so. I think I thought I was cool, since I missed the really "cool" age, I thought. I said this once but I liken it to the nasty ways that politicians started talking esp the Bush/Gore race. I am not a republican and I was missing Bob Dole. Gentlemanly and LadyLike stuff can be a very in authentic and not congruent sometimes but we went so far the other way.
So it seems to me that we do need to think this through carefully. It all seemed very easy at first and yet this was a very thoughtful discussion in my opinion. On the other hand, it seems so sad that we cannot choose freely, that it has come to this- we will be in harms way if we put up our real names. I do wish there was a way to figure out the altitude of names. I am afraid I do - in my private thoughts sometimes.
I did not mean to wait until "the end" and I thought I better get this in even though I have not thought it through that carefully. These decisions are important and I have learned that from this forum. Thanks Pattye
I thought it was all very funny. Today, I wonder what I was thinking.