Have other people found love on SL? How did that turn out in RL?

I think if you look at my in-world profile you'll get all the answers you need. Including breast size.

Seeya soon, big boy!

Having answered 2k Suisei's questions.....does anyone here honestly feel they know me any better than they did before? I have no doubt you know a little more about me....but do you know me better as a person?

When you look around, you see avatars that are obviously striving to look like your generic sex toy or supermodel or hunk or whatever, others who are trying to express something of how the people behind them see themselves, still others who use their avatars to make witty or funny statements. All these variations do say a lot about the people behind them, I think.

That's why I do compliment people on their avatars' looks and I really mean it when I do, and I enjoy it when someone says something nice about my av. Sure, nothing should be taken too seriously, but to dismiss our avatars' looks as irrelevant is quite as naive as falling in love with a person just because her/his av looks so sexy, in my opinion.

and if You noticed He & i [bSTILL/b] haven't divulged wether he is a Serial Kill or not !!!!!

Suisei, obviously Maggie and Joseph are happy. Let them.

Mandy C

Having answered 2k Suisei's questions.....does anyone here honestly feel they know me any better than they did before? I have no doubt you know a little more about me....but do you know me better as a person?

Oh go on then. But Joseph better be home by ten at the latest.

Yes. I feel I know you a lot better now. Infact, I have an uncontrollable urge to sit on your face.

think if you look at my in-world profile you'll get all the answers you need. Including breast size.
Seeya soon, big boy!

Yes. I feel I know you a lot better now. Infact, I have an uncontrollable urge to sit on your face.

The more you post, the more I am reminded of this story.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/EoA/eatenbybears.jpg

Following your train of thought (as littered with sarcasm as it may be) You're now telling me that you'll be seeing me soon, and that there will be a cow sitting on my face.

At least I'm being honest.

Fair enough.

Actually, the "nightmare experiences" are in this thread - people so superficial that they confuse love with lust and whose worst nightmare is a "hairy, sweaty man" or (god forbid) a "50 year old bald... german". Of course, they get primacy of judgement, based on no more than the self-assurance of ignorance - without ever considering the vast number of people who will peg them as nacissistic as...terisks and run away. Perhaps that deeply ingrained body fascism, ageism, and stupidity is what makes them forever find bad relationships, online or off?

There is a problem with RP and relationships in general, because a need to RP is generally based on some level of dissatisfaction with RL. I would say that the more accurate an av and behaviour is to the real person, the more likely the relationship is to succeed - but then that suggestion moves dangerously close to unresolved social pressures in RL, such as the outlook/result pairing which underpins The Ladder Theory, as espoused on www.intellectualwhores.com - as ever, sexually active women don't like or allow men to be emotionally sensitive...

Hi Feline, I'm usually not very touchy in that respect, but I found myself wincing when I read that description of what seems to be your ultimate nightmare. I'm not quite 50 yet and not very fat (if slightly overweight), but I'm bald and I'm German. I don't know about foul-mouthed. Anyway, why does that old, fat, bald, foul-mouthed character of your nightmares have to be German? Isn't there anyone in your own neighborhood who would fit that description?

But more to the point of this thread: Several people have remarked on how "fake" and "unreal" our SL avatars are. In a sense, that is true, of course. In another sense I do think that the avatars we create for ourselves do say a lot about who we are, the more so the longer we've been working on refining them. They are a mask we are wearing, and a mask is a thing that can be used both to hide behind and to express something that is in us. In SL, it inevitably is a mixture of both, I think. I find it interesting in that context to remember that the Latin word for "mask" is "persona".

When you look around, you see avatars that are obviously striving to look like your generic sex toy or supermodel or hunk or whatever, others who are trying to express something of how the people behind them see themselves, still others who use their avatars to make witty or funny statements. All these variations do say a lot about the people behind them, I think.

That's why I do compliment people on their avatars' looks and I really mean it when I do, and I enjoy it when someone says something nice about my av. Sure, nothing should be taken too seriously, but to dismiss our avatars' looks as irrelevant is quite as naive as falling in love with a person just because her/his av looks so sexy, in my opinion.

As a result of this forum, I had a conversation in SL with somebody who responded here, who told me that he also has a similar thing going with a girl on SL. And that he can actually féél the vibes between him and her, even with her practically at the other side of the globe. Don't ask me how that works or is even possible, but that's exactly how I'm experiencing it too. It's almost freaky!!

I don't think you can bring yourself to an avatar. In SL, you're ultimately just a series of text messages. One literate person is very much like the next. So much so, that it's possible for your partner to put somebody else in his place and you wouldn't even notice.

What you fail to realize is that the thoughts you believe you are having in real life are actually just a series of synaptic impulses stimulating various parts of your nervous system. In RL, you are ultimately a series of chemical reactions.

What you fail to realize is that the thoughts you believe you are having in real life are actually just a series of synaptic impulses stimulating various parts of your nervous system. In RL, you are ultimately a series of chemical reactions.

Soo, a series of text messages, generated by a series of chemical reactions ... on the surface of a lump of spinning rock ... orbiting a ball of burning gases ... surrounded by billions of other balls of burning gases and spinning rocks ....

... sure puts the fact that someone forgot to sugar this tea into perspective!

Yes. Real tea too!. I know it was real because I spilled some of it on my real crotch and it really hurt.







Stop laughing!

It's an interesting concept...to think that what gives us 'character' and 'soul' may be nothing more than synaptic impulses, and patterns worn in the synapses of the brain. In which case, does it matter whether we are speaking with our tongues, or our fingers? Was Helen Keller any less of a human being because she could not hear or see, and communicated via sign language? That's basically what we are here in SL: blind and deaf to the real world. We can't see what someone REALLY looks like, so we must base our judgement of them on our only input, which is the words that we see on the screen.

So our little brain patterns and synaptic impulses are learning how to communicate via another medium or sense that does not rely on physical interpretation; is this so bad? Does my av in SL not represent the TRUE me, merely because she has brown skin and I have white skin? What represents the TRUE me is what I type; this is the ONLY way that someone else in SL can even begin to judge, much like a blind person can only judge a person by hearing and touch. To say or to insinuate that a blind person is incapable of judging another human merely due to an impairment is so wrong I can't even start. Isn't it the same in SL?

At any rate, I'm marrying the man that I met in SL, in RL! We fell in love with the way that we talk and deal with other human beings, and our respective senses of humor, and our more intense conversations, all of which can be communicated admirably either via sign language, or keyboard. So what if our "characters" are merely synaptic patterns? His patterns complement mine!