<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Many people over the years, especially women, have been particularly nasty to me about it, including screaming in my face, telling me I would die alone, and no one would ever love me.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So I gave in and made a fake personality. Now every time I try to be more authentic I get labeled “a troon”.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>Authenticity has a cost. It is often easier to just fabricate. Telling people what they want to hear often has better results than honesty. In some sense honesty isn’t a virtue, at least gaging by peoples' reactions to honesty. I suppose this is why politicians are so successful.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 10, 2023, at 12:36 PM, SR Ballard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Many people over the years, especially women, have been particularly nasty to me about it, including screaming in my face, telling me I would die alone, and no one would ever love me.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So I gave in and made a fake personality. Now every time I try to be more authentic I get labeled “a troon”.<br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Apr 10, 2023, at 12:34 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am a kind and generous and forgiving person, but to my students I was an arrogant know-it-all who was too hard. The way they reacted told me what I never knew about my image. bill w</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 10:56 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="">I used to be like this but I changed my personality because no one like me. I miss it<br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Apr 10, 2023, at 9:57 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Is this you? It's me. I have had to moderate #3. You?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://hackspirit.com/signs-you-have-a-straightforward-personality/" target="_blank" class="">https://hackspirit.com/signs-you-have-a-straightforward-personality/</a><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">bill w</div></div>
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