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Originally posted by KewpieI don't hate anyone.
What about online hatreds? If you can't have one, you can't have the other.
Originally posted by PonderableI'll wager there is not one relationship here at rhp, or indeed, elsewhere which is an online electronic friendship only which meets your definition.
They do. I think I agree rather with the majority here.
If you are philosophically inclined you might ask for a definition of friendship. And indeed you can argue about what a real "friend" is. So my definition is a person you meet regularly (and via the net counts) and with whom you are sympathetic.
You can go further and say a giood friend is someo ...[text shortened]... riend is someone with whom you have no secrets. (Spouses do count as best friends or so I hope).
Originally posted by Captain StrangeHelping people out is not limited to real life does not necessarily denote "friendship". I have helped rhp people out but that doesn't make them my friend.
When you help a friend out who is in trouble he will
always remember you next time he is in trouble.
And I don't give a rats ass whether he is on the interweb or not.
Pip Pip
Originally posted by divegeesterI have been helping everyone out on the Spirituality Forum for years, but's not made me many friends. 😛
Helping people out is not limited to real life does not necessarily denote "friendship". I have helped rhp people out but that doesn't make then my friend.
Originally posted by FMFFMF,
I have been helping everyone out on the Spirituality Forum for years, but's not made me many friends. 😛
Originally posted by divegeesterTrue. I'd say it (helping someone out) is necessary but not sufficient (to denote friendship). So what else is required?
Helping people out is not limited to real life does not necessarily denote "friendship". I have helped rhp people out but that doesn't make them my friend.
Originally posted by Very RustyI have been here on this site since 2005 and posting on forums since 2007, so that's rather more than "a little over 2 years". Other accounts I have used for brief periods of time several years ago - although never simultaneously - have been John W. Booth and Nick Bourbaki (now my son's account)
You have only been here a little over 2 years as FMF, unless you been here before as someone else.
Originally posted by apathistI think those who are our genuine friends meet certain needs - intellectual, emotional, spiritual - that we each have and they do so in a way that other people we interact with can't - or can't do so well - or can't do in a way which makes them seem indispensable.
True. I'd say it (helping someone out) is necessary but not sufficient (to denote friendship). So what else is required?
Originally posted by FMFFMF,
I have been here on this site since 2005 and posting on forums since 2007, so that's rather more than "a little over 2 years". Other accounts I have used for brief periods of time several years ago - although never simultaneously - have been John W. Booth and Nick Bourbaki (now my son's account)
Originally posted by FMFBot,
I think those who are our genuine friends meet certain needs - intellectual, emotional, spiritual - that we each have and they do so in a way that other people we interact with can't - or can't do so well - or can't do in a way which makes them seem indispensable.