RHP - A real community of friends?

Is RHP a real community of 'friends', who secretly like each other and have mutual respect? \

Or is it a land of members who want one upmanship against members they choose to dislike, despite knowing little about them?

Could it be the former, where secret likes are held.

Or could it be the latter, where there is genuine dislike of portrayed characters, be they true representations of the member, or not?

Could it be, or is RHP, a real community of friends, or not?

-m. 😉

RHP is a community, but it isn't a "community of friends". Like any real-world community, it's a mix of likeable and unlikeable characters, people with hidden agendas, people without hidden agendas, etc. etc. We just happen to be sharing the same leaky boat right now.

Joining RHP is like opening a window to the world.

Originally posted by mikelom
Is RHP a real community of 'friends', who secretly like each other and have mutual respect?

Or is it a land of members who want one upmanship against members they choose to dislike, despite knowing little about them?

Could it be the former, where secret likes are held.

Or could it be the latter, where there is genuine dislike of portrayed character ...[text shortened]... the member, or not?

Could it be, or is RHP, a real community of friends, or not?

-m. 😉

Originally posted by lolof
...Joining RHP is like opening a window to the world...

Please look up in the right hand corner of one of the posts (right now). See. See what I'm saying?


😞

Originally posted by mikelom
Is RHP a real community of 'friends', who secretly like each other and have mutual respect? \

Or is it a land of members who want one upmanship against members they choose to dislike, despite knowing little about them?

Could it be the former, where secret likes are held.

Or could it be the latter, where there is genuine dislike of portrayed characte ...[text shortened]... the member, or not?

Could it be, or is RHP, a real community of friends, or not?

-m. 😉

Originally posted by rookie54
in my estimation, a little of each...
similar to every public space available...
analyzing the demographic???

i sense a book in the offing...

dibs on a signed first edition, please...

Originally posted by lolof
Joining RHP is like opening a window to the world.

It's like any relationship, it takes time to weed out what's "real" and what's not.

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
True; it's a window made of distorting mirror glass, but a window nevertheless.

Richard

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Frenetic tempo of cyberspace and the fleeting nature of relationship time windows is reminiscent of the passage in Psalms, "... a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night"

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Are you seriously suggesting we equate the intartoobs with God? Or would you rather take that role yourself?

Richard

I recently returned to RHP after years away at other sites. Chess is chess, but as I have said before RHP has a certain feel of community for me. Not to be confused in any way with being friends, but definitely a sense of community, which I enjoy.

FWIW