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[pengke.livejournal.com]

I’m sure everyone has read someone’s post on this community or read a comment that made you stop and think, “I don’t believe you.” If you haven’t, either you don’t read the threads very closely or you work very hard not to think critically about anything you read here, because there have been some very outrageous claims made here over the years. (But that’s an entirely different discussion.) I want to know what people think when they come across one of these statements that they just can’t believe.

Do you:

A) Think the person is lying.
B) Think the person is knowingly role playing
C) Think the person believes that they are multiple but is probably unintentionally role playing or some other form of imagination
D) Think the system is lying about the experiences
E) Think the system is knowingly or unintentionally role playing the experiences
F) Think the system is adhering to the community’s cultural norms/trying to fit in
G) Think the system probably honestly believes their claims even though another explanation seems more logical to you
H) Think the system probably started out making things up but has since convinced themselves that their claims are true
I) Worry that you might be making things up too or that someone else might think you are
J) Think something else entirely – please share

Also, do your thoughts change depending on why you can’t believe the statement? For example, is there a difference between someone claiming to do/be something that you think is impossible and someone contradicting themselves or claiming that something happened in real life that could not have happened?

Comments

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

*grins* Kír and I disagree on way too many things for either of us to speak for the other, and neither of us can really speak for Crist-Erui because we don't generally know what he thinks about things. I suppose I could say "we like music", because we all do, but that's so general - there's some music that all three of us like, but there's a lot more that only one of us likes, or that two like but one doesn't like.

[kasiawhisper.livejournal.com]

"Kír and I disagree on way too many things for either of us to speak for the other"

exactly! that's why we have ambassadors of sorts to help with that.. lol.. if I tried to say something for someone else, I don't think I could say it the exact way they would themselves.. the ambassadors here are in a different kind of "position" than the rest of us, in relation to the group.. like they have the keys and can use them if they need to.. I'm not entirely sure how to explain it, but they are able to gather certain information quickly if it's needed.. Pepper could probably explain it better, since she's one.. but I do understand what you're saying.. :)

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

I imagine it's a lot different for people in large households, or people who 'blend' with one another, than it is for us. There's only three of us, and we don't blend or overlap mentally any more than three singletons sharing an apartment would. Even where we hold basically the same opinion about something, our reasons for holding it may be quite different, so we're really not in a position to speak for one another most of the time.