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   Based Stable Lunatic (basedlunatic@annihilation.social)'s status on Monday, 26-May-2025 21:25:12 JST Based Stable Lunatic

   • Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀
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   • Johnny Peligro
   @alyx @mischievoustomato this seems like a very cerebral take you people are taking. You develop feelings for a person because eventually you know how the person is, the nature of person. You know feelings
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     Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀 (alyx@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 26-May-2025 21:25:29 JST Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀

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     @BasedLunatic @mischievoustomato
     There are some things I'm more old school, maybe dare I say it conservative, with. And if I don't see a person's face directly, their smile, if I can't shake their hand, or hug them, it just feels awkward for me to use the word "friend". I've had friendly feelings towards people online. Absolutely. There are people I like, who I enjoy talking with.

     But there is something about the online separation that makes it different. I could close this account right now, make a different account under a different username somewhere else, literally no one would know, and I could instantly break every relationship I have here. That's not something I can do IRL.
     Friends either know where I live, or know other friends of mine that do. I've got friends that know my family. I can't instantly break offline friendships by just changing a phone number and ghosting them. And the same goes the other way around. It's easy to lose track of someone online, it's harder to do it offline.
     So as much as I might like someone, this ultimately tells me there is something fundamentally different between a friendly relationship here, and one IRL.

     I don't think it has to do with atheism. I think it's a more conservative view of things, and atheism and conservatism are not that correlated.

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