Posted by Deneb on March 6, 2006, at 14:49:07
In reply to Re: sharing something in common » Dr. Bob, posted by verne on March 6, 2006, at 10:31:03
> Dr Bob,
>
> I'm sorry I called you "dense" a while back. I just didn't think you were a real person back then.You're not alone Verne, I still have that problem even though I know that Dr. Bob is a real person and posters are real people. I know it, but I'm not sure that I really understand it completely yet.
>This reminds me of the first time I saw my third grade teacher somewhere other than school. "What? She exists outside school? She's a real person that goes grocery shopping?", I thought.
I think that's going to happen to me when I meet Dr. Bob in real life. Not too long ago I downloaded a clip of DocJohn being interviewed by CNN and I was shocked that he was a *real* person, who talked and everything! I don't know why that didn't happen to me when I saw Dr. Bob's grand rounds lecture. Maybe it was because the quality of the images was poor.
> Now it's as though my paradigm has shifted to include Babble, other posters, and you into my real world. Before it was like a role-playing adventure game or an internet experiment where nothing was all that real.
I'm thoroughly confused now because I don't know if I can tell the difference between the role-playing game and real life anymore! I mean, I know you guys are real, but I don't know if I really *know* that, you know? LOL that's a lot of knows.
> But I mainly just wanted to apologize for all the slights I directed towards you in the past.
You're not the only one who has done that. I did that a while back in not so subtle ways. (I even called Dr. Bob a bad name!) I'm really sorry about that. Good golly, it's like I either hate him or love him. Isn't there an inbetween? LOL
(I don't think I really truly hated Dr. Bob, I think I was having some sort of transference thing going on, I think I actually loved him then too, but couldn't come to grips to some things yet.)
Deneb
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