Inventing Personas

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12 Oct 2007, 6:05 pm

Do you sometimes try and act like someone you are not ?
To paraphrase Nietzsche i think he said something like you are who you pretend to be. Or act as if ..
Ive invented and assimilated many different facets of personality.
But ultimately, like peeling many different layers of an onion, at the core, what is there ?
There is nothing. Is this something to feel regret about ?
I dont know, sometimes i despair.

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12 Oct 2007, 6:08 pm

There have been plenty of times through out my life where I lived in a fantasy land where I was "someone else". Helped me cope with my problems. Cause I was someone else

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12 Oct 2007, 6:18 pm

I act jolly, and clown around. But really I'm serious and quiet. The Missus always tells me that I was trying to entertain....

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12 Oct 2007, 8:34 pm

DeniseLosar wrote:

There obviously is something at the core, or else who would be asking questions?

The persona is a mask for the ego, it's not the ego itself.

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12 Oct 2007, 9:27 pm

No, but I do react in extremely different ways depending on the situation, in one I might be serious, morose, and "informative" there is a fairly large group of people who have known me as being that and that only, but there are also situations or people that I will react in an extremely aggressive, caustic, violent, sarcastic, and manipulative way, which can be a surprise for people who have only ever seen me react one way. For example the first kind of reaction was often seen at school and people would be surprised if I even cracked a smile, then I'd get home and talk to my who I'd would almost never be serious with. And then there's my encounters with people who I consider ignorant, misinformed, obnoxious or whatever, which is usually on Internet Forums and in those places I develop a reputation for attacking people. No none of that is faked, they're simply reactions to attitudes or behaviors.

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12 Oct 2007, 9:37 pm

Here's a list of persona's that I've developed, over my life:

Spider Man
Miss Piggy
Boss Hog
Rosco P Coaltrain
John Lennon
Davy Jones
Karen Arnold of The Wonder Years
Austin Powers
a Pearly King
Sid from my favourite movie. (The little rat in my avatar.) :heart:

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13 Oct 2007, 2:48 pm

lol myself? umm I'd say I've felt like, although not neccesarilly acted like: -

Hugo Drax
Tommy the Green Ranger
Tommy the White Ranger
Trying to remember other ones now lol...

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13 Oct 2007, 3:50 pm

Oh you mean from Power Rangers? :lol: I used to like the red one when I was little