A hypothetical question...

[catabryna]

How would you feel if a family member told you that your brother died, and two years later realize that it wasn't the truth? Strange question, but that's why I'm posting it in the lounge.

eta: Other than being very happy to know that your brother was still alive, of course.

[frogmarch]

1. It would depend

on whether the family member who told me was lying or mistaken.

How odd.

I am glad your brother didn't die after all!

[catabryna]

2. This is a totally hypothetical question...

:)

[frogmarch]

4. Oh, yes. I forgot.

If the person who'd told me my brother was dead was lying (regardless of the reason) I'd be furious with him or her.

If the person had been merely mistaken, I'd suggest that the two of us, perhaps along with everyone who'd thought my brother was dead, celebrate together, with my brother as the guest of honor.

[catabryna]

5. Furious would be one thing...

bewilderment would be another. Were this to be an actual scenario, I'd want to hug my brother. As for the dishonest person, I'd want to really yell and scream. At the same time, I'd have to take their mental status into consideration, assuming they don't use it as an excuse to get away with a lot of crap.

[Deep13]

3. Something similar to that is not hypothetical in my family.

My great grandmother had an affair with a married man in the '30s and my grandmother was the result. My great-great grand parents raised my grandmother as a daughter and my gr. grandmother as her sister. My grandmother was a teenager when she found out the truth. They told her that her father had died. In the 1980s, my grandmother found out that in fact her father died a short time earlier. Frankly, she was furious and never spoke to her mother again (great grandmother died in 2009.)

[catabryna]

6. Wow... that's sad.

This is why my son, who is adopted, has always been told the truth about where he came from. No secrets.

And trust me, he knows he is loved! :)

[rug]

7. I'd ask my brother first.

[catabryna]

9. One is supposed to hypothetically ask

a hypothetical brother how a person is supposed to feel about being lied to? Hmmmmm...

[rug]

12. No, I'd ask if he was dead.

[kayakjohnny]

8. I'd feel like buying him two birthday presents.

And then have a long talk about things.

Hypothetically, of course.

[catabryna]

10. Well, hypothetically speaking...

he'd have to show up on this person's doorstep and make his presence known. Short of that, why would one buy presents for a person under these circumstances?

B-)

[kayakjohnny]

11. I guess your OP is so cryptic, I don't have much to go on here.

Sorry.

[catabryna]

14. It's not at all cryptic...

My goal is to get this on google so that everyone who refuses to speak to me knows that I'm on to them.

:evilgrin:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. google?

what?

why?

meh.

[catabryna]

18. You do realize that every post you make here...

ends up on Google in a short period of time, don't you?

Why? Read the thread. :P

eta: I've had the same nickname for 15 years. Anyone who looks up my nick will know it's me.

And, for the Google record, my name is Carole Brennan. :)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. yes, I realize and I don't reallygive a shit --

why do you?

[catabryna]

20. Because, I do...

and, I don't have to explain it to you. :toast:

btw: This is the lounge... :hippie:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

21. google this

dumbass.

[catabryna]

22. Why? nt

[Curmudgeoness]

13. Hypothetically, I would never forgive the person who put me through that.

But there are so many problems with this question, the first one is whether this person had reason to believe that it was true when they told me. :shrug:

[catabryna]

15. There is no question

that this person would know whether what they said was true or false, hypothetically speaking.

eta: to correct typo

[Curmudgeoness]

16. Ouch, my brain hurts. nt