I always assume that nobody, anywhere, is even listening to me. I assume that if anyone ever glanced at my blog, they would dismiss it as crazy ranting, and not believe any of it. I assume that everyone who looks at my blog just says 'Whoa, this is messed up,' and then clicks another link and goes and reads something else.
As a result, I am careless about what I say. I make 'jokes,' or else I allow the voices to suggest those 'jokes,' and I don't censor them. I figure, no one will believe them; no one will even read it; no one would take it seriously even if they did read it.
But I could be wrong about that. There might be some people out there who read what I say and take it seriously. They might read my jokes as being statements of fact, instead of as jokes. If I make 'jokes' such as saying, Rick is addicted to looking at porn or addicted to using the internet (and both of those things are NOT TRUE), there might be people who don't know him well enough to realize that those things are as far from the truth as it's possible to be - they are the exact oppposite of the truth.
When I assume no one's reading, it doesn't matter what I say. It doesn't matter if I think about the consequences of a so-called joke. It doesn't matter if I could be read by someone who doesn't know the situation well enough to recognize what is and isn't a 'joke.'
So if someone actually reads what I say and takes me seriously, then I would need to think about how they will interpret what I say.
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