Krogan Doctor
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(DEBATE) True or false? True friends are forever
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Global Skeptic
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How do you know what a true friend is?
Terxpahseyton
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I think it is a well established fact that a friend can fulfill every other criteria of being a true friend to the fullest for years ... and then still effectively cease to be a friend for decades.
I don't see a good reason why all those were no true friends.
I don't see a good reason why all those were no true friends.
PhroX
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Yeah. People change, but that doesn't make what they once were any less real.
Farm Boy
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There is a category of friend that you can miss seeing for half a decade, massive life changes, then walk into the room and pick right back up because the person is still the same, and that person is your friend regardless of present company and situation. Just because they're absent doesn't mean they aren't your friend.
Terxpahseyton
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To me it does. Can you just call such a former friend and blurt out your worries?
Being able to easily reconnect to me isn't the same as actually still having a friendship. At best it just means that if circumstances are right the friendship could easily continue. But if they are not right (as is apparently the case if one doesn't hear from each other even though the vibe is right) then all I see is a potential friendship.
Being able to easily reconnect to me isn't the same as actually still having a friendship. At best it just means that if circumstances are right the friendship could easily continue. But if they are not right (as is apparently the case if one doesn't hear from each other even though the vibe is right) then all I see is a potential friendship.
Farm Boy
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Dunno. I had a friend who the state department randomly decided to be a major butthole to after he visited his family in Eastern Europe. He was a standing night out every Wednesday then the next week he wasn't allowed back in the country for 5 years. It's not like we're rich enough to visit very often, we do keep up from time to time with email or communal typed skype conversations. We did catch up in the PRC this past year for the marriage of a mutual friend. In the last 5 years we've changed jobs, started getting our greys, he's gotten married, I've become a father. We picked right back up where we left off though. We're just compatible people who met early enough in life to have left our marks on each other. He's my friend even if we don't see each other. 
Lillefix
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A man once said: A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
I've got 2 true friends.
Kennigit
proud 2 boxer
Yup
I have a bunch of true friends who, even though I rarely if ever get to meet them nowadays (they all live very quietly in the countrysides), still support me while I invest in their business ventures (often requiring deposits of large sums of money into their swiss bank accounts)
Sometimes they come over to my place and like to spend that money with me, often Ilike to go on shopping trips with them and they let me use their purchases. They also like to discuss the stock market and purchase some stocks that I wish I could buy but cannot due to insider knowledge.
But let me be clear that is entirely the results of my friends' generousity and not any kind of financial fraud or puppetry.
True friends treat you to a good time. Thats what I believe.
I have a bunch of true friends who, even though I rarely if ever get to meet them nowadays (they all live very quietly in the countrysides), still support me while I invest in their business ventures (often requiring deposits of large sums of money into their swiss bank accounts)
Sometimes they come over to my place and like to spend that money with me, often Ilike to go on shopping trips with them and they let me use their purchases. They also like to discuss the stock market and purchase some stocks that I wish I could buy but cannot due to insider knowledge.
But let me be clear that is entirely the results of my friends' generousity and not any kind of financial fraud or puppetry.
True friends treat you to a good time. Thats what I believe.
Manfred Belheim
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Nothing is forever. Therefore false.
I am going to define "forever" as lifetime of those involved for the purposes of this thread.
The answer is true. If they don't last forever, then they clearly were not the true friend you thought they were. You were simply mistaken in counting them as such. Why isn't there a poll?
The answer is true. If they don't last forever, then they clearly were not the true friend you thought they were. You were simply mistaken in counting them as such. Why isn't there a poll?
Timsup2nothin
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Did you count me? I'll help most anyone move a body. Apparently I am a very friendly guy.
Zack
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True or False always evaluates to True.
Krogan Doctor
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Witty reply, for sure. But can you back it up?
Zack
99% hot gas
warpus
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I'm going to say something potentially controversial here and claim that friendships are dynamic.
Some will last, some will not, for a variety of reasons. All you can really do is value the friendships that you have right now, and maybe try to make new ones.
I try not to put my friends into categories, even though I trust some of them more than others. There are a couple friends I would consider close friends.. but I consider them all true friends, to an extent. As soon as someone isn't a "true" friend, I call them an acquaintance.
So I suppose what I'm saying is only true because I fuddled with the definitions. (but I think I did so for a good reason)
Some will last, some will not, for a variety of reasons. All you can really do is value the friendships that you have right now, and maybe try to make new ones.
I try not to put my friends into categories, even though I trust some of them more than others. There are a couple friends I would consider close friends.. but I consider them all true friends, to an extent. As soon as someone isn't a "true" friend, I call them an acquaintance.
So I suppose what I'm saying is only true because I fuddled with the definitions. (but I think I did so for a good reason)
