Judging People Based on Their Friends

Don't hang around the prostitute costumer friends if you take a lady out.

They might drive her off.

 

They make me look good.

 

my friends compliment me very well...as i to them...we're all wierdos in a sense...

 

You are the company you keep.

I think that's how the saying goes.

 

I can see definitely in eschewing the ganstahs, wannabes or for reals. Not necessarily so much the goths in my case though. They can be pretty cool so long as they aren't all conceited and such.

 

Definitely if there the ''gangster rap'' people, with long shirts. I don't like those kind of people.

 

I can't play the spoons.

The Chaplain in my high school once said to me "Show me your friends, and I will show you your future" as he was trying give me some advice. I started arguing with him about the kind of friends that Jesus hung out with: prostitutes, tax collectors, lepers, women, the poor, dejected, outcasts, etc.

I don't believe you can judge a person accurately and really appreciate the person for who they are until you actually make the effort to get to know them.

 

Good point, Aristartle. I would say that it is possible for me to like a person but not some of their friends. Regardless of how their friends appear too what matters more is how they behave. If they're cool people I don't care so much about the rest.

 

i've gotten the "show me your friends" comment quite a few times at this school. it pisses me off

 

My friends and I only share one trait - we are all sarcastic assholes. We don't dress alike, or even listen to the same music. So I don't know what someone would think of me by just looking at my friends.

 

damn Sam, we sound pretty similar

 

I'm Red's friend. Red's a cool guy. That means I'm cool.

 

I don't understand people who surround themselves with people who all have similiar tastes. Where's the room for expansion, and arguments?

 

*throws a plate*

I love arguing!

 

course i do. cant help but do it sometimes. generally only if i dont know the person, and it only sets up a rough framework with room for change and such, but its sort a subconscious thing that automatically happens to most folk. everybody prejudges at least a little

 

I've always been the kind of person who becomes friends with everybody. Sometimes I dont even really like the person, but I seem to be able to get along with everybody. I havent really made much friends here in Canada, but back in DR I had so so many different groups of friends that it would worry me if anyone was judging me based on them.
The people who I consider my REAL friends, we had some things in common and others entirely different, like everybody I suppose and probably I wouldnt mind if I was being judged based on them, but still I would prefer if people would just judge me for who I am, because well I'm my own person.

 

i don't judge people, only how much of a pain in the ass they are to be in the company of for how long at a time.

basicly i don't see people as BEING anything. it's what the're DOING that that either intrests me or buggs the hell out of me.

as long as they stay out of sight and out of mind i can think my own thoughts and dream my own harmless dreams and we all get along just fine.

occasionally a few are redeaming, even inspiring company, but not many nor often.

i could go on in my usual greater detail, but at the moment i'd just as soon retain the mellow sense of detatchment i'm currently feeling.

=^^=
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I guess someone's friends give me an idea about what kind of a person they are or at least appear to be.. but then again.. a real friend is one thing, people around you is another, you know.

I guess my real friends really are very similar to me in many ways.. but it's not why they became my friends. it just happened naturally, and, logically.

Then there's the friends you've had for a really long time.. from when you were a kid, you know. They may have grown quite different from you but there's still that connection.

I try and not judge people on what they like but who they are. An asshole can have the best taste in the world, and a wonderful person, have no taste in common with you.

 

I judge people who prefer margarine over butter.

 

Margarine > Butter.


But yeah, my really good friends are pretty similar to me in many ways, yet also very different.

As Nick said... just unique and interesting people. Yet, we share plenty of mutual characteristics...

There were a bunch of high school kids on campus for some leadership conference, and the abortion preachers chose to come today as well. So me and a friend walked around talking to the high school kids about how they should all have anal sex in order to prevent pregnancy, and therefore never get aborted. It was wonderful.