Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: re: RE: what is love? (telepathy) Message-ID: <178@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 14:41:22 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcc.178 Posted: Wed Jan 9 14:41:22 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 06:57:24 EST Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 42 >From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) >Newsgroups: net.singles >Subject: Re: what is love? >Message-ID: <1920@sun.uucp> > >> The Polymath >> (Jerry Hollombe): >> The misuse of the word "love" has probably caused almost as much grief in >> the world as the belief in telepathy. >> >Ummm, I'll agree that love is an abused word, but telepathy does exist, I have >experienced it, and I have no way to prove that to you. Please refrain from >such disparaging remarks in this forum. I'll see you in net.sci or net.psi, >or respond by mail. Just because YOU have not experienced telepathy, and it >doesn't exist in YOUR world, does not mean it does not exist. > Sunny I'm afraid you've mistaken my meaning in the use of the word "telepathy". I'm pretty much agnostic as far as believing whether telepathy technically exists as such, though I'm leaning more and more towards belief in it. My feeling is that if it does exist it is a relatively rare phenomenon and not ordinarily applicable in day to day life for most people. My use of the word "telepathy" in my article was as a metaphore for the assumption that many people make that others, especially SOs, should "just know" what their needs are and not have to be told. I've seen many relationships break up and much other grief caused by this type of "belief in telepathy". (I earned a Master's in Clinical Psychology before falling into computer stuff.) This is what I was referring to in my article, rather than the technical existence of telepathy per se. -- ============================================================================== ... sitting in a pile of junk on the runway, wondering what happened ... The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp TTI If thy CRT offend thee, pluck 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. it out and cast it from thee. Santa Monica, California 90405 (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {vortex,philabs}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe