Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:aeq From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: mr. insensitive speaks out Message-ID: <1686@pucc-h> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 01:06:43 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1686 Posted: Fri Jan 18 01:06:43 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 10:33:55 EST References: <144@ihdev.UUCP> Organization: the PIRATE ship Lines: 33 >>> ICE ON <<< The point, ron vaughn, was that you spoke out in such a contemptuous manner. One can make the same (somewhat valid) points as you did in a much more civilized fashion; Ken Kaufman was quite on the mark in referring to your remarks as "thoughtless". It seems that *you* have failed to learn some things that *I* have learned, and that perhaps you ought to be putting *yourself* down if you are honest -- or, rather, in order to do something constructive, learning a few principles of common courtesy in your dealings with people. >>> ICE OFF <<< I observe that Mr. Kaufman's article includes a vote against the creation of net.singles.js; thus the shutout is destroyed. Of course, I second that vote. I suspect that those participants who are more tolerant of me (and of people in general) are not bothering to vote, since they will continue to be supportive and understanding. Also, if you note carefully, my more recent postings have not been of the "I'm such a terrible person" variety, but rather "it's such a terrible world." That is a step in the right direction. How is the world so terrible? In that, as far as I can tell, love is all work and pain, and does not provide any fun or any joy. This could be inferred from passages near the end of that heavily-recommended book, "The Road Less Traveled", wherein Scott Peck talks about how a truly, thoroughly loving person will be thinking all the time (does s/he never get to blow off an evening?), and about the aloneness of one who has achieved great spiritual growth. Sure sounds like a no-win setup to me. Comments? -- -- Jeff Sargent {decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq "Grate on the Lord, get on His nerves, and you shall get what you want...." :-)