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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: re: RE: what is love?  (telepathy)
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Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 14:41:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  9 14:41:22 1985
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>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.

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