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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Comments for Jeff
Message-ID: <1647@pucc-h>
Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 09:42:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  9 09:42:19 1985
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From Chris Robertson (utzoo!nonh):

> Consider your own experience in this -- you now know that you should indicate
> non-interest *soon* if you yourself are sure.  You are making progress.

Yeah, but I should have known it earlier.  I've read nifty books like
"Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?", wherein non-judgmental honesty
is advocated, and the erroneousness of withholding the truth because you
are afraid of rejecting/being rejected by someone is pointed out; and I
*still* blew it.

> I don't recall Jesus saying you have to love people *en masse*!  Jesus
> said you ought to love your *neighbour* -- I always interpreted that
> as *individual people*.

Good point....  One of the leaders in my own church group has made the
point that one person can't save the whole world; and this could be
generalized to stating that one person can't love the whole world.
Even Jesus's ministry was restricted geographically and temporally
by His being in a human body.  On the other hand, He did love everyone
He came in contact with, with the possible exception of the religious
leaders of His day.

> You also seem to be casting [the PUCC operations staff] as stereotypes
> (AAACCCKKKK!!!! not stereotypes again!) -- and how lovable are most of
> *those*?

Mea culpa....  Another very shrewd and accurate observation.  Thanks.

> So quit using a very ordinary human reaction to beat yourself over the
> head with, and concentrate on *real* problems!  Such as *not* hanging
> on grimly to your rotten self-image at all costs, because it's the only
> one you have -- whip up your courage, man, and discard it.

"Screw up your courage!  You've screwed up everything else."  (I'm tempted
to put that in my .signature line.)

The problem now has shifted so that it's not my image of myself that is
uncool, but how I think God sees me.  This not being net.religion[.christian],
I won't go into more details.

-- 
-- Jeff Sargent
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