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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: net.peacock?
Message-ID: <3102@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 00:31:28 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 10 00:31:28 1985
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In article <97@ssc-vax.UUCP> keith@ssc-vax.UUCP (Keith Nemitz) writes:
>Taking my life into my own fingers, I would like to question what is
>the purpose of net.singles.

Well, traditionally, net.singles has been a place where people could get
together and discuss the practical realities of being a person in today's
world. It was a support center for people going through difficult times. It
was a place for friends to get together and try to make life just a bit
more tolerable in a callous world.

Unfortunately net.singles is becomming dominated by a growing number of
people who seem to rely on proving their own self-worth by denigrating
the self-worth of others. Whether they call themselves self-actualized
or Christian or simply imply perfection, their primary message is that
they have found the One True Way, and that all of those that don't
follow the One True Way are somehow inferior. These people are taking
the final refuge of the insecure -- proving that their own life is
worthwhile by proving that all others are worthless, regardless of
facts, studies, or the realities of life.

Whether they call it EST, Lifespring, Christianity, or even Zen
Druidism they are proselytizing.  What this is doing to net.singles is
ripping it apart, creating divisions instead of togetherness, ripping
people apart instead of putting them together, and making net.singles a
very unpleasant place to spend any time.

I've been rather silent in the group for the last couple of months,
mainly because I have no tolerance for the intolerance that seems to be
spreading throughout the network and into net.singles. Wherever you
find significant numbers of people more interested in spouting their
theories than in sharing their ideas, you won't find me, and I find
net.singles rapidly approaching the write-only status of such highbrow
groups as net.flame...

Maybe this is the direction that net.singles wants to take, but it isn't
the direction I am interested in following. If you want to talk, I'm always
around. If you want to lecture, I've got better things to do...

chuq
[editorial disclaimer -- I know many people in all the above mentioned
groups (even Christians) that are fine and wonderful people, both on the
net and in person. I feel that what is happening on the network is that a
relative few people who have adopted the dogma of certain organizations
without understanding the philosophy of them are making fools of themselves
in public while at the same time making life miserable for the rest of us.
I have nothing against any of the organizations or their philosophies, only
the way some have chosen to interpret it and the fact that they also assume
that I ought to adopt it as well]
-- 
:From the carousel of the autumn carnival:        Chuq Von Rospach
{cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui   nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA

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