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From: pooh@ut-sally.UUCP (Pooh @ the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen)
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Subject: Re: net.peacock?
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 09:54:22 EDT
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In article <1695@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
>> Within any community, there are going to be differences of opinion, but
>> these differences need to be settled in such a way as to strengthen, not
>> weaken, the community.
>> 
>> 					Mark Ellson
>
>  I couldn't agree more! But I do not see how Chuqui's article (to which Mark's
>is a followup), which is full of negative judgments, condemnations and 
>implications that he is "better" than some of us, is going to help us move in 
>that direction.

Perhaps you just *took* his statements to be full of negative
judgements, Greg.

>  For my part, the "emotional responsibility" discussion is over, as far as
>I'm concerned. I've said my piece enough times, so there won't be any more
>net postings from me on that subject. If someone insists on trying to make
>me look bad, I will answer by mail. 

Is disagreeing with you "an attempt to make you look
bad"?  You're the one who's taking it on a personal level,
then.

>Anyone is free to believe what they like. I can only close my piece by saying
>that I have improved my own experience of life greatly since I have admitted
>to being responsible for my experiences, 

(since I found Jesus? :-)

>and I believe others that are
>sufficiently open-minded in this area can do the same. 

Implying that anyone who disagrees with you is simply
narrow-minded.  Oh, give me a break!

>But, they are free to
>go on believing that they can't if they choose to do so. Nothing wrong with
>that. Since I'm dropping out of the argument, they can even believe that they
>"won" the argument if they want to. 

But they really didn't. . . he did. :-)

>But if one person out there someday is
>depressed, and then they say to themselves "maybe I don't have to feel 
>depressed any more", and bring themselves out of it, it will all have been
>worth it.
>

If one person out there has listenened to all the arguments
pro and con, and has been able to arrive at a decision
about his or her personal philosophy as a result, then
all this hullabaloo will have been worth it to me.

In closing, I would like to mention that anyone who doesn't
like the topics currently under discussion should start
bringing some up that they want to see!  We blunderbusses
can't do ALL the work ourselves! :-)

Pooh

pooh@purdue-ecn.ARPA    pur-ee!pooh

"They probably got PROFESSIONAL food to model for
 that picture. . ."