Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/28/84; site lll-crg.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!bandy From: bandy@lll-crg.ARPA (Andrew Scott Beals) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: wants vs needs, luxury vs necessity Message-ID: <765@lll-crg.ARPA> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 21:53:44 EDT Article-I.D.: lll-crg.765 Posted: Mon Aug 5 21:53:44 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 03:21:21 EDT References: <735@lll-crg.ARPA> <1742@reed.UUCP> Reply-To: bandy@lll-crg.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals) Distribution: net Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG group Lines: 39 > From: purtell@reed.UUCP (Lady Godiva) > Second, it seems to me that you are reducing the value of a hug to > something on the order of sentimental, cutesy or childish. The point is that all-y'all are the ones that are dropping down into the semi-mental cutesy and childish. (ie claiming that one needs N hugs per timeperiod) And you're expressing all of this in a public forum because you're afraid of expressing this in anything that could be construed as a "personal" manner. > [...] I think that hugs are very necessary and important. People need > that kind of physical contact. This sort of physical contact is NOT important and is definitely NOT necessary. [``Kin yew say "hermit"? Iah knew ya could!''] It is purely a luxury, like eating chocolate or or not having to work on the weekend or having a *friend. > People need to be loved and accepted like that. Again, posh. Some people who have warped their minds such that they will be Unhappy if they do not have this "love and acceptance" will invent an imaginary being that "loves" and "accepts" them. Sometimes these people will gather in groups and all fantasize about One Being. > I've > known all kinds of people: Christians, college students, street kids (I > was there once myself), very poor, very rich, very accomplished, etc. > etc. and > [...] I've never found a group of people under any circumstances, who > didn't need that kind of thing. Are you sure that you don't mean "appreciate"? "Need" is a very strong word. -- andy beals, bandy@lll-crg.arpa, {seismo,sun,gymble,mordor,dual}!lll-crg!bandy jet set ski shop quasi silver porsche jacket bleached blonde forty dollar foster grand capped teeth two inch eyelash pseudo gamma delta doll adidas in heat...