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From: gds@homxa.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
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Subject: Re: Trish revisited, calmly
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Date: Mon, 27-Aug-84 20:23:14 EDT
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[me]
>> However, I do not agree with ken perlow's last statement.  It seems
>> to be a myth among non-Christians that Christians are boring people.
>> Why do people think this way? ...

[ken perlow]
I don't.  What makes you think Christians == saints?  Most Christians
I know are sinners--by their standards, anyway--and not at all boring.
I was trying to tell Jeff that less-than-perfect people are not only OK,
they're downright nifty.  I used religious imagery because I think Jeff
looks at the world through a rather low-bandwidth filter. 
 
Ok.  Now I understand what you meant.  It is true, by definition, all have
sinned, etc., so Christians are sinners too.  In general though, I've
encountered people who thought Christians were boring.  Sorry about that.
 
[ken perlow]
But I didn't say "go have sex", though I think Jeff would like to.

Wouldn't we all! 

[ken perlow]
And who said that sex was the alpha and omega of a relationship?
But to be warm and caring demands a lot more lusty thoughts than
Platonic dialogue.  It's too bad Jeff thinks such thoughts are so
sinful.

If you mean being intimate with your SO/wife, I wouldn't use the word "lusty",
as its connotations do not imply what I think you're trying to say.

[ken perlow]
I don't know what you disagree with.  Didn't you do crazier things when
you were 17 than you'd do now?  

Yes, I did.

[ken perlow]
I guess at 23 you haven't put enough distance between yourself and your
adolescence to notice.  Lucky you.  (Don't!)

I'll try, but it ain't easy.  

[ken perlow]
Jeff would indeed benefit from a loving and caring SO.  He seems to be
scared to try to find a real, live, down-to-earth woman.  He also
doesn't seem to understand that a man can respect a woman as a person
and still want to kiss her all over.  And that I don't understand,
because I couldn't have it any other way.

Perhaps he is afraid of his (as you call them) lustful thoughts.  Well Jeff,
I guess I have to agree with ken on this one, it's ok to feel that way about
your SO/wife (provided that what you do with your SO/wife is an expression
of love).  It's only natural to want to have an intimate relationship.  We as
human beings were built that way.  God didn't create Eve so that Adam could
put her up on a pedestal, but to be a helper and companion.
-- 
Hug me till you drug me, honey!

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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