Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-kirk!williams From: williams@kirk.DEC (John Williams 223-3402) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Lightning Strikes, Mr. DuBois. Message-ID: <3603@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Sep-84 20:28:50 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3603 Posted: Tue Sep 11 20:28:50 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Sep-84 11:32:32 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 82 O.K., Missionary, DuBois, or whoever you call yourself. What you base for right and wrong is purely culture. ANCIENT CULTURE! We live in the age of birth control. Any argument for having to support illegitimacy is NOW invalid. I believe that healthy sex is what you might call a ``laying of hands'', and is a healing process. This is not to be confused with promiscuity. The terms of the relationship are more or less agreed upon, and no misleading is taking place. The participants are open and honest with one another. In an age where people must specialize in order to survive, it becomes much harder to find people with whom you are compatible. I do not see any reason to deprive myself of what is essentially a healthy experience in order to conform to an outdated antiquity. The reason for most bad relationships is insincerity, and that usually takes the form of hostility. There is a basic barrier separating us. I would not want to have any sort of relationship with you because of your inherent demand of commitment before the thing has already started. Your claims to announce your promises before GOD and society are what I consider a form of entrapment and blackmail. I believe that either partner should be able to vacate whenever they see fit. This process is not necessarily a pleasant one, but sometimes it is the only way of dealing with the differences of opinion in a civilized manner. I will enjoy the people I spend time with in any way which we feel is MUTUALLY beneficial. When I find someone that I feel might be able to communicate and share with me, easily, the joys of life, for an extended period of time, only then will I ever consider the prospect of marriage as a means of security. I would probably never resolve this problem with you to the point of mutual understanding, and as far as I can see, might be driven to extremes if I ever felt that it was a REQUIREMENT OF GOD. In order for two people to stay fairly close together, they have to start out fairly close together. But anything can happen!!!!!!!!!!! I have seen good marriages broken because of some Bible waving fanatic filling in the blanks with face value garbage pertaining to LIFESTYLE. Many of them involving children. You self righteous beggars prey on ignorance. ( notice my HOSTILITY ) And propagate a belief that has NO foundation except for a 2000 year old textbook. As I mentioned earlier, it can fall into the WRONG HANDS. What I have trouble understanding is this: ( assuming, of course, that you would prefer to think of it as a lack of understanding ) Why is it that this book is kept as a standard of reference ( it IS a reference, ISN'T it ), when there are so many more accurate references available. References based on reality. References which mutually agree. Have you ever read any psychology? ( or is it against your religion ) This is something that has been developed from careful examination and objective analysis. UNLIKE the Bible which would have us believe the earth is the center of the universe. CAREFUL, your conceit is showing! Does religion give you a sense of security in the face of all evils? Including YOURSELF? Will GOD justify your actions for you? Do you really believe the secrets of the universe are contained in ONE BOOK? Would you really continue with this MINDWARP if you weren't afraid that your religious friends would chastise you? You are becoming more and more embedded into this pillow of fantasy, every moment your persist with it makes it more difficult for you to accept reality. And I for one will resist your misleading menageries with everything at my disposal. If you want to teach the Bible, why don't you classify it as fiction? FICTION! As a story where the names are the same, only the story has been changed in order to protect the guilty! < now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time > ----{ john williams }---- (DEC E-NET) KIRK::WILLIAMS (UUCP) {decvax, ucbvax, allegra}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-kirk!williams (ARPA) williams%kirk.DEC@decwrl.ARPA williams%kirk.DEC@Purdue-Merlin.ARPA