Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!mcnc!decvax!cca!ima!pbear!peterb
From: peterb@pbear.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: mr. insensitive speaks out
Message-ID: <18@pbear.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 03:07:29 EST
Article-I.D.: pbear.18
Posted: Thu Jan 24 03:07:29 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Jan-85 07:44:27 EST
Lines: 44
Nf-ID: #R:ihdev:-14400:pbear:10800003:000:2455
Nf-From: pbear!peterb    Jan 23 09:54:00 1985

<Also, if you note carefully, my more recent postings have not been of the
<"I'm such a terrible person" variety, but rather "it's such a terrible world."
<That is a step in the right direction.  How is the world so terrible?  In
<that, as far as I can tell, love is all work and pain, and does not provide
<any fun or any joy.  This could be inferred from passages near the end of
<that heavily-recommended book, "The Road Less Traveled", wherein Scott Peck
<talks about how a truly, thoroughly loving person will be thinking all the
<time (does s/he never get to blow off an evening?), and about the aloneness
<of one who has achieved great spiritual growth.  Sure sounds like a no-win
>setup to me.  Comments?

<-- Jeff Sargent

	Jeff, Who Give A S**t? I don't care if you changed the tone slightly
from "I'm such a terrible person" to "It's such a teribble world", you're
still cluttering the net with this drivel.

	Well Jeff, I really can't believe that one person can be this hung
up over love/life/world. Don't try to turn away from the accusation either,
you are still using the net as a crutch, and an expensive 24Karat gold one
at that. Jeff, if all love gives you"in as far as you can tell" is work and
pain, then I think that you are trying to build a relationship that is
destined to die. Come on, how many of you out there really believe that love
is all work and pain. All the love that I have had has been fun and laughs
and filled with smiles and happiness. Sure there are the sad times (i.e.
breaking up), but I you really let these get to you, then you are never
going to want to look for another relationship.

	So Jeff, here's the kleenex, blow your nose, and quit snivelling
like a two year old who's having a tantrum("It is too a terrible world, and
if you don't believe me, I'm goin' to tell mom"). Cut it out, you're not
doing us any good crying all over the CRT and the net, and worst of all,
you're not doing yourself any good.

	If you really think the world is that bad, ESAD! I happen to think
that it is quite nice on the local level, pretty good on the global level.
sure there are problems and inconsistencies, but if everybody took your
attitude, nothing would get done. Don't cry wolf at me Jeff, I'll just turn
and not listen.

	I'll bet you that if you picked yourself up out of the books, and
lived life and looked around, I am sure that you would have to say that the
world is only as bad as each person makes it.