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From: nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken)
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Subject: Re:Color Analysis VS " Useful Pursuits " (a bit of a flame )
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 19:15:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 19:15:11 1985
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>Finally my wrath has been awakened. It was stated by one "Pooh" that
>we should, in effect, be doing something useful ( ie: helping
>Ethiopia, cheering people up, guarding a kibbutz(?)) with our spare
>time rather than something we find interesting/rewarding/fun
>[somebody must think Color Analysis is fun or nobody would do it].
>Now this is hogwash and balderdash! First and foremost, hobbies,
>avocational interest, free time activities, etc. are supposed to
>serve as a release from the pressures of earning a living! I consider
>my primary social obligation fulfilled by being a honest, hardworking,
>productive, taxpaying member of my community. Any other *worthwhile*
>activities I involve myself with I do because it gives me pleasure,
>not because I feel I ought to.  Pooh implies participating in
>frivolous activities is in some manner disreputable, beneath her
>consideration, and generally ucky.

Having been following this discussion for a while, I suspect that
what pooh was refering to was taking a "frivolous" course in order
to meet MOTAS is foolish.  To that, I must agree. 

I also must agree that everybody needs leisure time activities.{
When I am not reconciling the Russians and the Chinese :-), I, too,
like to relax .  I doubt very seriously if pooh's posting was an 
attack on hobbies, etc.
-- 
James C Armstrong, Jnr.   ihnp4!abnji!nyssa

Armstrong c Wheeler b Ash			1 (rats)