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From: aaz@pucc-i (Marc Mengel)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Choice
Message-ID: <1102@pucc-i>
Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 22:07:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 22:07:19 1985
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Keywords: choice , emotions
Summary: Everybody wants to get into the act

	  Ok.  I've been listening to this discussion about choice and
     emotions for some time now.  So hear me out, I'd like to make a few
     points.

>> [paraphrased...] Let's say someone hits you over the head with a
>> two-by-four.  Are you saying you CHOOSE to feel pain?

     Yes.  I have seen people, (with some training, of course) reach
     into a hot fire and take out a coal, SLOWLY, without (so they
     claim) feeling any pain. Or burning their hand.  I have also seen
     people BREAK two-by-fours with their head, hands, etc.  This
     requires a concious choice beforehand, lots of training, and a lot
     of discipline.  
     
     It can be done.

     Anybody can learn to do these things.

     It is each persons choice.

     There is, of course, a price for such control.  It is paid in time
     and effort.  Everyone chooses one or the other -- the possibility
     of pain or the certain price for avoidance.  

     Whichever you choose, you are right.

     "You can choose a ready guide
	in some celestial voice,
      If you choose not to decide
	you still have made a choice..."

-- 
					Marc Mengel
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