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- From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
- Subject: Re: a cure for angst?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.164655.19401@linus.mitre.org>
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- References: <1992Nov17.115954.26210@acme.gen.nz> <1992Nov17.142509.2374@gacvx2.gac.edu> <1992Nov17.212531.11076@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:46:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.212531.11076@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.142509.2374@gacvx2.gac.edu> emiddlec@mora.gac.edu (Eric Middlecamp) writes:
- >>>> carl_aude (carl_aude.nesbmail@qmgate.larc.nasa.gov) wrote:
- >>>>
- >>..
- >>>> i want passion. i want to consume and be consumed. i want to feel, even
- >>>> if feeling means being in pain a lot. the painful parts are horrible,
- >>>> and sometimes i think i'm going to die, but when the ecstasy hits, it's
- >>>> real and amazing and i wouldn't miss it for the world. turning off my
- >>>> brain and ceasing to think and dropping into a warm gray world of
- >>>> religious certainty would be worse than death.
- >>
- >>Actually, 1) everyone has a religion (M. Scott Peck, _The Road Less Traveled_)
- >> 2) not all religions are "blind faith" or "certain."
- >> ex: _your_ religion.
-
- Had to comment here, as a similar quote from "Ender's Game" came to mind
- as I read this:
- "Nobody is truly an individual. Everybody is controlled in some
- way by somebody else. All we can hope to do is hope that we get controlled
- by the good ones and that we control good ourselves".---Valentine,
- "Ender's Game"
-
- ---Steve
- --
- Stephen Okay sokay@mitre.org
- "You see, I'm kind of this control freak who likes to create his own
- personal hells before the real one can get to him. I like to beat hell
- to hell so to speak".--Spalding Gray "Monster in a box"
-