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- From: afdenis@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison)
- Subject: Re: net.hugs?
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- Date: 23 Nov 1992 15:43 EST
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- In article <lgqh1lINNil7@news.bbn.com>, dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes...
- >In article <64z158_@rpi.edu>, petitc@nuge111.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit) writes:
- >
- >> Yes, there is a difference. However, to some of us, when we get dumped by
- >> someone we care for, it HURTS. Apparently, this is not true for you---since
- >> this is for romantics (people who care deeply for others), it really hurts to
- >> get dumped---moreso than for non-romantics.
- >
- >Sigh. When I got dumped, it hurt a whole lot, and I was really scared because
- >I hadn't dated since I was nineteen. So I looked around the net looking
- >for friends and I saw a group of people who were very funny and insightful
- >and intelligent and I saw another group of people who whined a lot. Now,
- >the people who read ARC don't think they're whiney -- they think they're
- >sensitive. And we who read soc.singles don't think we're insensitive --
- >we think we have at least half a brain each.
-
- Sounds about right since *this* is alt.romance, not ARC as you indicate
- above and I *don't* see any reference to ARC in the header ...
-
- >So you get the kind of support
- >you want and I got the kind of support I wanted. There are two groups
- >because there are two different types of people. The problem, if there is
- >any, comes when someone crossposts. It doesn't bother me personally
- >because it's fun to see you folks get all hot and bothered about the
- >silliest things.
- >
-
- Almost as much fun as watching the `lonely brigade' in s.s look for groups
- they can feel superior to. Note, this is not a slam on your group... only
- on those who deflect their own needs by making the denigration of another
- group their `surrogate relationship'.
-
- >> As for Reality, if it's what I see on TV, I can see why we have
- >> such problems.
- >
- >I can see why you might be having a problem. TV is not reality. Turn off
- >Sesame Street and come back later.
- >
-
- Yeah, after you have seen at least 50% of the Star Trek episodes. :-)
-
- >> No, but you ARE saying that other people mean very little to you, since you
- >> can't be hurt by them. Psychological invunerability is only possible if
- >> nobody means anything to you, which seems to be the case here, if you insist
- >> that you can't get hurt.
- >
- >Surely you must know that you're just being silly, don't you?
-
- Don't call me Shirley ! :-)
-
- >Do you measure the quality of your relationships by how badly they hurt you?
- >
-
- Often, it's the size of the hole one leaves in your life upon vacating that
- wakes you up to their importance to you. Valid point and not the *least*
- bit silly, Dawn.
-
- >> Well, as I said before, there are SOME TIMES when we all need hugs. And,
- >> apparently, your dates/SO mean nothing to you, so you can't be hurt by them.
- >
- >Why do you think of "dates/SO's" as a source of pain? What's so romantic
- >about hurting?
-
- A thing is granted *equal* power to lift you up *or* destroy you when it
- enters your life. If it doesn't hurt much when it leaves, it didn't *help*
- much while it was there. No great leap of logic in *that* assertion, is
- there ? You only have *one* door to your heart ... it can't be opened
- *fully* for pleasure and *partially* for pain. You either open it a crack,
- thus limiting *both* the cost and the reward, or you *fling* it open and
- risk all to *perhaps* gain all.
-
- Pain is *one* measure of love, albeit love lost. No one said it was the
- *only* measure.
-
- -- Stephen
-
- Growing up is easier than you think ... one day, you just wake
- up an adult ... and mourn your loss.
-
-