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- From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
- Subject: Re: net.hugs?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.211116.19103@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- References: <64z158_@rpi.edu> <lgqh1lINNil7@news.bbn.com> <23NOV199215434284@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:11:16 GMT
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- In article <23NOV199215434284@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov> afdenis@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison) writes:
- >>
- >>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 ...
-
- Same thing. ARC == a.r. == condescending hypocrites.
- But your really beautiful and sensitive as all get out. Really.
-
- >
- >>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'.
-
- Note the condescending put down tone == hypo.
- Someday I may have use of a crutch like a.r.
- Course someday pigs may fly out my butt.
-
- >
-
- >>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*
- So you admit to being clueless. Valid schmalid.
-
- >>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
-
- A psychiatrist may help you but until you see one how about keeping
- this utter nonsense where it belongs. By the way when this rebuttal enters
- your life how about keeping it to yourself if it lifts or destroys you.
- Where do these people dream up this off the wall BS.
-
- >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.
-
- A little melodramatic don't you think. Stephen you oughtta be in hollywood
- babe.
-
- >
- >Pain is *one* measure of love, albeit love lost. No one said it was the
- >*only* measure.
-
- Its also the measure of a sharp stick in the eye.
-
- >-- Stephen
- I love alt.romance. alt.romance loves me.
- >
-
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