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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Credibility...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.061659.17967@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <ewright.727573793@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan21.194936.5318@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <ewright.727743880@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 06:16:59 GMT
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- In article <ewright.727743880@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >In <1993Jan21.194936.5318@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
- >
- >>I also know people who seem to have no interest in
- >>being in a relationship at all (one in particular has the problem that
- >>she's (by our current social standards) very attractive, intelligent, etc.,
- >>and keeps having people decide that she's their ideal woman and wanting
- >>to live the rest of their lives with her while her interest in even
- >>dating anybody is simply nonexistent).
- >
- >Or so she says. Bet you a hundred bucks she's married within
- >five years.
-
- Sorry, I prefer my bets to be more interesting and have a higher return.
-
- >>What I do want to know is why you feel so certain about this pronouncement
- >>that it is impossible to be happy being single?
- >
- >The obvious insincerity (and, when you get beneath the surface,
- >unhappiness) of those who claim it is possible.
-
- Interesting--so how do you manage to detect this "obvious" insincerity
- and unhappiness in others? You do have a technique other than
- projection, don't you?
-
- >>I'm happy enjoying a hot fudge brownie sundae and I'm also happy enjoying
- >>a good pizza--how is enjoying being single and enjoying being not-single
- >>so different?
- >
- >Let's see... a pizza is not the negation of a hot-fudge sundae?
- >
- >Gosh, easiest test I ever took!
-
- In a strict sense, people don't actually enjoy being single or not being
- single--they enjoy the experiences and the emotions that go along with
- each state. However, the experiences and emotions of being single are
- not the negation of the experiences and emotions of being non-single
- (in fact, there's a fair amount of overlap); there are many fine and
- wonderful experiences and emotions associated with either state and I
- have spent much time enjoying them. (Perhaps I most strongly savor each
- state when I have gone a long time in the other.)
-
- So, I'll rephrase the question--how is the experience of a hot fudge
- brownie sundae vs. the experience of a good pizza so different from
- the experience of being single vs. the experience of being not-single?
- (Please, if you could, answer what you know I mean by this question
- rather than locate some irrelevant point and expound upon that.)
-
- Trygve (Hmmmm...I've got some records where the rights to the music
- are owned by the "Misery Loves Company.")
- --
- "All syllogisms have three parts
- Therefore, this is not a syllogism."
-