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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:03:50 GMT
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- In <MARTINC.93Jan26103259@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
-
- >Now, Ed, let's see. I've been a successful engineer,
-
- Meaning you're no longer successful or you're no longer an
- engineer? (Did Dr. Feelgood use a little too much voltage?)
-
- >I'm now a quite successful consultant, and I'm about to finish a PhD.
-
- Congratulations.
-
- >I've got publications in literary criticism, computer science, and history;
-
- Good start. Before you know it, you'll have to add a second shelf.
-
- >I've also published fiction and won national "new writer" awards.
-
- Mainly consolation prizes for those who can't get money for their
- work, but at least they will impress the lit-crit crowd.
-
-
- >I've had maybe a half dozen Relationships before that, and in the
- >same 18 months that you have been bitching about not being able to
- >get a date I've dated at least a dozen women -- even though by the
- >standards of the fitness mavens you rave about I'm between 20 and 60 lbs
- >overweight.
-
- You mean you weigh 20-60 pounds more than Arnold Schwarzenegger,
- Lou Ferigno, Hulk Hogan, or "Refrigerator?" That is impressive,
- if true.
-
- However, I doubt you would ever be satisfied with your body
- no matter what it looked like. You could be Mr. Fitness himself,
- and you'd probably still moan about how you "should be" doing more.
-
- Especially while you keep going back to those head-doctors.
- They'll reinforce your feelings of inadequacy because, as
- long as you feel you "need help," you'll keep coming back
- for more $50 an hour "treatments."
-
-
- >And yet I'm in therapy and you're not.
-
- >Do you see any pattern here?
-
- Yep. You've decided, for some reason, that there's something
- "wrong" with you -- your mind as well as your body -- and
- allowed a bunch of witch doctors and confidence men to prey
- upon those feelings while they bleed your wallet. The fact
- is there is nothing wrong with you, that I can see, except
- for a poor self-image because you will not accept yourself
- the way you are (as opposed to the way your fitness books
- say you should be).
-
-
-