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- From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
- Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness or ED.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.200233.9320@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:02:33 GMT
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- In article <ewright.728158167@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >In <1993Jan27.004250.17453@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas) writes:
- >
- >>You are either an excellent comedian or don't know the difference
- >>between an acquaintance and a relationship.
- >
- >relationship: a state of affairs existing between those having
- > relations or dealings
- >
- >acquaintance: personal or firsthand knowledge
-
- Dickheads dictionary existence. Did someone say black or white?
-
- >
- >It seems to me that one could have firsthand knowledge of a person
- >but not have dealings with that person. That would be an acquaintance
- >without a relationship. If you go to dinner with a person, however,
- >then you are having dealings, hence a relationship, with that person.
-
- I never knew I was having a relationship with everyone that occupied a
- restaurant the same time I did. You know that babe in the third tow at church,
- you guessed it we're all having relationships with her. Blah blah.
-
- >
- >Now, what was your point again?
-
- Your head.
-
- >
- >
- >>Well, I think it's about time you cut him a bit of slack. If the man
- >>has a point, he has a point. He has often pointed things out that are
- >>irrevocable and blatant to a four year old.
- >
- >Yes. To a four-year-old.
-
- Good, maybe the four year old can explain it to you.
-
- >
- >
- >>>Which is sometimes justified and sometimes not. Unfortunately,
- >>>some people, such as Charlie Martin, have accepted the idea that
- >>>anything which makes them unhappy is somehow their fault. Which
- >>>is probably why Charlie, when not reinventing logic and mathematics,
- >>>is busy having his head shrunk.
- >
- >>I find it a wise move to seek help for problems in one's life that
- >>are just too big to handle...
- >
- >Seeking "help" from astrologers, psychiatrists, psychologists,
- >psychics, psychic astrologers, trance channelers, crystal healers,
- >and similar charlatans only helps you avoid facing the real problem.
-
- Well I guess its Eddies opinion against the hundreds of thousands of people
- who have received help from psychiatrists and psychologists. Hows your
- family life Eddie?
-
- >
- >Besides, psychology is based on a denial of the existance of
- >free will. And without free will, you cannot decide to do
- >anything, including "seeking help" from a psychologist,
- >you can only be driven to it by mysterious "psychic forces"
- >beyond your control. So, when a psychologist tells you
- >you should seek his help, he isn't even being internally
- >consistent.
-
- Look its an Eddie ---^.
-
- >
- >
- >>>If all you want to achieve is mindless contentedness, drugs
- >>>probably are the answer.
- >
- >>Agreed, but that is not my personal goal, nor do I believe that it is
- >>yours. I could be stoned out on heroin or opium at this very minute, but
- >>I have learned that illegal drugs are not for me a long time ago. I used
- >>to be on tranquilizers, tricyclic antidepressants, lithium carbonate,
- >>and all kinds of other prescription goo over the years.
- >
- >Could be Charlie's breakfast cereal. :-)
-
- Note the smilie. Typical worm move.
-
- >
- >
- >>>Maybe for you. For me, it takes someone whose apprecation goes
- >>>beyond what he or she can "get out" of me. It's one thing for
- >>>someone to be pleased that I do something; it's another to be
- >>>pleased that *I* do it.
- >
- >>Can't you just take pleasure in doing and giving of yourself? Folks
- >>appreciate it
- >
- >You're not paying attention. The point, again, since you seem
- >to have missed it: It's one thing for folks to appreciate *it*;
- >it's another for them to appreciate *me*. The former just isn't
- >good enough, as far as I'm concerned.
-
- So if your not going to lavish praise on SFB's, don't expect anything from him.
- Hows your family life SFB's?
-
- >
- >
- >
-
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