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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:43:08 GMT
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- In <MARTINC.93Jan26173927@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
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- > Good start. Before you know it, you'll have to add a second shelf.
-
- >That's why God invented tearsheets.
-
- Tearing sheets out of books is tacky, Charlie. Even the great Gatsby
- did better than that. Besides, if you meet one of the authors and
- want an autograph, he'll have no place to sign.
-
- Keep building that library, though.
-
-
- > You mean you weigh 20-60 pounds more than Arnold Schwarzenegger,
- > Lou Ferigno, Hulk Hogan, or "Refrigerator?" That is impressive,
- > if true.
-
- >You've missed the part about Perry fighting to get his weight down, eh?
-
- I'm not even sure who Perry is. I presume someone on the net,
- but I don't see what that has to do with the question I asked.
-
-
- >Anyway, what I mean precisely is that my body fat has crept up to around
- >21 percent, when various people would claim it ought to be maybe 5-15
- >percent to be really good.
-
- And that's your problem right there. Listen to yourself. You
- feel bad because various *other* people think your body far ought
- to be less than it is. Richard Feynman wrote a book called "What
- Do You Care What Other People Think?" -- a question you would
- do well to ask yourself. If *you* think your body fat ought
- to be less then, fine, do something about it, but why do something
- just because other people (most of whom you don't even know) think
- you ought to? Who are they to tell you how to live your life?
-
-
-
- > 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.
-
- >You just aren't hearing me, are you, Ed? I'm saying precisely the
- >opposite -- I'm aware of what I'd like to do for my own vanity, and what
- >needs to be done to make that work out.
-
- Well, you weren't saying that in the last paragraph, but, I forget,
- you don't want me to assume that what you write is what you mean.
-
- Another question you might ask yourself is whether vanity is really
- a desireable quality. Read the story of Narcissus sometime and find
- out what narcissism really means.
-
-
- >You just aren't getting it. *I* don't feel inadequate. Just the
- >opposite.
-
- Yet your words say otherwise. I know, I shouldn't assume that
- what you write is what you mean...
-
- >Five years ago I did. What's the difference? Three years of
- >therapy.
-
- If you choose to attribute your change to the alignment of
- your id and ego, or the planets, or the crystal forces, well,
- then, I can't convince you otherwise. I prefer less mystical
- interpretations of reality.
-
-
- >But Ed -- it there's nothing wrong with me, and I'm happy, successful,
- >and dating up a storm, that's easily explained.
-
- >Why are you unhappy and not dating?
-
- I have already answered that question, Charlie, at length. The
- short version is that no woman who I've been interested in has
- ever been interested in me. But my explanation is based on my
- analysis of the available data, which you reject because it
- doesn't fit your existing theories.
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