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- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: Re: a cure for angst?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.115954.26210@acme.gen.nz>
- From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 11:59:54 GMT
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- Summary: kilroy replies to another of Deb's posts. Is this a pattern?
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- llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
-
- > carl_aude (carl_aude.nesbmail@qmgate.larc.nasa.gov) wrote:
- >
- > : That is the whole problem with your 'cures for angst,' they are just
- > : temporary. A temporary cure is no cure at all. In fact, I contend
- > : that seeing all things as temporary and/ or only seeking after
- > : things that are temporary is the root of angst.
- >
- > from the biblical quote at the end of your post, i'll assume you're
- > a christian. from that, i'd assume that you see your faith as a
- > permanent cure for angst.
- >
- > [...much more deleted...]
-
- Now now deb. I know a good ad-hominiem attack against Looney Christians is fun
- (after all, I indulge frequently) but it's not really fair and you are
- assuming quite a bit (he could be an Atheist and chose the bible quote as
- something suitably ironic or satirical).
-
- > i want to interact with other people and i want my existence
- > to have meant something more than x pounds of food and liters of oxygen
- > consumed, y pounds of byproducts released.
-
- Unfortunately of course, it won't. But then, this is alt.angst.
-
- > i want passion. i want to consume and be consumed. i want to feel, even
- > if feeling means being in pain a lot. the painful parts are horrible,
- > and sometimes i think i'm going to die, but when the ecstasy hits, it's
- > real and amazing and i wouldn't miss it for the world. turning off my
- > brain and ceasing to think and dropping into a warm gray world of
- > religious certainty would be worse than death. hell isn't flames; it's
- > thick, soupy fog.
-
- Yeah, this is terrifyingly right on the button.
-
- - k
- --
- Craig Harding kilroy@acme.gen.nz ACME BBS +64 6 3551342
- "Jub'er lbh pnyyvat n obmb?"
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