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- From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: Re: a cure for angst?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.212531.11076@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:25:31 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.115954.26210@acme.gen.nz> <1992Nov17.142509.2374@gacvx2.gac.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.142509.2374@gacvx2.gac.edu> emiddlec@mora.gac.edu (Eric Middlecamp) writes:
- >>> carl_aude (carl_aude.nesbmail@qmgate.larc.nasa.gov) wrote:
- >>>
- >..
- >>> 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.
- >
- >Actually, 1) everyone has a religion (M. Scott Peck, _The Road Less Traveled_)
- > 2) not all religions are "blind faith" or "certain."
- > ex: _your_ religion.
-
-
- also, in case this is important, sine nomine (deb martinson) wrote that
- paragraph if i'm remembering correctly.
-
- ObAngst: i had a lunch date today, and i was constantly feeling as though
- the guy believed i was a complete loon and/or impostor. i can't think of
- why. does anyone else have these feelings of being a fake, or that everyone's
- going to somehow 'find out' that you have no business doing what you're
- doing, or being who you are?
-
- bah.
- --
- -just give me what for,
- rachel perkins = rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
- "Chastity..the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions...."
- -Aldous Huxley
-