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- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: Re: a cure for angst?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.142509.2374@gacvx2.gac.edu>
- From: emiddlec@mora.gac.edu (Eric Middlecamp)
- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:25:07 -0600
- References: <1992Nov17.115954.26210@acme.gen.nz>
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- >> 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.
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- 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.
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