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- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!nntp.Stanford.EDU!tullfan
- From: tullfan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Richard Thompson)
- Subject: Re: How depressing!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.015621.21551@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1993Jan24.203434.19186@leland.Stanford.EDU> <ioeyXB5w165w@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 01:56:21 GMT
- Lines: 53
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- In article <ioeyXB5w165w@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (philip marlowe) writes:
- >> >I'm glad that your life is proceeding more smoothly than those on
- >> >alt.angst who are using the board to express their ANGST
- >> >S Zikopoulos
- >> >
- >>
- >> I get the feeling that alt.angst is a sort of frat or something. If you don'
- >> properly express your angst--even in your first posting--or if you express it
- >> but have inappropriate angst, then you just don't belong, so fuck off. quite
- >> the little social club you guys got going here...i'm proud o' y'all...i just
- >> wish i fet more accepted...sniff...i need this kind of positive, wholesome
- >> interaction in my life...sniff...but my angst just isn't cool enough...sniff.
- >
- > True enough. It's a fine line, though -- between those who would try to
- >be assholes and those who just want to point out that there's more to
- >life than dreaming about slitting your own wrists.
- > In this case, you're right, though.
- >
- >
- >> WAKE UP--everyone fucking has angst...its what life is about...and the ones
- >> who manage to put it behind them are the ones who succeed...and the ones who
- >> wallow in it...well. discussing is one thing, but some of you make an identit
- >> of it..and are even proud of it! some of you like being angstful...and get
- >> defensive if the SACRED ANGST is not view properly.
- >>
- >> whatever.
- >
- > Right again. As a self-help group or just a place to vomit up problems,
- >alt.angst is fine...problem is, without anyone to question it all,
- >everyone just listelessly masturbate each other. Ahhh, well...it DOES
- >serve a purpose, even at its worst.
- > A question, though; with all of the newsgroups available, why would a
- >strong, happy individual such as yourself select alt.angst?
- >
-
-
- slight misunderstanding! i said that people who learn to put the angst behind
- them are the ones who succeed, but i never pretend this is me!! i mean knowing
- all this shit about how to get on with my life is alot different then actually
- changing my life. the emotions don't get changed by knowledge...they are
- still there gnawing at me! i am an emotional wreck for much of my waking
- (and sleeping for that matter) hours! i don't know how you got the impression
- of me thinking of myself as strong or happy. but i'm a trying!
-
- maybe it was the pooh quote...
-
- rich.
-
-
- --
- "For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain,
- and big words Bother me."
- -Winnie-the-Pooh
-