bill
shadows are so gloomy some of the time
i just love your tag lines
judy


>From: "William A. Parrette" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: OFF-TOPIC/NON-PD: Stepping out of the shadows to stir the NON-PD
> pot
>Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 01:23:56 -0400
>
>Hi all,
>
> I don't know what all I have missed. I've been in a bit of a
> "mood" lately -- something I've been describing to people as a
> "blue funk." I've even taken to deleting a digest or two "whole-
> sale," unread.
>
> So, when I finally read a digest and it contained:
>
> > Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 20:55:36 EDT
> > From: Janet Quist <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: reality check - 2 Fish
> >
> > And now David's definition of love - this just keeps on getting better
>and
> > better!
> > Jan Q.
>
> I really have no idea what it was referring to. But, it
> caught my eye, struck a chord, and I though I might "stir the
> pot" and post this off-topic definition from one of Robert Hein-
> lein's more infamous characters, Jubal Harshaw:
>
> "Love is that condition in which the happiness
> of another person is essential to your own.
>
> Love is a healthy condition... Jealousy is
> a disease...
>
> The immature mind often mistakes one for the
> other, or assumes that the greater the love,
> the greater the jealousy - in fact, they're
> almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves
> room for the other. Both at once can produce
> unbearable turmoil."
>
> Unlike many people I've met in my short existence in this
> time-space illusion we call life on this almost insignificant
> little planet in a far corner of our galaxy we call Earth, I do
> not believe that sex == love or love == sex. So, this second
> quote from the same author, also strikes a chord with me:
>
> "Sex should be a means of happiness ... or at
> least pleasure. The worst thing about sex is
> that we use it to hurt each other. It ought
> never hurt.
>
> The ethics of sex is a thorny problem. Each of
> us is forced to grope for a solution he can
> live with - in the face of a preposterous and
> unworkable code of so called 'Morals.' Most of
> us know the code is wrong, almost everybody
> breaks it. But we pay by feeling guilty and
> paying lip service.
>
> The code says, 'Thou shalt not covet thy
> neighbor's wife.' The result? Reluctant
> chastity, adultery, jealousy and bitterness. Is
> this commandment ever obeyed? If a man swore on
> his own Bible that he refrained from coveting his
> neighbor's wife because the code forbade it, one
> would suspect either self-deception or subnormal
> sexuality. Any man virile enough to sire a child
> has coveted many women, whether he acts or not ..."
>
> Well, now that I've "stirred the pot," I think I'll try to
> find my flame-retardant clothing and slip it on before stepping
> back into lurk-mode and try to finish reading the 300 e-mails I
> have let stack up in my in-box during my little "blue funk."
>
> Take care one and all, I'll pop back in again sometime soon
> if the flame-retardant works ;-) ...
>
>Bill--
> ...who sometimes thinks that Chicken Little was right.
> ...who keeps emotionally active by catering to his favorite neurosis.
> ...who thinks that a woman without a man is like a fish without a
>bicycle.
> ...who heard that "Home, Sweet Home" was written by a bachelor.
> ...who heard that love makes time pass but time makes love pass.
> ...who loves J.C.M.'s Tee-shirt that says "Curb your dogma."
> ...who is a little sad today because he ran over his Dogma with his
>Karma.
> ...who heard conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so
>good.
> ...who knows that in order to learn, one must change one's mind.
>
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