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
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>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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