"William A. Parrette" wrote:
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... William A. Parrette ...... 7177 Heritage Drive ....+------------------+
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