From: bz206@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph Hack)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Re: Rabid Deadheads
Date: 10 Nov 1992 07:39:32 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bz206@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph Hack)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, kstewart@ptdcs2.intel.com (bongo) says:

>In article <1992Nov7.213858.18677@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> sjeck@isi.com writes:
>>[...]
>>have been
>>attacked since day one for having contrary opinions. 
>>[...]
>>Pranksters have and continue to be considered too dangerous to
>>be allowed to exist in the public eye.	
>>[...]
>>people take this Deadhead thing and rec.music.gdead so seriously
>>that when a contrary opinion threatens their group hallucination,
>>they will use all weapons at their disposal to eliminate it.
>>when that fails they simply set up their own secret Mailing Lists
>>where they can censor your radical views from effecting their 
>>illusions.
>>
>>be careful when you threaten someone's religion, they will either
>>burn you at the stake or crucify you.  and unfortunately, religion
>>is just what being a Deadhead has become.
>
>And on and on and on...
>
>Quite seriously Steve, has the thought ever entered your mind that
>perhaps it is *you* who is taking all this shit way too seriously?

I think Reno has a quite refreshing outlook on all this.  He is the
only person (other than me) who sees the absurdity of it all.

>I can't help but feel that you are absurdly overglamorising the role 
>you play. Seemingly every post of yours I read accuses me of delusion,
>hypocracy, and denial, and frankly Steve, you don't know anything about
>me, even though we've met a couple of times. I don't think I have an
>awful lot of illusions about the Grateful Dead anymore, although I
>certainly still enjoy seeing them, and occasionally talking about
>their music.  I *don't* enjoy trying to have a conversation with
>somebody while some self-appointed karma jester and denial detector
>keeps injecting "Fruitbat! Fruitbat! Worship the holy Fruitbat!" and
>then accuses me of censorship and denial if I consider this contribution
>to be noise with respect to the conversation.
>
>I really don't understand *why* setting out to prove that people have
>buttons which can be pushed is such a huge part of your net persona, when
>most people agree that you don't behave that way in person. I'm not sure I
>really *care* why it is. I just wanted to tell you that some people can
>find your provocations tedious and disruptive even without sheltering some 
>grand illusions or religious tenets they must support at all costs.
>
>But I'm sure you know best, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if this
>post of mine reveals something laughably horrible about the frailties
>of my human soul. I am so unspeakably ashamed...
>
>Sometimes the Jester is best served by looking within more than without,
>and making peace there. If you perceive a lack of peace in those around
>you, I suggest that kindness can go a lot futher than smug superiority.
>But then again, I'm sure you know best. Lord knows *you're* certainly
>free from delusions.
>
>--bongo 
>

How strange....
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