From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: Fork in the Road: Binary Decisions
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 20:21:57 GMT

In article <Bvx1Iz.Gwr@news.cso.uiuc.edu> euclid@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
(Elizabeth Kupfer) writes:
>underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>>Hey, Elizabeth, how's it going?
>   It's going very,very well,thank you.  I used to wonder if you really cared,
>or if you were really the cynic you claimed to be. But you care!  You show
>enough interest in me to change your environment to show my name!  You enquire
>of my life!

Well, that inquiry included your real name and was just meant to be a
friendly jab, letting you know that I've seen your name.  That's all.

>You're even starting to maintain a dialog!
>Now maybe we can resume where we left off...
>Perhaps you could start by telling what *did* take you so long?  I *did* tell
>you my name was on postings from this account.  If follows that you could have
>fingered this account at any time, but evidently chose to not do so.  It was
>disappointing of you, and finally i could wait no longer.

No.  I don't recall reading any finger-able accounts.  I had fingered
you at another account at uiuc, but the message bounced back with
"host unreachable".  I had given up until, one day, I see a lone post
with a non-fictitious name on it; it emanated from another uiuc
account (i.e. mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu) which I had not fingered.

I fingered it.  The names matched, so I assumed that "Elizabeth Kupfer"
was the real name.  (By the way, I noticed that you have figured out
how to forge a fake name on this account as well--mrcnext.cso....)

But I really am a cynic; actually, I'm a realist, euphemistically speaking.
The only reason that I wanted to know your name is that I hate chatting
with anonymous people.  That's all.

>>I don't discuss my personal life in public.  
>    Bite your tongue.  What's all that stuff you've posted this summer about
>Japanese boys being tormented and pushed to work very hard and given false
>promises about beautiful girls waiting for them at the end of the rainbow
>(along with a lucrative job, etc.), and your own personal dissillusionment
>and how you take refuge in beer......and how you're sooooooo Japanese?  Was
>this all lies?  Are you really some Anglo-Saxon teenager pulling a marvelous
>prank?  Well?

No, I have not revealed my personal life in public.  With regards to
"and how you're sooooooo Japanese", I did not say that I was Japanese.
I said, "Why do I sound so Japanese?"  This does not indicate that I
am Japanese.

I have been careful not to reveal my personal life in public.  It is
by my choice.

>>   "How does one really know if a choice among alternatives is the
>>    best?"
>             That depends on what you value.  Once that's figured out, the
>   rest is fairly easy.

No, it isn't.  Some parts of life are clear and discernable for some
people.  Other parts of life are murky, and the precise direction
is unclear.

By the way, I did get a chuckle out of that huge smiley face that you 
posted in response to my--first ever--insertion of your real name into
a post.  I guess that I must have pushed the "right" button or something
because, in the next 2 or 3 posts by you gave really nutty responses.

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