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From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
Subject: Re: Why?
Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean VA
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:09:09 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.065720.26387@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> radinsky@spot.Colorado.EDU (Wayne Radinsky) writes:
}m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
}> 
}> Given that you are reading this group, you presumably have at least a slight
}> interest in improving yourself.  Why?
}
}Unlike you, I'm not perfect.

While your evaluation is appreciated, it is not borne out by the actualities.

}(Yet).

So what are you doing about it?

}P.S.  James -- Are you still reading this group?  

Let's make this a lesson in logic, shall we?  Since you can observe that I
posted to this group, and since the posting did not request email responses
only to a question directly asked, what would the logical conclusion be if
the question was not strictly academic?

}Then you presumably
}have at least a slight interest in improving yourself.  Why?

Quite a few, and more than slightly.  Perhaps you would care to join the
mailing list with that express purpose in mind?  My "why" goes on for quite 
a few pages.  Still interested?


Newsgroups: alt.self-improve,misc.fitness,sci.med
From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
Subject: Re: Survive
Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean VA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:42:48 GMT

In article <GREGA.92Dec10094836@daphni.hq.verdix.com> grega@daphni.hq.verdix.com (Greg Alonso) writes:
}In article <1992Dec9.132359.12945@linus.mitre.org> m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
}-->	 ESTIMATED DEATH RATES FOR SELECTED CAUSES 1989 (per 100,000)
}
}What is the death rate for natural causes?  

What is "natural causes"?


Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
From: ron@syacus.acus.oz.au (Ron Williams)
Subject: Re: Question on Graham Potentializer
Organization: ACUS Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Sydney
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 06:25:38 GMT

KESSNER ERIC M (kessner@rintintin.Colorado.EDU) wrote:
> 
>    I have a friend who has a used Graham Potentializer they are intereted in 
> selling. Anyone have idea how much she should be asking for it?
> 
> Eric Kessner
> kessner@rintintin.colorado.edu

I must have missed something. What is this piece of equipment? 

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Newsgroups: alt.self-improve,misc.fitness,sci.med
From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
Subject: Re: Survive
Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean VA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:44:42 GMT

In article <Bz23H8.7wp@inews.Intel.COM> jreece@sousa.intel.com writes:
}In article <1992Dec9.132359.12945@linus.mitre.org>, m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
}
}> Obviously, there is little you can do about congenial anomalies, and if  you think
}> this way suicide seems unlikely, but what can be done about these other risks?
}
}Simple.  Don't grow old.

The only method that I know of that would stop you from growing old is the exercise
of one of these risks (i.e. dying stops aging).  Do you know another way?


Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
From: llarsen%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Loren Larsen)
Subject: Re: Frequently asked Questions
Date: 15 Dec 92 12:07:06 MST
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept

In article <1992Dec15.162452.18702@linus.mitre.org> m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
>
>Has a FAQ been put together for this group?  If so, how can I get it?
>
>Jim Meritt

I am not aware of a FAQ existing.  Has anyone been doing this?  If you have,
pleasee post i.  If there isn't one, then I volunteer to begin keeping one
as of now.  It seems that the group has become quite inactive lately and
the only periods of high activity come when the name Tony Robbins pops up.

Loren
From: paul@clodii.Columbia.NCR.COM (Paul Fidler)
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: Re: Why?
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:01:49 GMT
Organization: NCR E&M Columbia SC

In article <1992Dec18.130909.17873@linus.mitre.org> m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
>
>
>Quite a few, and more than slightly.  Perhaps you would care to join the
>mailing list with that express purpose in mind?  My "why" goes on for quite 
>a few pages.  Still interested?
 
Dear James,

Probably, most people's "why"--if they really think about it--goes on for a
few pages. But, due to day-to-day stuff, I don't think most people have this
"why" all figured out, much less articulated and at-the-ready to post to the
net.

Point is, if you're actually inviting people to invest thought and time into
this exercise, you might give your request a little more credibility by offer- 
ing yours first. Otherwise, your question sounds flippant, like flame-bait,
and you get a bunch of flippant responses.

Note that I am not the poster you are responding to when you said this--I have
no real interest in composing a quality post on my personal "whys"....But I
thought I would point out that you will get alot of insincere responses when
you ask such a seemingly shot-from-the-hip question.  Did you realize it
sounded like flame-bait?




......................................... Paul Fidler .................
"Please consult your physician            NCR Corporation, Columbia, SC
 before exercising with Lee Haney"        paul@clodii.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM
From: deb@spectra.eng.hawaii.edu (David Barrett)
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: Re: Frequently asked Questions
Date: 17 Dec 92 23:26:27 GMT
Organization: University of Hawaii, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

In article <1992Dec15.120707.1044@hellgate.utah.edu> llarsen%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Loren Larsen) writes:

> It seems that the group has become quite inactive lately and
>the only periods of high activity come when the name Tony Robbins pops up.
>
>Loren
>

How about People Synergistically Involved or Lifespring, Napoleon Hill or EST,

PSI and Lifespring are based in California and giving seminars to tons of 
people.

Want to get something going how about the concept of 1+1=3 or you are only
responsible for your own emotions or most excuses are arguments for our 
limitations or you can't change anyone but yourself and today is the first
day of the rest of your life!

dB

"self improvement is self awareness of positive progress"
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve,misc.fitness
From: paul@clodii.Columbia.NCR.COM (Paul Fidler)
Subject: Re: Why?
Organization: NCR E&M Columbia SC
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 20:18:37 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.132820.5755@linus.mitre.org> m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
>
>Given that you are reading this group, you presumably have at least a slight
>interest in improving yourself.  Why?

You obviously haven't heard about the prize for "Most Self-improved" in the
After-life's Awards Ceremony---A *NEW* CAR!!! And, for runners-up a year's  
supply of RICE-A-RONI, the "San Francisco treat"....

Don't tell ME you're not covetous.             


......................................... Paul Fidler .................
"Please consult your physician            NCR Corporation, Columbia, SC
 before exercising with Lee Haney"        paul@clodii.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
Subject: Frequently asked Questions
Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean VA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:24:52 GMT


Has a FAQ been put together for this group?  If so, how can I get it?

Jim Meritt
--
James W. Meritt:  m23364@mwunix.mitre.org - or - jmeritt@mitre.org
The opinions above are mine.  If anyone else wants to share them, fine.
They may say so if they wish. The facts "belong" to noone and simply are.
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
From: deb@spectra.eng.hawaii.edu (David Barrett)
Subject: Re: THE DIVINE MASTERS
Organization: University of Hawaii, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:52:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec3.172913.2604@cnsvax.uwec.edu> mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes:
>               UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this 
>          IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED. 
>
>
>                                            Robert E. McElwaine
>    

I always though that desparation and fanaticism needs no encouragemnet but 
cripples quite well on its own.  The improvement here would be not to want to 
read any more of this in any life.

dB
 
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
From: radinsky@spot.Colorado.EDU (Wayne Radinsky)
Subject: Re: Why?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 06:57:20 GMT

m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
> 
> Given that you are reading this group, you presumably have at least a slight
> interest in improving yourself.  Why?

Unlike you, I'm not perfect.

(Yet).

--Wayne, the anxious puppy

P.S.  James -- Are you still reading this group?  Then you presumably
have at least a slight interest in improving yourself.  Why?

Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
From: kessner@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (KESSNER ERIC M)
Subject: Question on Graham Potentializer
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:06:54 GMT


   I have a friend who has a used Graham Potentializer they are intereted in 
selling. Anyone have idea how much she should be asking for it?

Eric Kessner
kessner@rintintin.colorado.edu
From: suqfagg@susssys1.reading.ac.uk (Graham Edward Fagg)
Newsgroups: alt.whine
Subject: yes
Keywords: Suns
Date: 16 Dec 92 02:28:33 GMT
Organization: University of Reading


The person before said "life sucks sometimes".....

yes it does...

"The period of our Suns(TM) is less than 24 hours"   G.Fagg.
.....they go down more than once *EVERY* day!

GRAHAM.

ps. Don't whine to the sys admin staff, the computers do it on their own.
From: gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley)
Newsgroups: alt.whine
Subject: Re: life sucks sometimes
Date: 21 Dec 92 02:10:30 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

In article <Bz4tv9.9ou@umassd.edu> s13989bc@UMASSD.EDU writes:
>as the subject line says "Life sucks sometimes" Now that's what whining 
>all about.

Life does not suck sometimes.

Life almost always sucks.

Mark., not even sure about that "almost"
gooley@netcom.com
Newsgroups: alt.whine
From: s13989bc@UMASSD.EDU
Subject: life sucks sometimes
Reply-To: s13989bc@UMASSD.EDU
Organization: UMASS DARTMOUTH, NO. DARTMOUTH, MA.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:57:07 GMT

as the subject line says "Life sucks sometimes" Now that's what whining 
all about.
Newsgroups: alt.whine
From: sschilli@nmsu.edu (Sandy Schilling)
Subject: Re: test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test rt
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:34:17 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.235305.4837@nmsu.edu>, dtasman@NMSU.edu (Dan Tasman) writes:
> : A bit testy this morning, huh, Dan?
> 
> > Yeah.  It's that time of the month.  Anyone have any Motrin?
> > --
> : MEEEEEOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!!!  
> : Can I offer you some Tender Vittles instead?
> : 
> 
> I'm not feeling catty, I'm feeling sooooooooooooooooooo bloooooated!  I haaaaa-
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate that time of the month!

Yeah, well, we all do.  Got buy yourself some chocolate and wait it out.

--sandy
From: gibbon@acs.bu.edu (Peter Kahn)
Newsgroups: alt.org.pugwash
Subject: Re: Weapons addiction
Date: 16 Dec 92 02:54:06 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

I guess an approriate question is whether violence as a policy tool 
is necessarily a bad thing.  Are there some situations that demand it?
How can one way the costs of the deaths of a few vs the suffering
of many?  Is it even ethical or moral to do so?  And if it is
how can one determine where the line is to be drawn.  Is the death
of a great thinker the same as the death of a child?  Does age
matter?  Does social contribution matter?   If it is not moral
or ethical, then what course can you follow when violence or
suffering are the only options open to you, do to various
contraints?
			poundering.....
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From: niels@cwi.nl (Niels Ferguson)
Newsgroups: alt.org.pugwash
Subject: Re: Weapons addiction
Date: 14 Dec 92 12:14:24 GMT

RJU101@psuvm.psu.edu (Rich Urban) writes:

<story about weapons so terrible that they will end war>

I remember reading a story about the invention of the crossbow. This
weapon allowed anyone with a little skill to kill at a large distance.
Up to this time, killing required either close combat or a lot of
skill with a longbow.

As the story goes, when the crossbow was demonstrated to the Pope, he
remarked: ``This is such a terrible weapon that it will make war
impossible.'' Several hundred years later, history is still repeating
itself.....

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cabbages and kings, and why the sea is boiling | CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands 
hot, and whether pigs have wings...            | e-mail: niels@cwi.nl
From: gibbon@acs.bu.edu (Peter Kahn)
Newsgroups: alt.org.pugwash
Subject: Clinton's Economic Conference
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:42:19 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: gibbon@acs.bu.edu


 Hi folks here is some information.  If you a luck enough to
have cable, tune in to CSPAN I, if you have a radio find your National
Public Radio Station (90.9 Boston, 88.5 Washington DC) They have a tendancy
to hangout in the low numbers of the FM dial.
The Reason: Bill Clinton's Economic conference is being broadcast live
with call in section and round table discussion of the people who will
determine our economic future.

One of the issues that they are coming to is whether to reduce the deficit
to achieve growth or to increase the defecit through investment in the
infrastructure to increase growth.  What do you think?


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From: gibbon@acs.bu.edu (Peter Kahn)
Newsgroups: alt.org.pugwash
Subject: Free Speech, Howard Stern, John Silber
Date: 18 Dec 92 05:45:24 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: gibbon@acs.bu.edu

Recently Howard stern, the radio "personality," has received unrivalled
publicity and a large fine from the FCC due to his use of "indecent"
language over the air waves.  Very Recently  Dr. Silber, BU's illustrious
president, has lept on the band wagon of people calling for the end of this
speech.  I just heard him on Koppel's Nightline show and he seemed
to make 2 main points:
1. Children can hear this and it poses a clear & present danger due to
this.
2. Radio is funamentally different from the written word due to its
accessibility and therefore speech over the air waves deserves less
constitutional protect.

What do you think?  Do people like Howard Stern, George Carlin, or even Andrew
Dice Clay have the right to be on the airwaves?
 

I concur with Justics Brennan and Marshall in there dissent in the FCC v. 
Pacifica case of 1978.
1. Since people can change the station and that it takes very little effort
there is not a significant threat of exposure of this "indecent" material
to warrant banning this speech.
 
2. America is made of many cultures.  And many "do not share their [The supreme
court's] fragile sensibilities."  Some people like Howard Stern, and some 
parents have no problem with their children listening to this type of
humor and actually encourage it.  I myself do not like Howard, but in
my home this type of humor was never sensored.  The home, the parents or
the adult listeners are the one to make the choice of listening or not
listening, not the state.  To let the state have this choice would be to
force the various cultures of America to bend to the will of the 
dominant white gentrified culture which is racism in institutional action.

It is a bit of a mixture of my opinion and that of the Justices, but if you have
an opinion on either side of this issue, I really recommend you read the
decission.  It is only 10 pages at a maximum and both sides make clear cases
for their point.

And as for myself, I feel this is just another example of how Mr. Silber
fails to understand the fundamentals of democracy and American history.


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From: Daniel Sklarew <dsklarew@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: alt.org.pugwash
Date: 19 Dec 92 12:33 PST
Subject: Re: Free Speech, Howard Stern, John Sil
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!dsklarew    Dec 19 12:33:00 1992


It should also be said that Boston U. President Silber has shown himslef
to be quite a proponent of censorship, whether of crass humorists, or of
homosexual activists (quote in Boston Globe Editorial of late Nov, or early
Dec '92). Meanwhile, despite concern for quenching multi-culturalism, I'm
not sure I agree completely with Peter with respect to radio as a free medium
which is easily filtered by adults in a family househoild. How many parents
actually tune in to the audio-drugs which their children plug into their 
brains via walkman headphones? (Sidepoint: see Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451
for an interesting premonition of the role that headphones, which he called
"Denham's dentifrice," now plays in American denial syndromes.) I must say
that it would be near impossible for a parent to vigilently restrict his/her
children from tuning in to whatever they wanted. Unlike Cable, one cannot 
cancel subscription to the Howard Stearns channel, nor do radio producers 
find it in their best interest to put him on the air late at night when 
all good little boys and girls are supposed to be asleep. NOOOOO!

Howard Stearns thrives on the racist, sexist, homophobic, and all-around
prejudice of the "white-male," threatened by a changing society. Consequ-
ently, he feeds these fears and insecurities by reaffirming that his 
target audience is still in control of ONE thing - denegrating everyone
else! (Where did that word denegrating come from, anyways?) I personally
was disgusted to find his appeal such that ANY station would consider put-
ting him on a morning show, so that station flippers hearnig forced laughter
might tune in just long enough to eject their morning cereal and coffee.
I could only hope that they do not get caught en route to droppong their
children off at school when they discover this morning ZOO. 

Parents cannot possibly filter all channels of media for their children, nor
should they. Nonetheless, media, like parents, should practice decency and
respect, so that childrena dn adults alike can feel secure in their environ-
ment. 


					Dann Sklarew
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:12:48 EST
From: Rich Urban <RJU101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.org.pugwash
Subject: Weapons addiction Con't

  It would seem to me that the Marines in Somolia (??) are doing what the marin
es have done throughout their history--Find jobs for them selves>   The Marines
 were organized to be shaprshooter high in the masts of square rigged ships, pl
ucking off the men on the decks below.  With the advent of steam ships and long
 range gunnery, the Marines were basically out of business.  However several of
 the Comandants had their act together and were able to come up with a purpose
for the Marines, namely protecting Naval bases and the newly important coaling
stations.   Each time the Marines became threatened a new purpose was thought u
p for them. This was epitimized in the forward-base stagegies of WW II.
       The recent mission to Somolia is just another attmpt to redefine the Mar
ines mission. Now they are to be the worlds police-persons, waiting for the cal
l in the middle of the night. However, rather than just protecting their own as
ses, their the frontline in protecting the entire Military institution which ha
s lost its goals since the collapse of the"evil empire"of Soviet Russia.
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From: gibbon@acs.bu.edu (Peter Kahn)
Newsgroups: alt.org.pugwash
Subject: Re: Weapons addiction
Date: 13 Dec 92 18:12:39 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA


Due to the timing of operation "what-ever" it seems that this is sometihng
Geroge Bush wanted to do before, but he felt that any more foreign interest
would only drive him further down and could've cost him to loose the election.
Now that he has lost, and realizes how badly he lost he might as well do this.
He feels it is moral and just, and he is leaving anyway so what does he have to
loose.
  On the issue of a Pentagon PR game, I think the primary desire is on the 
up and up.  The fact that once Somalia become a country again the US will
have a base their to guard the bottom half of the Red Sea and be ready for
another gulf crisis is merely gravel on the top of the event.

On the issue of using force to keep the peace, I do not see any problem
with that action.  Force is an important tool that cannot be over looked.
Even with the policies of local kitchens (devised by Oxfam) there was still
no chance of stability until one of the three main leaders managed to kill
the other other two.  If the military can bring the system to a state where
the UN can gather people around a negotiation table and begin a disarmament
plan, then it is a wise use of force.
					Peter
					Peterk@igc.org