Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: What Do YOU Think.
From: RR04@bunny.gte.com (Rob Robertson)
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:31:01 GMT
Organization: GTE Laboratories


Hi y'all,
  ....anyone mind if I post another message that doesn't seem to connect 
to the current discussion?














Hey, thanks. So anyway...

In article <1992Jul27.212514.15216@dante.uucp> mason@dante.uucp (Mason 
Jones) writes:

> It's not exactly possible to analyze someone else's brain after they take
> LSD (for example), is it?  I understand what you're trying to say above,
> but I think you're wrong.  I agree with Lamont; experiencing something 
and
> then thinking about what happened and the results, if any, is hardly an
> exercise in futility.  There is no 'checking itself' involved, really.
> There is a 'what happened and what did it mean' going on, which is in
> fact quite different.
> 
> :What's wrong with just enjoying being fucked up?
> 
> Nothing necessarily; what's wrong with experimenting and seeing what
> happens?  Passing judgment goes both ways, you know.

...and this made me think of a recent episode of Star Trek: tNG I saw 
where Jean-Luc and company visit a planet where the population was 
strictly androgynous and anyone showing a predisposition for one sex or 
the other was treated as someone with an illness, as opposed to being a 
normal person in all respects except for their sexual orientation. This 
was quite obviously a show about homosexuality and how it may be percieved 
by society, but to sneak in the message they had to take a back door 
approach (That pun wasn't very funny, but I couldn't resist. It won't 
happen again,honest.).


congregation: Hey Rob, just get to the friggin' POINT!


...O.K., so the point is, at the end of the show, this one alien who felt 
'she' was a female underwent treatment to change 'it' back to normal. The 
thing is, 'it' seemed happy to be 'normal' again. Surgery done, problem 
solved. Everybody happy.

An acceptable lifestyle is a relative thing. Society is a constant 
balancing act between individualism and collectivism. Where the two can 
coexist, no action need be taken; where the two collide, well, that's when 
the fun starts. And how do you weigh the value of one over the other? 
Would I be happy, and the whole world be happy, if everyone decided to 
acquiesce to some kind of fairly equitable, sorta mutually beneficial 
gameplan? Am I screwing up the works by reading (and thereby "mussing up 
my mind", H. Ford), debating, and experiencing new things? And if I were 
to partake of God's neurotransmitter (one of them, anyway) would I be 
stepping out of bounds, rising above whatever lowly station I may occupy? 
Kinda makes me think of the caste system in India, now that I think about 
it.

And you may be asking yourself, "Rob, do you really feel you should give 
up your own free will for the good of society?".

And at 2 in the morning, me and my Les Paul are screaming a resounding, 
reverberating..

                      NO FUCKIN' WAY!!!!!!

Thank you.

Rob


Rob Robertson
GTE Laboratories          (617)466-4144 vox
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Waltham, Mass. 02254
"There is nothing new under the sun..."
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