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From: R9S@ECL.PSU.EDU (Roberto G Sung)
Subject: Re: Her mother wants to kill me
Organization: Penn State Engineering Computer Lab
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 20:15:14 GMT
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In <C0Kv7L.Jpw@portal.hq.videocart.com> dfuller@portal.hq.videocart.com writes:

> GWOODS@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Gregory L. Woods, Jr.) writes:
> : but now her mom has threaten my life if I
> : come near her house(her mom professes to be a christian). 
> 
> Greg,
> 
>   That christian part scares me. Especially born-again. For all they claim

No one except Jesus is born christian since the term implies belief in
the saving power of Christ. Every christian has to be born again upon
accepting Christ as the lord of his/her life.

> to be, christians are the most judgemental people i know. My sister, her

Yes, the christian values have a special place for righteousness where
the contrast between right and wrong is so strong that a more liberal
person might have problem accepting them. But that's not to say anything
about christians being judgemental as they should be applied to the ISSUES
rather than to the PEOPLE involved in them.

> husband, their friends, 2 of my ex-friends, and a co-worker are all
> hypocritical enough to make me sick. The forgiving they speak of seems to 
> only be relevant for themselves. They are cynical about non-christians also.

Again, yes there are christians like you've described since christianity
has a broad spectra and is stil evolving with time. however, i sincerely
believe that they are the minority.

> I'd like to meet a christian who claims to only have faith . . . not TRUTH.

Well, let me put it this way. I have faith in Christ and i believe
all that's written in the Scriptures to be the TRUTH, and rightly so
because one thing leads to the other. On the other hand, this is different
from claiming to know all the truth in the world, or that whosoever
disagrees with me is necessarily wrong in anything he/she does. My
personal relationship with Christ is of my own choosing, therefore
of no one else's business, and the reciprocal is true to me.

IMO the most visible difference between believers and non-believers
is the extent of the fuzzy area dividing right and wrong. For some this
gray area can be as wide as what suits them, whereas for others, it's
just a fine line.

> Of course, it is the ONLY TRUTH at that. Id also like to find 1 that wasn't
> trying to make my life "better" by enlightening me.  

Christ personifies God's love for people and love is about caring and
sharing, about concern for your brethrens. This may sound a bit intromitting,
especially when others' opinions are not welcome. Still, i hope you could
realize that it has nothing to do with judgement, and that your attitude
could be less hostile if not appreciative.
  
>   If angela's mom is like that, you can expect that you will probably never
> fit the mold for "her precious", and that all of your actions are suspect.
> 
> Dave
> 
>
From: bcampbell@ll.mit.edu (Betty Campbell)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Upper Midwest
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:25:24 GMT
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

In article <C0H9vA.G0o@unix.portal.com> mzank@shell.portal.com (matthew c zank) writes:
>Does anyone know why the upper midwest is so awful for meeting
>anyone? like i mean there is just no one here.
>--
>Matthew Zank * Eau Claire, Wisconsin
>------------------------------------
>mzank@shell.portal.com
>MZANK@MCIMAIL.COM 


Yes, unfortunately.  We've all had to move away to get jobs. 
-- 
Betty Campbell  *  MIT Lincoln Laboratory  *  bcampbell@ll.mit.edu
            (just a displaced Yooper longing for home)
------- "Life would be so much simpler if I could just get ------- 
                a peak at the source code"  
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From: mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu (*R*A*I*)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
Subject: Re: Meeting guys
Date: 12 Jan 93 14:14:17 -0600
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: world
Organization: Memphis State University

In article <1993Jan11.141437.12968@csd.uwe.ac.uk>, pa_ross@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Mr Rossy) writes:
>>   I've been reading a lot lately here about how men should go about meeting
>>   women, but nobody seems to be giving many suggestions on how women can meet
>>   men.  I ended a four year relationship a month ago, and I'm ready to meet
>>   someone new, but I'm not really comfortable with the bar scene.  There are
>>   guys in some of my classes, but I'm pretty shy.  Can someone give me some
>>   advice?
> 
> Go to a gay bar, there are generally loads of men in them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're quite an Asshole, (Pardon my french), Here a sincere woman posts for
advice on how to meet men and you spout off that bit of crap! I mean it's not
even funny cause she said she didn't want to go to bars, So you really didn't
even read her post! Also this was posted to Alt.Romance a group in
which I doubt you belong!!! My apologies to the original poster and I hope you
realize not all net.people are blatant jerks!

Rai.

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you show, Sometimes you think you're gonna 
get it, But you don't and that's just the
way it goes."  _George Michael_              MCSWEINBERG@MSUVX1.MEMST.EDU
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From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Facial hair
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:24:40 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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Hi all, I hope your Christmas/Hannukah/solstice went well.  I'm back
and about half-caught-up (still owe mail to too many people!), but I
thought it was time to post a couple of original threads for the New
Year.

The first is about facial hair.  I'm not sure it will stay yet, but
I decided a couple of days into my holiday that since a) I hadn't been
shaving anyway, b) I was going to be able to be away from work for
almost two weeks and c) it was colder than a witches' tit up in
Edmonton (-40C == -40F; I shoveled the walk at -35C one day) that
I was going to just let the stuff grow.  All I'll say about the
result is that it's a lot better than the last time I tried it in
school, when I mostly had scraggly stuff under my jaw line.

So my question today is a two-parter: 

1) What do you generally think of a well-trimmed beard?

2) For those of you who have met me, would you think a beard would
   prompt a compliment or peals of laughter?

Rob T, slightly more furry than previous
--
Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
"Sometimes it feels like the sun just comes up out of habit,
 And goes down as quick as it can,
 These days, you just have to grab it as it goes by."
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From: slayer@cislabs.pitt.edu (Deborah)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
Subject: Re: Where did you meet your SO?
Date: 13 Jan 93 00:15:56 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles


>>As long as Heather got the ball rolling on the 
>>subject of meeting people, where you meet your
>>current partner?  Theorizing where to meet
>>people is one thing, what works is another.  
>>So how about some info for the group?

>I met the girl I'm currently with in Narita Airport.  Actually, I spotted her
>there but didn't gather up the guts to talk to her until the plane got to San
>Francisco International.  It was the most cliched pickup line of all but it
>seems to have worked: "Would you like help with your luggage?"  :-)

 I met mine through his best friend (which was my boyfriend at the time) and
 I realized that the relationship was not working out and I broke up with
 him and his best freind asked me out and we have been together ever since. 
 February 15th will be 3 years for us. "My Best Freinds Girlfreind" is how
 his ex-best freind felt when he saw who he was dating. :) I guess you
 can now tell that they are not best freinds anymore..



-- 
May look a little young 
So what's wrong ?
You don't have to be old to be wise
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Meeting women in clubs
Date: 5 Jan 1993 18:45:53 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1993Jan4.223945.15194@dptg.att.com> rjf@dptg.att.com (51351[efw]-Robert Feddeler(MT4799)T343) writes:
>Anyway, the heretofore closely guarded secret is that _the_best_line_ever_
>is "So, how do you feel about anal sex?"

Lately, the question du jour has evolved by several stages of mutation to the
a highly topical issue: "So, what do you think of the Buttafuocos?"
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From: bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris)
Subject: Re: Duck and Jive (was Re: Pre-Sex Contract )
Organization: Motorola, CCR&D, CORP, Schaumburg, IL
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:06:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.162939.28197@netcom.com> barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
)
)	It's a wrong conclusion. I don't know how often unmarried
)mothers are awarded support, but I do know they don't fail to name the
)father when applying for aid. Why would they? General relief is a
)pittance even compared to AFDC, and is in most ways _harder_ to qualify
)for - you have to be even poorer. Most typically, when no child support
)is coming in it's because the guy has an order against him, but isn't
)paying. In some cases no order may have been obtained yet; in a few the
)state may have failed to secure an order because the named man denies
)paternity successfully, but this is rare. In my experience paternity was
)rarely disputed.

It does look like you're probably right about general relief - which appears
to have only State funding according to Stat. Abstracts (Federal funding
level was listed as zero - and estimated State funding levels were fairly
low.)


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From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 22:04:16 GMT

In article <lkmgm6INN1vh@news.bbn.com> dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.063147.1349@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>  
>> in <ewright.726277761@convex.convex.com>
>>     ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>>  
>> ] Well, if children can lift those 100-lb weights, perhaps you should
>> ] ask one of them to be your exercise partner... or your trainer.  At
>> ] the very least, find out who supplies their steroids.
>>  
>> Pish-posh; I have individual dumbbells heavier than those entire weight
>> sets.  Remember that 100 pounds is the entire set, and that includes all
>> the bars, collars, and probably the packing material--and you can put
>
>Oh my god, this is twice in one day that I'm agreeing with Ed.  Those 
>dinky little K-mart weights are certainly enough to impress *me*.  When
>I used to lift weights (don't laugh at me Trygve) I started off lifting
>a broomstick.  Yes, just a broomstick.  I was in such miserably poor
>shape that I had a hard enough time doing the recommended number of
>squats and lifts etc without any weight at all.  It took me three weeks
>to go up to an iron barbell and another two weeks to actually put 
>weights on it.  There was a six month period when I did that for a half
>hour five days a week, and I couldn't believe how energetic I felt.
>I wish I could think of some way to arrange my schedule to get back
>into it, but unfortunately there are so many things ahead of weightlifting
>on my list of things that I'd like to do that it would take a miracle.
>
>But at the rate that I was going, that K-mart weight set would have kept
>me happy for years to come.  For that matter, a K-mart telescope would
>be pretty cool too.
>
There's nothing wrong with being happy with a K-Mart weight set, a
broomstick, a K-Mart telescope, or half of a broken pair of binoculars
you found in your grandfather's attic--however, none of these are 
examples of "high-end" equipment that would be the choice of serious
and knowlegeable amateurs.  Ed's claim was that it was possible to get
"high-end" sports equipment in a K-Mart, but impossible to get "high-end"
scientific stuff.  While I agree with him on the latter, the fact is that
a serious, knowlegeable amateur weightlifter would be no more likely to
train with K-Mart weights than a serious amateur astronomer would consider
K-Mart's telescopes to be the instruments of choice for locating new
comets.

If K-Mart telescopes and weights are fine for you, that's great and isn't
any sort of bad reflection on you--but they're still not examples of
"high-end" equipment.

Trygve   (Who would never laugh at you, Dawn.)
--
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From: rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer)
Subject: Rose Quote  (Was: Re: Meeting women in clubs)
Organization: The Tickle Palace - Moonyvale, CA
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 09:21:43 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.073117.12717@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>In article <76299@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>>tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>
>>>2) if he/she is involved with someone else, then the
>>>challenge is greater and many people want things in proportion to how
>>>difficult they are to get (c.f. Stef's occasional .sig about the rose);
>>
>>The quote about a rose, which is from The Little Prince, is not about 
>>a challenge. It is an explanation of why we love people even when we 
>>know their faults: because we have spent time with them, because we have 
>>a shared history.
>>
>>Stef                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>stef@apple.com       It is the time you have wasted for your rose
>>                     that makes your rose so important.       Saint-Exupery
>>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Ooops; you know, every time I've read that quote, I've interpreted it as
>meaning the time wasted seeking one's rose and thought to myself, "I
>disagree with Stef's .sig."  
>

     To me, the quote says that one wastes one's time to make something
important.  To make the quote better, I would rewrite it to look like
this:

       "It is the time you have invested for your rose that makes
                                ^^^^^^^^
        your rose so important."

     You see, I feel that I have invested my time in something that I
feel worthwhile, not wasted my time.


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From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:54:00 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <1993Jan2.230755.19638@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:

>Superficially, perhaps, but only superficially.  While it doesn't require
>too great a stretch of the imagination to believe that a Jewish woman
>would be 'surrounded by Christians' in a medium-sized midwestern city,
>it is much harder to accept the notion that the entire female population
>of a large Texas city should use a bodybuilder-type paradigm as an 
>inflexible and absolute dating criterion.  

Okay, Trygve, put up or shut up.

I can find at least a hundred gyms and health clubs just by
opening the phone book.

Open your phone book and tell me how many laboratories you 
find selling memberships to the general public.  You insist
that people (men and women) interested in science, as a social 
activity, greatly outnumber those interested in athletics. So,
you should find more labs than health clubs, right?  Okay,
Denver is a bit smaller than Dallas, so I'll make it easy
on you.  Just tell me the names of the first five.

If you've misplaced your Yellow Pages, just go down to your
local K-Mart.  Go to the scientific department.  It should
be easy enough to find.  I have no trouble spotting K-Mart's
sporting goods department, and you tell me that science is
much more popular.  Now, tell us the prices and brand names
of the telescopes, microscopes, and other scientific instruments
you find on sale there.  

While you're at it, tell us the last time you attended a
science lecture on a date.  Tell us how the attendance
compared to even a run-of-the-mill major-league baseball
game.  Tell us which network handled the live television
coverage.

If you can answer any one of these questions, I'll admit
that you're not full of bull puckey after all.  So go
ahead, put up or shut up.



>(Incidentally, I suspect that the criterion "Jewish" is
>slightly less restrictive than "must have a PhD in one of the following
>subjects....")

It's also slightly less restrictive than "must have spent at least 
five years in a major penal institution."  (See, I can make up
things you never said at ascribe them to you, too.)
From: passt1+@pitt.edu (Phil A Sircely)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: The Classiest Pickup Lines
Date: 7 Jan 93 03:51:46 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


Well I justr couldn't pass up the pick up lines thread and thought I'd add

A friend of mine is a female bartender.  and has received the following.

A guy presses a just sucked on finger onto her shirt and says
"We just have to get you out of those wet things."

Second one a guy came up to her and said.
"I'm about to go into the priesthood and you have the power to
change my mind."  

Funny he came in a week later with priest garb on.  (really) guess he was
not lying.  Or was he? 
Philip R. Spagnolli
.
.

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---------        passt1@pmax1.cis.pitt.edu
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From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Rose Quote
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 23:51:43 GMT

In article <C0n6Hp.ErD@ns1.nodak.edu> galster@plains.NoDak.edu (Dwight Galster) writes:
>>
>>       "It is the time you have invested for your rose that makes
>>                                ^^^^^^^^
>>        your rose so important."
>>
>>     You see, I feel that I have invested my time in something that I
>>feel worthwhile, not wasted my time.
>>
>This revision, while having its own merits, seriously changes the meaning
>and probably misses the point of the Rose Qoute.  It seems to me that the
>qoute says "wasted" precisely because so many of the things we do to
>build relationships seem unimportant at the time.  If we bring these things
>to the foreground, think of them consciously as investment, that causes us
>to focus on "what I expect to get out of the relationship" thereby cheapening
>it.  For each person in a relationship, the strength of his(generic) tie
>to the relationship depends on how much he has given without expecting
>return, ie., wasted.

Hmmmm...speaking for myself, when I'm in a relationship, I generally do
things because I like doing them--and since I gain considerable pleasure
from doing something that my partner would derive pleasure from, many of
these will be things that benefit my partner.  Do I expect a return?  No,
but if too long goes without my getting enough out of the relationship,
I tend to lose interest; still, it's not effort wasted or invested so 
much as it is simly time enjoyed.

Trygve   (Of course, being the ultimately selfish person that I am,
          you have to expect this sort of thing.)
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From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: How Strong Should a Man Be?
Date: 4 Jan 93 18:53:00 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

Stef Jones writes
> Strong enough to tie me at arm-wrestling.

Matt Valentine writes:
>How about strong enough to wrestle you and tie you!!

And Larry Margolis writes:
>Tie you?  What about beat you?  (Or does that come after he ties you?)

I think those would be considerably easier. I tend to assist, if not
encourage....

Now consider this -- it may take more strength to tie someone at arm-
wrestling than to beat them.

Stef
stef@apple.com
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Try Softer
   A young boy traveled across Japan to the school of a famous martial artist. 
When he arrived at the dojo he was given an audience by the sensei.
   "What do you wish from me?" the master asked.  "I wish to be your student
and become the finest karateka in the land" the boy replied.  "How long
must I study?"
   "Ten years at least"  the master answered.  "Ten years is a long time,"
said the boy.  "What if I studied twice as hard as all your other students?"
"Twenty years" replied the master.  "Twenty years!  What if I practice day
and night with all my effort?"  "Thirty years" was the master's reply.
   "How is it that each time I say I will work harder, you tell me it will
take longer?" the boy asked.
   "The answer is clear.  When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there
is only one eye left with which to find the way." - Anonymous
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:41:35 EST
From: Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Females have it easy!
 <1992Dec24.070605.25511@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <oneil.725199192@cwis>
 <1hiaj3INN5n9@uwm.edu> <4362@novavax.UUCP>
 <93004.154513SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
 <JULIE.93Jan6195045@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu>

Hmm.. I'll concede that 'violating self image criteria of who he
wants to be turned on by' is perhaps narrow.

Intimacy is spending four years to find out that she loves you very
much, and thinks you might get better someday.  (get better == change
axioms so as to be philosophically/emotionally acceptable.)

Maybe I should have said 'Enthusiasm for turning him, specifically,
on from someone he is comfortable (at least!) with the idea of being
turned on by'?

I still think it's pretty simple in principle.

Graydon
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