From: detchay@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au (TONY CHAY)
Subject: Re: Muds are just games? YEAH RIGHT
Organization: Halls of Residence, Monash University 
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:18:37 GMT



	Mmmmmmmmm,
			Well, telling someone to Get a life, is about the 
fuckest thing I could say.  I would like to make a few comments though.

	            BEING A SOCIAL MISFIT....

	If you are in the above category, then you have to make an informed
judgment as follows.   I AM A SOCIAL MISFIT.  BECAUSE:

	a)  I don't like most of the people in the world, I think they are 
scum and could'nt be bothered interacting with the many TOOLS such that I 
might find some cool people...

	b)  people think that I am a TOOL;  I am shy, cannot just talk to 
people face to face;  I have some problems that hinder my social skills 
such that interaction is difficult etc.

		If you fit into category a) I think your as well adjusted 
as the flippant fucks who think that their whole life revolves around what 
the world thinks of them, their girlfriend, their drinking ability , 
hairstyle, clothes etc.  Fuck the world I agree with you, most of them are 
idiots.  Anyway If you are like me, you Quasi-interact with the world; hey 
there is no point rejecting it altogether, It has some things to offer.  
You probably have some close friends who are pretty neat people, and some 
others who are neat some of the time.  Anyway, playing mud is cool because 
you get to interact with people without being able to make prejudicial 
and arbitrary decisions about them.  Just don't let it be your only 
interaction, you can try and shut the world out but it will get in, in the 
end.  Use the mud for what it is.  A tool, for stress relief, adventure, 
escapism, or just plain revenge on the world.  But when you leave the 
terminal, leave the game.  Don't live for it.

	If you fit into category b).  i) Stop being such a Tool.  ii) Hey, 
its alright to be shy, we are all vulnerable little emotional creatures 
inside.  Take a few risks, the rewards will pay it off.  Don't take 
rejection to hard.  People who reject you don't think about it for long.  
They don't really sit around for weeks laughing behind your back.  They just 
were'nt interested.  So why should you be embarrassed and knaw away at your 
own elbow and become an emotional cripple.  iii)  Solve the problem.  Mud is 
not the solution to your problem.  In fact I think in most cases it can 
become like alchohol.  Most alchoholics do it because they have some problem 
they want to get away from.  The grog (ie alchohol) numbs the pain or 
anxiety over the problem.  So too, with the Mud.  When log off time comes, 
or the mud goes down.  The problem will still be their.

		The whole thing coming out of this little back-yard 
phycology session is that I'm not trying to tell you to get a life.  I'm 
telling you that you have a life outside of Mud, but just haven't realised 
it yet.  Set your life in order a little and you won't feel so bad.  Use the 
mud for sure, its fun, relaxing, and you can get away from all the posing 
and conforming etc of the real world (although peer group pressure exists in 
the realm of fantasy as well!).

		Yours Dr. Zest (From Shattered Worlds) Player 99.

	And you all thought I was a Phyco cos' I like to kill other 
players.  I'm as caring as the rest of you.  Btw, Lightning you are gonna 
get it next. I have a little suprise for you  *smile*.
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