From: megazone@obsidian.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23)
Newsgroups: alt.angst,alt.suicide.holiday
Subject: Re: Depression
Date: 14 Dec 1992 10:50:10 GMT
Organization: WPI USAF -- United Society of Animation Fans
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In article <lynn.921213154811@fusion.physics.auburn.edu> lynn@physics.auburn.edu (Owen P Lynn) writes:
>What I've always found to get me in a really good funk, is
>to just think about my life, and how utterly meaningless
>and empty the whole world is around me. Some of my favorite

Well... The world get's to me more...

>         1. I'm a lifeless geek.

By whose standards?

>            a. I'm 20 and still a virgin

I lost my virginity at 21... (just so's you know, I turn 22 this month) There
is more to life than sex. Is sex enjoyable? Hell yes. But it isn't the end all
and be all of my existence. Many things are more important.

>            b. I've had only one date

I don't exactly count... But I've not had many myself. I never liked the 
'dating' standards... Actually I've gone out with women a lot... I just don't
think of it as dating.

>            c. My chances at meeting members of the opposite
>               sex can only go DOWN as time increases. A

Not always true... I look at it as the chances of mistaking lust for love as
decreasing, and less chances of doing something meaningless.

>               graduate student who finds love? Shyeah,

Hate to break this to you, but I have a few grad student friends who recently
found love. And most of my undergrad friends are out of relationships...

>               many professional scientists find love at the
>               workplace? NOT MANY.

The work place isn't the only place in life... Do you have hobbies? Just like 
to hang out somewhere? Walk on the shore? anything... You can run into someone
anywhere... I know that you seem to find someone when you're not looking and
you least expect it...

>            d. For all intents and purposes, I am INVISIBLE
>               to members of the opposite sex.

As a possible relationship so am I. I am always a friend, confidant, and 
counsellor... But I am glad to be there for them... Have I ever been attracted
to any of them? Definately. And I helped them patch up their relatinships at
the same time...

>         2. The more we know about the universe, the more it
>            seems pointless.
>            a. everything outside of earth is extremely hostile
>               to human life.

Simply playing the odds means that there is at least one world, likely very 
many, that support life.

>            b. 2nd law of thermodynamics

Laws were made to be broken.... :-) (Yes, I know, I know...)

>            c. big bang
>            d. big crunch

Big deal... Long before I was born and long after I am gone... The time in
between is much more than the human mind cam imagine... So I don't let that
bother me...

>         3. Humans are incredibly selfish, greedy, stupid animals
>            with no long term memory, and no ability to think
>            about the future. Who cares what happens? We're all

By and far most people seem to fit in this group. But there are many who don't
and they make life worth living... As Vaughn says... Human is the foulest thing
I could ever call someone... (Or words to that effect)

>            going to be dead very soon, with respect to the universe,
>            and even geological history. We're just a flash in the
>            pan.

Well... You're right there... Many species of plants and animals far outlive
us... On a geologic timescale my life is a speck... But that isn't my time
scale... And I like to belive in the interconnectedness of all things... (tip
O' the hat to Drik Gently)... Maybe something I do today will have a dramatic
effect on the future...

P.S. General announcement... I posted another story on alt.prose and 
rec.arts.anime
P.P.S. Find the book BAAA by David Macaughly(sp) Read it... Well worth it.

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