From: rks@cscns.com (Island's Child)
Subject: Hello Out There
Organization: Community_News_Service
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 23:29:38 GMT

Hi...

   I am going to take one more stab at placing a personal here but it
will probably be different than any 'personal' you have ever seen. ;-)

   First off, I am looking for someone serious. I am not looking for 
someone who does not have the courage to state their mind. In the past
I have had people call and tell me they will be calling back, tell me 
they will be sending things and do not follow through. If you are the
sort of person who handles things in that manner, DO NOT CONTACT ME!
I do not like that at all. I think it is stupid, mean and simply 
rude. (Yes, this is directed to a certain chickenshit professor in 
San Diego.)

   Now -- with that said and out of the way -- onto the personal. (I 
have never been very good at this sort of thing so please bear with the
rambling.) 

   Me: average-looking, a bit overweight, a bit over 40 (several months),
a lot honest, a lot direct, a lot of humor, a lot of reading, a lot 
of frank discussion. I've recently acquired a taste for rented movies,
Internet, and community activism. Non-religious but very spiritual, 
a lover of ideas and ideals, free-thinking and tolerant. I am recently 
coming to a point in my life where I am finding it necessary to become
politically active after a few years hiatus. The way this country is 
going scares me to death. The election of Bill Clinton aside, it will
take a long time to repair the damage done by 12 years of "four more
years."

   Flaws? I have a few. I tend to be impatient with non-intellectual 
thinking and intolerance. I am also impatient with stupidity and
thoughtlessness (and will confront it directly). I am impatient with
fundamentalists of any flavor. I hate mundane tasks and tend to be 
rather lazy about accomplishing them. (I would rather read a book than
do the dishes. ;-) Other than those minor character flaws, I am (of 
course) perfect.

   You: just a nice, regular guy who is ready for a real relationship/
partnership. Hopefully, you are a late bloomer (like me) and have not
gotten caught up in all the materialism and careerism of the 80s. You 
are just coming to a point in your life where you want to do somehting
meaningful (like learn to type) with your time -- something for your
community and yourself that goes beyond the "small world" of your own 
existence. You would like to be in partnership with someone who shares
those same values. You enjoy your home best of all and don't care for
the nightclubs and don't need constant external entertainment. You are
honest to a fault in your dealings with other people and take pride in
that. You are a "man of honor" who treats your world and your environment
with care and concern. 

    On more mundane matters, I don't care if you are overweight, a bit
lazy and not perfect. The only thing I ask is that you are a nice person
who knows how to treat others. Perhaps you are one who has been alone
enough to understand that being alone is not fun -- and you can not take
others for granted. If you have issues from former relationships, you 
have dealt with them and are ready to move on. 

    Sound demanding and the standards high? Probably so. But then, I have
the same to offer in return. 

    If you are *serious*, please e-mail. I will look forward to hearing from
you. 

Thanks.


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