From: ecsd@tfs.com (Eric C. S. Dynamic)
Subject: Re: alt.tasteless perhaps?
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 07:45:13 GMT

not@ailab.ncsu.edu (N O Tai) writes:
>
>From the keyboard of ecsd@tfs.com (Eric C. S. Dynamic):
>
>: The guy who does *not* intend to take a shit, does not see himself 
>: at that moment of wondering why he has to sit on old dried urine at 
>: other times.  Half a brain says lift the seat, but nooooooooooo he 
>: can't bother with that.  Real bad for *scared to death of infection 
>: and yukkies* like I was and still am somewhat.
>
>What the hell does this have to do with Mensa?
>
>I haven't seen much hostility towards Eric -- at least not nearly as
>much as Scott Tai used to generate with his posts.  If Eric doesn't 
                   ^^^^^^^
>want to hear lovingly sarcastic opinions about his posts then he 
>should keep them out of rec.org.mensa.
>
>I think that the denizens of rec.org.mensa have been quite tolerant of
>ecsd.  He's been cluttering up the group with private messages and
>making ludicrous statements that positively invite someone to draw
>their rapier and pink Eric a good one.
>
>One suspects that the lack of response to Eric's posts is in part 
>due to the fear that he is just rattling our collective cage, and one 
>is still embarrassed from the last time one fell for a tongue-in-cheek
>Mensa baiter.
>
>
>Dr N.O. Tai

Well, one is entitled to express one's self, isn't one?
Dr. Tai, if you'd like to share yourself in the the way that I am doing,
then please feel free. I'm sorry that so much of what I write is self-
referential, but that's how I am at the moment.

Now, I like to tell stories, and I like to amuse. I also have a very *strange*
personality. I have a very large number of facets and have many voices to
express them in. Tai (the younger - we can't know that you and he aren't the
same person, but I'll trust this for now) has always been free to flame me,
hurl abuse in my direction, etc. - and I frankly was surprised that he did not.
Tai does what he does and I do what I do. I very much hope that I have made
people laugh here, because life is just very funny once you put rancor aside.

I don't imagine for a moment that I won't get hot flames for some of the stuff
I do here. But I'm using this forum to learn some things about myself - if
someone out there tells me something I don't know or don't see about myself,
I think about it.

I have already learned that I can pretty well take care of myself in this
medium, and that I don't have a lot to fear from most people in being put
down. I'm a very slippery beast, and can always find ways around things that
happen. When an intelligent person wants to joust with me, well, that can be
fun, especially if done in that spirit known in advance. I really do like
people, almost everyone, and I'm willing to forgive a *lot* of corruption
in a person because I've had to live with it in myself. All I ask is that
the people I deal with see themselves as clearly as they can, and I certainly
try to do this. That's why I have so much fun! I'm "getting away with being
me", and I'm exercising myself, and I hope it's at least fascinating for
some people to watch.

As to my noise here? Well, hmm. I'm not so very polite in that regard.
But what's to stop any of you-all out there from doing what I'm doing?
I think I've added a lot of color here, and more can't hurt! I suppose,
if it gets nasty that people get upset with *me* in particular, I will
do the walling-off that I am learning to do in other categories: I will
consistently post in well-defined threads which can very easily be killed.
There is only ONE thing I will not tolerate, and that is to be told to
(a) behave differently than I wish to, (b) go away - viz., quit speaking.
You and Tai Jr. are free to do as you like here. Tai certainly does.
He's been challenged any number of times that he should leave "us" alone,
but here he still is. I have been both rude and polite to him. And I will
continue to be both as I feel is warranted. But I don't expect him to
behave, nor do I expect him to leave. All we - he & I - do, is dance,
according to the moves the other makes. Life goes on.

I just happen to be a very special and unique person, pretty much like
anyone else. Now, *I* think I am *more* different and *more* weird than
most people who'll have crossed your bow in a long, long time - but then
I also know that that may be *my* special delusion. How am I to know for
sure? By trying. So witness my unfolding. Is it Mensa Material? Do we
gather in Mensa living rooms to discuss "Mensa Material?" No. If this is
a Mensa party, I just happen to be a Mensan standing in a place in the room,
holding conversations with those around me. I think this is alright. Those
around me might think me arrogant, but if this is due to *their* failure to
come forward, I wonder why should they complain?

Let us all write stories and tell jokes. The hardest puzzle I have ever faced
is that of my own selfhood. So I just happen to be a solution in progress.
I believe myself to know certain things about human nature that most people
do not spend much time dealing with or paying attention to. I believe that
I know something about the potential of human beingness, that I will like to
try to share in my own strange way over the course of time.

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So Whaddya Want, Doc?
-ecsd
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