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From: labelle@hplabsc.UUCP (WB6YZZ La Belle)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: What to do with an SO on a quilt-and other topics
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Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 17:23:07 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  3 17:23:07 1984
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>>>For an experience with your {date,lover,SO,...} try watching some meteor
showers.  Go out where there's a dark sky, take a quilt, a little wine,
not too much if you're driving.  We are passing through comet tails now.
Happens every summer.  It's neat, go see it.  You can read more about it
in net.astro, in Stardate.

While you're there, looking out at the cosmos, trying to imagine which direction
the earth is heading relative to what you're seeing, see if you don't
agree that there are human pursuits that cannot be bought and sold, that
cannot be prostituted, or objectified.

There is a feeling of transcendance in certain acts, in various works
of art and science.  The real pleasure in life lies here, not in that
which is marketable.  There's a movie line from "An Unmarried Woman,"
"There's love and there's art,...", spoken by an artist, naturally,
leaving science out entirely, but the line is about transcendance.  His
instinct was sound.

>>>All this fuss about Miss America... What a total waste of time.
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   If you are really interested in astronomy- go to a planetarium; per-
  sonally I've got better things to do on a quilt with some wine and my SO!
   Somehow I think you are trying to in someway hide your sexual desires
   and infer that intellectual meetings of the mind are somehow better or
  more desireable. The mental "orgasm" of intellectual pusuit or emotional
  melding of the minds with an SO may indeed be the "real pleasure in
  life" FOR YOU! But sexual pleasure also has its place in the human function.
  Let's not try to hide it or make it look like something else or supress
  it. 

    The "real pleasure in life" is completely PERSON DEPENDANT. I may
  obtain my "real pleasure" in life from "that which is marketable"
  IT JUST MIGHT NOT APPLY TO YOU!  This is what really makes people
  different. Different desires and pursuits.

    The bottom line is- "all this fuss about miss america" was not a waste
  for me! It was socially rewarding and intellectually stimulating
  because it brought out so many opinions and ideas; EVEN YOURS!

                     GEORGE
   
:w lovers