Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gymble.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!beth From: beth@gymble.UUCP (Beth Katz) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: What's the poop? Message-ID: <66@gymble.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 10:06:24 EST Article-I.D.: gymble.66 Posted: Mon Feb 11 10:06:24 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 02:54:13 EST References: <485@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: beth@gymble.UUCP (Beth Katz) Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 29 Summary: Karl Malik writes: >The following is not a flame (in fact, I'm quite calm). >Reading the recent articles in net.singles is like watching 'Happy Days'. >"living together is a sin", "does the bible allow fornication between >unmarried adults", "love is perfect and unselfish and everlasting", etc. >What year is this? I thought these issues had been laid to rest. I don't think these issues were ever laid to rest. But I don't think everyone has always worried about them either. You cannot look at the submissions to net.singles as an indication of how all of us are feeling. (This isn't a flame either. :-) ) Some of us worry about living together. Some of us worry about how our sexuality and religion can be compatible. Some of us worry about where we will get our next hug. And some of us even worry about whether marriage is forever. But we are each individuals. Not everyone in the 60's was a hippie. Not everyone in the 70's was only looking out for themselves. And not all of us are in computer science for fame and fortune. Some of us like what we are doing. People are different. So ... as long as the topics in net.singles deal with people trying to cope with being themselves either alone or as part of a couple, they serve to show us all that people are different and have different joys and problems. As for me, well, I'm looking forward to a much-needed hug from my LDSO (long distance significant other). Six weeks is too long between visits. People are people too. Beth Katz {seismo,allegra,rlgvax}!umcp-cs!beth