>Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:53:58 -0500
>From: "Sodom" <sodom@ma.ultranet.com>
>Subject: RE: virus: Showers
>
>This is SOOOO strange to me, it is hard to believe. First off - as the
>biggest kid in school until high school very few people would challenge me.
>The concept that someone could sit idly by and watch another get a
>beating makes me sick to my stomach, it is the type of thing that to this
>day I fight.
Me, too. Do you remember _Brave New World_? There were two alpha males. One was confident, beautiful, and popular...but he felt the need for something more. The other was shorter, weaker, and antisocial...people whispered about him, suspecting that something had gone wrong during his gestation.
If you are truely one of the former, then I envy you. I am one of the latter. I think there are far more of us, and that with faith and reason we can learn to emulate you. I'm trying. But I am weak. If I am to stand with you and fight the tide of insanity I need a little faith to resist the fear. But, please listen to me! If we are to redeem anyone else...we cannot oppose faith. I cannot, and fight beside you. You need to decide now...If you want me with you, then you have to accept my faith as part of me. Otherwise, I need to find a community that can. I'm not asking you to accept my faith as yours...you must find your own. I'm asking you to accept me, to have faith in me as a person, if you will.
Choose.
Reed
Reed Konsler konsler@ascat.harvard.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------