[net.philosophy] Is anyone There?

hutch (02/22/83)

I don't believe this.

Here, in net.philosophy, I can make all sorts of ridiculous and
bizzare assertions.  No one cares.  One person out of all the
thousands out there sends me a polite note pointing out a problem
with my first philosophic mutterings.

In net.religion, anything I say gets hate mail.  A cheerfully typed
"good morning"  would get me at least three varyingly nasty letters
and a public humiliation.  Not that I like getting hate mail, but
it does give me a sense that there are people out there.

I insist that the question of why we worry about life and death
and survival of the self is an important one.  That's why I bother
to ponder about whether there is a way that we can determine if we
have souls.  I cannot believe that you all think that my confused
ramblings make perfect sense, but I cannot believe that no one
has an opinion on them.

I can only conclude that either nobody cared about what I said,
or that you all agree (HA!) or that you all have secretary
programs with my name in the "exclude" lists.  Chee!

Maybe I can put it down to a politer and more receptive group
of readers in this newsgroup.

Steve Hutchison
... decvax!tektronix!tekmdp!dadla!hutch