What's so great about that?

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At 12:43 PM 3/31/98 -0600, Claire E. O'Connor wrote:

>Dick, why do you think it's so great to have many lovers? I think it is

far more

>honorable for someone to be married and faithful for forty years to the same

>person.


I did not say nor imply that it was "great" to have many lovers.
It is a fact and like all facts of reality it does not come with
arbitrary value judgments. I have been married for 34 years quite
happily to the same person. I think anyone who is faithful is 
missing out on some of the best experiences life has to offer.

My wife is a Roman Catholic, lapsed -- all RC schools in the old
style, all girls, taught by nuns. German Catholic which is a bit
unusual.


>You say that "money is an aphrodisiac". Are you admitting that women are only

>interested in you for your money?


Not all by any means. It's usually the magnet that brings them
within range, then the attraction switches to the whole package
in most cases. Some of the younger ones are just flattered by
the attention of an older man. Most are just having fun, sex
without commitment.


>As for "ad hominem", you certainly are a regular practitioner of that form of

>"logic".


Ad hominem is not a form of logic but only one of many items to
use in the armarium of persuasion. I react in kind, an eye for
an eye. I also speak with candor identifying foolish ideas with
fools and irrational ideas with irrational people. Some people are
so dense that they cannot understand their concepts reflect their
thinking which reflects them. On the net they appear as nothing but
thoughts having no physical bodies present, so all I see is a fool
in many cases. In person, their entire being must be considered, but
the electronic world is a different context, a new world that many
have not yet discovered even though they're in it daily.


>Are you going to answer my question about senility? What does senility

mean to

>you? Why did you accuse Farrell Till of having Alzheimer's when it is quite

>obvious that he doesn't? I repeat that I hardly ever agree with him, yet

even I

>can see that he is doing just fine in the intellectual department - and I am

>biased against him because of my beliefs.


Perhaps my message crossed yours? I defined senility and
discussed the matter, but it's no problem to paste it in
again.

I did not say anyone was senile or had Alzheimer's. I made
a sarcastic inference to ridicule some of his nutty beliefs.
One explanation for some of his childishness is precisely
senility or Alzheimer's. Desperate about what?


>What does "senility" mean to you?


"senility: [Latin, senilitas] the physical and mental
 deterioration associated with old age."

On an insurance form, I would code it 'ICD 797 Senility
without mention of psychosis'.

Dick Jones

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