Agreed, completely.  I totally grokked the notion of unintened consequence
with the original.
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Evdemon
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On 8 Sep 2002 at 22:15, Geege Schuman wrote:
> who watched Lathe of Heaven?  (A&E, 8 pm EDT)  who has seen
> the original?
>
By "original" if you are referring to the old PBS version, I liked that
version much better.  Much more thought provoking.

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EL> On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, CDale wrote:
>> I agree w/ ya Tom.  That kind of thinking is SO idiotic.  Sure, gays
EL> So how many of your hetero friends had >3 k lovers?
So Eugen, how many of your homo friends have -had- 3k lovers?
In fact, thats a general question for FoRK proper.
Do you know anyone, outside of meybee Wilt Chamberlin and a few of the
gang-bang porn queens who -have- had even 1.5k lovers?
Eegads, if you're hypothesizing numbers like -that- Eugen, you at
least owe it to FoRK to back that shit up.
Otherwise we're liable to assume rampant unfounded homophobia and that
would just be a lose.
Just a quick assumption here.   I'm not a math geek or anything, but
assuming 1 lover every day, that would be like at least one lover
everyday for 8 years and some change.   I don't know about you, but
very very few of us are -that- lucky (or even close to that lucky)
and after awhile, even the sexaholics get bored and have to mingle
something new into their weekends.   You really are assumiing that the
homosexual population is a) that large in a given area (The meccas
might qualify, but try finding that kind of homosexual population in
say, Tulsa, Oklahoma or Manchester, NH (Tho Manchester does have quite
a few nifty gaybars, but thats a different story)  b) that bored/sex
obsessed/recreationally free to pursue sex that often, with that many
partners or that they'd even WANT that many partners.
Qualify yourself, or at least lower your outrageous numbers.
=BB
>> are promiscuous, and so are hets, but I betcha gays are more
>> AIDSphobic than hets, generally speaking....
EL> The virus load issue is orthogonal to the fact. Bzzt. Switch on your
EL> brain, you both. I was mentioning that a subpopulation outside of the sex
EL> industry is/used to be extremely promiscuous, about two orders of
EL> magnitude higher than average.
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