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Page 3 The Carolina Journal December 4, 1968 OoT io by F.N Seeking Communication Copulation is a communication between two persons. What is expressed depends entirely upon the persons. There may be only a rattling clatter of emptiness or there may be a symphony of conversation. What is expressed may be more than can be verbalized. A Sharing thru intimacy may occur or only a selfishness may be present. It depends entirely on what each seeks to find in the communication. The expression may be less than what one expects from the communication because the other may not have sought to discover as much. The perfect communication occurs when each finds that the others’ ideas match the ones presented. The jubilation or disappointment happens when the expectations of the communication are alike or different respectively for each person. The highest pinnacle is reached as each understands that the expectation of the other are the same. This is truly where two persons are expressing the same communication. Public Ritual The formulated ritual of public confession plus the permission of the state and sanction of a deity are not necessary for this communication. It is a private speaking between two people. And it exists whether society approves of it or even if society does not know of it. The ritual is intended only to guarantee that the expectation of each is the same. But, it does not. The ritual cannot, guarantee that the expectations from the communication will be the same. The most that the ritual can hope to proclaim is that there exists an understanding of the communication. This, two persons can do without any form of ritualization. Two persons may understand the expectations of communication without sanction from the states’ laws. In a sense understanding should have transpired before two people ask for formalized rituals. If it has not, then understanding of expectations may not be achieved even with the sanctioning of state. The expressed ideal of understanding thru sanctioning of this communication should occur before, not after, ritualization. Intimacy This form of communication bespeaks an intimacy which need not be shouted to society before its occurrance. Shouting, thru the formalized ritual, is what society demands. And shouting is somehow contradictory to the whisper of intimacy. Strangely, it is only at the time of ritualization that shouting has a place. For after the sanctioning of state there is no more shouting and supposely only the repetitive echos of this communication between two is heard thru the state’s seal. Two persons need only express the expectation of communication to each other. For a socially-approved permanance of this communication there will need be a shouting. For society’s small mind shouts in whispers when it does not approve socially. Two persons who have an understanding of each other’s expectations and who do not allow this communication are hiding themselves from society’s whispers. They have become like two admirers of music who set before an orchestra with stopped ears. They are not listening to what they have already heard, or wish to hear. Even two who have this communication with a minimum of expectation and even less understanding of each other’s expectations have found what they seek in the communication. The value of the communication for these two may be as high as that for two who come with the greatest of expectation and understanding and society’s approval. But society has tried to judge and then label this communication with minimal expectation as being less than that with great expectations. It is not necessarily so. “Happiness is a direction - not a place!” The value of this communication can be accurately judged only by the two persons. Society nor the state can judge, nor should judge what each expects from the communication. It is for the two in the communication to say what is expected. Although, what society has done is try to establish the miminum level of expectation for all. And, in a manner , it omits the option of choice for two persons. Major’s Morality We have in the past tried to establish morality by majority rule instead of by reasoning. This majority rule does not guarantee the logical truth of morality. We have based morality on the denial of emotion rather than on reason. The worse of this is that morality has been established and continued and violated by a ruling few. And morality is mostly a governing of one and that one should be responsible for his reasoning. From The Couch By Phil Wilson marriage, marked by indiscriminate proposals. If that is not subtly cutting enougli for you, try this on. My source says gamomomania is seen only in psychotic persons. Right off hand, I’d say you’ve been cut to the quick, and maybe your good friend is a gamomophobiac on the run. Dear Phil, War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. -Charles-Maurice De Tallyrand A good friend of mine, who considers himself very esoteric, told me that I am a girl suffering from gamomomania. What is this affliction and what did he mean by it? I think it was a subtle cut. Curious Dear Curious, I think it WAS a subtle cut-in fact, too subtle. Gamomomania is the obsession with the idea of Thanks (Continued from page 2) -Quiet times when for a brief period the world seems to pause and everything seems tight. -Friends who share the load and later the laughs. -Challenge to accepted opinion for it provides the opportunity for growth. -Freedom so much of it that 1 become accustomed to it and complain when I reach it’s boundaries. -Inspiration no matter what its source. -Music, that which stimulates and that which smoothes. -Good books for their conversation is enjoyable. -Love, all that is received and given in all its forms. -Education enhancing all which we call life. -Children their sparkle is a promise of hope. -Troubles for their depressions increase the value of pleasure. -Life, first, because it permits experiences and sensations. Phil Wilson Thanksgiving is eating so much tradition that you can’t bend far enough to sit down once you’ve gotten up. So, you just sort of fall backwards onto the nearest bed and think about how full your stomach is until it all settle in your head, knocking you out bluntly for an afternoon of ZZZZZZ’s. It’s one of the only times of the year when your stomach has a hang-over, or maybe 1 should say an over-hang. Wayne Eason What am 1 thankful for? Well, it’s a very difficult question to answer in only a few lines. 1 suppose that 1 could spend the remainder of my life giving a reply to such a question. But, since I must use only one line, or one sentence, I should say that I am thankful for the chance to experience the human sensation of what is called Life. With that sensation go all the senses, but more, there is the element of thought; to be able to think. With these tools I can experience new days, new ideas, new people, and new emotions that come with the growing experience. I know that I won’t live long enough to experience everything that my meagre heart would like, but at least, thanks to the meaningful relationship that 1 have established with one special person, I will be able to say, just before my death, that I had life-and thankful for it am I. Mike Combs -A warm bed on a cold night in a house where there is no heat -sitting by the side of a nice calm lake on a gentle spring day -a good book by Thurber, Lenny Bruce, or Joseph Heller -a concert of the Lettermen or Simon and Garfunkle by an open fireplace -true friends -a good cup of coffee -leisure time? -a girl who really understands me? -an extra girl just in case -solitude -a hot shower in winter and a cold shower in summer -those who remember those special little times that are the most important -trips to the mountains or to camp out in general and for the God who looks out after those who can’t do it for themselves -understanding employers -catching a large bass just when someone has just laughed at my fishing ability -kind hearted professors. -a fraternity which got me away from home -and last, but not least, me (Continued on page 5) Two weeks ago there were petitions out “for” and “against” police officers on campus wearing guns. Wlio ever won? B.G.A. Dear B.G.A., 1 don’t' know that anybody ever WON, but at last look, the “for” list seemed to have two or three times as many signatures as the “against” list. The Carolina Journal Urges All Students to Back the UNC-C 49er Basketball Team Be At The Next Home Gome Tomorrow Night Horrisburg Against N.C. Methodist
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