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To: E. Charters who wrote (80438)	1/2/2002 12:14:08 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116753

Yes, but did you know that 2002 is a symmetrical year, evenly divisible by 11? Like 1991 last and 2112 next? Are all 4 digit symmetrical years divisible by 11?

To: E. Charters who wrote (80438)	1/2/2002 12:34:29 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116753

Give it a rest EC<:-} as your "I just did." did diddle. Message from E. Charters: ".. Surely someone would have noticed this and called a halt to it. I just did." or Chatters faces those who have errored and sees the face of planet Earth looking at him, and wonders, i am from this planet Earth, i live here and look outwards yes, but why does everyone else look in the opposite direction, like walking into an elevator and then doing an 180 to face the door used for enter & exit while everyone else walks in and stops without a turn, i find myself either the last person in and seeing only a door, or the first person in with everyone else looking at me and the backs of everyone's else's head or, might i be in the middle seeing not those who arrived before me, and looking at those who arrived after me as they look not where to go later, as if they are pointed in the opposite direction to where they will later move to, as they say what they want, but later want not what they said expressed in actions, opposite to their words of saying that they still want, only in words, not actions, like the elevator looking one way and going and doing the opposite. d:oug

To: E. Charters who wrote (80438)	1/2/2002 3:20:42 AM
From: Gary H	Respond to of 116753

Reading from a book called "Escaping the Self" by Roy F. Baumeister, PH.D., some politicians come away as a very strange lot indeed. ~ "The distribution of masochism is a form of escape from the self, for the people who seem most vulnerable to the stressful burden of the self have the highest rates of masochism. Consider some of the factors: First, there is the socioeconomic distribution. The evidence points toward there being more masochists at the top of the socioeconomic hierarchy then at the bottom." ~ "A group of researchers who set out to study the call girls who worked in Washington D.C., serving the politicians, federal judges, and other influential men in that city, soon shifted their focus from the women to their clients, for the men proved much more interesting. And one of the biggest surprises was the large quantity of S&M services the women were asked to provide. Apparently, many of our congressmen, senators, and federal judges hire prostitutes to spank them and dominate them in other ways - among these elite clients, requests to be punished outnumbered requests to deliver to deliver a spanking or a beating by a ratio of eight to one." ~ "The bigger the burden of the ego, the more likely people turn to masochism. Masochistic desire is apparently a response to the requirement of sustaining an inflated image of the self. Politicians furnish an excellent example, for they are constantly required to present a superhuman image - competent, virtuous, energetic, and decisive. Moreover, they must sustain this image in the face of forces constantly trying to discredit it, such as hostile news media which love to embarrass them, or political opponents whose success depends on making them look bad. The politician's burden of self is one the heaviest, and a high frequency of masochism would not be surprising if masochism is indeed a means of providing relief from the stress of the self." We can also view those who have outright removed themselves from the political scene by manoeuvering themselves into ugly messes, such as Gary Hart, Nixon etc,etc.