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Flash!
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Charlie Rose is discussing East Timor
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at 11:30 tonite. Check your timezones.
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I'm an hour behind EST I believe.
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aaa ttttttt iiiii
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a a t i
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aaaaa t i
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a a t i
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a a 1 t 8 iiiii 5
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6aug99 841pm
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Halfmoon was just the other day. Cut only one foot's
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toenails. The other foot has to be done at nite.
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If you get your haircut, you must do half a head
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like Bonzo Reagan did that year after brain surgery.
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You notice
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Sugary and
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surgery look
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really close?
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Didja know this november eleventh (11/11) at 11:11 am
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there's going to be a near total eclipse?
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They expect it to reach totality at either 1111, 1112, or
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1113.
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Please, no one have their watch set to exactly what the
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atomic clock says, or else the world might blow up
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like Billy Ray Cyrus' silly ole' heart.
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Good
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God
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Almighty
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I've seen better days, but not many. Did you know
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Meals Ready To Eat (MRE) are offering vegetarian packets?
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<-< ***rATIug goes out and buys 432,965, and one for the road***
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I'm told each case has 4 and sometimes 5 vegetarian
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"entrees" included. If we behave, perhaps the originator
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of this news might be willing to give a "restaurant"
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review in issue 186 or 187.
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Would my readers like to hear about the MREmeat dishes
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as well? Let's hear it. (your wish is ATI's commando)
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ATI - Home of ZRE's (Zines Ready to Eat)
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Hi there,
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I'm prime anarchist and here's ATI185, our first
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friday nite edition in months. We've been so far behind
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deadline each week, we're wondering if we shouldn't just
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be early for next week...
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My local Opera Troupe is putting on Il Trovatore.
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I never gave it much thought to the fact it's singers
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singing about what it's like to be a singer singing.
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But that's ok. You get even more from me, don't
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you? I'm a singer complaining about singers singing
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songs about singers singing songs.
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Be glad about two things:
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1) main character himself isn't singing about singers.
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2) i'm not writing a song about him, or them. I have
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to hold myself back, you know.
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I do.
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Here's some numba's 4 U.
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http://www.the-ird.com
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http://www.hereandnow.net/theory/theory.html
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http://wrybread.com/crackcam
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http://www.geocities.com/heartland/acres/3072/camera1.html
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http://cosmos.lod.com/~ati/ati184.html
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http://www.freespeech.org/kokopeli/ricky.html
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http://www.badi.com/
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LETTUCE FROM THEMS 'AT R READIN' US...
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MARCO!!! ...
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POLO!!!! ...
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lighten up eh??? .. quien es the homo
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stickin' up for RICARDO MARTIN >>>
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latin superstar!!! Aye Carumba !!!>!>!>!>
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don't you recognize a joke man???
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si .. su madre trabaja en la puta casa!
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get w/ tha Bizkit Bud ..
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Bobochet
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Alguna vez, de algun lugar, me llego
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un correo electronico escrito en in gles,
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gracias a mi muy pobre ingles, me pude
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dar cuenta de que habla de algun envio
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de USA a Mexico, habla del Conflicto
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en Chiapas y de algunas otras cosas
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mas ......
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La Pregunta es:
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Que pasa ...?
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De que se trata....?
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Que es ATI...?
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Si pudiesen, agradeceria cualquie
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informacion en español....!!! de ant mano,
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muchisimas gracias por la atension prestada...!!!!!
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atte.
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L.I. Erick [ed note: if anyone needs this translated,
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just hollar. (shut off allcaps first
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though please...]
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Hello, my name is Mike and I put out
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a newsletter, too. It is at
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http://pages.wooster.edu/carsona/johndoe
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It is about changing the world with music.
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Here is a song I made, you can put it in
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an ATI issue if you want:
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Forsyth County
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Mike Carson
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Here's a song I made up about
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a week ago after watching "48 Hours:"
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(to the tune of Bob Dylan's "Jack of Hearts")
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It was Forsyth County, North Carolina, a summer night in 1988.
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Out along the highway, there, four people met their fate.
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They were driving down a road they'd driven many times before,
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Going places they had been but won't be going anymore.
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Tell me what can you do, it could've been me or you.
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Michael Hayes sat on the rooftop with a loaded rifle in his hand.
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He fired bullets into passing cars out along the highway as they ran.
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People that he never met, and didn't even know,
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He could've just as easily watched them as they go.
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Tell me what can you do, it could've been me or you.
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A 24 year-old woman, what about the life she could have had?
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Dying young sure made it hard on her mother and on her dad.
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I heard him say with an angry tear in his eye,
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"He messed her up so bad, we couldn't even kiss her goodbye."
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Tell me what can you do, it could've been me or you.
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Nick Nicholson's son Tom, on his way home to see his kids and his wife
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A late day at work would turn out to be an early end to his life.
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And his father swears not to rest until the final day
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That his son's murderer, for good, is put away.
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Tell me what can you do, it could've been me or you.
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They brought him in the courthouse, Michael Hayes pleaded insanity.
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That night on the rooftop, it wasn't people, but demons he could see.
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"Schizophrenia caused delusions," doctors told the jury,
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"It just as easily could've been you - it could've been me."
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Tell me what can you do, it could've been me or you.
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That day in the courthouse, more than one doctor testified.
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They all agreed there was another victim besides the ones who died.
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"A chemical imbalance" is what the doctors said,
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"Medication makes him better, he's not better off dead."
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Tell me what can you do, it could've been me or you.
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Now when I first heard the news, I said it should be an eye for an eye
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Michael Hayes killed four people and now Michael Hayes should be the one
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to die.
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But then I heard of his illness and about the treatment for
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And now the only thing I'm sure of is that I'm not so sure anymore.
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Tell me what can you do, it could've been me or you
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Mike
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A door is ajar
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--Fnord Falcon
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...................................
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. .
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. ATI: Like compost for your mind .
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. .
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...................................
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Why on earth did you write soooooo much
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about cheese?!
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Bethany (217)
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[ed note: do we live in wisconsin or what?]
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On Mythology, Civilization, and Star Wars
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By Carl Franklin
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Email: carl@franklins.net
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July 25, 1999
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(continued from last week)(parts I and II can be
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gotten in ati184 and 183, or go to:
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http://www.freespeech.org/kokopeli/franklin.txt )
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Darth Vader here for a minute. What is Darth?
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By the end of "Return of the Jedi" we see his
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final hour. This is how his life ends: Luke
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severs his hand, a recurring theme in many myths
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by the way, revealing a mechanical arm. In fact,
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most of his body is mechanical. When the mask comes
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off you see how disfigured he is. Joseph Campbell
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says of this scene in "The Power of Myth", and I
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paraphrase, that he is so caught up in the
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bureaucracy, in the system, in the "machine",
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that he has forgotten his humanity.
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Only at the end does he realize that
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his ties to his family (Luke) are stronger
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than his ties to the system, and he kills
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Emporer Palpatine, and saves Luke.
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By saving Luke, he also saved himself
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(or you could say that Luke saved
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him). This is the same message of
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salvation that is offered by religion,
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after you separate the essential truth
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from the stories. Be true to yourself.
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Be faithful to your friends and family.
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Love thy neighbor. Do the right thing.
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Do unto others as you would have them
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do unto you. These are not new concepts.
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Where traditional Christianity got
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it wrong is in thinking that by reading
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and ultimately believing in these stories,
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that this will automatically lead to
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"enlightenment" or "salvation" or what
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have you. While this may have been true
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2000 years ago, it is certainly not true
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today.
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What is the result in society of a lack
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of myth? A disconnection from the fountain
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resulting in anarchy. Lucas focuses in on
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the devastating effects of fear in Star Wars.
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In The Phantom Menace, young Anakin Skywalker
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(who grows up to become Darth Vader) is
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brought before the Jedi Council by the
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Jedi knight who discovered him, Qui Gon.
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Master Yoda senses much fear in him, and
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this is the biggest reason why he does
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not want him to be trained as a Jedi.
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He says to Anakin: "You are afraid."
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Anakin says "No, I'm not afraid" to which
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Yoda responds "You can not hide your feelings
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from a Jedi... your thoughts are with your mother.
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You are very afraid of what might happen to her."
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Anakin says "What does that have to do with anything",
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and Yoda says "It has everything to do with everything.
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Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate.
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Hate leads to suffering."
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What could be more simple and more true. Think about
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a time when this has happened to you. You can definitely
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see the pattern in hate groups. It actually starts with
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ignorance. Ignorance leads to fear. We fear what we don't
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understand. This is truly the source of all racism. Ignorance.
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Next comes fear. Hitler feared the Jews, that they would take over
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the Arian race. He wanted to play God and control the evolution of
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mankind. White supremacists fear blacks. Homophobics fear gay people.
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This leads to anger. At first, a vocalization of their fear, which
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comes out as anger. "How dare they do this or that." This, of course,
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leads to confrontation, which almost always ends in suffering.
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In the very end, it is the perpetrator who suffers the most.
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Lucas does a wonderful thing with "The Phantom Menace" by
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allowing us to get a glimpse of what Darth Vader was like
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early in life. We see the innocence, the genius, etc.
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He has a good heart and a great start on life. We tend to
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only have a rear-view mirror on the life of a whack-job like
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Hitler or Charles Manson, or Jeffrey Dahmer, or what have you.
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We are always exposed to the horrors first. Rarely do we get to
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see the corruption of a human soul as it is taking place. I can't
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wait for the next two movies, where we will see just how Darth turns
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to the Dark Side.
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Which brings me to the Force. What could be a more benevolent notion of God.
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Says Obi-Wan: "The force is what binds the universe together. It moves
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within and around us. It penetrates us. With practice, we can learn to
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control it. A Jedi can feel the force flowing through him."
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Technology
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Although Star Wars is the product of some incredible late 20th century
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technology, technology is not seen as the hero, the savior. Actually, in the
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climax of the fourth episode Luke turns off his viewfinder and instead uses
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his instinct in his moment of triumph. I don't know about you, but I (along
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with everyone else in the theater) practically jumped out of my seat when he
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did that. This obviously speaks to people in a very real way.
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In the end, technology fails the empire. The Death Star, which is to be the
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most powerful piece of technology to ever grace the universe, proves to be
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flawed. A weakness is found and exploited, to the demise of the empire. Does
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this sound familiar? Let me quote a news story from PC Magazine in March of
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1998:
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Report: Hackers broke into embassy files
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By Joe Belden, ZDTV
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March 23, 1998 4:29 PM PST
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A computer intruder reportedly broke into one of the government's computer
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links with American embassies abroad last fall, forcing the U.S. State
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Department to use human couriers for two weeks. USA Today says investigators
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found that hackers using off-the-shelf equipment could gain access to
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information such as diplomats' travel arrangements.
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For all the benefits it brings, technology is weak. The more we automate our
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businesses and leave decisions up to computers, the more opportunities there
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are for error and exploitation. This may sound funny coming from me, a guy
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who makes his living with technology. All I can say is that I am fully
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aware of the dark side of technology. It would be silly for me to proclaim
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technology as "the holy grail of the 21st century," as some do. People are
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more important to me than technology, and that fundamental belief colors
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everything that I do in my work.
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When it comes to religion and spirituality in our lives, I believe most
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people tend to think in black and white. Either it is worthwhile or it
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isn't. It is either true or not true. I think this is a shame. Life is a
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dance. We dance between the truths that we can extract from our mythological
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past and the promise of modern science and technology, between our animal
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instincts and the corrective morality we've chosen to adhere to. A dialogue
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must exist between our conscious mind and these mythological ideas if its
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wisdom is to be imprinted on our soul. This dance is tricky. In youth, one
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tends to swing around wildly from the yin to the yang in order to experience
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the full range of being alive, and hopefully not get hurt in the process.
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Later in life, it becomes a skillful craft, and with any luck, at the end we
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will be masters of the dance.
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Carl Franklin
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President: WorldTRAIN, Inc.
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http://www.worldtrain.com
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"Take a class. Teach a class. Do it in your underwear."
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An ENcino Times semiToninc NEnA (or Hello sir)
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a poem by Adam
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"Hello sir, how can I enhance
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your shopping experience today?"
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Please follow me around
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And harrass me with your products
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I'm not Pavlov's hound
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But I do intend to shoplift
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"Hello sir, welcome to McTaco Chicken King;
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can I please take your order?"
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Yeah give me the chicken
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A little ground chuck and that fish
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Throw whatever sides in
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Give me the free lobotomy
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"Hello sir, how did this accident happen?"
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Alright, that's it; I give
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You're not going to listen to me
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I know your brain's a fuckin' sieve
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She was ridin' her cellphone
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My point is simple: If you are required
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by your job to speak politely you have
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two options:
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1. Quit,
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2. Swallow your pride and follow through.
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One final thought:
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Someone please get Jesse
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Camp some ritalin STAT!!!!!!!!!!!
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Adam (all around nicafiend)
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***********************************************
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This organization has *extremely* limited means
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of publicity, and appreciates all e-forwards,
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regular mailings, published advertisements,
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radio announcements, etc, of our information.
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**************** ThNx!!! ********************
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Well, that's about it for ATI185.
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Send all gripes, naipes & handiwipes to
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ati@etext.org
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The Zine's semi-official website is at:
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http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/ATI.html
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http://www.freespeech.org/kokopeli
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for all things reconsidered.
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Oh, and if you've got sense, you'll dial
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1-800-449-2559
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