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SNUFF IT #3
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The Journal of the Church of Euthanasia
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EDITORIAL
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Some people think pictures of dicks and pussies are obscene. They are
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misinformed. We are losing a species to extinction every sixty minutes. That
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is obscene. We are losing an acre of trees every eight seconds in the U.S.
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alone. That is obscene. Why are all those trees being destroyed? Why are all
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those plants and animals extinct? Why are large areas of the Earth becoming
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deserts? I'll tell you why. Because there are too many people. Too many
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dicks in too many pussies making too many people. The human population is
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increasing by one million every four days. That's a net increase of 95 million
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people per year. Another Mexico, every year. Got it? Have you had children?
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I know, it's personal, but it's just the two of us here, so let's get personal.
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If you haven't, you've done more for the planet than most people, more than
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most so-called "environmentalists." If you have had children, would you kindly
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do us all a big favor and not have any more? If you're thinking about it,
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think about something else. There's plenty of children and animals and forests
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and streams that need nurturing right now. In fact, the world is crawling with
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suffering beings of every description. They're displaced and deprived and
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damaged and hurting and they all need love, so if you want to nurture, start
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with them! The last thing this planet needs right now is more hungry mouths,
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more disposable diapers and trendy baby strollers and cheap plastic toys and
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stylish baby clothes. The planet is dying. Do you understand? The planet is
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dying. This is a fact. There is no more time for having babies, or going back
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to school, or getting a promotion, or buying a new car, or taking a nice
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vacation, or even taking pictures of dicks and pussies. That's over now. It
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didn't work. We're about to try something else. One of two things is going to
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happen. Either the entire human race is going to make a leap of consciousness
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to a totally new species awareness...or we're going to exterminate ourselves
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and every other species that's left on this beautiful, living planet, in a
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massive, simultaneous anti-orgasm of ecocide, pain and death. It's up to you.
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Think about it.
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1. Why do things go bad?
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There is insanity everywhere..
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There must be a reason for all the decay. I see crime go up, incomes go
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down, neighbors get meaner, wars get more vicious, competition between world
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aggressors to create the most shocking atrocity. No one feels they are taken
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seriously. Pollution gets worse, even when we try to love our planet and
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recycle and shop conscientiously. Water becomes more scarce. Natural
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disasters seem more and more frequent. It costs more to own a home than it
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used to, and the home I can afford gets smaller and smaller. And there are
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more and more problems impossible to list.
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Why?
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I'll tell you.
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It's because there are too many people.
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-Population #1 by Mike Merrill
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LETTERS
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>>>>
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I write to thank you for issue #2 of _Snuff It_ which you sent to me. Some
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very informative articles to say the least! As a follower of the
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J.E.H.O.V.I.A.N. Temple I see our two groups share many common beliefs.
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Perhaps you have heard of us and taken advantage of our offers to groups such
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as yours. If not, don't let the initials confuse you. We are a non-Christian
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group which worships Hakh. (Our God and what you refer to as the planet.)
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We view Hakh as a living, breathing supreme being, with mankind merely
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being a cancerous virus which is slowly killing Hakh. Our followers strive to
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bring life back to Hakh via population reduction; reduction of natural resource
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usage and by "putting back" that which mankind's ignorance and greed has
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destroyed.
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Any non-Christian group which believes in saving Hakh (the planet) may have
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free access to our temples and resort grounds, just by asking. There, your
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group would be free to conduct social gatherings, services, sermons, etc.
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Temples, Inc., also provides funding for groups in need of such support.
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Like your group, ours has no prejudices with regards to one's sexual
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preferences. Heterosexuals and homosexuals are getting married all the time at
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the Temples and all marriages are viewed equally valid by followers.
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The difference between our two groups is as follows.
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(1) We encourage adoption. If a couple desires a child, rather than procreate
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one more mouth to feed we encourage adopting a hungry mouth which is already in
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existence.
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(2) Rather than cannibalism to feed mankind, we encourage the idea of the dead
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being ground into fertilizer to feed Hakh.
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(3) We don't actually support suicide, however, we believe "If you exist, you
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exist only to serve and care for Hakh. If one can not serve and care for Hakh
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in life, serve Hakh via your death."
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(4) We are Naturists (practice social and ritual nudity) striving to live in
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total harmony with that which we serve.
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I notice from photographs that your followers (some) have children. We do
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not view children as expensive burdens. We view our children as Hakh's future
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care-givers and train them at birth towards this goal.
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Our children play with Hakh; not with toys. Our children watch squirrels
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gather nuts; not throw sticks to fetching dogs. Pets such as cats and dogs
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serve no purpose as a species, unless being a trained animal which cares for
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the disabled. If our children desire a pet, they raise tadpoles and release
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their frogs into ponds.
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I do not know what programs, if any, are available for your children. Ours
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have publications such as "Minor Issues" which serves to teach them about their
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bodies and the dangers of un-checked procreation. We also have a program known
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as "N.E.W.T.S." to which both parents and children belong. (Naturalists'
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Encounters With Terrestrial Sciences) Here, adults and children learn about
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Hakh; how to understand Hakh's needs; and how best to serve Hakh. Via active
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participation with parents, children learn the responsibility skills necessary
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to save Hakh from mankind's destructive greed and waste.
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At the age of three, our children begin to participate in a sex education
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program. Here they learn proper names for all body parts and that all body
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parts are natural and good. Sexual exploration (masturbation) is taught as
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being natural and good. It is openly taught in our classes and individual and
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group experiences are encouraged and discussed. By the time our children reach
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puberty they are fully aware of the dangerous ramifications procreation can
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cause to Hakh. Our children do not watch tv; they watch sunsets. They do not
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ride bikes down the streets; they take walks together along fields and streams.
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Some children have never seen a zoo. Those who have cry for the poor
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creatures, which belong to Hakh, [which] mankind has locked in cages for
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amusement. Little children raised on temple grounds have never worn clothing
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or shoes. We have our own school programs which children attend nude. Some,
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have not even seen fire. That which we do cook is cooked via solar grills and
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ovens. I notice your children wear shorts, tops and dresses. Cute, but
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children grow out of clothing quickly; while skin grows with them.
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Eliminate clothing for children and you eliminate a major expense;
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encourage body awareness and self appreciation; and, eliminate child curiosity
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about the opposite gender thereby eliminate eliminating sexual experimentation
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which can lead to ignorant procreation. Furthermore, less clothing means more
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natural resources, less pollution, and less waste.
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The elimination of manufactured toys further serves to cut child care
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costs. It also serves in creating children with creative thoughts and
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abilities, who have strong minds and bodies. Children don't need games, toys
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and tv to exist. Given the chance they are able to create their own "play
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time" activities. The children of primitive tribes have existed quite happily
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for centuries without video games and television. And, it was not a "feeling
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of boredom" which led to acts of excessive procreation, but a fear of
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extinction. Our children are taught that we have but one race; the human race.
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And, unless it is Hakh's will, the human race shall not become extinct.
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I am very interested in learning more about your group, and perhaps
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becoming a member. As I am presently incarcerated, I only get paid once each
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month. As soon as I do, I shall send you $10.00, which I understand to be your
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membership fee.
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In the meantime, if you happen to have more information available, I
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certainly would be interested in reading it. And, if by chance you are
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interested in reading some of the J.E.H.O.V.I.A.N. literature I'd be more than
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happy to have some sent to you. Also, perhaps you know of someone from your
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group living near my area. If so, I would love to write and/or visit with such
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a person to discuss views.
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Thank you for your time and consideration.
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P.S. Lemmings *do* commit mass suicide. I have a ninety year prison
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sentence. Should I ever decide to "be a lemming" I'll let you know.
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J.E.H.O.V.I.A.N.s view all forms of death as becoming one with Hakh. Oh! Tell
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the individual photographed on page 14-15, having the tattoos "Butch Dyke
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Daddy" on the arm that I send my love....
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-Malcolm J. Campbell, 396 S. Drummond St., Waupun, WI 53963-0351
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We requested some J.E.H.O.V.I.A.N. literature a while ago, and we haven't heard
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a peep from them since. Maybe they're all in prison. Is it us, or is there a
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peculiar emphasis on children in this letter? Never mind. It turns out
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lemmings aren't the only rodents who commit mass suicide. Remember, this could
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be you in a few years:
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"If the nut crop failure is widespread...in desperation the squirrels attempt
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to cross busy turnpikes and highways--some make it; the bodies of others litter
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the roadsides...A squirrel emigration of no mean proportion occurred in
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Connecticut and New York during the fall of 1933. More than a thousand
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squirrels were observed swimming the Connecticut River between Hartford and
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Essex...many of them became exhausted and drowned...There are numerous early
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accounts of mass excursions of grey squirrels, movements involving tens and
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even hundreds of thousands. Seton estimates that nearly half a billion
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squirrels took part in the 1842 emigration that occurred in southeastern
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Wisconsin."
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-Squirrels of North America, by Dorcas MacClinton
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Warmest of salutations to the Almighty Church of Euthanasia! Upon placing a
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shipment of magazines to their new place of rest where I am currently employed,
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I came across the much needed enlightenment I've been desperately searching
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for. The word of "Snuff It" has given new direction to my petty existence. I
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want to help with the advancement of the Church of Euthanasia so others can be
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blessed with such enlightenment! By using my band "Violent Anal Death" as a
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vehicle to spread the teachings of the church, I figure by 1996 90% of all New
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England punks will have offed themselves, thus starting a "hip" trend for the
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MTV nation of pre-pubescent impressionable youth, and thereby eliminating what
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will be the future of the upper-middle class of this country! But we must act
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fast...There are only so many crappy Green Day/Offspring/etc. songs for our
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young consumers to digest before they move on to their next flavor of the
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month. We are willing to play any and every benefit for the Church and will
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spread propaganda for the cause, (i.e. sell stickers, magazines, shirts,
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etc...) at our shows. In fact if you'd be willing to travel to Providence we
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could set up a Church of Euthanasia benefit here, and you could speak. Please
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write back...
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-Hugs and mooshy kiss, your devout follower, Tuna G-String Anal Vomit.
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Alas, our reply arrived too late; Tuna had already vanished without a trace.
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If anyone has a clue as to the whereabouts of Violent Anal Death, last seen
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somewhere near Providence, Rhode Island, please contact us!
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>>>>
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You people sound like you will be very healthy and informative for me.
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Enclosed please find the required sum for a sample issue. Yours sounds like a
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magazine that truly deserves mass distribution. Why can't people stop creating
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endless reaper fodder and excrement factories? Those fools on Gilligan's
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Island didn't know what they had--goddamn paradise. I promise not to spew my
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genes into any receptive orifices. I pity us all for living in these
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ever-overpeopled times. We need a fucking sterility bomb for all. Thank you.
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PS: I work jobs that are the equivalent of an enforced shitting in my pants
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with people rubbing their excrement in my face. It appears they need this
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release. Kurt Cobain--role model for us all.
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-Joe Robertson, 5211 Eilers Ave, Apt B-4, Austin, TX 78751-2138
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*Gilligan's Island* seems like an odd symbol of pre-industrial Eden, but who
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knows? Maybe the Unabomber jerks off to it. The FBI should check the TV guide
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and see if there's a pattern. It beats tracking down elderly Yippies and
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asking them point-blank if they're the Unabomber (incredible, but true).
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Anyway, keep aiming for the chin (or whatever it is you've been aiming for),
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and don't forget to wash your pants.
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Quite a long time ago, as I asked you to resend me the e-sermon #1, [and] you
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asked me to introduce myself...A bit late I do so.
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First excuse my poor English, as I am nothing but a French biology
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student...Studying biology makes me pretty aware of what's at stake if we don't
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stop our wrong doings now. Therefore your list brought me relief along with
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satisfaction. I was introduced to the CoE thanks to an English friend who used
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to roam the net. It was a major discovery.
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I do share most of your views. For a long time I've been considering
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suicide as self expression. Our occidental society is full of contempt for
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suicide or mercy killing, while they are nothing but the final and absolute
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gift to earth, carrying a meaning deeper than any painting could ever carry.
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The scars on my wrist may seem like a crime
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Just wish me better luck
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Next time.
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I attempted suicide at age 14. It was for stupid reasons, the ones teenagers
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usually have. I took my mother's sleeping pills (I am not a brave). I woke up
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at the hospital and realized instantly that I was wrong all the way.
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And I was! Killing myself for the wrong reasons would have been effective,
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that's for sure (one down, 5 billions to go) but not so pleasant as finding the
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real reason why I should suicide. The reason why we shall all suicide. I
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realized that the human race was so naive that it should be erased from earth
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during a "population's genetics" class. The fat teacher was absolutely not
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thinking about something like this because he was more of the neo-capitalist
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stupid and self-satisfied type. But I was and these ideas stayed in my mind,
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without any use, for a long time, until I connected to the Church.
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The Church not only sets clears some of my ideas, it also offers solutions.
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And action (everybody masturbates).
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-"Ignorance is no excuse" Clauvel
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We hope that many more share your "discovery," and we do indeed wish you
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"better luck next time."
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Rev. Korda,
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I enjoy reading the sermons on your listserv. However, I must say that I
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believe you and your church are wasting your time. Humans will never be able
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to regulate their own population. They have been genetically programmed to
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breed and carry out the course we are witnessing today. I understand your
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concerns and fears of this out-of-control species, but I think you
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underestimate the power of the earth. The earth is a species in and of itself.
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We are just a part of that whole, so it is hard for us to recognize it as its
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own entity. Take comfort in the fact that the earth, when necessary, will rid
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itself of the cancerous human species. Our planet exists in a state of
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homeostasis. Once we, the humans, offset this homeostasis the earth will reset
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itself. How?, you might ask. Plagues and famine will probably be its most
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effective tools of population control.
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All I'm saying is don't fret. The planet can take care of itself. It is
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arrogant to think we can destroy it or help it.
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-James Canfield, Divination@aol.com
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It's agreed that the earth has a good chance of winning in the long run, but
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since we're opposed to unnecessary suffering, even for humans, we reserve the
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right to fret. Besides, plagues and famines are messy and slow. Why not shut
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things down nicely while there's still some trees left?
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Chris: The Goads have been busy this week entertaining our Thanksgiving guest
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(Randall Phillip of *FUCK*), but I wanted to thank you for the copy of SNUFF
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IT. Very funny and well-written throughout.
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If you need/want our 4th issue [of *Answer Me!*] or the book containing the
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first three, let me know and I'll schlep them along.
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I'm going to go and rub urine into my pores now.
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-Jim Goad, Goad2Hell@aol.com
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The last time we heard from Randall he was busy abandoning his worthless
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followers, after the "massive attack on civilization" failed to materialize on
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September 14, 1994. Thank you, Jim and Debbie, for your extraordinary and
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inspirational publications. The police are your friends.
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Dear Chrissy,
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I just finished "Snuff It", Issue #2 and couldn't wait to tell you how much
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I loved it! The Four Pillars of the Church are my personal mantra from here
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on. With luck, we can make the world a nice place to visit in 50 years and,
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perhaps, a nice place to live in 100 or so years.
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I notice memberships in the CoE are available by subscribing. Do you have
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different membership categories? The reason I ask is me and the little woman
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and our 12 kids usually qualify for a family membership at a reduced rate, so
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if you offer such discounts please let me know.
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In the meantime keep up the good work and keep wearing those hot-looking
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dresses. If I ever decide to break with my numerous vows to the Catholic
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Church and take a "walk on the wild side" I want it to be with you, you little
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euthanising tart.
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Save the last dance for me...
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-Charleton Heston
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We have ways of dealing with naughty dead Catholics. This one needs a lot more
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flagellation, preferably while tied to a chair. He'll squeal like Mother
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Theresa, but it's what he secretly wants. Afterwards, he'll get a soothing
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enema with rosary beads. By the time we're done, he'll be washing down his
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wafers with pee.
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Hey Euies!
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I thought I'd give you a cultish nick-name in case you don't already have
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one. Is this address still valid? I just found SNUFF IT #2 at Atomic Books in
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Baltimore after a recommendation by Les U. Knight. He said I should get in
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touch with you for some reason. He knows I don't fit his mold and vice versa.
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Check out my zine and you'll see why. I'm another desolation guru and although
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I don't condemn suicide, I don't recommend it. I suspect that, at least for
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me, it would be a step backward rather than forward--a step *into* something
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rather than out of something. And I prefer to know what I'm getting *into*. I
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really don't have any definite beliefs on the afterlife but I suspect there is
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one. Which is bad news for me; I would rather death be an erasure, not a
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relocation. All I know about you comes from SNUFF IT #2. My question is: if a
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bunch of people killed themselves in honor of your philosophies, what should be
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done with the bodies? Yeah, yeah, I know: eat them. Something tells me that
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only a few CoE members and a handful of hobbyists might have a slice of
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dude-ape ala mode...I don't think this meat will become popular. The bodies,
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then, may become a major environmental problem. Is burning ecologically and
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economically sound?
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I know! Other animals might like it. Dogs will eat anything. Problem:
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once they get to jonesin' the taste, they will start doing their own killing.
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We could feed ourselves only to scavenger animals like vultures and catfish.
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They would even be attracted to bodies that have already started to *turn* (if
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ya know what I mean). Composting sounds good; we could be much more literally
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"pushing up daisies". It would be kind of a cool irony if we used our dead to
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help pigs and baboons in need of new organs. Problem: modern medicine is
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already way overblown and needs to be cut back rather than advanced. Well,
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these are just a few ideas to kick around. We certainly need to desanctify the
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concept of human remains and get practical instead of pumping preservatives
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into them and building stone monuments around them.
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All the best in your efforts to make this world a better place.
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-Ingmar, P.O.Box 1079, Dunkirk, MD 20754
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The correct term is *Euthanasist*, but that's okay: any friend of Les U. Knight
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is a friend of ours. His inspirational organization (the Voluntary Human
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Extinction Movement, or VHEMT) is listed in our "contacts" section. We
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encourage the uninitiated reader to send him a few bucks for the latest issue
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of *These Exit Times*. He doesn't recommend suicide either, but there's more
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than one way to skin a human.
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We'll be the first to admit that "dude-ape" isn't as popular as it could
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be, but the solution is *better presentation*. If it's ground up and mixed
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with enough chemicals, folks will line up to eat it. McDonald's is perfectly
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positioned for a market test; their food could be made out of garbage, and
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probably is. Until then, composting is fine, but burning is out. See "Ask
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Chrissy" for more on this important subject.
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Dear Chrissy,
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I sympathize with your efforts and make no mistake about seriousness of
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your intentions. I also note you are not *dead* serious and that makes the
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thing live. I'll do my best to spread the word. I'll probably also face some
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problems with airing the CD in full as I simply can't get enough time for my
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needs. The stickers received high level of attention when displayed to our
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folks. They are explosive stuff.
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If I ever get a job that is paid (I have to make 3 [radio] shows to earn 10
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bucks) I promise to join the Church. Presently I am unemployed the fifth month
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already so I am contributing to your goals by diminished uptake of animal
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protein and resulting lowering of procreative attempts (or attempts at
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procreation? Meager anyway).
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I must say that we had an officially approved propaganda of cannibalism
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back in 70s here. Buttons with Lenin's head and legend OGRE were sold in large
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numbers. Unfortunately I don't have one because they were sold only for short
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time in a small town Ogre near Riga. The local bosses wanted to take part in
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Lenin's centenary celebration the best way they could invent. Their English
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was pidgin.
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I wish you success in your noble mission.
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-Eddie Lavrinovics, a/k 150 Riga 10, Latvia, LV-1010
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<<<<
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>>>>
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Dear Friends,
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Since receiving your newsletter, and sharing it with several friends, a
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couple of things come to mind; how does one become ordained, or a minister in
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CoE? Should I proselytize on the church's behalf without being a priest or
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minister? Should the church be seeking to gain more, or fewer members? I
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would appreciate any thoughts you might have in regard to these inquiries. I
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agree that the best thing we can do is to get the fuck off the planet, leaving
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it to those creatures with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race.
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Purpose? We are a failed, or desperately flawed experiment, at best; we can be
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fairly sure god isn't real pleased with the results, in retrospect. We had our
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chance, and blew it. Next. You must have read the reported findings on the
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resiliency of the common cockroach. This little critter has been around since
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the first proteans climbed up out of the primordial ooze, however many millions
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of years ago, and has changed relatively little in the meantime. He can
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survive freezing, microwave radiation and has been spotted scurrying around
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nuclear testing sites, at ground zero, no doubt taking notes. Hail the roach,
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our worthy successor, showing a hell of a lot more "purpose" than we ever did.
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All we have to show for our efforts is a pile of garbage for the kingly roach
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to rule over after we're gone.
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In closing, allow me to congratulate you on the fine work you are doing. I
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am looking forward to hearing from you, and enjoying your products in the near
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future. If I live that long.
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PS Hope you weren't offended by the Goads' stuff. Jim & Deb are really two
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sweet, sensitive human beings, and would certainly approve of your mission.
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-R.E.Bareaux, 108 Herndon Ave, Stanford KY 40484
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<<<<
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The key to our success is *participation*. All members should proselytize on
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the church's behalf, as often as possible, ordained or not. This goes without
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saying, and hopefully includes you, dear reader. Since members by definition
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agree to abstain from breeding, we can't have too many members. Get off your
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butt and go convert some heathens, please!
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BODIES FOR CHRIST
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by M.C.McDonald
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The Godly Pro-Lifers of America have come under attack, an assault of
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diabolical magnitude such has never been seen since Nazi days. What does it
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mean today to be Pro-Life? What are we Martyrs up against? And why should the
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liberals want us slaughtered? Answer: The humanists are our eternal enemies,
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they are the haters of human life & of everything that is Godly & Good. They
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are the ones that are dragging our planet to the edge of extinction.
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Now, the Bible tells us that Man is a fallen creature, a foul & rotten
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creature. "The God that holds you over the Pit of Hell--much as one holds a
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spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire--He abhors you, & is dreadfully
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provoked." Adam erred, & dragged down all humanity with him--forever. Man is
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fallen, Man is evil--evil by nature.
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This upsets the liberals, the Eastern Jew Media Homo Elite, they don't want
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to hear it. Liberals are well-meant, if misguided, ignorant, stupid & wicked
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to the core. Well, Mr. Liberal Pinko Coddler-of-Negroes, don't blame ME if Man
|
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is rotten, I didn't do it, THEY started it, THEY are the aggressors, I am just
|
|
reporting the TRUTH, it's not MY fault, the BIBLE tells me so!!
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This is why we, the Godly, the Saintly, the Pure & the Good are
|
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antiabortion & Pro-Life. We have Heavenly instructions to put an end to this
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modern Holocaust--by whatever means necessary. Now, this seems to make some
|
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"Christians" nervous, nervous-nellie girlie quivering pansies. West Bank Jews
|
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carry Uzis when they take out the trash. Fundamentalist Muslims routinely lug
|
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around plastic explosives in their underwear. In comparison, American
|
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Bible-believing Christians look shamefully passive & weak--but a sea change is
|
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in the air THANK GOD!!
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The time for radical measures is NOW. We need those aborted babies, we
|
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need them to be born. The world must have more humans, more warm bodies, for
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Man is evil, evil by nature--and the more of them there are, the eviller they
|
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become. No more privacy. No more peace. No more jobs. Nowhere to go to
|
|
escape from evil humans. Such a vast ocean of humanity that all individuality
|
|
is destroyed, so that each becomes a mere statistic, a decimal point, totally
|
|
expendable. Feel the tension, feel the pressure, feel the urgent impulse to
|
|
invest in your own personal cache of assault weaponry.
|
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This is God's Plan: miles & miles of piles of humans, spewing pollution &
|
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disease & hatred; lo these teeming masses, the humans wielding razor-blades so
|
|
that they may slash their way up to the surface for just one gulp of fresh air.
|
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But, no more fresh air! Joke's on you, God is laughing, laughter is a Godly
|
|
Virtue. We need those babies, we need those bodies, anything short of total
|
|
Victory amounts to a capital Crime against God. The earth becomes one vast
|
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territorial battle-zone abattoir. You will kill for a space to lie down &
|
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sleep, if you can sleep, but if you sleep someone will kill you for your space.
|
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We need those babies. And when this prophetic future becomes flesh, Mr.
|
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Liberal Smarty-Pants, THEN we shall see who was RIGHT ALL ALONG about the EVIL
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OF HUMAN NATURE.
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-AntiSex League/Minitrue II "Truth hurts, lies heal."
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"Death is our business, and business is good."
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-Slogan painted on a U.S. 9th division helicopter unit's quarters during
|
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operation "Speedy Express," South Vietnam, 1968.
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EATING FETUS IN CHINA
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Many thanks to our friend Karin Spaink in the Netherlands, who intercepted the
|
|
following article in a Usenet news group. Karin's Internet address is
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<kspaink@xs4all.nl>.
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The Electronic Telegraph, 13 April 1995, WORLD NEWS
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Chinese trade in human fetuses for consumption is uncovered
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by Yojana Sharma in Hong Kong
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and Graham Hutchings in Beijing
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ABORTED human fetuses intended for human consumption are being sold for as
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little as =A31 in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, according to reports in Hong
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|
Kong yesterday.
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The Eastern Express newspaper said journalists from its sister publication,
|
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Eastweek, had gone to Shenzhen, across the border from Hong Kong, to see if
|
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fetuses were being sold. Shenzhen hospitals carried out 7,000 terminations
|
|
last year, including a number on Hong Kong women seeking cheap abortions.
|
|
At the state-run Shenzhen Health Centre for Women and Children, a female
|
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doctor was asked for a fetus. The next day, she handed the reporter a
|
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"fist-sized glass bottle stuffed with thumb-sized fetuses".
|
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The doctor was quoted as saying: "There are 10 fetuses here, all aborted
|
|
this morning. You can take them. We are a state hospital and don't charge.
|
|
Normally we doctors take them home to eat--all free. Since you don't look
|
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well, you can take them."
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At private clinics, aborted fetuses could be obtained for between =A31 and
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=A31.75, the newspaper said. There was no evidence, however, that fetuses were
|
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being sold in large quantities to middlemen for sale in Hong Kong.
|
|
Zou Qin, a doctor working at the Luo Hu Clinic in Shenzhen, said the
|
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fetuses were "nutritious" and claimed to have eaten 100 herself in the past six
|
|
months.
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She said the "best" were first-born males from young women. "We don't
|
|
carry out abortions just to eat the fetuses," she said, but added that the
|
|
fetuses would be "wasted if not eaten". The newspaper said the fetuses were
|
|
eaten as a soup, together with pork and ginger.
|
|
A woman doctor, referred to only as Wang, from the Sin Hua Clinic,
|
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Shenzhen, was quoted as saying the fetuses were "even better than placentae" in
|
|
nutritional value. "They can make your skin smoother, your body stronger and
|
|
are good for kidneys," she said.
|
|
Dr Warren Lee, president of the Hong Kong Nutrition Association, said:
|
|
"Eating fetuses is a traditional Chinese medicine deeply founded in folklore."
|
|
However, he considered the alleged properties of fetuses little more than
|
|
old-wives' tales. Others said the practice was abhorrent.
|
|
Dr. Cao Shilin, of the Hospital of Chinese medicine in Shenzhen, said
|
|
aborted embryos were taken to factories where they were used in the production
|
|
of medicines. She did not know if any were sold to private individuals, but
|
|
said there was little medical value in embryos older than eight weeks when, in
|
|
Chinese terms, they were classified as fetuses.
|
|
She had not heard of fetuses being sold in Shenzhen, but warned that eating
|
|
them could be dangerous, given the strong medicines used in abortions.
|
|
A doctor in Beijing, who declined to be named, said parts of fetuses would
|
|
have medical value, singling out the liver as something that could help to cure
|
|
anaemia. But hospitals in Beijing had ovens for the destruction of aborted
|
|
fetuses, and she had not heard that they had been sold for individual
|
|
consumption.
|
|
The sale and consumption of placentae is common in China, though frowned
|
|
upon by the authorities. Only those with good connections to the medical world
|
|
can obtain placentae, which cost between =A32.50 and =A33 each.
|
|
According to traditional Chinese medicine, it is regarded as particularly
|
|
beneficial for a nursing mother to eat her own placenta because it improves her
|
|
milk. It is usually drunk in the form of a soup.
|
|
|
|
16. Fear of violence is a national obsession in America. It crafts our habits,
|
|
our travel routes, our relationships, and our levels of awareness as we go
|
|
through our days. Women walk alone at night only in the safest of
|
|
neighborhoods. Men, every day on the street, measure each other's aggression.
|
|
Anger is almost a sin, not because of the emotional damage it might do, but
|
|
because of what might happen.
|
|
The root cause of violence is aggression, a behavior hardwired into us. In
|
|
other animals, aggression is a mechanism for spacing individuals out across the
|
|
land, for ensuring that each animal has enough territory to survive. This
|
|
mechanism was calibrated within us a long time ago, when our population
|
|
densities were much lower than they are now.
|
|
In the 20th century, high population densities are excessively stimulating
|
|
this mechanism.
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|
|
|
-Population #1 by Mike Merrill
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ASK CHRISSY
|
|
|
|
>>>>
|
|
Dear Chrissy,
|
|
I am confused (not terribly unusual). If (as everyone would no doubt
|
|
agree) it is perfectly natural and thus acceptable for one animal to kill
|
|
another animal for the purposes of sustenance, then why is it not perfectly
|
|
acceptable for humans to kill other humans for food? We are, after all,
|
|
nothing more than another of nature's meat eating creatures on this planet.
|
|
|
|
-Hungry in El Dorado
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|
<<<<
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|
|
|
Dear Hungry,
|
|
The trouble is, humans just aren't *doing* it, whether it's acceptable or
|
|
not. Humans kill each other with zeal, but the bodies are mostly pumped full
|
|
of chemicals and buried in boxes. When the worms and beetles finally chew
|
|
through the box, they have to eat formaldehyde, which is not very nice. It's
|
|
getting tough to find a scenic place to bury the boxes, too, which means more
|
|
and more stiffs are getting torched. All those years of consumption, and you
|
|
don't even give your body back? So wasteful! Yeesh.
|
|
The Nazis certainly get the award for most ambitious human-hunting, but all
|
|
that effort went for soap, a little gold, and some lampshades. Meanwhile their
|
|
troops were starving to death on the Russian front. They didn't have much
|
|
effect on the world population, either; at current rates, six million Jews
|
|
equal less than twenty-four days' growth. This is just more evidence that
|
|
humans aren't as clever as they think.
|
|
In any case, human-hunting is considered a form of involuntary population
|
|
reduction, and is therefore *against the rules*. The eaten must volunteer, and
|
|
die a good death, while the eaters express their admiration and gratitude. Of
|
|
course, there's no problem if someone's already dead, but thanks to desk jobs,
|
|
junk food, and hospitals, they'll most likely be stringy, toxic, and *old*.
|
|
Try boiling, and plenty of salt.
|
|
This probably leaves you still hungry, but cheer up, there's hope; if you
|
|
can gradually adapt yourself to *plastic food*, you can remove yourself from
|
|
the food chain entirely. If you eat like most Americans, you'll never notice
|
|
the difference, and it sure beats recycling.
|
|
|
|
GAIA LIBERATION FRONT
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|
Statement of Purpose (A Modest Proposal)
|
|
|
|
The Gaia Liberation Front is a concept, not an organization. You become a
|
|
member of the GLF by joining us in carrying out our mission, which is the total
|
|
liberation of the Earth.
|
|
|
|
The first thing is to get our message out:
|
|
1. Our object is not merely the continuation of life on Earth--which is,
|
|
for all we know, the only life in the universe--but the preservation of the
|
|
planetary ecosystem (Gaia) with as much of its integrity and variety as can be
|
|
saved.[1]
|
|
2. The Humans have been usefully compared to a cancer[2] or a virus.[3]
|
|
But it seems to us that the must fruitful way of viewing the Humans is as an
|
|
alien species (which is why we use the definite article and the capital H).
|
|
The Humans evolved on the Earth, but have become alienated from it. They are
|
|
conscious of their alienation, drawing a distinction between the Human and the
|
|
natural, and proud of it.
|
|
Like the alien invading species of science fiction, the Humans possess a
|
|
superior technology (superior, in this case, to any of the defenses that Gaia
|
|
can throw up against them).
|
|
Every species tends to multiply, but while every other species stops
|
|
multiplying when it overshoots the carrying capacity of its ecosystem, the
|
|
Humans use their technology to keep raising the planet's carrying capacity for
|
|
their own species (and a few other species that they exploit),[4] at ever
|
|
higher levels of consumption. They are even able to ward off infectious
|
|
diseases, which keep every other species from attaining overly high population
|
|
densities.
|
|
3. The planet's carrying capacity for a few species can be raised only at
|
|
the expense of other species, and, eventually, only at the risk of a general
|
|
ecological collapse. Cumulatively, the evidence is overwhelming that we are
|
|
rapidly approaching that stage. For all we know, we may have already passed
|
|
the point of no return.
|
|
The Humans' technological propensities are probably genetic, because their
|
|
basic technologies--agriculture animal husbandry, metallurgy, writing and
|
|
mathematics, hierarchy and bureaucracy--have all appeared independently more
|
|
than once. The Humans come into full view, then, as a *hostile* alien species,
|
|
*programmed* to kill the planet.
|
|
4. Because of the uncertainties involved, we can ensure Gaia's survival
|
|
only through the extinction of the Humans as a species.
|
|
Q. But don't you believe in the interconnectedness and inherent worth of
|
|
everything in nature?
|
|
A. Yes, but the Humans have disconnected themselves from everything else in
|
|
nature, so that principle no longer applies to them. Anyway, there's no way to
|
|
preserve a species that's programmed to kill the planet. The only question is
|
|
whether that species can become extinct before it takes the planet with it.
|
|
Q. Wouldn't it be enough to reduce the Human population to some optimum
|
|
level?
|
|
A. No, because the first chance it got it would bounce right back. The
|
|
cancer analogy is useful here: what's the optimum number of cancer cells in a
|
|
body?
|
|
Q. But what if the Humans went back to a paleolithic way of life?
|
|
A. You're forgetting that the paleolithic experiment has already been
|
|
tried, and that about ten thousand years ago it failed. Their technology,
|
|
after all, is in their genes. The technologies that have appeared in the past
|
|
could be expected to appear again, and this time their reappearance would be
|
|
accelerated by any surviving knowledge of formerly existing technologies.
|
|
But the appearance of *specific* technologies is less predictable. In
|
|
particular, the specific technology that now makes it possible for us
|
|
to--assuming we still have time--head off this crisis (more on this below)
|
|
might not be available for dealing with the next one.
|
|
Q. Shouldn't we make an exception for tribal peoples, who are living in
|
|
harmony with nature? (Another version: Shouldn't we make an exception for
|
|
non-Europeans, who were corrupted by Europeans?)
|
|
A. No, because they're all Humans. Remember that those basic technologies
|
|
were invented independently by Humans of different races, in the new world as
|
|
well as in the old. And remember that the Humans, Europeans included, were all
|
|
tribal once. Anyway, there are no Humans left on the planet who are still
|
|
totally ignorant of those technologies. Sure, some Humans picked up certain
|
|
technologies from other Humans, but that doesn't matter to the Earth.[5] If
|
|
*any* Humans are left, they'll start the whole thing over again. Our policy is
|
|
to take no chances.
|
|
That's it. You can be sure that the Humans won't like it. They'd much
|
|
rather listen to somebody telling them how wonderful they are:
|
|
|
|
What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty!
|
|
in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in
|
|
apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!
|
|
|
|
-_Hamlet_, II, ii
|
|
|
|
They're not only in denial about what they're doing to the planet, they firmly
|
|
believe that the death of the planet would be a small price to pay for a few
|
|
more years of life for their species.
|
|
You may even lose a few friends. But somebody has to tell it like it is.
|
|
|
|
Appendix
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|
|
Here are some of the methods that have been suggested: (But first, this
|
|
disclaimer: We don't advocate anything illegal, because it's illegal to
|
|
advocate anything illegal and we don't want to get busted.)
|
|
1. Nuclear war.[6] (Too much collateral damage. Definitely not
|
|
recommended.)
|
|
2. Sterilization. (Too slow: even if we managed to sterilize every Human
|
|
on the planet the species would still be around for another hundred years. And
|
|
they might figure out some way of reversing the procedure.)[7]
|
|
3. *Voluntary* Sterilization.[8] (Even slower, and therefore even riskier.
|
|
But anything is better than nothing, so this is worth working on while we're
|
|
spreading the word and waiting for something else.)
|
|
4. Suicide. (In theory, faster, but how do you get them to do it? So in
|
|
practice, probably even slower. Still, you never know. If they could do it in
|
|
Jonestown...)
|
|
5. Bioengineering. Fortunately, we now have the *specific* technology for
|
|
doing the job right--and it's something that could be done by just one person
|
|
with the necessary expertise and access to the necessary equipment.
|
|
Genetically engineered viruses are already being custom-designed for use in
|
|
"pest" control. These viruses have the advantage of attacking only the target
|
|
species. To complicate the search for a cure or a vaccine, and as insurance
|
|
against the possibility that some Humans might be immune to a particular virus,
|
|
several different viruses could be released (with provision being made for the
|
|
release of a second round after the generals and the politicians had come out
|
|
of their shelters). Of course, natural viruses, such as the smallpox virus,
|
|
that attack only Humans could be used as well.[9] (But don't, for goodness'
|
|
sake, go around saying that you're actually advocating any of this. We can get
|
|
our message across just as effectively by, for example, campaigning to make it
|
|
*legal* to exterminate the Humans.)
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|
|
|
Notes
|
|
|
|
1. In his essay "The Land Ethic" Aldo Leopold says: "A thing is right when
|
|
it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic
|
|
community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." (Stability here should be
|
|
understood as embracing such dynamic processes as succession and evolution.)
|
|
2. See, for example, Frank Forencich, "Homo Carcinomicus: A Look at
|
|
Planetary Oncology," _Wild Earth_, 2:4 (Winter 1992/93), pp. 72-74. But
|
|
Forencich fails to take his argument to its logical conclusion: what does a
|
|
surgeon do with a cancer?
|
|
3. Even a computer virus. Stephen Hawking once remarked (he had been
|
|
arguing that computer viruses fit the definition of living systems): "I think
|
|
it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created
|
|
so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
|
|
4. It seems to us to make more sense to say that the Humans have raised the
|
|
planet's carrying capacity for their own species than to say that the Human
|
|
population has been exceeding the planet's carrying capacity at least since the
|
|
invention of agriculture. Carrying capacity, by definition, can be exceeded
|
|
only briefly.
|
|
5. Any more than it mattered to the buffalo that the Indians who were
|
|
helping to massacre them had been "corrupted" by whites.
|
|
6. Proposed, for example, by Finnish writer Pentti Linkola--but as a way of
|
|
only reducing the Human population, in order to *save* the species.
|
|
7. An even riskier variation on this method, suggested by Australian
|
|
environmental activist Helen Caldicott, would be to put contraceptives in the
|
|
water supply.
|
|
8. The leading voice for this method is the Voluntary Human Extinction
|
|
Movement (P.O.Box 86646, Portland OR 97286-0646).
|
|
9. Our experience with AIDS suggests that these viruses should be airborne.
|
|
AIDS, which once offered so much hope, has proved to be just too easy to avoid.
|
|
For a tip on how to produce an airborne version of AIDS, see Jean Marx,
|
|
"Concerns Raised about Mouse Models for AIDS," _Science_, vol. 247 (16 Feb.
|
|
1990), p. 809.
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|
Winter Solstice 1994
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GLF, P.O.Box 127, Station P, Toronto, Ont. M5S 2S7
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CHURCH NEWS
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|
|
The year started with a DADA bang when the Church joined the 1995 Boston First
|
|
Night Parade. The faithful were stamping their frozen feet on a quiet corner
|
|
of Newbury Street as early as 7:00pm, and they were soon joined by many new
|
|
faces, thanks to several "plugs" from friendly Gary Geiserman at the local
|
|
"underground" radio station WZBC. While the Rev. was demonstrating serious
|
|
*chutzpah* by calmly persuading the parade organizers to allow a last-minute
|
|
addition to the lineup, the folks around the corner were spooking passing
|
|
revelers with their black hoods and skull masks. A few minutes later, the Rev.
|
|
brought back good news, and the Church moved out, taking up most of the
|
|
sidewalk. At the head of the procession, Dane, Kevin, and the Rev. bore an
|
|
armchair-sized garbage sculpture dubbed "The Ark of Materialism," featuring a
|
|
carnivorous baby trapped inside a television and a styrofoam head crowned with
|
|
nails.
|
|
The faithful got approximately 100 feet before they were stopped by a large
|
|
policeman, and a hilarious conversation ensued, in which the Rev. attempted to
|
|
explain the Church's theology in suitable terms. Her efforts were successful,
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and a few minutes later the parade organizers were getting an eyeful of the
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fuming incense censers that swung from Ark's poles. Perhaps the thick clouds
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of smoke interfered with their vision; the organizers seemed stunned, and
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confined themselves to lectures on the importance of keeping up with the march.
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In any case, they certainly failed to notice the suspicious-looking and
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poorly-drawn signs that said "Happy New Year" carried by several members, or
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the even more ominous black plastic bag on the end of a large stick carried by
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Pastor Kim.
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After what seemed like hours in the icy cold, the parade finally began
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moving down Boylston Street, and as it turned out, into the largest crowd ever
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assembled for Boston First Night, estimated at nearly one million. The
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faithful produced a ghastly shrieking noise as they went, due to nifty
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"turbine" whistles concealed behind their skull masks. Dan busied himself
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handing out more masks and whistles to the hordes of small children packed like
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sardines behind the police barricades; they squealed with delight, while their
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parents looked hostile and braced themselves for difficult questions.
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Just as the rear of the parade passed the Public Library, headed for the
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largest crowd and the TV cameras, the Rev. gave her somewhat garbled signal.
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The fake signs were peeled away, to reveal such appropriate sentiments as "Save
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the Planet--Kill Yourself," "Eat People Not Animals," and "Prevent AIDS--Aim
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for the Chin." Meanwhile Pastor Kim unveiled the Meat Stick, a full-size
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wooden cross with a bloody stuffed rabbit, several dried fish and a giant slab
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of fresh meat nailed to it. Spotters in silly red overalls started yelling
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into their headsets; thirty seconds later the organizers caught on and all hell
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broke loose.
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One organizer pulled over the Ark, while others went after Pastor Kim, who
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was shortly persuaded to drop the Meat Stick due to the sudden appearance of a
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paddy wagon. The Ark-bearers were foolishly left in the hands of yet another
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well-padded policeman. Lydia and Andy kept their video cameras firmly trained
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on him while he radioed his supervisor, but apparently the boss had other fish
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to fry. "Where'd she go?" he said, looking around for the organizer, but there
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was no sign of her either, so finally he said "Well, if she won't stick around,
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then I'm not going to worry about it" and stepped aside. This proved for once
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and for all that the police are your friends, but left the Ark with some
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serious catching up to do. Fortunately there was unexpected assistance from an
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escort of police scooters. Toes were stubbed as a way was cleared through the
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crowd, and the air was filled with the sweet sound of sirens, mingled with
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cries of "Excuse us! Make way for the Ark!"
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All ended well: the faithful rejoined the procession not far from the
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Boston Common, and Pastor Kim was videotaped in the act of decorating the
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ever-present paddy wagon with a pee-drinking sticker. The volunteers who had
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joined the march were made members on the spot, and the remaining pee stickers
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were handed out to a gang of enthusiastic teenagers, who solemnly promised to
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put them up all over Connecticut.
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O O O O O O O O O
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Every May, thousands of exhibitors and tens of thousands of buyers descend on
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the Javits Convention Center in New York City for the four-day National
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Stationery Show. Every May, the aisles are clogged with cute postcards,
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notepads, key chains, calendars, pen sets, and refrigerator magnets. This May
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was a little different. Buyers who happened to stroll down aisle 7200 found
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themselves being videotaped by Lydia while they gawked at a ten-foot wide SAVE
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THE PLANET KILL YOURSELF sticker atop a panoramic shot of a cemetery. If they
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loitered, Sisters Catherine and Jennifer, Pastor Scott, and the Rev. were on
|
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them like flies on crap, spouting pitches and waving subversive merchandise
|
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while techno music pounded from a boom box. Some laughed, some glared, but the
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Church fared better than most and picked up reps all over the country.
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As anyone who has done them will tell you, trade shows are a tough gig; the
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food is dodgy, the floors are concrete, and the air is submarine-like. By the
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time it was over, tempers were frayed. After a six-hour wait for a hand-truck
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from the rude and overpaid union mobsters, the van was finally loaded, just in
|
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time to discover the radio had killed the battery. Luckily, a jump start was
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procured, and the gang escaped from New York with minutes to spare,
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astrologically speaking.
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O O O O O O O O O
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Back in February, member B.M.Bourke suggested that Church needed "a
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symbol...something instantly recognizable, and easily drawn or reproduced...by
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|
people of extremely limited artistic ability." He cited the Christian cross
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and the Swastika as examples, and submitted several designs of his own. Thanks
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|
to B.M., the Church now has an official symbol, known as "The Four Pillars."
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It looks like a three in Roman numerals, but with an extra vertical line; in
|
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its crudest form it could even be represented by four capital I's, as in IIII.
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When correctly drawn, however, the horizontal line on top does *not* extend
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beyond the outermost "pillars," while the bottom line does, giving the
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|
impression of "steps."
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You can thumb your nose and say it's trendy, but one wild night in March,
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Sister Catherine, Sister Jennifer, and the Rev. decided to get "The Four
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Pillars" tattooed on their left shoulders, as an expression of their life-long
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commitment to the corresponding principles. This called for a trip to Salem,
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|
New Hampshire, as tattooing is still illegal in Massachusetts. Pastor Scott
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did the driving, and spirits were high; it was an impulsive thing, as tattoos
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often are. Being "virgins," no one knew what to expect. The first place
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|
turned out to be above a deserted gas station. The owner and his only customer
|
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were enormous bikers with no visible un-tattooed skin. This was way too
|
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creepy, so the foursome wound up at Golden Tattoo, which was neat, well-lit and
|
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professional, like a good brothel. Six short lines is easy money for a
|
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tattooist; the whole thing took little more than an hour. Sister Jennifer said
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she enjoyed it, though too much might get annoying; why it's illegal here is
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anyone's guess.
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O O O O O O O O O
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The Rev. is rarely seen in the clubs due to her busy schedule, but she made a
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|
special exception for the second annual *Safe Sex Fashion Show*, held at local
|
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dive *The Rat*. The event was sponsored by 'zine publisher Elizabeth Parker,
|
|
with half the proceeds earmarked for the AIDS Action Committee. *Grand
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|
Opening* owner Kim Airs emceed, while sexy Dana M. and Wendy W. teamed up with
|
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the Rev.; other participants included Church members T.Max and Kim G., plus the
|
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fabulous Valerie, who managed to put the F in fetish, against "stiff"
|
|
competition. This year's theme was latex, plastic and cellophane, and Dupont
|
|
would have been proud. The Rev. was looking fine in a skin-tight miniskirt and
|
|
tank top, artfully crafted entirely from green and pink bubble-wrap by Sister
|
|
Catherine. Matching green condom earrings and latex gloves were a nice touch,
|
|
but the dildo bracelet pushed it right over the top. The Rev. "worked" that
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dildo with skill that suggested experience, and the crowd rewarded her
|
|
enthusiasm with plenty of applause.
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O O O O O O O O O
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It all started in July when the Rev. saw a billboard in scenic Union Square.
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It featured a supermarket shelf laden with plastic-wrapped celery, cauliflower,
|
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and broccoli, under which appeared a caption that read "Fresh Foxy Vegetables"
|
|
(the name of the brand). Something clicked, and a week later, the Rev. and
|
|
Lydia were climbing up a shaky ladder with signs, rollers, and a giant bucket
|
|
of industrial-strength wheat paste. Meanwhile Sister Catherine, Margaret, and
|
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Valerie were doing their best to look inconspicuous in the parking lot of the
|
|
Dunkin' Donuts across the street. This seemed like a wise precaution, since
|
|
the billboard in question is at most 100 yards from the Somerville police
|
|
station, scene of the infamous cruiser-stickering described in issue #1. A few
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sweaty adrenalin-pumped moments later, the deed was done: the caption was
|
|
neatly changed to read "Wrapped In Plastic." The improved billboard lasted two
|
|
weeks, so it's hard to say how many saw it or what effect it had, but we're
|
|
confident that somewhere in Somerville, *somebody* got it.
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O O O O O O O O O
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The year's biggest news arrived on August 22, in a business-size envelope from
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the Internal Revenue Service. Hold onto your hats folks, the winner is...the
|
|
Church of Euthanasia! Yes! From now on your donations are *100%
|
|
tax-deductible!* May the Great Spirit bless the Church's tax consultant, who
|
|
wishes to remain anonymous. The process began back in November of '94, with a
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|
twenty-page form, a $150 fee and a carefully prepared packet of brochures and
|
|
newsletters. The Feds fired back in December with a list of "missing items,"
|
|
including "any available pamphlets, brochures, literature, newsletters, etc."
|
|
In short, they wanted more, and by gum, they got it; in April, a new torpedo
|
|
was launched. This one included e-sermons 1-13 and printouts from the
|
|
world-wide web site: suicide, abortion, cannibalism, sodomy, save the planet,
|
|
kill yourself--the works. Okay, so they didn't get the pee shot, but they said
|
|
*any*, not *all*, right?
|
|
In May, a brief but ominous-looking letter arrived, stating that "due to
|
|
the issues involved," the application had been "transferred to the national
|
|
office in Washington for review." Right about then the Rev. decided to renew
|
|
her passport, just in case. The flame-throwing tanks failed to materialize,
|
|
however, and in a letter dated June 14, the Feds raised the white flag: the
|
|
application would be accepted if (and only if) the Church was declared to be a
|
|
*public charity*, rather than a private foundation. In addition the Church
|
|
would be considered an *educational foundation* rather than a religious
|
|
organization. The letter invited further discussion, by *telephone*, no less!
|
|
The Rev. and company spoke at some length with Ms. Berkovsky, who was
|
|
surprisingly intelligent, polite and very helpful.
|
|
The first point was easily explained: like the Corporation for Public
|
|
Broadcasting, and unlike, say, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Church's income
|
|
comes from the *public*, not from a few individuals. Sales of stickers,
|
|
buttons, and so forth will henceforth be considered *fundraising*. The second
|
|
point was tricky: the Church can continue to call itself a church, act like a
|
|
Church, and even *be* a church, but from the IRS point of view, the Church's
|
|
*primary* activity is *the dissemination of information*.
|
|
This seemed an appropriate time for compromise. The papers were duly
|
|
signed, and the rest is history: "Based on the information as supplied, and
|
|
assuming your operations will be as stated in your application for recognition
|
|
of exemption, we have determined you are exempt from federal income tax under
|
|
section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code as an organization described in
|
|
section 501(c)(3)." Whip out the checkbooks, folks, let's *itemize!*
|
|
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|
"I viddied what I had to do...and that was to do myself in, to snuff it."
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-A Clockwork Orange
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CONFESSIONS OF A HERETIC
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|
|
>>>>
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|
I feel that you're mistaken in your definition of earth pertaining to the top
|
|
few meters of arable land or water. First off, I'm not sure how much you know
|
|
about "world" agriculture. Ever been to a Mexican or African farming system
|
|
and compared it to the US/Europe methods? Third world countries' agricultural
|
|
methods are not usually adequate to feed their needs so they receive crops from
|
|
elsewhere. Of the arable land that is presently used there, production can be
|
|
dramatically [S.B. "temporarily" -Ed.] increased with better husbandry
|
|
techniques, superior seed lines and choosing the most productive crops.
|
|
Biotechnology, in regards to standard soil-grown crops, is only capable of
|
|
increasing production at incremental levels (1-5%), while advances in tillage,
|
|
post- and pre-site care, fertilization, pest management, harvest methods, etc.
|
|
will allow the earth to continue to produce enough food for the growing
|
|
population over the next century or so. Intensive farming needn't mean
|
|
destruction of precious topsoil, as has been demonstrated in the midwest and
|
|
Europe. [Ah, Earth to Gamma-Ray, please adjust your transmitter, we are not
|
|
receiving you... -Ed.] Also, if demand truly increases, the way we presently
|
|
use our land will change. As you know, support of our modern source of food
|
|
animals requires lots of space and resources. If meat demand goes down, which
|
|
it probably won't, that land can be used for vegetable crops. Also, there's a
|
|
lot of arable land out there that is presently unused for food-production. As
|
|
population demand rises, rainforests, mountain steppes, the great Canadian
|
|
Basin, the Soviet Tract, etc. will all be plowed over and planted with
|
|
agrosnacks. Species diversity will plummet, yes, but human survival will
|
|
increase...
|
|
There is more than one way to grow a strawberry. Due to advances in
|
|
technology, soil will become less necessary over time. The basic needs of your
|
|
average plant are: carbon source, vitamins, nitrogen source, water,
|
|
antibiotics, elicitors, support structure, light. Soil environments presently
|
|
provide these, but soil is not inherently necessary for all life. I could go
|
|
on for a while, but won't. Production of food is not a problem, access to it
|
|
is. The body politik and personal selfishness deny access. Would you be
|
|
willing to give up all that you have, in terms of resources, and be content to
|
|
subsist in a desert so that 10 others who are now subsisting in the desert can
|
|
live another 20 years and make 50 more babies? Luck, also known as drift,
|
|
plays a huge role is the chances of one's survival. You got the long end of
|
|
the stick and I don't imagine you'll be giving it away any time soon...
|
|
Exactly what defines harmony, anyway? Are you implying that one set of
|
|
lifestyle circumstances is better than another? Nonsense. Who's to say that
|
|
good 'ol Americans driving along in plastic cars to plastic malls to buy
|
|
plastic food is any less harmonious than a person on a horse, riding through a
|
|
canyon on a cloudless starry night to visit a lover by the sea? Both
|
|
situations strike images, mental music if you will, and thereby "sound"
|
|
different. Peaceful nature scenes have a certain quality to them, but so does
|
|
the construction of a spaceport. Both "feel." There is music, harmony, beauty
|
|
in everything. Yourself a musician, I am surprised that you don't appreciate
|
|
that. The smooth flowing rhythms of the last centuries will soon be replaced
|
|
by the staccato, random, often painful symphonies of the near future. The
|
|
Earth and our relationship to it is constantly changing, will always change.
|
|
Such is the nature of life. To stand still is to die. To strive and conquer
|
|
is to survive.
|
|
[The bottled water] already is [poisonous] (checked it for DDT lately?).
|
|
The mass accumulation of toxins in our environment is forcing us to evolve.
|
|
[S.B. "devolve" -Ed.] Because we are unable to biologically evolve, we will
|
|
(and have) evolve(d) socially. Modern medicine has been in the business of
|
|
keeping bad genes alive to reproduction age. And by bad genes, I mean those
|
|
individuals unable to survive in our presently toxic environment. If "nature"
|
|
were allowed to take its course without human intervention it would take out a
|
|
good chunk of the population in coming generations. Right now, medical
|
|
technology is being used to treat people for diseases/manifestations that would
|
|
never have arisen were it not for the presence of toxins in our environment. I
|
|
think, over time, you will see such selection for "toxin-immune" genotypes
|
|
among population groups without access to medical care. In reality, those who
|
|
survive will be more fit in the long run.
|
|
I am simply stating the following as fact, not intending to shock, nor am I
|
|
one who is pleased about it: We have not yet begun to rape the Earth.
|
|
You are obviously well read and cognizant. In the end, though, we differ
|
|
in a very fundamental way: you view mankind's present actions as a destructive
|
|
end while I view them as a necessary means to a higher future. And by higher,
|
|
I mean spiritually, biologically and socially. In the distant future, we will
|
|
reclaim much of the Earth that we are about to scour. The Earth is a stepping
|
|
stone for mankind's destiny, not its final destination. Earth is not my mother
|
|
and I refuse to live at home for the rest of my life.
|
|
See you in the stars, my dear.
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-Alex K., Gamma-Ray, P.O. Box 4117, Ithaca, NY 14850
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<<<<
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We get a lot of bizarre mail, but this is without a doubt the most frightening
|
|
letter we have ever received. In the words of the immortal Walt Kelly, "We
|
|
have met the enemy, and he is us." If it didn't frighten you, read it again,
|
|
and if it still doesn't, please drop this magazine in the nearest recycling
|
|
bin. We'll let Dr. Erlich handle the obvious lunacies about escaping to outer
|
|
space...
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|
|
"A British physicist, J. H. Fremlin...has made some interesting calculations on
|
|
how much time we could buy by occupying the [other] planets of the solar
|
|
system. For instance, [at the current rate] it would take only about 50 years
|
|
to populate Venus, Mercury, Mars, the moon, and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn
|
|
to same population density as Earth...It would take only about 200 years to
|
|
fill [the remaining planets] "Earth-full."...What then?...Using extremely
|
|
optimistic assumptions, [Professor Garrett Hardin of the University of
|
|
California at Santa Barbara] has calculated that Americans, by cutting their
|
|
standard of living down to 18% of its present level, could in *one year* set
|
|
aside enough capital to finance the exportation to the stars of *one day's*
|
|
increase in the population of the world."
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|
|
|
-Dr. Paul Erlich, _The Population Bomb_
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|
|
|
"Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds, and the great sea,
|
|
as well as the earth?"
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-Tecumseh
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A WORLD WITHOUT SOULS
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The Problem Of Reincarnation
|
|
by Lex Marburger
|
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|
Simply put, reincarnation is the process of recycling souls, until they get
|
|
themselves out of the loop, through enlightenment or any other mystical truth
|
|
attainment. When a certain soul has achieved enough knowledge about (insert
|
|
your own favorite esoteric goal here), they're taken out of the circuit, to
|
|
some sort of pleasing "next world." Considering the state of the planet
|
|
(insert your favorite social or ecological disaster here), enlightenment is not
|
|
being reached, i.e. people are neither striving for, nor obtaining mystical or
|
|
religious knowledge. So, if we are stuck in a karmic-somatic feedback loop,
|
|
with no one leaving, where are all of these new bodies coming from? Anyone
|
|
reading this periodical should know the statistics of population growth, which
|
|
is the main argument against reincarnation: there is a dearth of tales
|
|
explaining incarnation and reincarnation simultaneously. However, there is
|
|
another answer. If there are a fixed number of souls, and an increasing number
|
|
of bodies, it should be obvious to see that the majority of people in the world
|
|
today are being born *without souls*. This would not only answer the reason
|
|
for the callous and insensitive nature of society at large, but also explain
|
|
the diminishing role that religion plays in our lives.
|
|
So what is the solution? How to assuage the fears of the masses that they
|
|
might have no soul? Hundreds, nay, millions, would riot and rampage, causing
|
|
more destruction than their present ignorant actions against the planet, unless
|
|
they could be told a way of finding out if they had a soul. Imagine the
|
|
thought of millions of drones who finally realize that, for them, there *is* no
|
|
purpose to their lives. Think of the anguish, the despair, the (true) feeling
|
|
of futility. This would lead naturally to the only rational procedure that
|
|
would affect a decent solution. The answer, of course, is systematic mass
|
|
suicide. If the nations of the earth committed suicide in regulated shifts,
|
|
while keeping births at a constant rate, we could easily wean out the soulless,
|
|
due to the fact that those without wouldn't come back. The only people to be
|
|
born would be the result of reincarnation. This wouldn't be genocide, because
|
|
there is no focus on one specific group. It would be the pruning of a species
|
|
that has become incompatible with its environment. The health of the human
|
|
species (and all other species, as well) would be assured, due to the fact that
|
|
the total spirituality of the planet would dramatically rise, and the earth
|
|
would finally be safe and healthy for the human and animal souls to attain
|
|
enlightenment.
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PRAYER FOR A GOOD DEATH
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|
|
Great Spirit, I am unworthy;
|
|
My species has disgraced itself.
|
|
Of all the species that live, or have ever lived,
|
|
Mine is the lowliest.
|
|
Lower than the flowers who fill the air with sweet pollen,
|
|
Lower than the trees who encircle the Earth with their roots,
|
|
Lower than the insects, rulers of Earth
|
|
Since the beginning of time,
|
|
Lower than the darting fish,
|
|
Lower than the soaring birds,
|
|
Lower than the four-legged creatures,
|
|
Who are the beating heart of the living Earth.
|
|
|
|
Great Spirit, my shame is as deep as the ocean,
|
|
And my sadness is unbearable.
|
|
I pray for enlightenment,
|
|
But fear that my prayer is too late.
|
|
Great Spirit, if this be so, then I pray for extinction.
|
|
Let my species become extinct, and vanish from the Earth.
|
|
Let my loins be barren,
|
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Let my seed not sprout,
|
|
Let the race of men fall like leaves.
|
|
Let my fields grow wild,
|
|
Let my fences crumble,
|
|
Let my cities turn to dust, and become forests.
|
|
Let the grass drink my blood;
|
|
Let my body be food for worms.
|
|
Great Spirit, let me die, that the Earth may live.
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-Rev. Chris Korda
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MY SUICIDE WATCH
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by Bob Baden
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|
I guess that it was around the fifth grade that I began to speculate about my
|
|
death. That is not to say that I was a morbid child, though I was, but it was
|
|
the reigning dawn of disco and Charlie's Angels was the social moniker by which
|
|
we all judged ourselves, so it can be said that my thoughts of death were
|
|
warranted, if not common.
|
|
I became obsessed with my death. When would I die? How? Would it be
|
|
messy, or even better, painful? And what would I wear? Even at that premature
|
|
time in my life I realized one thing about my death; I wanted to have control
|
|
over it. So as I became increasingly bored with the rigors of the fifth grade
|
|
(passing notes, laughing at farts, and asking friends to ask the boy that I
|
|
liked if he liked me), I began to spend more and more time planning and
|
|
preparing for my death.
|
|
I chose suicide as a means of absolute control.
|
|
Suicide. How would I achieve this goal? I had read countless stories of
|
|
those before me who had taken the plunge, some successfully, others not. I
|
|
weighed my options. I could jump from a bridge, except that most people
|
|
survive, spending the rest of their lives as paraplegics. I wanted death, not
|
|
inconvenience. I could take a handful of pills and wash it all down with the
|
|
grandeur of Garland, but Studio 54 was still popular, hence I assessed that
|
|
there might be a shortage of resources. I considered putting my head in the
|
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oven, but ultimately I would just get nauseous and be forced to interrupt my
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goal in order to obtain a tummy elixir. And of course the whole
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shotgun-to-the-head thing really hadn't become popular yet, so I figured it
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best not to venture into unchartered waters. Death may only be death, but it
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must have style; preferably a trendy and attractive style.
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Then the priest from my church suggested that I take up smoking cigarettes.
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It had many rewards, both short term and long. Initially I could anticipate
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lung cookies, rapidly wrinkling skin, and a nagging, early morning hack. Not
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to mention the stink! The added benefit was, of course, the ostracizing and
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alienation. I could become a legal junkie and flaunt it proudly in the faces
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of all my peers, family, and associates--none of which would ever dine with me
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again. Cool. I reconciled the length of time that it would take to actually
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die by admitting to myself that, after all, I was a procrastinate at heart.
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(There should always be confessions towards the end).
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The following Monday I consulted with my friends and decided that
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unfiltered Camels would be the most effective method with which to do my dirty
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work. I literally couldn't wait until some teacher or such asked me what I
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wanted to be when I grew up, so that I could simply respond "Dead." And with
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that I lifted $1.70 from my mother's purse and procured my tool.
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It was around the seventh grade, and still not dead yet, that I took up
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drinking beer to accelerate the process. The rewards were a surprise. Not
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only was I smoking an allegedly lethal substance, but now I was also
|
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belligerent about the fact. What could have been better?
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About the time that I started college, and still not dead yet, I started
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smoking pot and taking drugs by the handful. This truly moved things along. I
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rarely ate, and subsequently lost weight, got sickly often, and developed a
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sincere admiration for paranoia. Finally, some concrete payback. That A.M.
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hack was one thing but bronchitis was the icing. Literally.
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Well I'm 32 now, and still not dead, but that's OK (for now). In the last
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lap of my race to deterioration, I'm dabbling with blatant avoidance of
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financial responsibility coupled with sleep deprivation. My own little
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personal buffet spread of pain. Nifty. But it's working!
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Happy Death, my fellow parishioners.
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GLOBALLY RESPONSIBLE BIRTHING
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The following articles presume some awareness of the considerable debate over
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how best to measure population growth. The correct method is based on two
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relatively simple measurements known as the *birth rate* and the *death rate*.
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When the birth rate *equals* the death rate *for a given period of time*, the
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result is described as *zero population growth*. Unfortunately, the most
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widely publicized method is a dubious statistic known as "replacement level
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fertility," A.K.A. the "two-birth average." The main problem with this method
|
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is that babies born this year are not "replacing" their *parents!* Unless the
|
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parents kill themselves immediately after birthing, their babies are
|
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"replacing" *random dead people* who were born seventy years ago (on average),
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*when the population was much lower*. According to this method, the US birth
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rate has been below replacement level since 1972, theoretically resulting in
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negative population growth, when in fact, *births have exceeded deaths every
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year since then*. There were 1,693,000 more births than deaths in the United
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States in 1994. [H&HS]
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Richard M. Bowers was well aware of all this when he founded ZPG, Inc. in
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1968; in 1970 he voted for ZPG to publicly advocate *one* birth per couple,
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instead of the more politically acceptable *two*. This ultimately led to his
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removal from the board by the "go-slowers."
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>>>>
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Dear Fellow Birth Elimination Advocates,
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As with you folks I advocate no one birth, at least for NOW! i.e. while on
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earth there continue to be more births than the number of deaths. Since I fear
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it will be more than a decade before earth births are even close to (say only a
|
|
couple million more than) deaths per year, I am not primarily interested in
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thinking or writing about what to do after earth births finally become fewer
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than deaths. I fear earth births even well after 2020 will still be millions
|
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more than the number of global deaths. Our GRB time-goal is to reduce earth
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births below deaths by 2003. Of course that is NOT a prediction of when such
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will take place; but only our "goal."
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You folks use our no longer applicable name of zero birthing NOW! A year or
|
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so ago zbN! changed its name to GRB standing for Globally Responsible Birthing.
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Please make that correction. But if you do not I suspect for a while, at
|
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least, the PO locally will deliver our mail, even if not addressed to GRB, as
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is best.
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Your issue # 2 came recently. I must say that it does seem to me that your
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energies and talents could be better used to help reduce births all over earth
|
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by changes in your tactics. But who am I to tell you folks what will be best?
|
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I certainly agree with your goal. With you, I and GRB as an organization share
|
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the belief that nothing is as important as having less birthing all over earth.
|
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Down to below a million Homo sapiens births per year? Why that many?
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As much as I would like to join you folks in urging only voluntary methods
|
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to have less birthing, I, personally, back govt coercion, as in China, to force
|
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less birthing faster than what has happened here in the US and all over earth
|
|
when only voluntary methods have been promoted and used. When I was in charge
|
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of ZPG Inc. back in 1968 and much of 1969, as its Founder, I went along with
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the majority of the board who were voluntarists. I now believe that was THE
|
|
VERY WORST mistake of all my long life. I regret I did not go along with
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Garrett Hardin and another ZPG Inc. director who urged ZPG Inc. not to publicly
|
|
disavow coercion.
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|
GRB, the organization has not yet approved coercion. At our 2nd annual
|
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meeting at our place here in the western foothills of the Catskill Mountains
|
|
(which will be a Saturday in July 1995) I will introduce a proposal to have GRB
|
|
endorse govt coercion. If my views are adopted by GRB, there may be both
|
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compulsory abortions and compulsory sterilizations; but mostly forced
|
|
sterilizations for both the mother and the father who birth. Enclosed is a
|
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memo of my thoughts. Come join us then.
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Enclosed also is a memo about compulsory abortions in China. If you folks
|
|
have not read and studied some the book *A Mother's Ordeal* I urge you to buy a
|
|
copy (it is in paper for just over a dozen bucks) and read it. The author is
|
|
biased against birth control; but skip that and think about how these measures
|
|
and more are needed NOW! all over earth...
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We can and MUST get US births down below deaths quickly. Why not before
|
|
this century ends? The early 1970's reductions of US births were not expected
|
|
by anyone (certainly not by me) when I started ZPG Inc. in 1968. The
|
|
commercial powers that be in our nation then managed to shut off what was
|
|
happening. This time, when (not 'if', but when) we get momentum I will do my
|
|
best to see that go-slow types do not infiltrate, as they did into ZPG Inc. in
|
|
the 1970's, in part at my invitation. We *will* have less & less births
|
|
globally.
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The best "gift" anyone can give to humankind is to remain birth-free. It
|
|
is a SIN for any person to birth while earth births exceed deaths. For what
|
|
purpose would the world need more than 50,000 new Homo sapiens every year?
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-Richard M. Bowers
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<<<<
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HUMANITY'S GREATEST CHALLENGE
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by Richard M. Bowers
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If not before, then certainly since Dec. 1968 when I created Zero Population
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|
Growth Inc. with two friends, my life's major commitment has been to helping,
|
|
yes also urging all persons everywhere on earth to live birth-free lives for
|
|
the present.
|
|
One of my more dramatic contributions was as the volunteer Executive
|
|
Director of an abortion referral service in San Francisco for five months in
|
|
early 1970. Mostly we gave pregnant women the addresses, phone numbers etc. of
|
|
abortions clinics in Mexico across the US border. Many considered such
|
|
referrals illegal. I did not. We were listed in the phone yellow pages under
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|
"Abortion."
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|
It was my personal privilege to work there with Pat Magginis, the woman I
|
|
consider the "Florence Nightingale" of the pro-choice movement. Pat is one of
|
|
the best persons I have had the privilege to work with in my whole, long life.
|
|
In May 1970 in San Francisco we held a public conference for physicians on
|
|
abortion procedures. I then returned to the east coast. I have lived here all
|
|
my life except for military service in Korea and then at Fort Lewis in the
|
|
State of Washington in the mid 1950's.
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|
With two others my wife, Betty, and I founded Globally Responsible Birthing
|
|
(GRB) in 1993. Fundamental global policies of GRB include 1) there should be
|
|
fewer & still fewer unplanned pregnancies with the goal to have as near zero as
|
|
feasible ASAP and 2) there should be fewer & still fewer unwanted births with
|
|
the goal to have as close to zero as feasible ASAP. I am the GRB Director and
|
|
plan to continue on as GRB Director for at least a couple years. Being 65, I
|
|
may turn GRB over to younger persons before long.
|
|
The rest of this two page memo will set forth my thinking about what number
|
|
of births each woman or couple ought to have for purposes of what will be best
|
|
for humankind survival, certainly during the rest of the 1990's. Until 2050?
|
|
I hope not, but fear birth avoidance advocacy will be needed into the 22nd
|
|
century CE. The number of births I believe now best for all is simple--NONE.
|
|
In the 1990's and well beyond, because humankind's global number will
|
|
continue to increase, the best number of births by any woman or couple will be
|
|
ZERO. Our global number already is some 5.7 BILLION on this tiny space vehicle
|
|
too small for 10% that number. Optimum may be fewer than one million of us.
|
|
Can anyone really believe that as global biological growth, the excess of
|
|
births over deaths, continues year after year that even first births help
|
|
increase chances for Homo sapiens' survival? Otherwise sensitive persons who
|
|
claim that absurdity are strange. Could such persons not believe, or perhaps
|
|
they are not familiar with the United Nations' estimate that some 40,000 fellow
|
|
humans, mostly youngsters under age 5, each day keep on dying from mere lack of
|
|
decent minimum food, clothing and shelter? That situation is a tragedy of the
|
|
first magnitude. Some seventeen million unnecessary deaths each year.
|
|
Before I go on, a few words about this statement of my personal beliefs.
|
|
As stated, I am the GRB Director. But it is not true that what I say herein is
|
|
GRB policy. These are only my personal thoughts.
|
|
The sole question now to be discussed is how best to have fewer births for
|
|
NOW!, i.e. while humankind's global growth continues.
|
|
THE crucial matter is government coercion. Should women and couples be
|
|
compelled to birth less? I reluctantly favor compulsory sterilization of
|
|
antisocial couples who birth excessively. Unhappily I support this harsh
|
|
measure; but only if forced upon all persons equally, as my highest government
|
|
priority. I am ready to join others in public advocacy of compulsory
|
|
sterilizations.
|
|
What I believe is also needed is to have worldwide mass media encouragement
|
|
of NO BIRTHING NOW! i.e. while earth births remain more than deaths. In the
|
|
mid 1970's after dramatic 1971 and 1972 US birth reductions which we in ZPG
|
|
Inc. helped bring about (with many others helping of course) most family
|
|
planners spoke out against going immediately from pregnant women having been
|
|
forced to birth by anti-abortion criminal laws, to government laws to force
|
|
less birthing. That view then seemed reasonable. We hoped couples and single
|
|
women would reduce at least US birthing to be fewer than deaths quickly. But
|
|
that has not happened.
|
|
I, personally, set for ZPG Inc. the two time-goals to have US births below
|
|
deaths by 1980, and secondly global births below deaths by 1990. Why has the
|
|
US failed to have negative biological growth (births fewer than deaths) even by
|
|
1994? It is near certain US births in 1994 will be well over one million more
|
|
than the number of US deaths.
|
|
Most US demographers (one of whom is Prof. Charles Westoff of Princeton)
|
|
were and are among those responsible for this continuing US failure. Of course
|
|
Roman Catholic Cardinals and other rabid pro-natalists are also evil; but most
|
|
demographers were and still are important in continued US excessive birthing.
|
|
Urging women to not use birth control pills etc. made most Roman Catholic male
|
|
celibate clergy irrelevant. What demographers, with mass US media, did was to
|
|
focus public attention upon what they labeled as a US "low" birth rate, that is
|
|
US births slightly below the replacement birth rate, or the two birth average.
|
|
Our US birth rate has been below "replacement level" fertility since 1972.
|
|
Why are most US persons with great power pro-natalists? A major reason, I
|
|
submit, was and is "consumerism". Those who own newspapers, radio stations,
|
|
magazines, TV stations and other businesses favor people buying and/or
|
|
consuming more & more. They favor more & more corporate profits. To them more
|
|
births = more buying.
|
|
Might we successfully get to global zpg by 2003? Of course we CAN DO IT.
|
|
But based on the last 20 years in the US, I fear pro-natalists will spread
|
|
their sinful self-destructive ideas too successfully all across earth about
|
|
replacement level fertility being enough birth reduction. What is needed is to
|
|
have all realize that for NOW! i.e, while earth births are more than deaths,
|
|
EVERY BIRTH, yes including a first birth by a woman or a couple is not only
|
|
wrong but is a serious GLOBAL SIN.
|
|
After January 1994 US data came in with both births and deaths showing huge
|
|
increases, I now urge all governments have compulsory sterilizations after any
|
|
birth, except in nations like Germany, Russia and a few others where births
|
|
already are fewer than deaths. In nations with fewer births than deaths
|
|
compulsory sterilizations would be after a birth of the 2nd or higher order.
|
|
All are urged to join GRB. You need only agree with policies such as a
|
|
time-goal of ending our species' earth growth by 2003. If enough join groups
|
|
like GRB and push for birth-free living by all for NOW! i.e. while earth human
|
|
growth continues, compulsory birth controls may not be needed in nations where
|
|
births have become fewer than deaths by 40%, and better below half the number
|
|
of deaths year after year.
|
|
Write to GRB at the address [below] for more info., or to tell us you are a
|
|
GRB member. Your decision makes you a GRB member. There will never be GRB
|
|
membership dues while I am GRB Director. Nor will an undated letter be sent to
|
|
thousands begging for money.
|
|
REMEMBER--EACH BIRTH IS A GLOBAL SIN WHILE HUMANKIND KEEPS ON GROWING!
|
|
GRB, Route 1, Box 28, DeLancey, NY 13752
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|
|
THIS OLD CERVIX
|
|
by Sister Catherine
|
|
|
|
Excommunicate: to expel from communion with a church; to exclude or eject from
|
|
membership in or the privileges of a church by ecclesiastical authority.
|
|
|
|
In September Rev. Korda was required to preform the Church of Euthanasia's
|
|
first excommunication. As we have only one commandment, there is only one
|
|
reason for excommunication--*pregnancy*. The Rev. and I both counseled this
|
|
young woman, but we were too late. We learned of her pregnancy secondhand; by
|
|
this time she was already 12 weeks from conception and had received significant
|
|
amounts of counseling from her therapist, counselors at organizations such as
|
|
Planned Parenthood, and her friends. It seems that these caring individuals
|
|
convinced her that having a child was a personal decision that would affect her
|
|
own life only, and that she could be independent and raise a child.
|
|
This pregnancy might be her last chance at motherhood; she's had several
|
|
previous abortions and another abortion preformed this late could have serious
|
|
effects on her reproductive system. Quite obviously she's had trouble
|
|
remembering to use contraceptives, but knowing that she did not want to be a
|
|
mother, she had abortions. This time was different. This time the liberal
|
|
do-gooders and care providers got to her. Their diagnosis was that this
|
|
woman's actions prove that she wanted a baby, and since (1) this could be her
|
|
last chance at having a healthy pregnancy, and (2) she is a loving and generous
|
|
(albeit lonely) individual, then she should *have* this baby! Hooray for
|
|
modern psychology. We are women of the nineties. We have every right to be as
|
|
selfish as white men have been for centuries. If I can't find someone to love,
|
|
I'll just *create* someone to love!
|
|
We find ourselves in a very sad and desperate situation. All over the
|
|
world women are making life-long commitments and promises to *potential*
|
|
humans, while many of them are incapable of committing to an *already living*
|
|
human! Many women admit that they don't want to be mothers, but have the
|
|
babies for religious, spiritual, cultural and selfish reasons. Our former
|
|
Church member admitted to me that she does not want to be a single mother. But
|
|
she will have and keep this baby because, get this, "It spoke to me and it
|
|
wants to be born." It's about time we consider the awesome responsibilities
|
|
and burdens of breeding: personally, practically, environmentally and
|
|
spiritually.
|
|
Say, for example, that this young mother to be decides to raise her child
|
|
with all of the advantages of a progressive society. What are the requirements
|
|
for such an existence? Disposable diapers, pediatricians, Disney, day care,
|
|
computers, music lessons, television, schools...you get the picture? All of
|
|
this costs a lot of *money*, to be earned only by working a minimum of forty
|
|
hours a week, either selling her soul to some big corporation or waiting on
|
|
obnoxious customers in a cafe or nightclub. Providing children with the
|
|
necessities of the popular American dream means that parents become slaves to
|
|
the Spectacle, allowing them precious little time to personally care for,
|
|
educate or even interact with their children. The Spectacle is the parent of
|
|
these children. The children are raised by day care workers, school teachers
|
|
and television. Children of the Spectacle grow up to be fine, strong
|
|
consumers! They learn to perpetuate the dominant world view and not cause any
|
|
ripples in the cesspool of "modern" society.
|
|
The young woman has insinuated that she doesn't really want herself or her
|
|
child to participate in the machinations of the Spectacle. She spoke of breast
|
|
feeding and shopping at the Salvation Army. I'm sure that she already
|
|
recycles. But I'm afraid that's not enough. To protect a child from the
|
|
influence of the Spectacle requires a lot more strength and energy than any
|
|
other job I can imagine; most of us can't even protect ourselves. I can
|
|
imagine what the ideal circumstances might be for raising an "un-Spectacular"
|
|
child:
|
|
A safe, comfortable home in the country with organic gardens. The small
|
|
town nearby has a few cooperative stores that provide the necessities for basic
|
|
living. Currency is seldom used, as everyone has something to offer: from
|
|
vegetables to spiritual healing, the barter system is preferred. The adults
|
|
share the responsibility of caring for and educating the children. There are
|
|
no formal classrooms or standardized tests; children learn by doing, talking
|
|
and questioning. Neighbors know and care for each other. People offer help
|
|
without being asked. They learn from all of the Earth's species and the Great
|
|
Spirit how to live with compassion, for the Earth and for each other.
|
|
This scenario isn't very different from some contemporary cultures: Amish,
|
|
Native American and "Dreamtime Village"-style communities. But guess what--the
|
|
Amish and Native Americans are part of the Spectacle! Their communities are
|
|
tourist attractions maintained by the Spectacle. They serve as examples of the
|
|
less fortunate, helping to keep the workers content in their television lives,
|
|
reaffirming the American Dream. It's to the benefit of the Spectacle to keep
|
|
these communities alive but not allow them to grow. The children born to these
|
|
communities may be lucky enough to grow up without the direct influence of
|
|
consumer America, but their physical freedom is controlled by the Spectacle.
|
|
Is it possible for a mother to protect her child from the Spectacle?
|
|
Maybe, but it's sure to be a damn difficult task. And even if a mother is able
|
|
to protect herself and her child from the Spectacle, *what about the future?*
|
|
Regardless of the lifestyle a mother might choose to brainwash her child
|
|
with, there is a pending revolution, armageddon, or even worse--the world may
|
|
stay the same. The world is overpopulated and the planet's resources are
|
|
diminishing. I for one do not want to be responsible for bringing another life
|
|
into this world. I am frightened enough for my own life and the lives of those
|
|
already living. Our former Church member used to share that feeling with me
|
|
and took seriously our commandment: "Thou shall not procreate."
|
|
I urge everyone to reconsider their responsibility to the Earth. It is not
|
|
necessary to procreate to preserve the human species. In fact the opposite is
|
|
true. To preserve all life forms we must *reduce* the human population. The
|
|
greatest gift is not life, but love and compassion. Truly loving people love
|
|
unselfishly. With so many living beings, there is no need to create someone to
|
|
love.
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|
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HAVING ONE CHILD IS NOT PROCREATING
|
|
Excerpts from an interview with an ex-member
|
|
by Sister Catherine
|
|
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|
I remember saying in a letter that I knew that I didn't want to use birth
|
|
control because I wanted to get pregnant. Which is a hard thing to actually
|
|
admit to yourself. And then he said the same thing...It's kinda like you want
|
|
to have a baby together. And it's not even for having the baby, it's like this
|
|
bonding thing...and I think that's why I got pregnant before too...Every other
|
|
guy I've gotten pregnant with before, it's been in the beginning of our
|
|
relationship. When you're sort of in love and you don't want to think about
|
|
marrying this guy...But yeah, I thought I was going to get married and have a
|
|
family. And then after that I guess, I knew that he didn't buy this at all,
|
|
but there's this instinctual, it's sort of on a deeper level, there's this sort
|
|
of intuitiveness about stuff like this, as we are women. Like this is what I'm
|
|
supposed to be doing...In June, when I got pregnant, everything was
|
|
perfect...My mom, my friends...were like "What the fuck are you doing, are you
|
|
crazy? You're not ready to be a mom"...The Rev. mentioned the thing
|
|
about--that it's just me. That I'm acting like there's two people involved and
|
|
there isn't. There is just one person...That's one thing I can't say that I
|
|
agree with...To me there are two people involved. There is me and another
|
|
life. I can't say when life happens...I was really confused at the time so it
|
|
confused me more, certainly...
|
|
I hate television. Everything is based on the media now, which advocates
|
|
sex and violence. It's very hard for me, I'm scared. Kids in first grade are
|
|
talking about sex and stuff like that. They don't have a childhood
|
|
anymore...I'm not trying to say that I condone having kids...but I can't tell
|
|
you how many fucked up people I know that are having kids. People that I know
|
|
are fucked up, not to mention people that I don't know. If people like you and
|
|
me can have children, I mean that's a step in the better direction. And having
|
|
one child is not considered procreating you know...I read that in school,
|
|
sociology or something. Because, if you have sex--two people--if two people
|
|
make one person that's not increasing the population, or something. There's a
|
|
word for it...I'm not trying to make an excuse, I just found out about that the
|
|
other day...
|
|
I'm kind of a TV addict. If you let me be I'll just watch it all of the
|
|
time. I eat compulsively and stuff. I got that from my mom. My mom's
|
|
depressed. She's not like major, but she's always been somewhat depressed. And
|
|
that's how I am too. And that's something I'm very fearful of passing on to
|
|
the kid. Extremely so. That's the kind of stuff I'm scared of. That's why I
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want my child to love himself...Then I think the longest I'm going to live with
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my mother, the longest would be four years...So I guess I'm not really that
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worried about it. And plus, my mom's just so happy. I feel like this is
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almost a gift to her. Certainly not why I'm having a baby--to give my mom a
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present, but you know, it definitely goes both ways, she's very excited...Yeah,
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I'm nervous about moving back there. I've been away ten years. I don't know
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how things are going to be...She's also very like, she needs her space. She's
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very independent...She's never been like the dictator mom...Though I probably
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will be, since I think that she should have been more disciplined...
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Yes, I'm lonely...I think that people don't love me. Which is sort of the
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same thing. And that I'll be loved by this child...Like I said before, I
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decided to have the baby because I thought I was going to get married to him,
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that we were going to have a family. So this wasn't for this baby to fill
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something that I didn't already have...It wasn't like I decided to have the
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baby no matter what at first...I decided to have this baby because...this seems
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like what I want to do...So I guess I know my psyche well enough to be able to
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say yes, I've been lonely for the last two years and yes, I've always had a
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problem with feeling loved. You know, like, do people really love me? Because
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I am very insecure. But I'm also insightful enough to know that that's my
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problem, that it's not true, that the people do love me. I just have to
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remember to believe it...And I know I would never have a child so that they
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could love me, that's ridiculous...
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My mother hates men. She told me never to get married and never to have
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children. So my mother did not influence this child, believe me. She's
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definitely, I'd say, pro-choice...But like I said, she's still a mom. She
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loves kids...The fact of the matter is children have to be integrated into
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society...It's good to be part of society. If you're separated from it, then
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what's the point anyway?...Being selfish was the furthest thing from my
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mind...My life is not that wonderful that I want it to stay the way it is. I
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am more than willing to have a complete change. There's nothing I need to hold
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on to.
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11. All the problems that are currently blamed on technology and our
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"wasteful" Western way of living are exacerbated by human crowding. For every
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additional human in America, you need several thousand more kilowatts of power
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a day. A few more pounds of toxic emissions go into the air as the polyester
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for the baby clothes is synthesized and the play pen is built. A few more
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gallons of water a day are polluted by sewage. Eventually another car will be
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on the road, another computer will be in a home, another household will be
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producing solid waste.
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It is probably not a sin to drive a car and make plastic and throw things
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away. It is when these activities are multiplied by 300 million that they
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begin to become a problem.
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-Population #1 by Mike Merrill
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IS SOMETHING BETTER THAN NOTHING?
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by R7
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This question came up, in a conversation the other day, when someone made the
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time-worn statement--"Something is better than nothing." I had to wonder
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though, is something really better than nothing?
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I would submit, that more likely than not, nothing is a whole lot better
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than something in a great many instances. For example, you are in a fire-fight
|
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and catching bullets with your chest, but the guy next to you doesn't get hit
|
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at all. So what's better, something or nothing? Bullets ripping into my flesh
|
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is something I can do without, therefore, I would rather have nothing.
|
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Taking a much wider perspective, in considering this sadly beleaguered
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planet, let's see what conclusions can be drawn. Is it better for Earth to be
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plagued with a species that utterly disregards the environment it inhabits and,
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in the throes of a totally insane lust for power and money, pollutes the land,
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air and water of the planet with any bizarre and, in most cases, completely
|
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unnecessary waste it can come up with? Which is certainly something! Or,
|
|
would Earth be better off with no humans at all? Which is nothing. After a
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careful weighing of the evidence, a prima facie case is made for nothing,
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particularly, from a planetary and/or universal perspective.
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|
On a more personal level, I was in court not too long ago, or rather in the
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bullpens attached thereto, when a young friend of mine received, via the grace
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of the court, a gift of a 20 - 30 year prison sentence for the delivery of
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cocaine he never even delivered. Now that's something! And, I am quite sure,
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he would rather have received nothing, no matter how graciously it was given!
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At this point, it should be crystal clear that nothing is far, far better than
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something. In fact, nothing sounds way cool to me. It sounds like no rules,
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no laws, no fools, no police, no schools, no courts, no wait, no taxes, no
|
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state--NOTHING!!!
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Now you might, after reading my argument for nothing, ask how this gracious
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blessing, which is nothing, can be achieved and you might not, but I'm going to
|
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tell you anyhow. You can achieve the ultimate nothing by doing something:
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"SAVE THE PLANET--KILL YOURSELF."
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I feel nothing.
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That's why I sing this song.
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I feel nothing.
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Nothing all day long.
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I live in a city.
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I was born in one too.
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I live in a city.
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What else can I do?
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I work in an office.
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Everyone looks the same.
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I work in an office.
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I can spell my name.
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-The Oracles, "Nothing"
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TOP TEN REASONS TO VOTE UNABOMBER
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Your presidential write-in choice for '96
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by Lydia Eccles
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1. THE BOYS. Clinton, Gingrich, Powell, Perot, Forbes, Dole, Gramm, Lugar,
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Alexander, Dornan, Keyes, etc.
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2. HE'S HOT! His favorability ratings may be low, but his name recognition is
|
|
close to 100%. We won't need to hype him--he's already hyped. A Unabomber
|
|
write-in campaign can surf the media wave. He's the perfect imposter to
|
|
undermine the presidential election process as it unfolds, and turn the
|
|
fraudulent election process against itself.
|
|
3. THE VISION THING. "The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been
|
|
a disaster for the human race." Regardless of what you think of the Unabomber
|
|
and his analysis, the right issues are finally raised. Can you even conceive
|
|
of any legitimate candidacy, election, or debate which will allow the real
|
|
questions to be put on the table? We need to dish them out before they cool
|
|
off...They're giving an election, but we can crash it and have our own
|
|
referendum on corpo-technocracy. If the Unabomber put a hairline crack in the
|
|
myth of progress, we should apply a wedge now--the Unabomber's fifteen seconds
|
|
are just about up. But an election lasts a year. An anti-technological
|
|
rallying point only came into being because of the criminal chase. There's not
|
|
going to be another opportunity.
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|
4. CRASH THE PARTIES. The election offers a "choice" once all the real
|
|
decisions have been made. On top of being an anti-republicrat vote, the
|
|
Unabomber campaign is a counterfoil to faux "populist" outsider-insiders like
|
|
business magnate Ross Perot and Gulf warrior Colin Powell (a.k.a. the
|
|
military-industrial complex.) The third party "alternative" is designed to
|
|
safely channel voter alienation into a centrist, media-sanctioned agenda and
|
|
immunize the system against real change.
|
|
5. IF ELECTED HE WILL NOT SERVE. It's a nobody-for-president vote. He's not
|
|
running, so this can be a bottom-up free-for-all campaign. Campaign
|
|
literature, posters, sound bytes, platforms, pranks, the rest: have it your
|
|
way.
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|
6. DON'T WASTE YOUR VOTE. The media's like a psychiatrist--and you can't NOT
|
|
communicate in an election. If you boycott the polls, you'll be counted as
|
|
apathetic, complacent, or still worse, contented. If you vote for the
|
|
mainstream lesser of evils, who don't actually represent your views, you've
|
|
affirmed the political system and buried your voice. Either way you've wasted
|
|
your vote. To vote for the Unabomber is to vote and boycott at the same time.
|
|
If nothing else, it's a vote against the election charade. It can be only seen
|
|
as absolute protest, ridicule, or a "none-of-the-above" spurning of the
|
|
political menu. You can cast an anarchistic vote you feel good about, and send
|
|
the message that the presidential elections are a fraud. And you can still
|
|
vote in local races and referendums where your vote counts for something.
|
|
7. VOTE AGAINST THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE. The Unabomber did an end run around
|
|
the media monopoly, and published without editorial clearance. The Unabomber
|
|
has, by the magnitude of his plan, exposed the media as a closed communications
|
|
system, making it very clear--in case anyone hadn't noticed--that it's a
|
|
communications war. Mass media are launched from a heavily-secured fortress.
|
|
Other terrorists seek publicity as a means to other ends. The Unabomber used
|
|
terrorism to gain publicity as an end in itself. Notice how the press seeks to
|
|
channel interpretation of the Unabomber story, covering it as a serial-killer
|
|
story of crime and insanity, while excluding consideration of the ideas
|
|
themselves. They would have us believe that it would be disastrous if media
|
|
weren't controlled from the top. Op-ed pages resounded with journalists
|
|
lamenting, "Why didn't he have to get editorial approval? What if copy cats
|
|
are aroused, crazies who actually want access to the media, rather than simply
|
|
being passive target markets for political and commercial propaganda?" Imagine
|
|
mass communications not subject to corporate control. People might say
|
|
anything...even things not "fit to print". Exactly. When ABC Nightly News
|
|
gets renamed Disney World, you'll cherish the memory of your Unabomber vote.
|
|
8. HE'S GOT THE CREDENTIALS. The Unabomber's use of violence should not
|
|
disqualify him from consideration. His willingness and ability to effectively
|
|
use violence to achieve strategic political goals merely demonstrate the
|
|
essential qualifications to be president. After all, Colin Powell's ONLY
|
|
qualification is his performance as an effective killer. No one's called him a
|
|
serial killer, or said he craved attention. No running candidate has condemned
|
|
the Gulf War genocide. This is a country that played war like a video game in
|
|
a high-tech funhouse. We aren't even allowed information as to how many
|
|
Iraqis, civilian or military, our tax dollars blew away. That Bill Clinton
|
|
avoided the draft and hadn't killed was considered a lack of qualifications.
|
|
Luckily he picked up points for presiding over numerous executions in his home
|
|
state of Arkansas. Occupational deaths and diseases...Violence? Cancer deaths
|
|
caused by toxins in the air, in food, and workplaces...Violence? A minimum
|
|
wage that is half the poverty level, with the hunger, stress, disease and early
|
|
death that ensue...Violence? The media just finished re-elaborating the
|
|
rationale for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki...Violence? Terror? Anyone
|
|
bringing up violence should put it all on the table, not just select attacks on
|
|
the power structure. Anyone who can truly take a stand against violence in any
|
|
form--and that would include the American Revolution--can say the Unabomber
|
|
shouldn't be president on that basis. But he's not running anyway, and even a
|
|
landslide wouldn't actually put him in office. That's the beauty of voting for
|
|
a fugitive from the law.
|
|
9. ENTERTAINMENT VALUE. Watch your favorite TV pundits try to swallow, digest
|
|
and regurgitate a Unabomber constituency. It's a message that can't be
|
|
neutralized or explained away. The most minimal Unabomber returns would
|
|
disrupt the usual discussion of false problems and false solutions (usually
|
|
known as "reform".)
|
|
10. DON'T BLAME ME--I VOTED FOR THE UNABOMBER. You can sport your bumper
|
|
sticker after the election...but not on a car!
|
|
|
|
The player who trespasses against the rules or ignores them is a "spoil sport".
|
|
The spoil sport shatters the play-world itself. By withdrawing from the game,
|
|
he reveals the relativity and fragility of the play world. He robs play of its
|
|
illusions.
|
|
|
|
TO THE SPOILER BELONGS THE VICTORY
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|
|
|
LAST CALL BEFORE THE DEVOLUTION
|
|
by M.C.McDonald
|
|
|
|
The human body is a self-propelled fluid container. When the vessel is
|
|
ruptured, the fluid leaks.
|
|
Is this a controversial statement? Somehow unpatriotic? What is this
|
|
power that our own internal sap holds upon us? Isn't this the 20th century?
|
|
The dissection of cadavers was for centuries verboten. The corpse was a sacred
|
|
object, whilst everywhere the living were slaughtered by Plague, by cholera, by
|
|
diphtheria & malaria & smallpox...but there strode amongst the humans some
|
|
naughty boys, bursting with a deadly curiosity, They petitioned the Church,
|
|
they wished to unzip the sacred vessel, discover its secrets. And at long last
|
|
the Church weakened its fierce resolve, let slack its vigilance. "And
|
|
Civilization has been going downhill ever since."
|
|
Man was made in the image of God. If you wish to learn the truth about
|
|
God, then read his Public Relations statements. Muckraking about with a
|
|
scalpel is cheating, wallowing in FILTH; yes the Creator too has sweat & tears
|
|
& urine, semen & pus & post-nasal drip & the Mexican squirts, & then there is
|
|
the blood, all that blood, His omnipotent Blood, Blood of the Lamb, you better
|
|
run like Hell when it engorges His Eternal Phallus, He is all alone, you know,
|
|
in His monotheistic universe, He must resort to fornication with...lesser
|
|
creatures: bestiality. If they are unwilling, well tough. God had no qualms
|
|
about torturing Job--on a BET. You think He'd think twice about "bustin' her
|
|
pussy-walls"? "I shall greatly multiply your pain in childbearing."--God. To
|
|
whom could she complain? There is no higher court than the Creator of the
|
|
Universe. In His sacred text the Old Testament the Lord shew forth His Nature
|
|
in all its glory: He is petty, vain, jealous, schizophrenic, tyrannical,
|
|
sadistic. A terrorist. Humans, of course, are expected to hold themselves to
|
|
a higher standard.
|
|
|
|
(Contribution to Mike Diana defense fund book)
|
|
|
|
PATENT 5,170,381
|
|
|
|
Eldon Taylor, Las Vegas, NV and James R. Woodhams, Henderson, NV.
|
|
8 December 1992 (Class 369/4); filed 22 November 1989
|
|
|
|
The intent of this patent is to use two audio-frequency magnetic playback
|
|
channels "to deliver subliminal messages to the brain. On one channel,
|
|
accessing the left brain hemisphere, the message delivered is meaningfully
|
|
spoken, forward-masked, permissive affirmations delivered in a round-robin
|
|
manner by a male voice, a female voice and a child's voice. On the other
|
|
channel, accessing the right brain, directive messages, in the same voices, are
|
|
recorded in backwards-masked (or meta-contrast). The three voices are mixed
|
|
using a special processor which converts sound frequencies to electrical
|
|
impulses and tracks the subliminal message to synchronize the subliminal
|
|
message in stereo with the primary carrier."
|
|
|
|
MY VASECTOMY
|
|
by B.M.Bourke
|
|
|
|
In the spring of 1978 I had a vasectomy, basically because (1) I did not want
|
|
to father a child, (2) I wanted consequence-free sex, and (3) I was tired of
|
|
using condoms. I just wanted to slip it in, come, and forget it. [sounds
|
|
familiar... -Ed.] If you got a rash from a partner, you got a shot (two if the
|
|
disease strain was from southeast asia) and that was it. At that time herpes
|
|
and genital warts were the only specifically sexually transmitted diseases that
|
|
were incurable, and while they were inconvenient, they were not deadly.
|
|
Twice before I had had girlfriends who had been "late." Initially I had
|
|
some "warm and fuzzy" feelings about it. Luckily the women menstruated and I
|
|
came to my senses, seeing this for the sick and twisted thinking it was. I did
|
|
not want the responsibility, I don't like kids, and wouldn't be a good parent.
|
|
Also I realized on a rational level the consequences to the Earth, and it was
|
|
no burden to do my bit.
|
|
The vasectomy was done on an out-patient basis at Harvard Community Health.
|
|
Before the procedure my girlfriend and I were interviewed by the surgeon. This
|
|
was done to ensure that our motivation was appropriate. It was a short
|
|
meeting. We convinced him we were rational people who didn't want to be
|
|
parents. Of course, I didn't ask him why the health plan didn't interview
|
|
aspiring parents to check their suitability. Maybe I didn't think of it.
|
|
As I recall, the procedure was performed on a Friday morning, so that I
|
|
could recover over the weekend. I shaved my genitals the evening before. A
|
|
local anesthetic was used. The same surgeon who had interviewed me performed
|
|
the vasectomy. He was a youngish, gray-haired Irishman who tried to talk
|
|
sports while working, but I was trying to read to keep my mind off the
|
|
procedure. I did not look, as blood, particularly my own, distresses me, never
|
|
mind the tubes and stuff down there. He had some trouble locating the tubes on
|
|
one side, and had to hurry to finish up the second side before the anesthetic
|
|
wore off. A probing sensation was all I noticed. It didn't hurt with any
|
|
intensity, but I do remember that one of my balls became swollen to three times
|
|
its normal size. The other one, at least relatively, seemed normal. The only
|
|
serious pain I recall was the first time I came after the operation. I was
|
|
advised to wait three days before sex, which advice, my eyes on my swollen
|
|
ball, I adhered to. The pain was a sharp defined sensation in one ball that
|
|
soon receded. Overall I was mostly stiff and mildly sore. In a couple of
|
|
weeks, I felt normal.
|
|
As far as long term effects, I have not seen any increase or decrease in my
|
|
sex drive. Psychologically, I might be more relaxed in a situation where
|
|
pregnancy could occur. The only physical difference I have noticed is the
|
|
color of my dried come. Before, if I missed a spot cleaning up, it tended to
|
|
dry yellow; any spots I find now seem to be clearer.
|
|
|
|
|
|
In ancient times
|
|
a Kalapuya lay
|
|
in a grove of alder trees
|
|
near the forking of the Santiam
|
|
and dreamt a most unusual dream.
|
|
|
|
When he awoke at night
|
|
he told the people:
|
|
"The earth beneath our feet
|
|
was completely black,
|
|
in my dream."
|
|
|
|
No one was able to say
|
|
what that signified,
|
|
that dream of our green earth--
|
|
so we forgot it.
|
|
|
|
But then the Whites came
|
|
those farmers hard as iron,
|
|
and we saw how they tore open the earth with the plough
|
|
the pastures
|
|
the little prairies beside the Santiam.
|
|
|
|
And we knew
|
|
that we were to be a part of their dream
|
|
their dream of an earth
|
|
made black forever
|
|
by the wounding plough.
|
|
|
|
-The Voice of the Great Spirit: Prophecies of the Hopi Indians
|
|
by Rudolf Kaiser
|
|
|
|
RECOMMENDED READING
|
|
|
|
_1984_, by George Orwell. The ultimate Dystopia bears an uncanny
|
|
resemblance to the United States, though of course coercion is now largely
|
|
unnecessary, due to the overwhelming acceptance of television. Even if you
|
|
read it in high school, it's worth reading again; follow it up by watching
|
|
_Brazil_.
|
|
_All's Quiet on the Western Front_, by Erich Maria Remarque, is "neither an
|
|
accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an
|
|
adventure for those who stand face to face with it. It [tries] simply to tell
|
|
of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were
|
|
destroyed by war." Follow this one up by watching _Paths of Glory_, Stanley
|
|
Kubrick's wrenching film about the W.W.I troop mutinies. Yes, the French
|
|
generals really did give orders to fire on their own troops.
|
|
_Biodiversity_, by E.O.Wilson. Even by conservative estimates, we have
|
|
already lost *one-third* of the species on this planet, but the good news is
|
|
that if anything survives, ants will. Wilson likes ants, and argues
|
|
convincingly that they are the best-adapted social creatures on Earth. Long
|
|
live the ants.
|
|
_Breakfast of Champions_, by Kurt Vonnegut. Any novel about a dying planet
|
|
in which the male characters are introduced by their penis size is okay by us.
|
|
The illustrations are priceless, and the book is worth reading for the first
|
|
chapter alone, in which Vonnegut describes the "discovery" of America: "The
|
|
chief weapon of the sea pirates...was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else
|
|
could believe, until it was much too late, how heartless and greedy they were."
|
|
_The Decade of Destruction_, by Adrian Cowell. An astonishing first-hand
|
|
description of the heroic but doomed efforts to save the Amazon natives from
|
|
approaching "civilization," during the mammoth Brazilian development projects
|
|
of the 60's and 70's. Many had never seen another tribe, let alone a white
|
|
person, and the conversations with them are like messages from another planet.
|
|
Cowell hits home when he says that "the difference between the Indian and the
|
|
*civilizado*...is the chasm between the man who lives in the forest and the man
|
|
who lives in civilization--the system of the city." Cowell also writes about
|
|
his personal friendship with labor leader Chico Mendes, who was later
|
|
assassinated by the UDR (the rancher's party).
|
|
_Entropy: Into the Greenhouse World_, by Jeremy Rifkin, the revised 1989
|
|
edition. This is one of the most shocking books we've encountered; it turns
|
|
the "Age of Progress" completely upside-down, with incredible force and
|
|
precision, and concludes that "The only hope for the survival of the species is
|
|
for the human race to abandon its aggression against the planet and seek to
|
|
accommodate itself to the natural order." Amen. Rifkin grimly applies the
|
|
second law of thermodynamics to every aspect of the modern world, and
|
|
demonstrates that life is *negative entropy*. After reading this, you'll
|
|
understand our slogan "Efficiency = Death."
|
|
_Final Exit_, by Derek Humphry. The founder of the Hemlock Society gives
|
|
us a handy, compassionate, and very practical how-to guide that covers a
|
|
variety of "self-deliverance" methods, as well as legal issues such as "living
|
|
wills." He includes drug dosages, and it's even set in oversized type for the
|
|
older folks. If you can't find it anywhere else, you can order it directly
|
|
from Hemlock (see contacts). Have a well-considered death.
|
|
_Gravity's Rainbow_, by Thomas Pynchon. There's really no way to describe
|
|
this novel; let's just say it's worth the considerable effort. Some of its
|
|
numerous characters also appear in _V._ (his first book), and even though it's
|
|
(mostly) set later, you might want to start with _V._ just because it's
|
|
shorter. If you decide to tackle _Gravity's Rainbow_, we've compiled an index
|
|
which will make it somewhat easier to follow; we'll be happy to send you a
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copy. If you get to the end, you'll also enjoy _The Crime and Punishment of
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I.G. Farben_ by Joseph Borkin, which subtantiates many of the historical
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details.
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_A Guide for the Perplexed_, by E.F.Schumacher. A very thorough if
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somewhat tedious explanation of the Four Levels of Being. Like all Christian
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theology, it can be (and is) easily misunderstood; in the wrong hands it leads
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directly to humanism and the elitist notion that we are superior beings. Know
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your enemy.
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_Howl_, by Allen Ginsberg, our sacred poet and the world's greatest living
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sodomite. Part III invokes the Ammonite god who eats his children; strap on
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your skull mask and "howl" it to a captive crowd for instant DADA.
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_The Jungle_, by Upton Sinclair. A classic, perhaps overly melodramatic,
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but still gripping account of the Chicago meat-packing industry around the turn
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of the century. This book contains the oldest reference we've found to the
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Octopus (the second oldest is in _Gravity's Rainbow_).
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_The Lorax_, by Dr. Seuss. Yes, it's a children's book. Get over it. The
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Lorax speaks for the trees.
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_Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media_, by Edward
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S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. If this book doesn't cure you of reading
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newspapers, we don't know what will.
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_The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge_, by Rainer Maria Rilke. An
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anecdotal, obsessive journey into private and public hell. The descriptions of
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turn-of-the century Paris are frighteningly familiar; the characters are vivid
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and haunting.
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_A People's History of the United States_, by Howard Zinn. This is the
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best alternative history of the U.S. we've seen; it's comprehensive, accurate,
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and *readable*. The first chapter on Columbus should be required reading in
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every school. You will feel ashamed (and lied to), or your money back.
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Americans must die to save the planet.
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_Our Plundered Planet_, by Fairfield Osborn. Who better to describe Humans
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objectively than the president of the New York Zoological Society? This book
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might be hard to find, but it's a real gem. Our copy's dust-jacket includes
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glowing recommendations from Aldous Huxley and Eleanor Roosevelt, and says that
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"no nation in the long history of civilization has been more violently
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destructive of its life-supporting resources than the United States of
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America--that 'country of the great illusion,' the country that can 'feed the
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world.'" Remember, this was in *1948!*
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_The Population Explosion_, by Paul Erlich. If you're reading _Snuff It_,
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this book is probably "preaching to the choir," but if you have any nagging
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doubts, it's all in there. Written ten years earlier, _The Population Bomb_ is
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shorter, less resigned, more passionate, and very quotable. Needless to say,
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the "bomb" went off.
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_Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History_, edited by Jim
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Keith, attempts "to create doors...where once there were walls." How can the
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media be both free and controlled at the same time, and why? The questions are
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pure subversion, and the answers are terrifying. Electromagnetic weapons.
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Remote mind control. J.F.K.'s assassination as a Freemason "Killing of the
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King" ritual. Jim Jones, Waco, the Vatican, even a draft of Danny Casolaro's
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Octopus manuscript proposal! We checked on the subliminal images in Oliver
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Stone's J.F.K. and they're in there alright. This one wins Highest Boggle
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Factor Ever. Follow it with _Apocalypse Culture_, edited by Adam Parfrey;
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highlights include John Zerzan's _The Case Against Art_, which could easily
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have inspired the Unabomber's manifesto.
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_The Sixteen Satires_, by Juvenal, translated by Peter Green. It's amazing
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how little urban life has changed since ancient Rome. Folks pushed paper all
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day, worked out at the gym, dined at restaurants, read about scandals, and
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longed for holidays. The satire is vicious, *perverted*, and utterly
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hilarious; all roads lead to sodomy. Satire IX features an aging gigolo: "Do
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you suppose it's easy, or fun, this job of cramming my cock up into your guts
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till I'm stopped by last night's supper?"
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_Tales of Power_, by Carlos Castenada. "Only if one loves this earth with
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unbending passion can one release one's sadness," Don Juan said. "A warrior is
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always joyful because his love is unalterable and his beloved, the earth,
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embraces him and bestows upon him inconceivable gifts...sadness belongs only to
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those who hate the very thing that shelters their beings."
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_The Tarot_, by Paul Foster Case, founder of The Builders of the Adytum
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(BOTA). An excellent overview of the history and construction of the
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*esoteric* Tarot and the Qabalah, including exquisite renditions of the Major
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Arcana by Jessie Burns Parke. A chapter is devoted to each Trump, and the
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errors of the popular "Rider" pack are explained, and corrected. BOTA
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distributes Parke's deck, in black-and-white only; they recommend you color it
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in (using their detailed instructions) while studying the book, thereby
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personalizing the cards and imprinting them on your subconscious. We did this,
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and are well-pleased with the results.
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_The Technological Society_, by Jacques Ellul. The grandfather of the
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Situationists dissects technique, with "monumental calm and maddening
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thoroughness." Rifkin's _Entropy_ is cheerful by comparison; abandon all hope,
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ye who enter here. If you finish it without killing yourself, check out
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_Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes_, in which Ellul reveals that
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"The fundamental myths of our society...are Work, Progress, and Happiness," and
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that "successful propaganda will occupy every moment of the individual's life."
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_Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and
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the Destination of Man_ by Rudolph Steiner. This extremely formal and
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typically German book on the "occult science" of Goethe covers more or less the
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same ground as _A Guide for the Perplexed_, though with much longer sentences
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and a much higher boggle factor; the chapter on "Spiritland" is way out there.
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Steiner later went on to found the Waldorf schools, among other things.
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_Worlds in Harmony: Dialogues on Compassionate Action_, by the Dalai Lama.
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A long line of people ask interesting questions, and His Holiness answers them,
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with wisdom and compassion. Our favorite answer? "I think that our basic
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nature as human beings is to be vegetarian--making every effort not to harm
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other living beings."
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_Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_, by Robert Pirsig. Pirsig
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combines an incredibly moving personal story with a rhetorically flawless
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refutation of Western philosophy all the way back to Socrates. More pertinent
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now than ever, this is one of those books that just keeps getting better.
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Highly Recommended.
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"Don't forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The
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murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to
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non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways.
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It serves as Spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It
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provides raw material to be recorded in History, so that children may be taught
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History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for
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the adult world."
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-Thomas Pynchon, _Gravity's Rainbow_
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CHURCH MOVIES
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1. Eraserhead
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2. Koyaanisqatsi
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3. Providence
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4. The Man Who Fell to Earth
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5. THX 1138
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6. Hearts and Minds
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7. Network
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8. Soylent Green
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9. Being There
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10. Liquid Sky
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11. The Gods Must Be Crazy
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12. Metropolis
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13. Dr. Strangelove
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CONTACTS
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BOTA (Builders of the Adytum)
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P.O.Box 42278, Los Angeles, CA 90042-0278
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CPR (Circles Phenomenon Research)
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P.O.Box 3378, Branford, CT 06405
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FCCA (First Church of Christ, Abortionist)
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Box 6098, 4902 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3799
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Flatland (Jim Martin)
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P.O. Box 2420, Fort Bragg, CA 95437
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GLF (Gaia Liberation Front)
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P.O.Box 127, Station P, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S7, Canada
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Goad To Hell Enterprises (Jim & Debbie Goad)
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P.O.Box 31009, Portland, OR 97231
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GRB (Globally Responsible Birthing)
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Route 1, Box 28, Delancey, NY 13752
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The Hemlock Society (Derek Humphry)
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P.O.Box 11830, Eugene, Oregon 97440
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HToMC (Holy Temple of Mass Consumption)
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P.O.Box 30904, Raleigh, NC 27622-0904
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M.C.McDonald
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418 Kearney, Manhattan KS 66502
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Mike Merrill
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P.O.Box 4214, Buffalo, NY 14217
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OGYR Network ($t @ndrew)
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P.O.Box 53, Plainfield, IL 60544
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Randall Phillips
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P.O.Box 2217, Philadelphia, PA 19103
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Reality Hoax (Eric T. Sorebo)
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P.O.Box 428, Cornell, WI 54732-0428
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VHEMT (Voluntary Human Extinction Movement)
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P.O.Box 86646, Portland, OR 97286-0646
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X.S.Despot
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2225 Montego Drive, Lansing, MI 48912
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The Church of Euthanasia is a non-profit educational foundation devoted to
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restoring balance between Humans and the remaining species on Earth. We
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believe this can only be accomplished by a massive *voluntary* population
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reduction, which will require a leap in Human consciousness to a new *species
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awareness*. The Church is exempt from federal income tax under 501(a) and
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501(c)(3), EIN 04-324-9910. Donations are tax-deductible.
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editor: Rev. Chris Korda
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postal: The Church of Euthanasia
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P.O.Box 261
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Somerville, MA 02143
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e-mail: coe@netcom.com
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ftp: ftp.etext.org /pub/Zines/Snuffit
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gopher: gopher.etext.org Zines/Snuffit
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www: http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/coe/
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*THANKS* to Pastor Scott, Sister Jennifer, Lydia Eccles, Pastor Kim, Deacon
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Kelly, Father Lamorte, Dan Martinez, Cassy Mitchell, Kevin Roche, Dane Donato,
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Raven Drake, Keith Krisa, Vermin Supreme, Margo Cole, Kirby Griffith, Toto, and
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especially *Sister Catherine*.
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