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"This is for the people of the sun."
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OPEN LETTER TO GEORGE MAGAZINE:
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Are you really interviewing Julia Butterfly
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for September '99?
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The shadow of George Washington is in the
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mouthpiece of Ben Stiller's phone, huh?
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Hey, thanks for publishing me.
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Ask Garofalo if we're on for Harlem Friday
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nite, will ya? I'll pay if she can't get
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passes; but only if she can't. "Why" if she
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can, right?
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s/
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prime anarchist
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"Look over there, up in the sky!"
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"It's a bird!"
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"It's a plane!"
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No! It's..
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c i n
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t m k
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v ,
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***********************************************
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This organization has *extremely* limited means
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of publicity, and appreciates all e-forwards,
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regular mailings, published advertisements,
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radio announcements, etc, of our information.
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*************** THANKS!!! *******************
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Greetings phellow earthlings. Welcome to
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ATI, activist time, ink. This is issue
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183 and I'm your host, Redward Morrow.
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We're live from webzine99. Well sort of.
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Virtually. V-Live. The special "UR there"
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issue.
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You notice Newark and Network look the same?
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How 'bout fiance, france and finance??
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Or am I origami???
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Bitchin' Camaro. Did somebody say McDonalds is
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bland?
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Phrase of the week: She got lips so full
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I wanna check the pressure.
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Radio note: I hit /SEEK/ every time I hear
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an ad for the second time, or any of those new
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censorship noises.
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Means I do it often, huh? People probably
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presume I'm spastic, eh? Think I should wait
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'til each third time?
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Just an observation. This comes from living
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longterm in many different parts of the US.
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People at payphones in supermarket lobbies
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always seem way more stressed out than at any
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other payphones dotted around the towns.
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We got a lot of emails about the article
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"BLUE CHEESE DRESSING: Delicious Cure; or
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Horrible Texture?" Only thing is we didn't
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publish it. Wrong magaZINE maybe?
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Next up is our numba rhumba and then
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some lettuce for your brainsalad. And then
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the usual inputs. It was a harried week.
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JFK Jr passed on, in case you missed the
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news. And Woodstock is celebrating its
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30th birthday as we speak. Champaign I
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heard, as is required substance when you're
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officically a YUPpie. I think RATM is
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calming people down right now, believe it
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or not. It was almost a full-on Ted Nugent
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violence-fest there during LimpBandMember's
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Viagra-styled set.
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In a poll of 14 Serbian farmers, 13 feel
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US intervention in overseas politics had
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little or no effect. And one said "Oh shit,
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please don't shoot me, I believe in God,
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Hail Mary..." (Of course that's a bad
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translation; some things just don't move
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well.)
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Because most other newsmedia are still
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harping on every single "new and improved"
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angle on the JFK event, I'm only going to
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touch one thing briefly and then move on
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not looking back at all. It was very
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difficult to fast from news this week. And
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I tried really hard to keep my sanity. It
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was on car-stereos booming out windows,
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checkout aisles were just shouting his
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phrases, everyone was asking everyone else
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"what do you think of...yadda yadda..."
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elevators were using their BOSE stereos
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for a moment of JohnJohn, and even NPR
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devoted three hours a day to allowing
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callers' complaints about how the media
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is harping too much on JFK. I see the
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irony, do you?
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So ok. My little tidbit before
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moving on. After meeting Mother Teresa
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a short while back JFK remarked publicly
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how much it bothered him that US citizens
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were so wrapped up in each and every
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pocket of Princess Diana's tragedy, that
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most places didn't even respond to
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"Sistah T's" passing.
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There, you heard it here. The
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nexclusive. (sic.)
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Joyce Balza, Stella Marie Bauer,
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David P. Berg, Mary A. Jaber, Laurel C.
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Joas, Mrs. David Maddix, Erwin G. Mehrtens,
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Richard O'Conner all had funerals last
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week in a smalltown near you. Oh, and
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Edith F. Brusewitz apparently died out
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of alphabetical order. (&.)
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I wonder if any of their relatives found
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out late for glued to their tube?? (tired.)
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Full moon's coming in a couple days.
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We're probably the only journalists you know
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who would hold the presses for that, huh?
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--I'm Prime--
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#'s
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http://webzine99.com
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http://www.coolbeans.com
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http://www.yankthechain.com
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http://www.superbad.com
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http://www.thehungersite.com
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http://navajo2000.com
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http://www.cubby.net
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http://www.angelfire.com/nc/cambridge/diary.html
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http://books.dreambook.com/robertljones/soa.html
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http://www.jessklein.com
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http://www.abbiehoffman.com
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http://www.adamoworld.com
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http://seussie.webjump.com
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http://www.suite101.com
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http://www.wrybread.com
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Dear Prime,
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You live in paper hell right? I found
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this on my deluxe package of 16-pack
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toilet paper today.
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FORT JAMES WEST EMPLOYEE USE ONLY
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Imported by/Importee par
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Amway of/du Canada, Ltd./ltee;
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London, Ontario N6A4s5
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Made in U.S.A/Fabrique aux EU
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This Amway product is made from 100%
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Recycled paper fibers.
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What do you make of that?
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to ati@etext.org
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Are you really the "/"
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in "http?"
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Mowgwi (305)
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(and in our guestbook:)
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"whatever."
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anon
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Marco
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That link didn't work, you dork.
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-anon-
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[ed note: woulda been nice if you
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specified.
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http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/ATI.html?
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Last week's zine? Other "marco"
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publications???]
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--------that's it for letters------
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----kinda sparse this week---------
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"They Make Great Packet Radio Stations."
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by prime
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I'm driving by a bank and there's two 386's,
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seven monitors, five modems (1200 and 2400,
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nothing special) and cables, power cords,
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floppies galore piling-up out on the curb.
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I almost got hit from behind when my neck
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turned like a held-up rooster in a merry-go-
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round to see if anything was worthwhile. I
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pulled over, waited for all the middle fingers
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to drive by me and put some of my garbology
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masters degree to work.
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Nothing really interested me so I went home.
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Then I remembered it's just possible one of
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the 386's might have a couple SIPPS chips in
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it -- which is all that stands in the way of
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me teaching myself linux on one of my 386's.
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So I get right back in the wagon & popping
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the clutch I hurry down the five blocks to go
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explore. Some guy in a similar beat up old
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stationwagon beat me to it all. He's hauling
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it all away like Lord Hanson in a Peabody
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Coal Corporation stripmine on an Indian rez.
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"There, I'd better stop at that monitor,
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else my wife'll go ballistic."
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'Yeah,' I think to myself. 'Lord Hanson's
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wife shoulda slapped stuffing outa him a few
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decades ago. Or perhaps his mom? Well, we won't
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go there. I say not a word about what's in my
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head at the time.
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"What are you going to do with 386's," I
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ask him, "can you upgrade them?" I'm hoping
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my next question might be if he's got some
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RAM chips cheap."
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"No," he tells me, "they make great packet
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radio stations as is." I think he wished me
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happy "scrounging."
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On Mythology, Civilization, and Star Wars
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By Carl Franklin
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Email: carl@franklins.net
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July 25, 1999
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First of all, let me say that I have no point
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to make here today. I am not here to discredit
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religion, mythology, or those who have
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no religious beliefs. I am here to hopefully
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shed some light on the human condition.
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There is no other goal in my mind except
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to stimulate thought and discussion
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on those subjects that I am most fascinated
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with: Mythology, Spirituality, and how our
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connectedness affects us both personally
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and in our society.
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Myth: Window to the Soul
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Throughout existence, humans have always
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invented reasons for phenomena that can't
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be explained by science, and created stories
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that explain and reflect their temporal reality.
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A flash of lightning turns a dead tree stump into
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fire. With no shared knowledge of this experience,
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one resorts to an instinctual explanation,
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or what the whole of our being tells us
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about this phenomena. It must be a sign
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from the gods. What does it mean? etc.,
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We are not content to live with questions.
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We must have answers. If we do not have
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answers, we answer with our instincts.
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These stories fill the holes in our lives.
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They bring our communities together, they
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provide comfort and understanding, and they
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provide a bridge between the physical world
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and the "other" world... the conscious and the
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unconscious mind. We are like computers.
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We need storage, places to store
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information. Before the printing press,
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our shared knowledge was handed down
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orally from generation to generation.
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We tell these stories so that we will
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remember. By explaining the fire message
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from the Gods to a second party, now
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there are two people who understand
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the meaning of it; and so on.
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Without these shared dreams, it is
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much harder for us to find the
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foundation, that terra firma on which
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our reality is based. But yet, a large
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number of people (especially younger
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people) have rejected conventional
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organized religion, because it no longer
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works for them. For better or for
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worse, I tend to fall into this category.
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Organized religion is failing to touch
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people because it has not updated its
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core metaphors to fit our modern world.
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Worse, religious texts are taken at
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face value as scientific fact,
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and not the beautiful metaphoric poetry that
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they once were. Because we have no experience
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interpreting religious texts as products of man,
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as manifestations of bodily energy,
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as a window to the soul of human beings
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(not of something other than humans)
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we are left with either believing that
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Adam and Eve were the first two people
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ever to appear on earth, or that the
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story is completely insignificant,
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that all religion and religious texts;
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the stories of mankind, our myths,
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are meaningless.
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One of the dangers of not allowing
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ourselves to indulge in shared fantasies
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is that one can easily cut oneself
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off from the fountain of wisdom that
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pours forth from the past. Not wisdom
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about something metaphoric, like
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"Jesus was the Son of God", but
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about our real lives, like "Love thy
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neighbor". These stories, these myths,
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were written by human beings. As human
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stories, they naturally communicate
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the wisdom of the ages. "The Ten Commandments"
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is part of a famous religious text,
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but it is also damn good advice.
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"Thou Shalt Not Kill."
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This is the foundation of civilization.
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The difference between a civilized
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society and anarchy is that civilized
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people do not kill each other over land,
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food, possessions, etc., but find other
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means by which to exist together.
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Now that we have internalized (and even
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made law) the tenet "Thou Shalt Not Kill",
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does that mean we have no place for the medium
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by which this wisdom was made known to us all?
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So what in our modern society has taken
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over the task of communicating our values
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through time and space (on Earth, anyway),
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the task that religion has held for so many
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thousands of years? Some would say that
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movies have, to a great extent, become
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religious in nature. An actor on the screen
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has a God-like quality. She is there and
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not there at the same time. A movie is
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made and communicated over and over
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to the entire world, albeit about a
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million times faster than a message
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can move through the Catholic Church,
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let's say, to its parishioners around
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the world. In a single opening night,
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"Star Wars - The Phantom Menace" was
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experienced simultaneously by over 8
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million people in the United States
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alone. How can you not consider this a
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spiritual event, as compared to those
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that occurred within the last 99% of
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man's existence on Earth?
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Music and musicians also fall into this
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God-like category. You may not think
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that Britney Spears has anything deep
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to say, and you're right. She doesn't.
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But the relatively simultaneous experience
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of Britney Spears by 20 million
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adoring teenage fans is a significant
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event. The wisdom is in the connection.
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An instant conduit is forged between...
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(CON'T next week)
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To see this article in whole (or in part,)
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goto:
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http://www.freespeech.org/kokopeli/franklin.txt
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Carl Franklin
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President: WorldTRAIN, Inc.
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http://www.worldtrain.com
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"Take a class. Teach a class.
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Do it in your underwear."
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.Carl Franklin is a computer programmer of
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.the finest caliber, an author of the most
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.digestible cheese, a web designer out of
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.this world, one of the finest studio
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.engineers you'll ever work with, a dad
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.of the class you didn't think they made
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.anymore, a fairly proficient hunter-
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.gatherer and one of my best friends
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.in this or any universe.
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.oh, and did I say he's an
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.awesome guitarist?
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ANALOGY
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Cigarette is to tobacco as Log Cabin is to Maple.
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If KRAFT MAKaRoni KoRporATion were reKwirRed
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to list ingredients to what they call a cigarette
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these days, it would look something like so:
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Ingredients: Paper, plastic, petroleum product #1,
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chemical agent #1, pp #2, chemicals 2-5, pps 3-4,
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tobacco, chems 6-10, pp #5.
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Contents may...
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/-\/-\/-\/-\
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/This anarcho\
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\rant brought/
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/2 u by ATI. \
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\not just a /
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/news organ. \
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\It's p'rhaps/
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/the oldest \
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\e-rag on the/ ...net!
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\-/\-/\-/\-/
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And now, a Prime Anarchist Interactive
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Scavenger Hunt.
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If you can find pure tobacco within 400 miles
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of your home (either growing or already picked,
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doesn't matter) acquire it any way you can and
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notify Activist Times at 860.887.2600 box 5293
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or email ati@etext.org
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We will add you to our list of amazing people.
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FLYER FOUND IN BATHROOM
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"Hey Kids!! Are you too young to hang out in
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the casino and gamble after the show? Well,
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even if you're not... come on down and watch
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TV the way it was meant to be seen: In a
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movie theatre.
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UHF 10th Anniversary showing tonite after
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"Weird Al" Concert.
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Well, that's it for ATI this week.
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Hasta la byebye.
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Send all questions and comments to
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ati@etext.org
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Of course if you have comments and
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questions, wait a little while 'til
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they turn around and then send em.
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...................................
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. .
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. ATI: Like compost for your mind .
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. .
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...................................
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We end with a poem
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Lunch break 101
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by prime anarchist
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Sitting in a company car
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Eating a fresh ear
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This morning's pick
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35c
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At a stand.
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Looking straight down
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At a stripped quarry;
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Ain't much left.
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There's green water.
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Aquamarine? F2? CL2?
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Nah.
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Ain't that blue??
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Should I B here long?
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Lks lk U cn ctch
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Cancer jst lkng.
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Yummy corn.
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Yucky quarry.
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----<><><><>----
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Summary.
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A quick review: for anyone who doesn't
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wanna read the whole e-zine.
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(just call us Cliff Monarch)
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Spastic, Plastic, Ballistic, Music,
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Catholic, Metaphoric, Scientific,
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Alphabetic, Sic.
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***********************************************
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This organization has *extremely* limited means
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of publicity, and appreciates all e-forwards,
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regular mailings, published advertisements,
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radio announcements, etc, of our information.
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*************** THANKS!!! ******************* |