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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Tue Mar 22 05:05:09 1994
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 05:04:26 -0500
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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dbgordon (David B Gordon):
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I plan to pass.
What else I plan
I plan not to have planned
until the plan has passed.
That's the plan, man.
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eytan (Eytan Adar):
Sorry I'm not currently logged on
I was last spotted on Mon Mar 21 11:12:59 EST 1994
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lsc (Lecture Series Committee):
LSC Movies for the week of Mar 25 to Mar 27
Fri. Mar 25 No Movie
Sat. Mar 26 No Movie
Sun. Mar 27 The Blues Brothers [R] 10-250 7 & 10
Elwood and "Joliet" Jake Blues (Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi) are two
Chicago musicians on a mission from God. Wild car chases, explosions,
fights, awesome blues music (presented in fabulous 4-track magnetic
sound), the National Guard, and a destructive Carrie Fisher can't stop
them in their fight to save an orphanage. Don't forget your sunglasses!
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mwhitson (Michael Whitson):
In the first Vision, they saw Yahweh, a neighboring god with a world
of his own which overlapped theirs in some places. He was clearing
the set to change its valence and start a new show. His method struck
them as rather barbarous. He was, in fact, drowning everybody --
except one family which he allowed to escape in an Ark.
"This is Chaos," said Hermes. "That Yahweh is a *mean* mother', even
for a god."
And they looked into the Vision more closely, and because they could
see into the future and were all (like every intelligent entity) rabid
Laurel and Hardy fans and because they were zonked on weed, they saw
that Yahweh bore the face of Oliver Hardy. All around him, below the
mountain on which he lived (his world was flat), the waters rose and
rose. They saw drowning men, drowning women, innocent babes sinking
beneath the waves. They were ready to vomit. And then Another came
and stood beside Yahweh, looking at the panorama of horrors below, and
he was Yahweh's Adversary, and, stoned as they were, he looked like
Stanley Laurel to them. And then Yahweh spoke, in the eternal words
of Oliver Hardy: "Now look what *you* made me do," he said.
And that was the first Vision.
-the Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
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yandros (Chad Phillip Brown):
Then said Almitra, Speak to us of Love.
And he raised his head and looked upon
the people, and there fell a stillness upon
them. And with a great voice he said:
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to
him,
Though the sword hidden among his
pinions may would you.
And when he speaks to you believe in
him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he
crucify you. Even as he is for your
growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and
caresses your tenderest branches that
quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and
shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto
himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred
fire, that you may become sacred bread for
God's sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you
that you may know the secrets of your
heart, and in that knowledge become a
fragment of Life's heart.
But if in your fear you would seek only
love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover
your nakedness and pass out of love's
threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall
laugh, but not all of your laughter, and
weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes
naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be
possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
When you love you should not say,
``God is in my heart,'' but rather, ``I am
in the heart of God.''
And think not that you can direct the
course of love, for love, if it finds you
worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill
itself.
But if you love and must needs have
desires, let these be your desires;
To melt and be like a running brook that
sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding
of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and
give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate
love's ecstasy;
to return home at eventide with
gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the
beloved in your heart and a song of praise
upon your lips.
Excerpted from _The Prophet_
Kahlil Gibran
<a href="http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/yandros/home_page.html">chad</a>
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