"I asked God for strength,
                                                           that I might achieve
                                                       I was made weak,
                                                           that might learn to obey
                                                       I asked for health,
                                                           that I might do great things
                                                       I was given infirmity,
                                                           that I might do better things
                                                       I asked for riches,
                                                           that I might find comfort
                                                       I was given poverty,
                                                           that I might find wisdom
                                                       I asked for power,
                                                           that I might be happy
                                                       I was given weakness,
                                                           that I would feel need for God
                                                      I asked for many things,
                                                           that I might enjoy life
                                I was given little I asked for but everything I had hoped for
                                           Despite myself, my prayers were answered
                                            I among all men am most richly blessed."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

              "The most important thing is not to stop questioning!"
                                                                -Einstein
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
We should know that there is nothing ugly under the sun, save that which comes from
human distortion. Nature's work is all of it good, all of it purposeful, all of it wonderful,
all of it beautiful. We like or dislike certain things which may be a way of expressing our
our prejudice or our limitation, but the work is always perfect of its kind irrespective of
human appreciation. We may prefer the sunlight to the starlight, the evening primrose to
the bisnaga, the antelope to the mountain lion, the mockingbird to the lizard, but to say
that one is good and the other bad, that one is beautiful and the other ugly, is to accuse
nature herself of preferrence--something which she never knew. She designs for the
cactus as skillfully and faithfully as for the lily of the glade. Each in it's way has its
unique beauty of character. And so, more truly perhaps than Shakespeare himself knew,
the toad called ugly and venomous still holds a precious jewel in its head.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

          "I abhor the dull routine of existence, I crave for mental exaltation."
                                                 -Sherlock Holmes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

           My young men shall never work.
           Men who work cannot dream, &
           wisdom comes to us in dreams.
           You ask me to plough the ground.
           Shall I take a knife and tear my
           mothers breast? Then when I die
           she will not take me to her bosom
           to rest. You ask me to dig for stone.
           Shall I dig under her skin for her
           bones? Then when I die I cannot
           enter her body to be born again.
           You ask me to cut grass and make
           hay and sell it and be rich like white
           men. But how dare I cut off  my
           mothers hair?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                             "Without music life would be a mistake."
                                                                             -Nietzsche
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Some people say they'd like to go
to bed at night healthy and wake up
dead in the morning. Not me, I'd like
to linger, and linger & suffer, and linger
and suffer & go to the doctors and then
bigger doctors who wont know what's
keeping me alive and then linger and
suffer and linger and then, at the last
minute, I get all better.
 
 

        Morrissey: "On all instances when it's left to The Smiths alone, we are unbeatable. I find
        when we have to rely on others we always seem to be behind everyone else. There's
        only so much you can cling to-your credibility, your belief in small cottage industries-
        whatever. You have to be realistic."
 

       "There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion peculiarly calculated
        to make it intolerant of any marked demonstrations of individuality. The general average
        of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations; they have
        no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they con-
        sequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intem-
        porate whom they are accustomed to look down upon." -John Stuart Mill (On Liberty)
 

    "Bodily life as well as psychic life have the impudence to get along much better without
     conventional morality and they often remain the healthier for it." -C.G. Jung
 
 

     "To LOOK is one thing, to SEE what you look at is another, to UNDER-
      STAND what you see is a third...to LEARN from what you understand
      is still something else. But to ACT upon what you learn is what really
      matters."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 The other line moves faster.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  The most powerful of possession is power over ourselves, power to withstand trial, to bear
   suffering to front danger, power over pleasure & pain, power to follow our convictions, how-
   ever restricted by menace and scorn, the power of calm reliance in scenes of darkness and
   storms. He that has no mastery over his own inclinations and is in danger of never being
   good for anything. -John Locke
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                       "Everyone who works with love and intelligence finds in the
                                   very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind
                                     of armor against the opinions of other people."
                                                             -George Grider
 
 

 "The matter, form, effect & goal of my riches are worthless.
That's why our Lord God
generally gives riches to crude asses to whom he doesn't
give much anything else."
 -Martin Luther (Table Talk)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 FLIRTING GUIDE!

   You can lead a sparkling, fun filled social life by learning how to flirt safely.
Kathleen Gray, who teaches a course called "How to Flirt" at the Network for
Learning, says flirting is a great way to meet people & make yourself feel
marvelous at the same time.
The object of flirting is to woo someone into being responsive & friendly.
It has absolutely nothing to do with picking up strangers for sexual purposes.
There is also diplomatic flirting such as with your boss, the auto mechanic or a business contact.
Flirting can be a safe form of recreation for married people to fascinate and charm strangers.
The joy of flirting is that there is no set procedure, although there are certain
ground rules to ensure that the flirting is effective & safe.
Here are tried & true tips to help make you a devastating charmer:
-Feel good about yourself. A negative attitude can put off prospective "flirtoons."
-Dress attractively to boost your self confidence. Whether you prefer high heals & a
cocktail dress or jogging shoes & a sweat suit, your idea flirting outfit is whatever you feel best in.
Anywhere except a singles bar is suitable for harmless flirting - the park, the
supermarket, the launderette.. even on an airplane!
-Maintain eye contact with a potential flirtee a second or two longer than normal.
Any longer will make it seem as though you are ogling or leering.
-Use an opening line that is not to gimmicky or witty. The really snappy one-liners
often close the door to sensible reply. The remark should be open-ended so it can be
answered with a nod, one word or a lengthy conversation.
-Be flexible enough to adapt to the personality of the flirtee. If he is shy, try to be
somewhat outgoing. And if he is gregarious, be a little quieter.
-Don't come on in a sexual way. Sexy is fine, but sexual is a no-no. Avoid making
suggestive comments and deflect any aimed your way.
-Remain mysterious. Don't volunteer every snippet of information about yourself,
stay a little distant, yet full of promise.
DO:
   Decide that flirting is a positive activity that will help you to meet people..
   Be yourself & emphasize all your good points.
   Respond to a person who's interested in you by nodding or smiling.
   Keep the conversation light & lively by bringing up topics like a person's job.
hobbies or sports find interesting.
   Project a light & upbeat attitude.
   Encourage the other person to talk about whatever interests him.
   Look graceful & relaxed.
   Accept any compliments you get.
   Keep an open mind about the type of person you want to meet.
DON'T:
   Think of flirting as something a nice person doesn't do - Get rid of all your negative
feelings about it.
   Be a phony, projecting an image that's not the real you - Most people will recognize
a put-on like that immediately.
   Panic when the other person responds to your flirting. Instead try asking, "Do you
see something you like?"
   Get into heavy controversial, topic like politics.
   Act unhappy by dredging up past romances that failed or your personal problems.
   Just talk about yourself.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

      "The secret rules of poetry and aesthetics, which we now believe to be beyond rational expression,
      can be demonstrated in numbers, ratio & angles of the confluent lines of terrestrial geometry. The
      key numbers are those which occur prominently in several different spheres and which express
      the element of unity or correspondence in phenomena apparently disparate in their nature & scale.
      The philosophers of the ancient world discovered that the peculiar qualities of these numbers could
      be discerned through measurements of the visible universe. Astronomers found these in the cosmic
      ratios, in the relative sizes of the heavenly bodies and in the intervals that separated them. Math-
      ematics proved their relevance to the figures of relevant geometry and discovered the magic squares
      and numerological patterns by which their geometrical relationships were further revealed. Musicians
      and artists observed that these same numbers and ratios were those that produced the most perfect
      harmonies and touched the deepest sources of human emotion. They contained the secrets of magic."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

      "It's very simple. Dogs and cats and other talented animals have tails which provide them with
       a wonderfully complete language of arabesques, not only for what they think and feel and suffer
       but for every mood and vibration of their being. For every infinitesimal variation in their feeling
       tone. We have no tails, and since the more lively among us need some such form of expression,
       we make ourselves paintbrushes and pianos and violins..."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                                     When selecting a name for your band:
                   1.) Looks good in print                  2.) Easily memorized
                   3.) Appeals to people                    4.) It matches your sound
                                                 5.) Staying power
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

     You are always trying to express the sun
    according to its position by house & sign.
    All development is found in the sun and
    the fundamental character of your personal
    radiations all around you. It symbolizes
    strength, vigor, ardor, generosity & the
    ability to function effectively as a mature
    individual and a creative force in society
    It is consciousness of the gift of life. The
    underdeveloped solar nature is arrogant,
    pushy, undependable and proud and is
    constantly using force.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                        *The following article was taken from
                                 a well known science periodical and
                                 brought up the tail end of the first issue.
                                 It asks inflammatory yet realistic questions
                                 regarding the worth of mankind weighed
                                 against the importance of the well-being
                                 of our planet. A friend once confided in
                                 me that he felt the earth was perfect in
                                 and of it's own and has for millions if not
                                 billions of years in perfect natural order
                                 and in such a short time that man has
                                 endeavored to accelerate his prominence
                                 upon this sphere has done much more
                                detriment than good to his only home.
                                 Man is a deadly, cancerous virus which
                                 is spreading all too rapidly upon this
                                 once thriving organism, planet Earth.
 

 "As the author of a controversial new book that proposes robots replace the
human species,   Moravec should be able to start arguments almost at will.
Tonight at dinner, however, he's
finding no takers.
       With an impishness that belies his 40 years, Moravec is only managing to drive his wife, the
theology student, to distraction. "Now," he proposes with a sly smile, "literal Christianity would
not allow this, but let's say that God has been using computers all along to design humans."
       Ella Moravec, a graduate student at local seminary, rolls her eyes at the notion. The gesture
just goads her husband. "I'm completely unconvinced by how traditional religions explain the
future of human beings...meanwhile, out culture has outstripped our biological ability to cope
with it. So if you explain the human condition in terms of continual progress, it's easy to see
humans evolving into robots."
        A guest at the table asks, "Is Moravec saying that robotic technology, when meld with
the human mind, spirit or soul will give us first crack at ultimate longevity?" Moravec responds,
That's not so important a question...Oh, we might want to 'download' our human characteristics
into robots, but I look for that as a bone we'd throw ourselves. The key thing for us to do would
be to step aside and 'let the robots take over completely!'"
        Moravec goes onto describe two computers in a Carnegie-Mellon research lab. Both are
such experts at chess that they're ranked among the world's best players. Ella looks at her
husband with half-apologetic fondness, "What can I say...he's incorrigible."
        Incorrigible he may be but if you enter the research labs of the world you'll find that he's
no kook on a limb. Although it could be argued that few of today's robots show any signs of
promise Moravec suggests--most of the one's in the US are employed in factories in such
mechanical jobs as spot welding or spray-painting--there are signs later generations will fulfill
his vision. For example, a robot designed by students at Tokyo's Waseda University can ex-
ecute Bach pieces at the keyboard with the virtuosity of a skilled classical pianist. A robotic
hand jointly conceived by researchers at MIT and at the University of Utah can pick up an egg,
break it, separate the yoke from the white, then use it's index finger to whip the latter into a
froth. Both cases represent light-years of advancement over robots developed as recently
as five years ago.
        When it comes to his belief in science, Moravec is truly unyielding. Born in Austria after
WWII he grew up in Canada. As a child he played with small switches and motors, gifts from
his electrical engineer father, and avidly read science fiction books and Boolean algebra.
        When he was ten, Moravec built a robot. A tiny mechanical man put together with tin cans
and spare parts from old toys. This set him on a path he has never left. By 1971, at age 23
he was studying for his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University and immersing him-
self in the world of computers and robotics.
        After nearly 20 years of professional toil, Moravec can now marshal plenty of evidence
for his arguably fantastic thinking. Most of his thinking is laid out in his recent Mind Children:
The Future of Robot & Human Intelligence. (Harvard University Press) This book is causing
quite a stir outside & inside the scientific community.
         "If robotics and computer technology continue to develop at present rates--a prospect
Moravec finds no reason to question--he predicts that robots will pass the threshold of human
like abilities within 50 years or so, at which point they will no longer need us." Summed up M.
Mitchell Waldrop in The New York Times Book Review earlier this year. "While many readers
doubtless find this prospect terrifying, Mr. Moravec glories in it. The robots he envisions in
Mind Children will be nothing at all like the rigid, emotionless automatons we've come to
expect from bad science-fiction movies. They will be our companions, our help-mates and our
heirs."
         How does Moravec support his vision of this new race of robotic beings? He focuses
first on ongoing advances in technology, then views "robots" as their logical fruit. For example,
in Mind Children, he considers how a robot could be made to see and hear: high resolution
TV cameras for viewing the outside world, small earphones and microphones to detect its
natural surroundings and a computer to drive the entire apparatus. "It doesn't take an expert
to recognize that [robot vision & hearing would mean] a demanding set of requirments...yet
every one of [the necessary technologies exists and is the subject of extensive, well funded
research."
         "At the same time other technologies now afoot could make up the distinctive, if not quite
human 'heart & soul' of a robot being. Within 50 years it's going to be possible to manipulate
atomic matter on a very microscopic scale. This will enable us to produce very delicate, yet
intricate 'parts' for a robot that'll allow it to have astoundingly complex precise function."
         In addition, Moravec points out, the evolution of computers has been advancing a
thousand fold every every 20 years. Throw in parallel developments in superconductivity
research, laser experimentation, tactile sensors, even artificial skin--and human robots will
naturally arise from the caldron of scientific activity.
         For humans interested in longevity, Moravec's thinking raises large questions. It's one
thing for some, for technology to produce the life-expanding body parts, vaccines, techniques &
even completely new organ systems. They add to but do not alter the uniquely human quotient.
         But if such applications become so wide-spread that "new" humans--called robots--are the
result, will something crucial have been lost? Is the idea of robot replicants no less devastating
to man than nuclear devastation?
         Again, Moravec doesn't think so. "Look at the evolutionary pattern among animals. It not
only 'survival of the fittest' that holds true. That view just suggests strength and growth with no
direction. Instead, every so often the top niches on the scale get overcrowded. So there's
elimination even at that level. When you consider that when a computer with a trillion chips
of memory could even out-think me, you can see how robots could logically eliminate the need
for humans."
         Yet just when this type of reasoning makes Moravec seem antihuman, he exposes a side
that that actually might qualify him as a super-humanist. "As our culture becomes less viable
for us to inhabit under the onslaught of pollution, disease and famine, do we cling to our status
as humans at all costs, or do we take the high road and evolve into something better? And if
we're not around to see that 'something better,' because we've passed the torch to robots, how
are we any different from any generation of humans who doesn't live to see the next?"
         If you talk to some of Moravecs peers, you'll find influential support for his thinking. "It's
important that people are reminded," remarks Marvin Minsky, Donner professor of science
at MIT and perhaps this county's leading authority on artificial intelligence, "that today's
human's are not the finality but a step in evolution. It's only because we're watching ourselves
that we seem more final than we actually are." Minsky says it's entirely plausible to him that
robotics could advance to the level that Moravec prospects.
         However, other experts in robotics aren't so sure. Charles Lecht, chairman of his own
Tokyo based robotics firm says, "As I'm talking to you there's a [robot] paving machine outside
that can pave a street alot better than a man can. If man can only be defined by things like
that. There's too much evidence for a non material side of man for him to relinquish his existence
to robots. When it comes to human beings, there's something else there--something that
nothing else could be."
         Moravec, of course, thinks differently. "In the long run, our survival will require changes
that are not of our own choosing. Parts of us will have to be discarded and replaced. Yet this
evolutionary process, seen in a more positive light, means that we are already immortal, as we
have been since the dawn of life. Our genes and culture pass continuously from one genera-
tion to the next. We value change and growth, and our artificial descendants will share this gift
with us--their survival, like ours, will depend on it."
          Stay tuned!                                                                                        -Michael Rozek
 
 

                                    3 Simple Ways to Save the Environment

                     1) Keep tires inflated properly and get a frequent tune-up to ensure efficient
                             fuel consumption.
                         2) Raise the blades on your lawnmower. An extra inch of grass on everyone's
                              lawns could do alot for the greenhouse effect.
                         3) Use washable towels instead of disposable paper supplies.
 
 

*From CHURCH of the SUBGENIUS--

"That's why we're not really exercising that much hard sell with this religion as
compared with, say, the Pentecostals, or the Baptists, Because they don't care.
They're all going to die, and we're going to be in infinite slack, reveling in our
comic books, our porno movies and our horror films, in which we find true wisdom.
So at least this way we have an enemy and you can't have a religion without an
enemy, I mean, that's what most religions are about--giving a person a sense of
superiority over some imagined enemy."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                "Socially, life was a drag for most of high school and around then. By drag, I
                 mean, hanging onto the bumper of a car and going over at least 800 feet of
                 asphalt. I had no friends until the last year, and with them I was still pretty
                 much alone most of the time.
                 Anyway, we did things, not the same functions other teenagers participated
                 in, like dances, football games and "parties." Our stuff was more along the
                 lines of driving around with zombie masks on, screaming at people."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

             "For the magus the only cosmos is that which exists in the mind.
             While the scientist, despite evidence at sophisticated levels of
             mathematics and physical certainties and that the universe is
             really more a principle than a place, hold to his position that out
             there somewhere, a uniformly palpable cosmos stands, the magus
             is in the rather lonely position of knowing that he is traveling
             down a road and at the same time creating that road with every
             step he takes. His is a search for what is permanent amidst change.
             Unlike his academic contemporary who catalogs, the combines
             the endlessly shifting arabesques of atomic stuff, the magus questions
             what it is that lies beyond all the flux and transformation of the
             natural world. Reality for the magician, that illusive incredibility,
             which he searches, is hidden from him by the very supernal Intel-
             legence which, when traced to ot's genesis, casts off all masks and
             reveals Itself as the Self within. Man turns out to be God simply
             playing the fool!"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                 "Many people expect this of the Smiths. Because of the nature of their following, they are still categorized as an
                  'alternative' outfit. They are pictured next to The Cocteau Twins and Cabaret Voltaire."
                   -excerpt from a Smith's biography book.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                 "Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best"  Chinese proverb

                 "It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles."  -Muriel Spark
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"This is what everyone is telling us." Comes
the bemused reply. "And we just can't
believe it. We have striven
over the years for such a high level of
incompetancy, and now despite us going so far as to amputate our fingers
we have produced a music album. We started
recording it and it sounded good so we
chopped our fingers off and
it started sounding even better! Once we
reduced our hands to mere stumps the playing
became even more proficient.
We also stopped smoking crack in the studio
and the music ended up sounding GREAT! The
guy from MTV said pulled
up with a truckload of money! I would be
horrified, shocked and appalled ifour fans
were anything but rabid,
mutant, bloodstained idiots!" -ODERUS URUNGUS of GWAR
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"Putting up with America is difficult. You just sort of switch off and go autopilot.
Try not to watch any of their television. Don't listen to any radio,
don't read any of their tabloids. Just stay on the bus.."
-An Australian musician gearing up for his tour of the USA
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                                    The Covert Curriculum
 

                                            As work shifted out of the fields and out of the home, moreover, children had to be
                                 prepared for factory life. The early mine, mill & factory owners of industrializing England
                                 discovered, as Andrew Ure wrote in 1835, that it was "nearly impossible to convert
                                 persons past the age of puberty, whether drawn from rural or handicraft occupations into
                                 useful factory hands." If young people could be pre-fitted to suit the industrial system
                                 it would vastly ease the problems of industrial discipline later on. The result was another
                                 central structure of all Second-Wave societies-- mass education.

                                 Built on the factory model, mass education taught basic reading, writing & arithmetic, basic
                                 history & other subjects. This was the "overt curriculum." But beneath it lay an invisible or
                                 "covert curriculum" that was far more basic. It consisted of (and still does is most industrial-
                                 ized nations) of three courses: one in punctuality, one in obedience & one in rote, repetitive
                                 work. Factory labor demanded workers who showed up on time, especially assembly-line
                                 hands. It demanded that workers take orders from management hierarchy without questioning.
                                 And it demanded men & women be prepared to slave away at machines or in offices, performing
                                 brutally repetitious operations.

                                 Thus from the mid-nineteenth century on, as the 2nd Wave cut across country after country,
                                 one found a relentless educational progression: children started school at younger and younger
                                 ages, the school year became longer & longer (in America it climbed 38 percent between 1878
                                 and 1956) and the number of years of compulsory schooling irresistibly increased.

                                 Mass public education was clearly a humanizing step forward. As a group of mechanics &
                                 and workingmen declared in 1829, "Next to Life & Liberty, we consider education the greatest
                                 blessing bestowed upon mankind." Nevertheless, Second Wave schools machined generation
                                 after generation of young people into a pliable, regimented work force of the type required
                                 by electromechanical technology and the assembly line.

                                 Taken together, the nuclear family and the factory-styled school formed part of a single
                                 integrated system for the preparation of young people for roles in industrial society. In this
                                 respect, too, Second Wave societies, capitalist or communist, North or South, were all alike...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                    Sweet Nothings
 

                             Here are some reasons E.T. has not yet
                                                     phoned Earth
 

                                       When Italian physicist Enrico Fermi sat lunching with physicist Ed-
                                                  ward Teller in 1950, Fermi ignited a debate that rages to this day.
                                                  He asked simply, "if there are extraterrestrial civilizations, where are
                                                  they?" In other words, "If they exist, why aren't they obvious?"
                                                  Why don't astronomers sees alien Coca-Cola signs flashing in the
                                                  night sky?
                                                  Radio astronomer Frank Drake made a valiant effort to answer this
                                                  question by creating an equation to estimate the probability of life
                                                  arising in our galaxy. He broke it down into a series of steps. What
                                                  are the numbers of planets around a star? What are the odds that life
                                                  will sprout on one of those planets? What is the likelihood that intel-
                                                  legent life will arise? When we optimists plug our estimates into the
                                                  Drake equation, we get numbers ranging from thousands to millions
                                                  of technological civilizations that could exist in the Milky Way.
                                                  When pessimists input their numbers they get approximately zero.
                                                  Ultimately it rests on the shoulders of the optimists to to explain why
                                                  we haven't yet discovered proof of life on other worlds.

                                                  To me, a Caltech engineering lecturer and coordinator of the Planetary
                                                  Societies Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program, the
                                                  appealing explanation for the apparent absence of E.T.s is the quarentine
                                                  hypothesis. Fans of the old Star Trek series know how the crew of the
                                                  starship Enterprise always attempted to uphold "The Prime Directive,"
                                                  that is, they steadfastly avoided contact with primitive civilizations in order
                                                  to avoid contaminating the cultures. In the same spirit is entirely
                                                  possible that other civilizations want to avoid interfering with the emergence
                                                  of primitives such as us.

                                                  Imagine we belong to an advanced civilization that's been around for billions
                                                  of years. We're a jaded group of near-immortal aliens. We have lived one
                                                  million years and have sampled the pleasures of 1000 worlds. Our most
                                                  refreshing experience might well be savoring the peculiarities of a brand-new
                                                  world thats uncontaminated by galactic culture. Perhaps the most precious
                                                  commodity in the universe is a civilization that does not yet trade information
                                                  with other worlds. To an interstellar conservationist the greatest evil might be
                                                  letting barbaric Earthlings know about the existance of an advanced galactic
                                                  civilization. To do so would spoil Earth. Once Earthlings become aware of an
                                                  alien presence, civilization would change. Just as Papua New Guineans polluted
                                                  by the out-side world now listen to rock-music, watch TV & read The New Yorker.

                                                   Another possiblility why aliens haven't contacted us is that their civilizations
                                                   may have developed a method of inducing permanent ecstacy for their civilizations
                                                   through drugs or other means including computer-generated artificial realities.
                                                   With automatic life-support systems, people could live happily ever after, bliss-
                                                   fully unconcerened about the rest of the universe. It could be there are whole
                                                   worlds of slumbering little green men and women spending their lives in cosmic
                                                   rapture. Maybe no-one is particularly interested in signaling us. Suppose you could
                                                   live in resplendent ecstacy for the rest of your life. Would you be interested in
                                                   venturing off to other worlds?

                                                   It's also possible that aliens have no more interest in us as the average human
                                                   has in ants. After a few-million years of evolution accelerated by their genetic
                                                   engineers, they may have an intellegence as superior to ours as ours is to ants'.
                                                   What would they learn by contacting us? That's not to say they haven't left some
                                                   suitable evidence for us to discover. Perhaps we, with our teeny ant brains, might
                                                   still be able to detect the crumbs the aliens have left behind.

                                                   S.E.T.I. has reported a Pandora's box of questions, but at least it offers the
                                                   possibility of answers. Throughout history, every time we've turned a new type of
                                                   telescope on the sky, we've always foud surprises. So let's continue with the
                                                   search. At worst we'll discover wonderful celestial bodies never before seen by
                                                   human beings. At best we may find civilizations dazzling beyond our wildest
                                                   dreams.                                                                      -Thomas R. McDonough
 
 

    STINKING POEMS:

          "Very Metal"
          I am not a punk.
          I am sick of simple music.
          I'm very metal!

          I hate the punk scene.
          Maximum R&R Sucks.
          Because it is dumb.

       RHYME VERSE:

            I'm alone in a world of scabs
            I'm unlike all of those drips
            They get to eat shrimp & crabs
            I get to eat chips & dip

            They have half the world's cash
            And they do nothing for it
            I have about a buck & a half
            So I can't afford it

            But in the end I'll have to laugh
            As I pull my knife from my pocket
            And I slice the buggers in half
            I'll pick each of their fat wallets

             Samisen circa '84
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

             Common NIETZSCHEN principles:
             "The best way to destroy youth is to make them place conformists in higher regard than the non."
             "Life without music would be a mistake."
             "Evil men have no songs."
             "That which does not destroy you makes you stronger."
             "There should be limits to one's knowledge for even wisdom inherently draws limits to intellectual
              prowess."
             "When a worm is stepped on it doubles up. This is clever because in doing so the chance of
              further damage is reduced.  The language of morality--humility."
             "He who laughs last laughs best."
             "The 'party-man' learns no longer. He only experiences and judges. The non-'party-man' encom-
             passes health & inexhaustibility. He grows old & continues to learn."
             "There is no evil in the universe, only weakness."
 
 

       More wisdom from the quote book:
 
 

     "Too much freedom is when there are no circumstances to ones actions."
 

      "Pessimism is merely optimism distilled with a little objectivism."
 

      "I am a very rich person. Unfortunately my wealth is, for the most part intangible, which makes it
      very difficult to flaunt."
 

      "Offense is on the mind of the defensive."
 
 

     "The truth is not always ethical."
 

     "Be whatever you wish you were."
 

     "Law & Justice are not always one in the same."
 

     "No one can live without changing the world."
 

     "Sometimes in order to achieve progress we need to slow our pace."
     (all from Anthony Marzola)
 

 More wisdom from the quote book (well actually from Jon & friends):
 

   "Abstinence from something (sex) promotes it."
 

    "Those who learn the past control the future."
 

    "A mate is a true reflection of part of yourself."
 

    "Intelligence reeks of dumbfoundedness."
 

    "No one is better than you lest you let it be so."
 

    "Strive for perfection, as you may never reach it, what you attain in the process will be magnificent."
 

    "Never try to impress someone with something you dislike."
 

    "If there is at least some joy in your life build upon it with your suffering."
 

Even more wisdom from the world of zinedom:

"A corrupt man will readily shake you hand."  "Hate is man-made."  "Sweetest tounge-sharpest tooth."
"Caffeine is the poor mans way of getting a rush."  "New-Age is a disguise for aging hippies."
"I came to understand the benefit of playing the fool when I realized how aptly suited I was to the part." -G. Baumslag
"Rules & models destroy genius & art." -William Hazlit from Sketches and Essays "On Taste"
"Don't try love. Don't risk the addiction."  "It's not what you achieve in life but what you overcome."
"A psychologist is the one who watches everyone else when a beautiful woman enters the room."
"Gain knowledge by experiment not by dictation."  "Pride commeth before a fall."
"Then I understood that all that was profound in the universe was that which was the unknown lurking within my
own mind."  "Love is pity & compassion. Lust is worship & greed."  "Don't listen to the weatherman. Go outside."
"Censorship exists not for subject matter but for conveyance of that subject matter."  "Empty barrels make the most
racket!"  "Relativity does not exist in the scope of which it is surmised."  "Whoso would be a man would be a non-
conformist." -R.W. Emersen. Essays on Self Reliance.  "Dreams are the true interpretation of our inclinations, but
art is required to sort and understand them." -Montaigne. Essays Book 3, Chp.13
"Never give liberty to a nation devoid of good-humor."  "You must have a license to own a dog or a car yet any
scumbag can be a parent!"  "That which is unlikely (or likely) to occur yet does occur (doesn't) is fate!" -Count Zee
"A man's best teacher is himself."  "Only a fool could be unhappy in wealth."  "The human form is the greatest
physical work to grace God's canvas. It should be looked upon with artistic marvel & scientific awe. The idea that
the human body or its functions are shameful has constituted aesthetic deprivation beyond comprehension." -Count Zee
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

For a comprehensive list of book titles falling under the
category of obscure, subversive & alternative send $5 to:
Loompanics Unlimited POB 1197, Port Townsend, WA  98368
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Tales of John-boy!
After telling Billy Rotten about his intention to become a foreign embassy guard--
1.) Billy turns on radio
2.) Excited newsreporter rants out about how Iraq has seized the America Embassy
Billy then remarks how that "If that isn't an omen, I don't know what is!"
And they both laugh their asses off.

Tales of John-boy!
One day, while hard at work in the main post exchange John-boy runs into a longtime pal who apparently is deciding
not to pay processing fees on his returned photos--
1.) John-boy remarks how he is familiar with the surveillance equipment.
2.) "Friend" assures that if turned into the store security that he will kick John-boy's left nut so hard it will explode
John-boy quickly find other uses for valuable time.

Tales of John-boy!
John-boy asks Billy Rotten if he has recieved the subsequent issue of "American Rationalist." Billy says he's
already passed it along to a kid who's best described as a Christian-Prep--
1.) Billy presents "American Rationalist" to C.P.
2.) Christian-prep claims that he has more than enough problems already.
John-boy and Billy laugh their asses off.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 Mr. X: I don't understand this business about death. If we're just going to die, what's the point of living?

 Mr. Z: Well, there's seafood!

 Mr. X: I don't know why I even bother to talk to you before dinner!
 
 

                  Society Creates Bad Apples
                                by Sambone

      People are born good, society makes them bad. First of all,
most unfortunately, some people are born into very oppressive
environments. Parents usually make a set of negative imprints on
a child's demeanor, especially if the parents have bad attitudes of
their own. In families with a traditional aspect involved in crime,
the children are almost always conditioned to be criminals them-
selves.
         Secondly, as people obtain a standing place in society
they are subjected to drastically corrupted sources. Our capitalist
society enforces the technique of keeping the rich fat and making
the poor starve, driving our lower class to aquire deviant and officious
means of support. Also, Society tries to base itself on its media
misrepresentation-- television, in which the good guys and bad
guys are clearly defined with no grey areas in between.
         Lastly, everyone is affected by the government. It belittles
man to the level of statistic, tax-payer & rifle holder in the prospect
of war. If the citizen "causes trouble" for them then it's off to the
hate camps (prisons) to turn them into bitter, angry, repulsive
creatures only to later turn them back out onto the streets.
         Babies are born innocent, but for these reasons, bad apples
turn up in our society.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

        "Me" by Stikz

I am a zombie walking through life
holding a single black rose
each pedal represents a year
the color-- for each year gone sour
you are born just to die
a sad truth of life
I beg for the day to come quickly
the taste of my last breath
shall be savored forever
through eternity
my heart, the rose...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Does music really belong to anyone? It a part
of you (or anyone!) and once
you release it from you soul it's a free spirit,
but it carries your influence and you carry it.
(part of a letter I received from a friend named Dan Rendulic)
 
 
 
 
 

Exfoliation
What you think it means: Chemical bombardment of Vietnamese jungle
What if really means: Hours-long process to sandblast off gritty outer
layers of facial skin before bedtime
 
 

"A man who doesn't love easily, loves too much."
-Dale Cooper
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

HEADLINES
 

                        MOM BURNS BIG BUCKS

      Maria Nascimento of Brasfilia, Brazil, was the holder of a
      winning lottery ticket worth $60,000. Maria, an unemployed
      maid and mother o seven children, took the ticket to her
      local minister at the Assembly of God church. He told her that
      the winning ticket was the work of the devil, and she needed
      to rid herself of it. She returned home and set fire to the ticket
      along with her identification card and the birth certificates of
      her children. Her unemployed husband came home, discovered
      what she'd done, beat her, and vanished. We volunteer to take
      on Satan & his minions anytime. Send us all lottery tickets
      you have. -ed.
 
 
 
 

                      NASA TO MOON: DROP DEAD!

     Professor Alexander Abian of Iowa State University has
       revealed that NASA plans to blow up the moon with three
       rockets tipped with hydrogen bombs. Why? Well, because
       it's there, for starters, and they have the technology. But
       also because NASA wants to tilt the earth in another way,
       in order to improve the weather. "The landing of the entire
       moon near the south pole is the most efficient technique
       for altering the tilt of the earth...we would have springtime
       all year long," he says. The project should be implemented
       shortly.
 
 

                 3 Good Ways & 3 Bad Ways To Dump Your Lover!
              Good-
                    1.) Carefully point out that's it's not their fault that
            leaving, only that the feelings are no longer there.
                    2.) Make clear that the relationship was very meaningful to
                you're sure that it's time to move on.
               3.) Make sure you both know that breaking up is certainly
                    going to be a painful experience, yet you know the pain is
                    only temporary.
                  Bad-
                    1.) Make sure that you're the first person to tell your
                    partner your feelings or the hurt will be even greater.
                    2.) Keeping you partner just in case new love interests don't
                    work out. This can be particularly damaging to your partners
                    ability to trust & enter a new relationship of their own.
                    3.) Being so nice that you're partner can't feel angry toward
                    you. At least a little bit of bitterness is to be expected in order
                    for a relationship to end.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                   The 10 Best & Worst Foods for Your Health!

                    Best-                                 Worst-
                    1.) Apples                         1.) Bacon
                    2.) Avocados                    2.) Candy
                    3.) Bananas                      3.) Chocolate
                    4.) Broccoli                       4.) Corned beef
                    5.) Chicken                       5.) Egg yolk
                    6.) Fish                             6.) Fatty cuts of meat
                    7.) Oranges                      7.) Frankfurters
                    8.) Potatoes                      8.) Potato chips
                    9.) Skim milk                     9.) Smoked foods
                   10.) Whole wheat bread  10.) Whole-fat dairy products
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Oh, greatest of the mass-media, thank you
for elevating emotion, reducing thought &
stifling imagination. Thank you for the
artificiality of quick solutions and for
the insidious manipulation of human desires
for commercial purposes. I offer a humble
sacrifice. Bestow thy flickering light forever.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Mr. Z: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action.

Mr. Z: Once you become informed, you start seeing complexities and
shades of gray.

Mr. Z: You realize that nothing is as clear and simple as it first appears.
Ultimately, knowledge is
paralyzing.

Mr. Z: Being a man of action, I can't afford to take that risk.

Mr. V: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Shocking Quotes!
 

"The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept.
They'd rather sit in front of the television and let that tell them what they're
supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and with the canned laughter,
what they're supposed to laugh at if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.
People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves because America has
raised them like that." "People are so desensitized these days you have to be really
shocking to get their attention. Then once you've got it you can say something
they might remember." "As with anything I do, everything is based on reactions
& responses.""I fear being like everybody I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love
balancing between chaos & control with everything I do. I always have fear of
going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything & not
having anything to get lost in...and fear of being a completely acceptable sheep in society."

-Marilyn Manson
 
 
 
 

"If you don't want to get in trouble, the truth has to be worded very carefully."
-Beetle Bailey
 
 

"I don't care how I'm remembered because I won't be here to enjoy it."
-William Steig
 
 

"Many receive wisdom, only the wise profit from it." -Anon.
 
 

"None of the secrets of success will work unless you do." -Anon.
 
 

"It's better to lend a hand than to lend sympathy." -Anon.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

            Your Own Private X-phile

            Want to have your own encounter with the unexplained? Drive no further than the Missouri/
            Oklahoma border near Joplin, Mo to get a chance to witness one of the strangest phenomenon
            around.
              Locals call it the Hornet Spook light. It is a mysterious ball of light that roams the back roads
            near Joplin. It has been frightening & delighting the locals for decades and has been subject of
            many different investigations. Thousands have seen it yet no-one can explain it.
              At night (especially at dusk) the light appears in the distance & reportedly, on occasion will
            approach at the speed of a person walking. Often it is said to disappear only to reappear behind
            the observant. Then it can float off, slits off into different directions or dance around.
               It is usually golden or red and is said to dance around.
               While the light usually sticks close to the road, it's been reported in nearby fields, drifting past
            house windows & on one occasion was said to enter a farmers barn.
            Upon rare occurrence it is said to come within a few feet of the observer.
               The spook light is surrounded by folklore. The most popular legends are that it is the ghost of
             a cruel confederate sergeant, executed by cannon fire, searching for his head or a miner searching
             for his kidnapped children by lantern.
                The only scientific explanation is that there could possibly be strange crystals in the ground near
             the area where the light is seen that generate some sort of peizo electric field that emits light.
             The theory has holes of it's own, however, such as the way the light seems to interact with the
             people watching it.
                 Whatever the case, the anomaly must be seen to be believed, and fortunately your chances are
             good. D.F.P.D. went on location to witness the spectacle & actually saw the light as soon as we
             arrived. While there is no guarantee that you'll see it, it's more likely than not you will.
                 How to get there-- Take I-44 from Springfield to Joplin for an our until you reach Hwy 43
             south. (This is where the Petro truckstop is located.) Go 6 miles to Hwy BB. Sign points to the left
             but you go right. Follow this black topped section to the T-intersection. Turn right. Take this till you
             get to the second non-residential dirt road on your left. You'll be able to see the light from any high
             vantage point along the road. Remember to pull off the road far enough to keep from blocking
             oncoming traffic.
                  Lastly, the best time to look for the light is when the leaves are off the trees. Still, you may need
             to stick around a couple of hours to experience anything. They also recommend you keep an eye
             out for secondary lights forming which may come closer to you than the original light.
                  Good luck!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The following are excerpts from a leading national magazine:
Galbraith notes that rather than address the economic injustice that is the root of
our social instability, the rich choose to vilify the poor as people with a naturally
"inferior, even criminal disposition." This view sets the stage for an increasingly oppressive
authority employed by those in power.
Rudy Naifeh, is a Los Angeles, California-based activist working to organize a
temporary-workers union. He tells an anecdote that illustrates in microcosm the
dangers inherent in the widening gap between rich & poor. "The other night I
pull into a gas station, and a rough looking character approaches me with a paper
cup in one hand and what looked like a tire iron in the other," he relates. "I shrugged
him off when he asked for some spare change; but as I walk into the mini-mart to pay,
I hear him
say something like, 'Your taillights will be alot safer if I can get me something to eat.'
It pissed me off that I'm having to cope with this threat when all I want to do is buy
some gas. But what are you gonna do? This guys got nothing and he sees somebody with
something. He resorts to his ace in the hole:the potential for violence. I'm not saying it's
right but there's an ineluctable logic there."
Pointing to his own cause-temp-workers' rights-Naifeh explains his assertion. "Temp
agencies have become the nations largest
employers," he says, "and the system they've constructed, with the help of lawyers
& politicians, is the worst abuse of indentured servitude since the plantations."
Naifeh speaks from experience. The 28-year-old former cabdriver moved to Los
Angeles in 1993 to look for a new occupation. He began with the classifieds, but
found virtually no opportunities with independent employers. "All the ads now are
for temp agencies, for middle men. The agencies have a virtual monopoly on opportunities
for low or unskilled workers."
Naifeh, while agreeing that temporary agencies provide a necessary service in certain
cases, sees the overwhelming control over entry-level and low-paying positions as a
cancer on the working class. "I find it absolutely criminal that the least rewarded
members of our society are the ones who must sacrifice half their income to some
corporate S.O.B. who is useful only because
he has effectively inserted himself as the middleman in the hiring process," he says.
As his group has fought for health benefits for temporary workers, as well as the
elimination of the bounty that discourages their permanent hire, Naifeh has come in
contact with countless low-wage workers who have become alienated by the new
social contract between employer & employee. "I remember one guy who read his
first check stub," he recounts. "When he saw the cut given back to the agency, he
immediately walked out saying, 'I'd rather go back to selling junk on the street. At
least it's honest.' I can't say I blame him.
"We really are heading back to a 19th century model," says Ralph. "If I had to make
any type of prediction, I'd say we're heading for a renaissance of social Darwinism."
The 19th century is best remembered by historians not for the celluloid fictions of black
hat & white hat gunfighters but for low reading levels, high infant mortality rates, rampant
disease, child labor, sweat shops and a level of human misery we would find unimaginable
today, but perhaps not tomorrow.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A funny thing happened at the driver's license office today...
I was taking a test for the Haz-Mat endorsement today. First, I noticed
a roach on my shirt (not many would admit this!) & flicked it off.  It crawled
across the floor & up onto the examiner's desk. She was an attractive late 30's
red-headed version of Sally Field. She freaked and sprayed the bugger
with some table-wax or something.
Then this old guy who must have been 100yrs old came in & said he needed
to take his test again 'cuz he said,
"I messed up." I almost couldn't stop laughing & made an ass of myself. Then
some kid who was starting out on his examination outside crashed into the
building. I was still chuckling at the old guy, not meaning to be dis-
respectful but liked the way he said "messed-up."
 
 

Erotic Double-Talk

Once in a while you hear juicy stories from
your buddies about over-the-top "romantic"
interludes. Well, when you break those
fables down to the matter-of-fact, what you
get is something a little closer to the real
deal...

Phrase used: "This is the first time I told
anyone this, but..."
Translation: "This is the first time I told
anyone this since 8 o' clock this morning."

Phrase used: "I'm a student at a large
university."
Translation: "I once ran through the campus
of a large university while chasing my dog."

Phrase used: "I live in one of the sorority
houses."
Translation: "I live in a shed about a mile
from a sorority house."

Phrase used: "She had a small, firm bottom."
Translation: "Helicopters could have used
her butt as a landing strip."

Phrase used: "The girl blushed when we made
eye-contact."
Translation: "She got pissed when I stared
at her."

Phrase used: "Nineteen-year-old nursing assistant."
Translation: "Seventy-two-year-old nurse."

Phrase used: "My manly body is rippled
with muscles."
Translation: "His effeminate body is covered
from head to toe with cellulite."

Phrase used: "Take me, take me now!"
Translation: "Get away from me you pervert."

Phrase used: "She writhed in ecstasy
beneath me."
Translation: "My 300-pound belly was crushing
her into the bedsprings."

Phrase used: "She was aching for me."
Translation: "She was still sore from her
tift with the football team last night."

Phrase used: "She was built like a
Greek Goddess."
Translation: "She was slightly younger than the
Parthenon and just as eroded."

Phrase used: "She caressed my large
bulbous muscle."
Translation: "She grew nausiated at the
site of my strips of course, mutton-like fat."

Phrase used: "Her dangling breasts."
Translation: "One went south, the other, west."

Phrase used:                          Translation:
"My 12" member."                     5 inches
"My 11" member."                  5 1/8 inches
"My 10" member."                  5 1/4 inches
"My 9" member."                    5 3/8 inches
"My 8" member."                    5 1/2 inches
"My 7" member."                    5 3/4 inches
"My 6" member."                       6 inches
("Six-inch member" phrase used once every
20 years.)

Phrase used: "Her nether-regions were
moist with anticipation."
Translation: "Her penicillin shot is due."

Phrase used: "Her pouty lips."
Translation: "She was mad as hell because
I wouldn't pay her full price."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Bangkok: City of Corruption
(Items derived from leading men's magazines.)
Known as the "City of Smiles" but one feels that foreigners are not liked,
although their money is.
Population of 7 million people. One million of them prostitutes.
"Recruiters" sent out to Northern & Northeastern regions to scout for new
girls. Sometimes "buying the girls" outright from the impoverished parents
for the equivalent of three or four hundred dollars.
Instead of going to promised homes or factories many women are first
taken to hotels & raped. If she resists the process is repeated along with
severe beatings. The ones who continue to show defiance are locked in
small rooms, food & water withheld. More beatings take place till the woman
becomes compliant. The ones who remain resistant suffer gang rapes & batterings.
She's forced to service clients in a private home for several weeks. Once she is
deemed "reliable" she is sent to work in a bar or massage parlor along Pat Pong Road.
Of the one million prostitutes, mostly between the ages of 15 & 24, 70% of them
are infected with STDs.
Children, male & female are available for sex. A virgin child, however unwilling,
will still fetch a premium. Children found abandoned or kidnapped are easy
game for the "scouts" of Pat Pongs sex industry.
Reportedly, four female rape victims report to hospitals in Bangkok every hour
for treatment of injuries resulting from sex-crimes.
Thai police are so poorly paid that they turn to assisting in organized crime or
"looking the other way" as methods of supplementing their incomes. Upon
occasion it is known that police will force themselves in hotel rooms and do
searches and declare to finding controlled substances, usually heroin, at which
time they ask for a bribe to "forget the incident."
Of the allocations sent by foreign governments(including the US) to assist in the
welfare of smaller cultures outside of the metropolitan areas, millions are seized
before the money finds it true benefactor. One high cabinet minister reveals that
as much as 75% of foreign aid is pocketed before it reaches its destination.
Barbiturates are said to appear in bus-passangers' food & drink. When victims
pass out personals & baggage are rifled at leisure. Those recovering too soon
might have their throats cut. Females in movie theaters pick up tourists & buy
him a drink. A promising situation goes bad when he awakes(if he's lucky)
penniless, with all valuables gone. Backpackers have their packs slashed
and personals removed by razor artists on city buses. Many times the death
of a tourist is considered the answer to the resisting of a robbery.
Thinking about living out all your fantasies in the Asian adult Disneyland?
Think again.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sexual Jealousy
Jealousy is defined as: "Intolerant of rival or infidelity."  "Disposed to suspect rivalry
or unfaithfulness." "Apprehensiveness at the loss of another's devotion." "Zealous
in guarding a possession." Jealousy entails the fear of losing something one has
rather than desiring something one doesn't have, which is regarded as envy.
Presumably men become jealous over the idea of their woman being sexual with
another woman while women become jealous over their men giving time, attention,
affections & other resources to other women. We have to refer to the environment of
our earliest known ancestors to find the reasoning for all of this.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The hepatitis-sex connection
Hepatitis strains all attack the liver. This includes less common D & E
strains. They sometimes produce flu-like symtoms. Hep B & C can
lead to chronic liver disease & increase the risk of liver cancer.
Although vaccines are available to treat stains A & B, more than half
a million Americans are infected with some form of the virus each year
and eventually die from it.
Not all are caught through sex. Unprotected anal & oral sex make possible
Hep A but it can also be contacted through contaminated food or water.
(Usually from contaminated foodstuffs resulting from employees not
washing hands after leaving the bathroom.) Symtoms include: jaundice,
fatigue, vomiting, nausea & diarrhea & tends to last a few weeks.
B is contacted mostly through vaginal or anal sex. Partners using unpro-
tected sex practices should routinely be tested to determine whether or
not either partner has contacted Hep B.
Hep C is contacted through the above methods and from tattoos & body
piercings as well as blood transfusions. It leads to chronic liver problems
to 70-75% of those infected.
Final word? Use condoms. Never share razors or toothbrushes or any thing
that comes in contact with blood. If traveling, ask your doctor for a Hep A
vaccine.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Things a Guy Wants on a First Date
1) Enthusiasm 2) Observance 3) Communication 4) A simple pleasant gesture
of mild physical contact 5) Rescue us from embarrassment
(as listed in a leading woman's magazine.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

SEX-Rated Survey  (Warning: This is ADULT ORIENTED stuff!)
The following is a survey conducted to find out the "turn-ons" for men.
59% Prefer to fall asleep snuggling with a woman.
54% Think foreplay should last more than 15 min.
48% Prefer sex in dim lighting.
41% Like women to treat them "lovingly" in bed.
33% Like women to treat them "teasingly" in bed.
99% Like getting grabbed in the kitchen.
96% Enjoy their women masturbating them.
93% Like to watch you do yourself.
90% Like it when you send a romantic card.
89% Like when you grab their hand while walking down the street.
83% When you laugh together in bed.
81% When you watch adult oriented movies together.
73% When you talk together in bed.
13% When you're pregnant.
90% Tuned off by upper-lip hair.
84% By armpit hair.
83% By a pierced nose.
80% By leg hair.
80% When you talk about your ex-lover in bed.
71% By smoking cigars or cigarettes near him.
70% When you speak baby talk to him in public.
51% When you kiss him with morning breath.
40% When you bite your nails.
31% When you snore.

% of men who have tried:
Sex Toys-61%
Spanking-43%
Toe Sucking-38%
Bondage-36%
Whipping-9%
Golden Showers-9%
(Compiled from leading women's magazines.)
 
 

 Item: Statistical Promiscuity Analysis
   Survey from a leading young men's magazine states:
   1) Seventy % of women who smoke are likely to have had more than four
   lovers in the last year while 60% of female non-smokers had none.
   2) Women who respond to sex surveys in leading American women's
   magazines have 5 times as many lovers as typical women.
   3) The more educated the woman, the more turned on by the prospect of
   anonymous sexual encounters. Also she is more likely to enjoy the
   prospects of oral sex. Giving & receiving. Ditto with anal sex.
   4) Women who have positive attitudes toward sex are probably less
   achievement-oriented.
   5) White teenage girls are 60% more likely to have sex when raised in
   a single parent household.
   6) Women who lost their virginity by their 18th birthday are more likely
   to be sexually active then those who didn't.
   7) Women who have spent at least one night in jail are 50% more
   likely to have had ten lovers in the past year then those with no
   criminal record.
   8) Although latin women have sex at a much greater frequency than
   white or black women (about equal on the scale) although the
   black women are 50% more likely to experience orgasm upon every
   occasion.
   9) 20% of women who live with their boyfriends have more than one
   sex partner.
   10) Australian women are much more likely to have sex on the
   evening of the first date.

   Also: Location.
   1) In a car? M-73% W-68%
   2) The outdoors? M-66% W-65%
   3) On a waterbed? M-51% W-46%
   4) In parent's bed? M-45% W-35%
   5) In a public building? M-30% W-26%
   6) On-line? M-11% W-9%
   Jon Sin in any of these places? 0% Well, almost.
   I "did it" online 2x. But with the same person!!

   Also:
   1) 20% of college students are virgins.
   2) Average # of sex partners for the rest of them? Only 6.4.
   3) Only 1% saw they "do it" on the first date.
   4) 50% say they feel they should be in love with the person.
   5) Seven in 10 say they'll marry someday. Only 3% think
   marriage is an outmoded institution.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Accidental Love
Roberta Forrest
Pacific Coast Insurance
Portland, OR

Dear Ms. Forest,

I received the notice that you are canceling my car insurance because
of my recent string of collisions. The accidents were entirely due to my
inability to concentrate on driving brought on by falling in love with
someone who does not love me back [Or how about an insensitive lover
admitting her infidelity to you over the phone before you are about to
embark upon a trip? -Ed.] Until now my record was impeccable: I swerved
& anticipated, avoided the love wrecks, the pileups of infatuation, the
fender-benders of obsession. I cannot explain what happened but I
promise that it will not happen again- cause an accident, that is. They can
hit me all they want but I am not letting love interfere with my insurance.
The people I hit- the couple in the vintage Cadillac, all the nice people from
the pile-up on the interstate & the man in the totaled Toyota-- have all
heard my story and are sympathetic to my loss of vehicular concentration.
They are rooting for me Surely, Ms. Forrest, you can reinstate my policy if
I sign a love waiver-- if I pledge to never drive in love again.

Sincerely,
Ramsey McPhillips

from: LOVISM by
Ramsey McPhillips
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

What Jon Sin found while browsing through 4000 female personal ads on AOL...
When you break down the age groups, with minute exception, this is what you'll likely find:
18-23: Mostly attractive young things who are well versed in "ebonics," Catholic or "other
Christian," looking for "cute boys to party with."
24-30: Usually not unattractive women who are usually single yet have one, two or
three children, looking for "ambitious men," & non-practicing (religious faith.)
31-40: Women looking for a goodhearted man (or woman, often no interest in heterosexual
relations) who likes kids (hers are almost in high-school) and is agnostic or adamantly atheist.

Concludes:
When considering & analyzing the statistics, Jon & Billy decide that women are
pre-programmed (religion) & mis-guided (early relations with selfish "type-A"  men)
and corrupted (use of slang, slacker mentalities & "party" interests on the forefront--
with their nubile attractiveness their need for attention and social stimulation
fulfilled by engaging in social practices that at this age all to often lead to naive sexual
indoctrination & parenthood.
A man once said a woman borned handsome is a woman borned married. These day it
should read, "A woman borned handsome is a woman borned pregnant (or at least corrupted,
or both..)
By engaging in relations with young men children often follow leaving young women to
face parenthood on difficult terms and the harsh reality that not only did the
"alpha-male" who impregnated her move on to other prospects (leaving them too in the
same wake) but the chances of her finding a quality man willing to assist in the rearing of
another man'schild in a proper, healthy manner extremely slim!
Upon onset of middle age the woman is not as interested in child-rearing as getting a certain
degree of attention which may be fulfilled more by another woman. More than ever
women are seeking "bi-curious" interludes with  other women in part because the alpha-male
whom she initially had the relationship with was very capable of convincing her of bonding
with him but incapable of fulfilling her emotional (perhaps other) needs. She makes the
mistake of thinking that all men are similar to the personality profile of this alpha-male.

Solution:
Parents must more carefully assist in the selection of potential dating candidates. A stronger
communication and respect (as well as discipline) over the formulate years will create a bond
of trust in adolescence. Apathy in regards to allowing an adolescent to date indiscriminately or
believing a person in this age group can make mature decisions of this manner is unfortunately improper.
Usually it is not the female adolescent who is deciding upon dating prospects, it is the sly,
persuasive alpha-male who is convincing her to make these decisions.
Initially it is thought that just as young men are attracted to beautiful young women that
young women are attracted to rough & tumble, boisterous, socially aggressive males and it is noted
that if a young female is not initially attracted to the alpha-male that she will ultimately "give in."
The true solution is for young women to look toward the more passive male stock and initiate
relations with these. In our modern society it makes sense not to perpetuate the primitive elements in the
guise of the alpha-male.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Genius of Oscar Wilde
"Between me & life there are a mist of words always."
"If life be, as it is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life."
"Those whom the gods hate die old."
"Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to
be faithless & cannot."
"We never get back to our youth. The pulse of joy that beats in us
at twenty, becomes sluggish. Or limbs fail, our senses rot. We
degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the
passions of which we were much too afraid, and the exquisite
temptations that we had not the courage to yield to."
"To get back to one's youth one has merely to repeat one's
follies."
"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing it is always
from the noblest motives."
"America is the noisiest country that ever existed."
"All Americans lecture, I believe. I suppose it is something in their climate."
"For the American man Art has no marvel, beauty no meaning & the past
no message. He thinks that civilization began with the introduction of
steam and looks with contempt upon all centuries that had no hot water
apparatuses  in their houses."
"If the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they
are the most comfortably dressed."
"One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art."
"The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is to
to be absolutely over-educated."
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own self. Give him a mask & he will
reveal himself."
"It is through art & art only that we can realize our perfection. Through art
only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence."
"The secret of life is art."
"The meaning of any beautiful created thing is as much in the beholder as
in the one who wrought the thing."
"The aim of art is no more to give pleasure than to give pain. The aim of art
is art."
"There are works that wait, which one does not understand for a time. That
is because they bring answers to questions that have not been raised yet, for
the question sometimes arrives a terribly long time after the answer."
"Art is the one good thing that death cannot harm."
"No art is better than bad art."
"It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done."
"All art is quite useless."
"All art is immoral."
"There are two ways to dislike art. One is to dislike it outright, the other is to
like it rationally."
"Art should always remain mysterious. Artists, like Gods, must never leave
their pedestals."
"Alone, without any reference to his neighbors, without any interference
the artist can fashion a beautiful thing. And if he does not do it solely for
his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all."
"A true artist pays no attention to the public. To the true artist the public
are non-existent."
"The more the public is interested in artists, the less it is interested in art.
The personality of the artist is nothing the public should know anything
about."
"To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject
matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote
King Lear."
"Vice & virtue are to the artist material for an art."
"The young artist who paints nothing but beautiful things misses 1/2
the world."
"The only artists I know as personally delightful are bad artists. Good
artists exist only in what they make, and are consequently perfectly
uninteresting in what they are."
"The best service of God is to worship all that is beautiful."
"Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds fallow one another like
the withered leaves of autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all
seasons and a possession for all eternity."
"I have found that all things ugly are created by those who try to make
something beautiful & all beautiful things are made by those who wish to
make something useful."
"Aestheticism is the search after the signs of the beautiful. It is, to speak
more exactly, the search after the secret of life."
"The poor are wiser, more charitable, kinder & more sensitive than we
are."
"Those who have much are greedy. Those who have little, share."
"Common sense is the enemy of romance."
"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in
friendship is conversation."
"The things a person feels absolutely certain about are never true.
That is the fatality of faith, the lesson of romance."
"Men never die for what is true. They die for what they want to be true..
for what some terror in their heart tells them is not true."
"It is only because a man is unable to do something that he becomes a
proper judge of it."
"Prison life makes one see things as they really are. That is why it turns
one to stone. It is the people outside who are deceived to believe that
life is in constant motion."
"To those in prison, tears are a part of everyday experience. A day in
prison that one does not weep is a day in which one's heart is hard, not
a day when one is happy."
"The moment criticism excercises any influence it ceases to be
criticism. The aim of a true critic is to try and chronicle his own moods,
not to try to correct the masterpieces of others."
"It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper
judge of it."
"Everything is dangerous. If it were not so, life would not be worth living."
"Drama is the meeting place between art & life."
"She behaves as if she is beatiful. Most American women do. It is the
secret of their charm."
"Disobedience to anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue.
It is through disobedience that progress has been made. Through this &
rebellion."
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight & his
punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."
"My duty to myself is to amuse myself terrifically."
"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."
"Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters & barbarous
brawls as they call history, or the latitudes & longitudes of places nobody
cares to visit, as they call geography."
"The school should be the most beautiful pace in every town & village-
so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children be that they be
debarred from attending the following day."
 "It is only shallow people who take years to get rid of an emotion.
A man who the master of himself can end a sorrow as quickly as he can
invent a pleasure."
"England never appreciates a poet till he is dead."
"Be careful to choose your enemies well. Friends don't much matter
but the choice of enemies is very important."
"Every effect one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one
must be a mediocrity."
"Few parents today pay no regard to what their children say to them.
The old-fashioned respect for the young is quickly dying out."
"When in London one hides everything. When in Paris one reveals
everything."
"A map of the world that does not include Utopia isn't even worth
looking at, for it leaves out the one country which humanity is
always landing. And when humanity lands there, it looks out, and seeing
a more beautiful country, sets sail. Progress is the realization of
Utopias."
"To be entirely free & at the same time entirely dominated by law is
the eternal paradox of human life that we must realize at every moment."
"All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those whom exercise it &
those over whom it exercises."
"Whenever there is hatred between two people, born is a bond of
brotherhood of some kind."
"Where one laughs there is no immorality. Immorality & seriousness
 begin together."
"Laughter is the primeval attitude towards life- a mode of life that survives
only in artists & criminals."
"Life is never fair."
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist & that is all."
"One can exist for years without living at all, then all life comes crowding
into one single hour."
"There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Either is is well written
or badly written."
"The books that are called immoral books show the world it's own shame."
"All love is a tragedy."
"Misunderstanding.......is the basis of love."
"True love suffers, and is silent."
"Everyone is worthy of love except he who thinks he is."
"Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the
intellect...simply a confession of failure."
"Lust...makes one love all that one loathes."
"It is difficult not to be unjust to that which one loves.:
"One should always be in love. This is why one should never marry."
"How marriage ruins a man! It's demoralizing as cigarettes & far more
expensive."
"The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely
necessary for both parties."
"Men marry because the are tired..women because they are curious...
& are both disappointed."
"When women marry again it is because they detested their first
husbands..when men remarry it is because they adored their first wife...
women try their luck, men risk theirs."
"Men know life to early. Women know life too late. That is the difference
between men & women."
"The soul of a woman is beauty. The soul of a man is strength. If we could
combine the two, we would have a perfection sought by art since art began."
"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them they will
forgive eveything..even our intellects."
"Women always want men to be good. And if we are good when they meet us
they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad and to leave
us quite unattractively good."
"Talk to every woman as though you loved her and every man as though he
bored you. At the end of the first season you will gain a reputation of possessing
the most perfect social tact."
"When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except
continue to love her."
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
"Men always want to be a woman's first love. This is their clumsy vanity......
Women have a more subtle instinct about things. What they like is to be a
man's last romance."
"Between men & women there is no friendship possible- only passion, enmity,
worship, love..but no friendship."
"If you want to know what a woman really means- which is always a dangerous thing
to do- look at her, don't listen to her."
"No man has any real success in this world unless he has got women to back him, &
women rule society. If you have not got women on your side, you are quite over. You
might as well be a barrister, a stockholder or a journalist at once."
"It is always nice to be expected & not arrive."
"We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars."
"The man who possesses a permanent address, and whose name is found in the directory,
is necessarily limited and localized. Only a tramp has absolute liberty of living."
"Between the famous & infamous there is but one step, if so much as one."
"Misfortunes one can endure-they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for
one's own faults-ah!-there is the sting of life."
"One needs misfortunes to live happily."
"Suffering is a terrible fire. It either purifies or destroys."
"We live in the age of the over-worked & under-educated; an age which people are so
industrious that they become absolutely stupid."
"We live in an age that reads too much to be wise & thinks too much to be beautiful."
"To yield to one's moods is to really live."
"Manners are more important than morals."
"Music is the art...which most completely realizes the artistic idea, and is the condition
to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring."
"Music...creates for one a past that one has been ignorant & fills one with sorrows that
have been hidden from one's tears."
"Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it
makes may be lost."
"Of course I plagiarize. It is the privilege of the appreciative man."
"The tears that we shed at a play are a type of the exquisite emotions that it is the function
of Art to awaken. We weep, but are not wounded. We grieve, but our grief is not bitter."
"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
"Poetry should be like a crystal. It should make life more beautiful & less real."
"Bad poets: They live a poetry that they cannot write while others write the poetry that
 they cannot live."
"A poet can survive anything butt a misprint."
"I like persons better that principles, and I like persons with no principles better
than anything better than anything else in the world."
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything except that which is worth knowing."
"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
"Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas."
"I have never heard any man mention his brother. The subject seems distasteful to most men."
"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact none of us can stand other
people having the same faults as ourselves."
"When one is in love it begins by deceiving oneself & always ends by deceiving others.
That is what the world calls a romance."
"Women...spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever."
"Sin is the only real color-element left in modern life."
"Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured.
Sins of the soul alone are shameful."
"The only horrible thing in the world is ennui...That is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness."
"They do not sin at all who sin for love."
"The only difference between the saint & the sinner is that every saint has a past & every sinner has
a future."
"We are dominated by the fanatic, who's worst vice is his sincerity."
"Never speak disrespectfully of society. Only those who cannot get into it do that."
"To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people."
"London society is composed now entirely of beautiful idiots & brilliant lunatics. Just what Society
should be."
"Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself."
"There is something about success that is a little unscrupulous, something about ambition that
is unscrupulous always."
"There is something vulgar in all success. The greatest men fail-or seam to the world to have failed."
"Suicide is the greatest compliment one can pay to society."
"Sometimes I think the artistic life is a long and lovely suicide, and am not sorry that it is so."
"Humanitarian sympathy wars against Nature, by securing the survival of the failure."
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist is, and your soul grows sick with
longing for the things it has forbidden to itself."
"To die for ones theological beliefs is the worst use a man can make of his life."
"In matters of religion, the truth is simply the opinion that has survived."
"When I think of all the harm that book [The Bible] has done I despair ever writing anything equal to it."
"The Catholic Church is for saints & sinners alone. For respectable people the Anglican Church will do."
"Missionaries are the divinely provided food for destitute and underfed cannibals. Whenever they are on the
brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary."
"It is easy to convert others. It is so difficult to convert oneself."
"He who would live a Christ like life is he who is perfectly and absolutely himself."
"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
"What one really wants is not to be praised or blamed but to be understood."
"Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure."
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
"It would be unfair to expect others to be as remarkable as oneself."
"Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways in which
man may reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt."
"One could never pay to high a price for any sensation."
"To have a capacity for a passion & not to realize it is to make oneself incomplete & limited."
"I have the greatest contempt for optimism."
"Whenever one has something unpleasant to say, one should be quite candid."
"Create yourself. Be yourself your poem."
"One can always be kind to those to whom one cares nothing. This is why English family life is so pleasant."
"Man can believe the impossible but can never believe the improbable."
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
"The only thing worse than being talked about...is not being talked about."
"The two tragedies of life. Never having what one desires...the other-- having it."
"I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue."
"It is the sign of a noble nature to refuse to be broken by force. Never attempt to reform a man.
Men never repent."
"It is absurd to divide people into good & bad. People are either charming or tedious."
"To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. To be in discord is to be forced into harmony with others."
"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others."
"One is punished for the good as well as the evil that one does."
"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar,
it will cease to to be popular."
"What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth."
"We forget that the true perfection of man lies in what he is, not what he has."
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
"Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. Work of that nature should be done by machines."
"Hard work is the refuge of those who have nothing better to do."
"Idleness gives one the mood in which to write, isolation the conditions."
"Romantic surroundings are the worst surroundings possible for the romantic writer."
"[Of the modern novelist] If they do not go into society their books are unreadable; and if they do go into the
city, they have not time left to write."
"If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As far as the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist.
It is far too easy."
"I don't write to please cliques. I write to please myself."
"I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write.
Life cannot be written, life can only be lived."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 "Mention the word poetry in America & you'll get
a gun stuck in your ass. Whereas guys who work
in the street in Paris collecting garbage love 19th
century painting."
Jim Jarmusch Cineaste (June 1996)

"There is a strange relationship between the
system of a country & its people. In England,
the people are hostile to a man but the system
is compassionate. The very old, the very young,
and the ill-equiped-to-live will always be looked
after. In America everyone is almost doggie-like
friendly but once you've pronounced yourself
unproductive to the system, you've had it."
Quentin Crisp Resident Alien (1996)