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