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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (51062)8/13/1999 9:25:00 AM
From: Father Terrence  Respond to of 108807
 
I'm not laughing...



To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (51062)8/13/1999 11:31:00 AM
From: Father Terrence  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 108807
 
.....the analogy between telecommunications and talking to the dead - ride the snake - the snake is long - it eats its tail - O ye conqueror and your sons - abiding in the ten directions - O ye ocean like congregation - the peaceful and the wrathful - when, through illusion - I and others are wandering - when, through violent anger - when, through intense stupidity - out of your great love - lead us along the path - this thing that has a code and not a core - currency held in DNA - television the drug of the nation - breeding ignorance and bleeding radiation - don't believe the hype its a sequel - its all about money in the land of milk and honey - the age demanded an image of its accelerated grimace - not the obscure reveries of an inward gaze - when the uncertain experiencing of reality is dawning upon me - with every thought of fear or awe of apparitions set aside - may I recognise these visions as the reflections of my own consciousness - may I not fear those peaceful and wrathful deities - mine own thought forms - I have sung women in three cities - but it is all one - I will sing of the sun - lips, words and you snare them - dreams, words and they are as jewels - strange spells of old deity - ravens, nights, allurement - and they are not - having become the souls of song - O glass subtly evil! - O confusion of colours! - O light bound and bent in! - O soul of the captive! - Why am I warned? Why am I sent away? - Why is your glitter full of curious mistrust? - O glass subtle and cunning! - O powdery gold! - rest me, for I think the glass is evil - the wind moves above the wheat - with a silver crashing - a thin war of metal - I have known the golden disc - I have seen it melting above me - I have known the stone bright place - the hall of clear colours - and yes the sea was always there - I wandered lonely as a cloud and fed her waters as I wept - I have sung women in three cities but it is all one - I will sing of the white birds in the blue waters of heaven - the clouds that are spray to its sea - is it true that on summer days the sky is a fleeting blue with little white clouds pasted over it as a decoration - all in the shape of hearts - and isn't there a thronged panopticon with nothing but trees in it - on which little placards have been hung - bearing the names of the most famous heroes, criminals and lovers - such obviously lying news - more and more images in less space - and the white man dancing - le paradis n'est pas artificiel - l'infer non plus - the crystal can be weighed in the hand - passing within the sphere - the body that you have now - is the thought body of propensities - it is not a material body of flesh and blood - whatever may come, sounds, lights or rays - cannot harm you - from the midst of that radiance - the natural sound of reality - in one continuous stream of vibrations - reverberating like a thousand thunders - that is the natural sound of your real self - it is enough to know apparitions to be your own thought forms - you cannot die - death to videodrome - long live the new flesh - in the end nothing matters but the quality of the affection - that has carved the trace in the mind - getting lost in that hopeless little screen.....



To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (51062)8/13/1999 12:46:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 108807
 
So may we understand that you and Terrence, being true to your principles, will refuse absolutely for now and until your death to accept any benefits of any kind whatsoever from Social Security, SS Disability, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, workmens' compensation insurance, or any other government benefit programs? Are you prepared to put your money where your mouth is? Or will you continue to rail against these programs while at the same time accepting their benefits?