XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X >>>>>>>>>>> XX X NEWS FLASH XX X >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>XX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Vol. 1, Issue 4. 4/5/96. Weekly Current Events and Verse. Submissions of poetry or short short stories welcome. Send to 103763.351@compuserve.com or mswilson@usa.pipeline.com. Reproduce freely but please do not mangle. ################################################################### TIME Time passes swiftly, yet flows like molasses. It is always there, yet we never see it. It governs our lives, yet we can rule it. But in the end, it conquers us all. We can segment it, utilize it to the highest efficiency possible. 15 minutes a day to flat abs, 1 hour a day to a self-made masterpiece. And so it flows on faster than ever, then another 3 years disappears. And we say 'damn! where did it go?' Maybe the whole cosmos is like a giant information-processing works, and we are just individual pieces of clockwork running our course, carrying out a purpose we cannot even understand, as we bump our way along time corridors. All of our pains, sensations, feelings, thoughts, loves are energy being converted or re-converted and fed into the whole. So if someone hurts you or I, or slights or cheats us, it really doesn't matter. We are all governed by the same master; we are all going to the same place in the end. UNABOMBER CAUGHT? The FBI thinks that they have caught the Unabomber. This guy had literally a bomb-making factory in his small cabin, and a ability to make them. He lived a primitive, lo-tech lifestyle according to the news, and about the only tech he used was to build bombs. NO running water or electricity. It's telling that his brother had to turn him in... So - a victory for our high-tech society? A example of someone who did not like the intrusion of machines into his life failing utterly? Maybe. But also a sobering reminder; as we go more and more techno-robotic in our society, there may be some who have trouble with the adjustment, and some who never adjust to it. It is tragic that this one had to cause death and suffering in so many other lives (if he is the unabomber), and good that he is caught (we hope). Perhaps also, it is a reminder that we are at heart animals from the forest, still adjusting to our own tools. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONZ Yesterday, I found you. Today, I understand a part of myself. Tomorrow, We will explore together. ___________________________________ Our different abilities, Backgrounds and personalities are complements to the balance of our relationship - From opposites we learn To expand our knowledge, Understanding, and interests. I am comfortable with our differences Because I care to understand. Loving you does that... Loving myself does that. - Mother }}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} The Uncreated 'They' My ex-psychotherapist says that 'they' no longer exist(s). It seems the third person plural has been dropped or banished from our language. The last time I saw her, she wanted to know what was on my mind. I said: "The world is in bad shape. People are acting strange. They seem to be quite confused." She answered: "'They'? Who's 'they'? Who are you talking about? There's no 'they' here. Are 'they' under the table, are 'they' under the chair?" she said sarcastically, glancing there. "No, of course not. You're way behind the times. No one says 'they' anymore, must be a throwback to the sixties. We're all mature adults now who take personal responsibility and say 'I'. I would suggest that only one person is acting strange and confused, and that is you, and that 'they' are a figment of your imagin- ation. When you are here, you will take the habit of saying 'I'. 'I' left. - Martin C. Barry - +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WHY MUST YOU MAKE ME SO PARANOID, MY DARLING... I heard that last whispered remark under your breath.. Did you think that I could not hear your sneaky asides? I know you want to ruin me, to utterly flatten any hope I have. Sorry sweetie, suicide comes tougher than that, And I will NEVER give YOU that satisfaction! Laugh if you want, snigger, giggle, smirk away... It is all wasted energy for you. When I come for you in the middle of the night, my knives sharpened, my 9MM fully loaded... Your blood will splash like a springtime stream, It's delicious tang in the air and on my lips Then, in the echoes of your dying screams, you will know my wrath. Hell will seem like a gentle reprieve to you. Then I will turn the gun on myself, join you there, ...And kill you again, and again, and again... - 20th Century Schizoid Man ******************************************************* Drop by drop fills the tub. - French Proverb He who prizes little things is worthy of great ones. - German Proverb There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us. - Robert Louis Stevenson *********************************************************** Some Web Sites To Check Out. www.boardwatch.com www.bitstream.net/voxday fido.dogz.com/dogz www.anarchynet.com/dread/dread00.html accuwx.com www.halycon.com/cirsium/rosegal/welcome.htm www.eren.doe.gov www.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest www.netins.net/showcase zynet.com/~grotesk www.dramex.org ################################################################## end of issue 4 - 4/5/96