From: "Rev. Magdalen" <magdalen@home.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2001 12:37 PM
Message-ID: <gXoq7.28044$707.15372744@news2.rdc2.tx.home.com>
I've just had a bad dream detailing what it would be
like to be hit with a
bioweapon epidemic.
First, only a few will get sick. Soon, every illness
reported will cause
police and ambulances to swiftly and silently move in
and remove the sick
person. Then someone will overhear the EMTs whispering
among themselves,
and the word will be shouted on the street -- "EPIDEMIC!"
Those who are well will not touch those who are sick.
Some will not be able
to resist touching those they love, and they will become
sick too. The sick
will hold one another, even strangers, and the fever
will make them
cheerful. As they wait for the end, they will talk
about love. They will
dream about peace.
As they flee, the rich will open their houses to the
poor. Medicine will be
free and compulsory. Eventually the doctors will find
medicine that will
stop it, and even some of the sick will live, though
some will be no more
than vegetables.
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Subject: Re: Bad Dream -- Epidemic!
From: "Rev Jerry" <jthreet@team-vci.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
man...I dreamed that I was doing the nasty with Fannie
Flagg on the set of
Match Game...with Gene Rayburn calling a play by play
and Charles Nelson
Riley complaining about his hair....
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Subject: Re: Bad Dream -- Epidemic!
From: iDRMRSR <alex.i.thymia@depression.org>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2001 12:58 PM
Message-ID: <087BCEA484CDF8D7.4462D9912B8D97CC.801C68A5CFA6B958@lp.airnews.net>
>>Epidemic
I suppose this is the only forum where I can bring up
such a delicate
topic. But, don't you think after all the smoke in
Manhattan, there's
going to be quite a series of respiratory problems?
Second thing I wonder is, with 5000 corpses in all that
rainy debris,
assuming they weren't all atomized, doesn't that start
to give off a
terrible pstench like soon? I imagine that urine won't
be the default
NYC smell pretty soon. Wonder what disease vectors
all that carrion
will support?
The biohazard may be released already, who knows. The
really devilish
part of all this is that they used OUR devices to blow
up OUR buildings
and paralyze OUR society with implements of daily life
commonly
available. And now the fragile society is showing signs
of breaking
down.
Just look at the stock market fall. All your money
is based upon one
person promising someone else that it's worth something.
Nothing to
back it all up. The cash flow of the airlines was such
that a few days
shut down spelled bankruptcy.
They needed our asses in those planes, sucking down
$1 a bottle water
and $5 beers. We've all been robbed. Not of anything
of real value.
But of the perceived Pink dream that our careers and
investments were
worth something, and that we'd never have to engage
in a fight with
anybody for a morsel of food.
All that based on a wink and a nod to the next guy.
And now, the next
guy is not winking or nodding. And neither are you.
[*]
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Subject: Re: Bad Dream -- Epidemic!
From: "Rev. Magdalen" <magdalen@home.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2001 1:35 PM
Message-ID: <tNpq7.28236$707.15422825@news2.rdc2.tx.home.com>
"RLan538885" <rlan538885@aol.comnobozos>
wrote in message
news:20010920124530.17721.00001067@mb-fd.aol.com...
> I know, you're a budding childrens' author, aren't
you?
>
Go fuck yourself, twit. I didn't talk about the pain
and the stench and the
horror because I know you people are very familiar with
such things. But I
had to LIVE through it, and at the time I had no way
to know it was just a
dream, so ha fucking ha, you're little joke isn't very
fucking funny.
>
> "100,000 lemmings can't be wrong"
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Subject: Re: Bad Dream -- Epidemic!
From: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2001 1:58 PM
Message-ID: <3baa2dd8.1443558@News.CIS.DFN.DE>
iDRMRSR <alex.i.thymia@depression.org> hunched
over a computer, typing
feverishly;
thunder crashed, iDRMRSR <alex.i.thymia@depression.org>
laughed madly,
then wrote:
>
>All that based on a wink and a nod to the next guy.
And now, the next
>guy is not winking or nodding. And neither are
you.
Very true ... but when you take away the winking and
nodding, what
remains are the means of production and distribution,
which are as
they always were.
Our means of -regulating- economic value, based on the
stock market
and heavily dependant on the concept of interest, is
nuts. I hope it
does collapse. It's stupid.
But the real underlying value is a simple thing. And
not really
affected substantially by this.
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com
"Christianity is a rebellion of everything that
crawls on the ground
against that which has height: The evangel of the 'lowly'
makes low."
- Nietzsche
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Subject: Re: Bad Dream -- Epidemic!
From: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)
>
>As they flee, the rich will open their houses to
the poor. Medicine will be
>free and compulsory. Eventually the doctors will
find medicine that will
>stop it, and even some of the sick will live, though
some will be no more
>than vegetables.
The FIENDS!
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com
"The difference between Heaven and Hell is which
end of the pitchfork
you're on!"
-- Popess Lilith von Fraumench
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Subject: Re: Bad Dream -- Epidemic!
From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Reply-To: like.excess@sex.org
Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2001 2:51 PM
Message-ID: <3BAA3A56.18AE@succeeds.com>
Rev. Magdalen wrote:
>
> Those who are well will not touch those who are
sick.
> Some will not be able to resist touching those
they love,
> and they will become sick too. The sick will hold
one
> another, even strangers, and the fever will make
them
> cheerful. As they wait for the end, they will
talk about
> love. They will dream about peace.
>
I think there is a strange lesson in this dream, which
I call
the "retention of the self." A difficult
concept.
You see the blending of traumatic external events with
your
own inner emotional environment. Only with the aid
of these
extreme events do you see how you filter reality in
the
ordinary world with the feelings and ideas you have
in your
internal world.
To explain how this would be different, I would never
have
dreamt this last part:
> As they flee, the rich will open their houses to
the poor.
> Medicine will be free and compulsory. Eventually
the
> doctors will find medicine that will stop it, and
even some
> of the sick will live, though some will be no more
than
> vegetables.
My ending would be very different, based on my personality
and
outlook on life. Seeing the identical events, I would
place
very different interpretations on them, almost unavoidably.
I would pay attention to different events, things and
people;
see things as a physician might, or perhaps a child,
or with
the giddyness of a fever-addled mind.
Perhaps I would be intimately concerned, perhaps indifferent.
Each and every different perspective giving another
facet of
the "diamond of perception"--each face giving
a fraction of
the picture, combined giving them a glittering, hypnotic
whole.
And yet, though you may not be aware of it, the whole
is the
real you. The self is retained yet another eye is opened.
The dream then fades and you return to the use of your
ordinary eyes. But you retain the new perspective.
--
"Nature abhors a peasant. You will soon see
a violent demonstration of this fact."
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Subject: Re: Bad Dream -- Epidemic!
From: "Rev. Magdalen" <magdalen@home.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2001 3:01 PM
Message-ID: <%1rq7.28395$707.15489610@news2.rdc2.tx.home.com>
"nu-monet" <nothing@succeeds.com> wrote
in message
>
> The dream then fades and you return to the use
of your
> ordinary eyes. But you retain the new perspective.
>
I only knew about the last part in the dream because
I woke up inside a rich
person's empty house. It was very large and panelled
in rich dark wood,
silk draperies, antique furniture. It smelled like
sweat. A month had gone
by, and somehow I had survived. My husband was there
and he gave me a red
pill from a grey plastic case with no label on it.
There were many other
beds in the house -- the rich person had just fled away,
left the house
doors open, and I guess some authority had made all
the sick people leave
their homes to go to this one quarter of the city, because
we could not go
home. My son was there and my husband was giving him
the pills too, but he
just stared out with empty eyes. But I did not mind
that, because when we
first got sick I held my neighbor while he cried because
his son was dead,
and I had expected then that I would lose mine too,
so I was just so
thankful that he was still alive even if he would never
talk again.
> --
> "Nature abhors a peasant. You will soon see
> a violent demonstration of this fact."
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Subject: Re: Bad Dream -- Epidemic!
From: "Ellis Dee" <fxtrt22@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2001 4:07 PM
Message-ID: <e0sq7.1634$W83.152773@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
"Rev. Magdalen" <magdalen@home.com> wrote in message
> I didn't talk about the pain and the stench and
the
> horror because I know you people are very familiar
with such things. But
I
> had to LIVE through it
What do you know about pain, stench and horror?
Are you from New Jersey?
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Subject: Re: Bad Dream -- Epidemic!
From: rlan538885@aol.comnobozos (RLan538885)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2001 4:20 PM
Message-ID: <20010920162024.17721.00001077@mb-fd.aol.com>
>Go fuck yourself, twit.
Can't. I haven't rested up from my little tryst with your momma yet.
"100,000 lemmings can't be wrong"
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Subject: Re: Bad Dream -- Epidemic!
From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Reply-To: like.excess@sex.org
Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2001 5:43 PM
Message-ID: <3BAA631C.1953@succeeds.com>
Rev. Magdalen wrote:
>
Well, in a practical sense, I suppose having lived
through a virtual plague means that you won't make
the same mistakes twice. I assume you've read Camus'
"The Plague"?
It would be good to think of the probabilities
involved: your actions or inactions increasing or
decreasing your risk of infection and mortality.
1) Avoid public events. Cultivate anti-social behavior.
2) Avoid the sick, dying, and dead and those who deal
with them. Even if they are family. Love can kill.
3) Leave populated areas before quarantines go into
effect. NB: quarantines always arrive too late to
do
any good, but they can be as deadly as the disease.
4) Just because one plague is over doesn't mean another
isn't about. Weakened immune systems and dead bodies
breed awful new sicknesses.
5) Some pets are good, some are not, for many reasons.
Keep the good ones (they might be lifesavers) and get
rid of the bad ones (they might be inadvertant killers).
The type of pet depends on the disease.
6) Become a news junkie. Learn from the news, but
never
trust the news.
7) The vast majority of contamination happens to the
feet. The second great repository are the hands. All
must learn how and wash their hands like surgeons.
Shoes
must be able to stand soaking in bleach water.
--
"Nature abhors a peasant. You will soon see
a violent demonstration of this fact."
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Subject: Re: Bad Dream -- Epidemic!
From: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)
With a few minor changes, this could be 'How to be a Subgenius'.
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com
"Your diplomacy is higher than mine!"
"He was being diplomatic and not saying so."
-- Big Gay Gaming Group
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Subject: Re: Bad Dream -- Epidemic!
From: friday@fridayjones.com (Friday Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Note to self: before abandoning house, install lethal
mechanical ambush
device at front door.
--
"Bunch together a group of people deliberately
chosen for strong
religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee
of dark
morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity."
--HP Lovecraft, letter to Robert E. Howard 10/4/30
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Subject: Re: Bad Dream -- Epidemic!
From: "Evangela" <evangela2000@mediaone.net>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Reply-To: "Evangela" <evangela@subgenius.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2001 10:00 PM
Message-ID: <Daxq7.1391$xG6.574182@typhoon.ne.mediaone.net>
My Bad Dream of Two Hours Ago
Some sort of Subgenius gathering in my backyard and
home
the home where I grew up
Parents not home, not informed they were coming myself
either,
the usual group was there, plus some new faces with
very unique outfits and
problems,
a very loud woman in shiny spandex yelling that we should
wrestle in food or
something, I recall very vaguely,
I remember thinking: is this Zeeza?
Then people are pasting something on the walls, some
sort of decoration or
prize, looked more like clear peaches,
Then the worst part of all, my Gramma shows up and is
seated in a circle of
subgs on the lawn without me being able to stop it.
Legume tells her about how we need more hate, Jesus
tells her he's Jesus,
Stang and Wei just agree and have those twinkling crazy
eyes, I show up but
it's too late, she's pissed and confused and arguing.
I try to help but then I wake up.
-Ev
"Rev. Magdalen" <magdalen@home.com>
wrote in message
news:gXoq7.28044$707.15372744@news2.rdc2.tx.home.com...
> I've just had a bad dream detailing what it would
be like to be hit with a
> bioweapon epidemic.
>
> First, only a few will get sick. Soon, every illness
reported will cause
> police and ambulances to swiftly and silently move
in and remove the sick
> person. Then someone will overhear the EMTs whispering
among themselves,
> and the word will be shouted on the street -- "EPIDEMIC!"
>
> Those who are well will not touch those who are
sick. Some will not be
able
> to resist touching those they love, and they will
become sick too. The
sick
> will hold one another, even strangers, and the
fever will make them
> cheerful. As they wait for the end, they will
talk about love. They will
> dream about peace.
>
> As they flee, the rich will open their houses to
the poor. Medicine will
be
> free and compulsory. Eventually the doctors will
find medicine that will
> stop it, and even some of the sick will live, though
some will be no more
> than vegetables.
>
>
>
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Subject: Re: Bad Dream -- Epidemic!
From: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2001 10:25 PM
Message-ID: <3baaa4d9.31912964@News.CIS.DFN.DE>
"Evangela" <evangela2000@mediaone.net>
hunched over a computer, typing
feverishly;
thunder crashed, "Evangela" <evangela2000@mediaone.net>
laughed madly,
then wrote:
>My Bad Dream of Two Hours Ago
rotfl
Uhm I mean sorry and all that but
rotfl
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com
"When you were establishing your personal relationship
with God didn't
He tell you that CLUELESS PEOPLE MAKE BABY JESUS CRY?"
-- Steve Sullivan
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