Today's Topics:
LOOMPANICS Fall Supplement...
free the fetuses
Kalaam-e-Ghalib
RELIGIOUS CULTS --CONTEMPORARY CULTS: FORMS, CAUSES,
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 89 10:17:41 -0400
From: Jim Hofmann 5577 <hofmann@itd.nrl.navy.mil>
Message-Id: <8908071417.AA03354@css.itd.nrl.navy.mil>
Subject: LOOMPANICS Fall Supplement...
just out! Interesting books include a reprint of Nietzsche's "The
Anti-Christ" (translated and introduced by H.L.Mencken), "The Fringes
of Reason" (the Whole Earth catalog book that Doug Smith was originally
going to write and ended up publishing "High Wierdness" instead), "Elements
of Refusal" by John Zerzan - Bob Black readers take note and of course
the regular titilation-level Loompanics selection ("21 Techniques of
Silent Killing", "Pick Guns", a guide to MDMA (VoL take note!) among
other stuff.
Send a buck or two to Loompanics Unlimited, POBox 1197, Port Townsend, WA,
98368, USAA.
!!nemA, Brethern, namA!!
Bish. H.B., CotPT
(*yo to CotOSJ in Chinco*
*yo to EdDweebs of RA*
*yo to !jsl of SF*)
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 89 17:07 EDT
From: Michael Travers <mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
Subject: free the fetuses
Message-Id: <19890807210705.1.MT@OUROBOROS.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
From: Mark Hinkle
Subject: Missouri sued for jailing unborn child
Date: 5 Aug 89 12:22:12
The San Jose Mercury News carried the following (AP) story on Saturday,August
5, 1989 on page 21A:
Jefferson City, Mo.
A lawyer has filed suit contending that the state is illegally imprisoning a
female inmate's fetus, citing Missouri's anit-abortion law that says life
begins at conception.
"If life begins at conception, then fetuses are supposed to be like anyone
else - they're a person and they have constitutional rights." Michael Box said
Thursday in a telephone interview from Oak Grove.
Along with declaring that life begins at conception, the preamble to
Missouri's anti-abortion law - key portions of which were upheld last month by
the U.S. Supreme Court - extends to the unborn "all the rights, privileges and
immunities available to other persons."
Box filed suit earlier this week in federal court in Jefferson City on
befalf of Lovetta Farrar's unborn child.
The suit on behalf of the fetus contends that it has been imprisoned at the
Chillicothe Correctional Center without having been charged with a crime,
allowed an attorney, convicted or sentenced.
It is also being denied adequate diet and medical care because of
condidtions at the prison, the suit charges.
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 89 17:22:36 CDT
From: Steve Guccione <guccione@src.honeywell.com>
Message-Id: <8908072222.AA12023@voltron.src.honeywell.com>
Subject: Kalaam-e-Ghalib
If you're not into ghazals/Urdu/Ghalib then please hit the 'n' key now.
Recently on the soc.culture.indian newsgroup there were some postings
in Urdu. In particular, a gazal by Mirza Ghalib caught my eye. I
figured I'd try my hand at translating Urdu. Although I've never
taken a course in the language, here is my attempt (be kind, this is
my first attempt at Urdu!):
GHAZAL
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Zikr us parivash ka, aur phir bayaan apna
Ban gaya raqib aakhhir, tha jo raazdaan apna
[Sicker are our Pharisees, and furry the apex of our Banyan]
[Ban accurate raquets of earth, that your razzle-dazzle may reach]
[its apex]
Mai woh, kyun, bahut peetey, bazm-e-ghhair main, ya rab
Aaj hi hua manzoor, unko imtihaan apna?
[My word, you, but really, did you bash your main gutter, you rabbit]
[And how is your manzoor, in the hand of uncle's apex]
Manzar ik balandi par, aur ham bana saktey
Arsh sey udhar hota, kaash key makaan apna
[My manhood is bald, like a ham and a banana in a satchel]
[My ass says it is utterly hot, any my cash key is making its apex]
Dey woh jis qadar zillat, ham hansi main talengey
Baarey aashna nikla, unka paasbaan, apna
[The one is a quarter of a zillion, my ham has a main talent]
[Nicklaus the Bear, a passerby, (reached the) apex]
Dard-e-dil likhoon kab tak, jaaoon unko dikhla doon
Ungliyaan figar apni, khhaama khhoon-chakaan apna
[Dandelions like a taxicab, join a different colored dune]
[The ugly fig-apple, (comma) cannot check the apex]
Ghistey-ghistey mit jaata, aapney abas badla
Zang-e-sijda sey merey, sang-e-astaan apna
[Gahstly-ghastly my janitor, the apex is still bald]
[Zang E. Sijda says mercy, and sang standing on the apex]
Ta karey na ghhamaazi, kar liya hai dushman ko
Dost ki shikaayat main, hamney hamzubaan apna
[I carried a gizmo, because I like to have bushmen too]
[Does the main key shake alot, like the apex of the little ham]
[banning ham suits]
Ham kahaan key daana they? Kis hunar main yaktaa they?
Be-sabab hua, Ghalib, dushman aasmaan apna
[Does the ham hand the key to dinner to them? Do they hunt the main
doctor?]
[Be sad, you, Ghalib, the bushmen assume the apex]
-- Steve
-- 8/7/89
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1989 20:46-EDT
From: encyclopaedic forwarder <toad@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: RELIGIOUS CULTS --CONTEMPORARY CULTS: FORMS, CAUSES,
Message-Id: <618540410/toad@NL.CS.CMU.EDU>
ARTICLE 0245045-0
TITLE religious cults --Contemporary Cults: Forms, Causes, and Implication
ARTICLE There is little doubt that the last 15 years or so has witnessed a
historically unprecedented explosion of cults in the United States.
Although only a tiny minority of the population is active in any
kind of cult, it should be remembered that social movements that
result in massive social change generally begin as cults made up of
a handful of unknown zealots. Modern cults come in a bewildering
variety of ideologies, practices, and forms of leadership. They
range from those adhering to a sort of biblical Christianity to
those seeking satori (sudden enlightenment) via the pursuits of Zen
Buddhism. Some cults have a flexible, functional leadership, such as
many groups in the CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT emanating from the mainline
Christian religions, and others have mentors who control and
orchestrate cult events, such as the Reverend Sun Myung MOON, leader
of the Unification church. Regardless of their ideological and
ritual differences, however, the common denominator of all the
modern cults is an emphasis on community and on direct experience of
the divine. In a cult, participants often find a level of social
support and acceptance that rivals that found in a nuclear family.
Cult activity, which is often esoteric and defined as direct contact
with the divine, generates a sense of belonging to something
profound and of being a somebody. The modern cult may be viewed as a
cultural island that gives adherents an identity and a sense of
meaning in a world that has somehow failed to provide them these
things. Several factors have been suggested as contributing to the
quests of modern youths for meaning and identity via cults. Each of
these factors relates to a disenchantment with, or loss of meaning
of, traditional ways of viewing reality. A list of these
contributing elements would include the following: the turmoil of
the 1960s, including the unpopular Vietnam War, the assassinations
of several popular national leaders, and growing evidence of
top-level political incompetence and corruption; continued
widespread drug use among youths, which tends to disrupt family
relations and fosters the formation of drug subcultures stressing
esoteric experience; the rapid expansion of technological
innovations such as computers, and social organizations, such as
bureaucracies, that tend to erode the individual's sense of being in
control of his or her own destiny; the apparent failure of
traditional religions to solve problems of war, hunger, and
alienation; the growth of humanistic education that tends to
discredit traditional ways of believing and behaving; the threat of
ecological and nuclear disaster; and finally, affluence, which
provides the means to pursue alternative life-styles. Cults are
challenges to conventional society. As such, they engender intense
questions concerning their possible impact. The modern cults have
clearly raised anew the legal issue of how far a society is willing
to go to guarantee religious freedom. Some of the cults have been
accused of brainwashing members and thereby violating the 1st
Amendment to the Constitution. Court cases involving young people
who were forcefully removed from cults by parents are still being
decided. Future court decisions could significantly modify
traditional protection of religious diversity in the United States.
Some cults, HARE KRISHNA being one, have established a legal defense
and public education organization to fight for their rights to exist
and practice what they believe. Other impacts are less clear. This
wave of cults could crumble into the dust of history as so many
others have. Conversely, this age could also be one of those
historical junctures that produces an enduring change in theories of
human nature and in the structure of social organizations. If so,
the new cults provide some idea of the nature of that change. Almost
all of them represent an emotional and personal approach to
religious experience; they emphasize continued adaptation in a
changing world; they stress the attainment of individual power and
excellence via the pursuit of cult practices; and they often stress
the necessity of harmony between humankind and other aspects of
nature. As such, contemporary cults reinforce many traditional
American values, such as independence, achievement, self-mastery,
and conservation or ecology, that have lost ground in the face of
affluence and self-seeking. Just as the Protestant Ethic supported
early capitalism, the general ethic of the cults may be the
stabilizing element in future society. If so, cult members may well
be the leaders of that new age. Clearly, however, an historical
verdict must be awaited. RICHARD J. BORD
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