> your posts on the NG generating great interest...especially SART....
>
> where do you see Iran heading?
> Will Ahmadinejad be removed forcibly from power ?
> Or will Pakistan Implode... first? with a spill over into Iran...?
Funny that you should mention Iran- I have some unfinished
poetry about Iran that I was starting to write. I got distracted,
but I have to get back to it.
To answer that on one level - just reading from various
sources, like anyone else:
I realize that you can't get reliable information just from
the mainstream media, so you have to keep your ears open and
have some slightly more obscure sources. There is a newletter
from a Texas-based fellow who seems reasonably on the
ball, who says that the Bush administration is making
serious preparations to invade Iran.
That would be crazy of course, but then again, the
Bush administration *is* rather crazy, so who knows
if they would. Just because it is completely unrealistic
and could completely sink the country doesn't mean that
they would not necessarily be deluded enough to do it.
To answer on another level, as poet- I was preparing
my own "attack" of sorts on Iran, for completely different reasons.
I am outraged how gays are put to death there, and
outraged how the West doesn't care - e.g., even Netherlands
and UK denying asylum to a gay Iranian who might face
death if forced to return.
Remote viewing seems to me rather passe -
remote *doing* is the really interesting thing.
I thought that I thought of that all by myself, but by Googling,
I have found references to it- "remote influence". I say that
is what I am really doing in poem- like "staring at goats",
in the book by Ron Johnston. The author of that book,
"Staring at Goats" seems to think that it was all an
exercise in silliness, but even the author was probably unaware
of why the government was studying such phenomena.
What ever gave the miliary or CIA such ideas, in
the first place? That question did not seem to occur
to the author, but I think that they had some good
reasons to become interested in such seemingly
strange things.
Reality is even stranger than quantum theory or relativity.
Anyone who I imagines that I might have any
connection with Muslim terrorists is way off base-
not only would Muslims and I not get along,
because I am gay, but also for another reason.
I am also a one-eyed man. In the religion of Islam,
their version of the "anti-Christ" is one-eyed. They make
a very big deal about it, how God is not one-eyed,
blah, blah.
I am not a hunch-back, but when my partner tries
uselessly to get me to straighten up, I have sometimes
defended myself by saying that I think that I have
a mild curvature of the spine, and not just bad habit
of posture. I didn't know at the time that this is also
a very big deal to Muslims. For them, that combination
of "one-eyed" and "curved spine" is deadly.
Their "anti-Christ", "Dajjal" also is supposed to be
fond of music and travel around the world, if I recall
correctly, which is also very true for me.
I don't think that I am devilish, just alienated, but
if they can have their religion, I have have my own
personal superstitions. I think that eventually I can
demonstrate the basis of their religious superstitions.
I say, however, that their religion is not validated by
that fact - they are still viewing things through a
distorted prism of superstition, even if they do have
a few genuine glimpses of the future.
After all, how bad should I feel to be on aligned
with the "anti-Christ" of a religion that has treated
so many, so hatefully? Not just gays, but relations
with women, with non-Muslims, with Jews.
It is shame, really about the Muslims. There is nothing
wrong with their genes. If they were not poisoned by
religious superstition, we could all get along, one
would hope.
The only time that I have been in a Muslim home
was with a tour guide in India, but he seemed like
a very nice fellow, with a nice family. It is shame,
the divisions that pit us against each other.
But what am I to do, with a religion and a country
that has mistreated gays, imprisoned and killed
them for thousands of years?
The President of Iran? I was getting ready to write
a letter to a Harvard professor who was complaining
in a newspaper column about ROTC not having
access on campus because of the gay issue.
The President of Iran had come to Harvard, and proclaimed
his pride in death for gays. The audience said nothing.
Does it even occur to Harvard- what would happen
if a gay student bolted out of the crowd, evaded
security, and shot the President of Iran?
Does it even occur to Iran- what if there are closeted
gays working on its nuclear reactors? Could they be
turned, to combat their own country?
I think that yes, they could. I am not conspiring
for that, literally. However, by sheer projection of
mental energy, I would like to try to create mischief
with their nuclear reactors, both to 1) discourage their
nuclear ambitions, and 2) demonstrate to the Muslim
world that it needs to change it attitudes toward gays,
that there is a pricetag for suppressing us with backward,
hateful religious superstition.
That would certainly also protect the foolish
American government from another misguided war,
if I could eliminate the need for it, by clipping the
wings of Iran's hellish ambitions, through a seemingly occult
exercise in poetry.
I am reminded of a quote of Winston Churchill. when he
was asked if he thought that history would be kind him.
He replied, "Yes, because I intend to write the history."
I don't want so much to predict passively the fate
of Iran- I want to try to create and steer the fate of
Iran, by what ever process it is that gives birth to
legends of magic. I would be happy to deal with them
more gently, if that were possible, but it is their own
stubborn pride, callous indifference, and resistance to change
that prevents it.
People will be free to think that it must be the
work of a shadowy gay network, and that the poetry
is just a cover, but I say no, it really is
just the work of poetry and mental intention.
Tom Keske
>
> What about the Israel/Syria/Hizbullah situation this summer...?
> do you see a remake of the 2006 War this spring...?
>
>
> "Thomas Keske" <ptkeske@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:MMudnZmMwpdoP5_VnZ2dnUVZ_sUAAAAA@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> osaka.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/tcmay.htm
>>
>> Implications of Anyone Becoming a Mint
>>
>> This has profound implications. It means that anyone an mint digital
cash
>> (not out of thin air, and various checking
>> or pinging schemes will enforce the authenticity of such minted cash).
>> This means that Alice and Bob, for example, can exchange digital cash
>> securely and anonymously, using Cypherpunks-type anonymous remailers to
>> halt traceability of the traffic. Regulators and even banks have no
>> visibility into these transactions. In fact, these transactions look
>> exactly like encrypted speech. (In computer science terms, we might say
>> that money and speech are both "first class objects," with no
artificial
>> distinctions between the functions and objects. Likewise, payers =
payees,
>> and buyers = sellers = mints.
>
>
|
