For peace and progress
Maximus
Thoughts From Within, a powerful poem and flash movie from Woody
Harrelson.
http://www.voiceyourself.com/thoughts/thoughts.html
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Slartibartfast
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> This is something some will appreciate:
> Thoughts From Within, a powerful poem and flash movie from Woody
> Harrelson.
>
> http://www.voiceyourself.com/thoughts/thoughts.html
Pretty good bong hit, that one.
Of course, Woody made his living from the high technology of movies and TV.
Like most Hollywood types, his heart is in the right place, but his brain is
pretty much hash-oil soaked.
Fact is, technology probably allowed him to *exist* ... a return to nativist
natural living would mean tens of millions of deaths in the USA alone. Of
course, old Woodrow Harrelson there, he might not *care* 'cause at least
Mother Earth is protected, ya know?
<shrug> Still, it was pretty cool. Now if we can educate him on
libertarian solutions to these problems ....
Alan
Ken Leander
"Slartibartfast" <no...@nonesuch.orgasm> wrote in message
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> "Maximus" <Maximu...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e3012cb0.02121...@posting.google.com...
> > This is something some will appreciate:
> > Thoughts From Within, a powerful poem and flash movie from Woody
> > Harrelson.
> >
> > http://www.voiceyourself.com/thoughts/thoughts.html
>
>
> Pretty good bong hit, that one.
Amen.
There is a certain incongruity with a get-back-to-nature theme posted on
a fancy, flash website. I keep thinking get-back-to-nature people would
want to be off the 'grid'. Computers, servers, dial-up internet
providers, Macromedia web software and all the like, seem 'un-natural'
to me. And won't we need more than just one 'organically grown',
'natural food' recipe from Woody Harrelson to feed this world?
Anyway, 'Cheers' to Larry Flint's stand-in, Woody has my vote for the
'all chat, no cattle' award. Pass the popcorn. NEXT!
Ken Leander
Austin, TX
Unknown
Art, poetry, song....and mostly devoid of intellectual depth. These
were good examples of using Flash to present artful content (I was
more impressed with that, especially on the latter link, than with any
of the emotionalisms and simplistic template lefty positions contained
within.
So, Harrelson would have us be Luddites, eh? Not him, of course,
unless he wants his director to pedal the generator which powers the
lights, which themselves provide diffuse illumination for his ordinary
and perhaps less than ordinary movies.
Steven C
Georgetown, Tx
Ken Leander
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> >On 18 Dec 2002 10:05:03 -0800, Maximu...@hotmail.com (Maximus)
wrote:
>
> Art, poetry, song....and mostly devoid of intellectual depth. These
> were good examples of using Flash to present artful content (I was
> more impressed with that, especially on the latter link, than with any
> of the emotionalisms and simplistic template lefty positions contained
> within.
>
> So, Harrelson would have us be Luddites, eh? Not him, of course,
> unless he wants his director to pedal the generator which powers the
> lights, which themselves provide diffuse illumination for his ordinary
> and perhaps less than ordinary movies.
>
> Steven C
>
> Georgetown, Tx
>
Though Woody might present a political point of view that has us
regailing with laughter, I'm not entirely sure his attempt at political
expression isn't commedic satire. The man's whole career is centered
around the really-dumb-guy role. How do we know that one day he won't
just jump up and say 'Gotcha!' ?
Well, in the meantime there is always Sean Penn sending us photos from
Baghdad. Everybody's a commedian nowadays.
Ken Leander
Unknown
><Steven C> wrote in message
>news:p5a40vsu66poinm3h...@4ax.com...
>> >On 18 Dec 2002 10:05:03 -0800, Maximu...@hotmail.com (Maximus)
>wrote:
>>
>> Art, poetry, song....and mostly devoid of intellectual depth. These
>> were good examples of using Flash to present artful content (I was
>> more impressed with that, especially on the latter link, than with any
>> of the emotionalisms and simplistic template lefty positions contained
>> within.
>>
>> So, Harrelson would have us be Luddites, eh? Not him, of course,
>> unless he wants his director to pedal the generator which powers the
>> lights, which themselves provide diffuse illumination for his ordinary
>> and perhaps less than ordinary movies.
>>
>> Steven C
>>
>> Georgetown, Tx
>>
>
>Though Woody might present a political point of view that has us
>regailing with laughter, I'm not entirely sure his attempt at political
>expression isn't commedic satire. The man's whole career is centered
>around the really-dumb-guy role. How do we know that one day he won't
>just jump up and say 'Gotcha!' ?
I would be suprised if it is all an elaborate hoax, but it is always
possible....There's no doubt he's a grandstanding clown. Why else
would a sane person hang himself from the Golden Gate Bridge? I mean,
even tree sitters are brighter than that.
I mean, making the asinine assertion that fighting wars makes money,
when the obvious self-evident reality is that fighting wars is a huge
drag on the economy, is incredible. Also, this ubiquitous
anti-corporation phobia (corpo-phobia?) seems to be one of the
fundamental piers undergirding their disconnected worldview, and as
such, is comical. Corporations are just assemblies of individual
people who floculate for the purposes of making some money, not cosmic
beasts or boogeymen who are out to desecrate the altar of their pagan
Earth religion.
>
>Well, in the meantime there is always Sean Penn sending us photos from
>Baghdad. Everybody's a commedian nowadays.
>
Ha--yeah, Penn. He did good work in the movie Colors, but what else?
Also, just because you can read and remember a few lines, how does
that authorize you to interfere with the country's business? I say we
commence war on this anthrax growing, brother-in-law murdering
buttwipe whether or not all of the Hollyweirdos are out yet or not.
Heh, yeah, let's have Woody hang himself from that sword arch monument
in Bagdad in protest. The collective black haired, mustacheoed
monobrows would love to play pinata with him with the butt end of
their rifles.
Steven C
Georgetown, Tx
>Ken Leander
>
Ken Leander
...
> Heh, yeah, let's have Woody hang himself from that sword arch monument
> in Bagdad in protest. The collective black haired, mustacheoed
> monobrows would love to play pinata with him with the butt end of
> their rifles.
>
> Steven C
Yikes! Where did all that hate come from?
kcl
Unknown
Not hate--just tongue-in-cheek humor, but with a point therein: People
like himself do not want to accept the necessary consequences of their
actions. We preserve their right to protest against the enemy, but
the enemy would not permit the same freedom. Actually, I would not be
suprised if Saddam-The-New-Nebuchanezzar* took the U.N. guys, and our
Hollywood airheads as human shields as soon as he figures war is
inevitable (like, right now). Since we have declared Hussein in
material breach, if I were Penn I would light the afterburner and get
the frick out, or he WILL be dangling from the Bagdad golden arches,
since his usefulness as a pawn will have expired.
* Interestingly, in the Hebrew Scriptures, it is Nebuchadnezzar's son,
Beltshazzar who receives God's fiery wall-writing revelation (that's
where we get the expression "The Writing Is On The Wall," that says
that "You Have Been Weighed In The Balance And Found Wanting." Will
the same judgement follow an evil decendant of this evil ruler? It
would not suprise me. Saddam has already stated that he is the next
Nebuchadnezzar. Has he uttered his own, or Uday's judgement in
advance, as other evil men did in Biblical times?
Listen to God's judgement through the prophet Daniel:
17 Then Daniel answered the king, "You may keep your gifts
for yourself and give your rewards to someone else.
Nevertheless, I will read the writing for the king and
tell him what it means.
18 "O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar
sovereignty and greatness and glory and splendor.
19 Because of the high position he gave him, all the peoples
and nations and men of every language dreaded and feared
him. Those the king wanted to put to death, he put to
death; those he wanted to spare, he spared; those he
wanted to promote, he promoted; and those he
wanted to humble, he humbled.
20 But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with
pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and
stripped of his glory.
21 He was driven away from people and given the mind of an
animal; he lived with the wild donkeys and ate
grass like cattle; and his body was drenched with
the dew of heaven, until he acknowledged that the
Most High God is sovereign over the kingdoms of
men and sets over them anyone he wishes.
22 "But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled
yourself, though you knew all this.
23 Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of
heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought
to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and
your concubines drank wine from them. You praised
the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood
and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand.
But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand
your life and all your ways.
24 Therefore he sent the hand that wrote the
inscription.
25 "This is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE,
TEKEL, PARSIN
26 "This is what these words mean: Mene: God has numbered
the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
27 Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found
wanting.
28 Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes
and Persians."
29 Then at Belshazzar's command, Daniel was clothed in
purple, a gold chain was placed around his neck,
and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in
the kingdom.
30 That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was
slain,
31 and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom, at the
age of sixty-two.
Wow! Does this sound like what's about to happen to Saddam or what?
I'm sure that there are even Persians across that Gulf that would love
to help divide up the country (or, Kurds, right?).
Steven C
Georgetown, Tx
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All Chat no Cattle
Earl Cooley III
To squander celebrity with tawdry scandal is to insult Clio the
Famegiver, Muse of History. Some celebrities do good by using their
fame to bring attention to underappreciated causes, like the danger of
land mines from discarded wars, orphaned diseases too unprofitable for
drug conglomerates to pay to research themselves, or the plight of
women who are routinely murdered by their families for the crime of
having been raped.
Some manage to do both at once, like Hanoi Jane. It's a little too
early to see of Sean Penn will be painted by that particular brush.
--
e=sc^3 (sh...@io.com) Earl Cooley III