There's Not Enough Prozac In The Universe!

September 14, 2002 | Michael Welch

[ramdalesh]

Why do we exist, why do we love, hate and question? What is to become of us? Is peace so unbearable that we will eventually condemn ourselves to a passionless eternity of it?

Why are they here???

[nopardons]

If I wanted to have a similarly banal debate, I'd call up someone with a small child and listen to the kid prattle on about : " WHY IS THE SKY BLUE ", etc.

[bluefish]

I don't get it.

[Texasforever]

Is peace so unbearable that we will eventually condemn ourselves to a passionless eternity of it?

Hang on while I gaze at my navel.

[ramdalesh]

just keep working...

[Texasforever]

Sorry I can't help you

[ramdalesh]

the thing i love about type-os is that they make a writer vulnerable, and thus provoke response

[bluefish]

I don't get that either.

[Rudder]

Michael Welch is headed for a psychotic break.

[ramdalesh]

My friends are all very intelligent and rational people, but every once and a while these types have to take a break and listen to the wisdom of grey. Heck If two billion muslims can set and pray to Allah five times a day, and one billion buddhist conyemplate naval for an hour, I listen to grey every once in a while.

uh sionara!

[LibWhacker]

Nancy is a whacko who hears voices and spouts the most ignorant and ridiculous anti-scientific crap imaginable over on sci.astro. Check out one of the Nancy/Zeta FAQs for more info.

You can find other sources of information on this insignificant cult (in fact, Nancy seems to be the only member) on Google, or just search through the old sci.astro archives on Google for all the info you can stomach. I ought to hit the abuse button.

[ramdalesh]

challenge!

thank you for the concern. or is it sarcasm. that's it...pass

[nopardons]

I don't work ... wanna try again?

[ramdalesh]

right.... These words from the thoughtless, unimaginative, who have never seen star trek, never read shakespear, never wrote poetry, never read sci-fi, never took a political science class, and wasn't alive during the cold war to appreciate a systhesis that is raw, pure cultural systhesis.

do you know the people who post on freerepublic the photos of nuclear explosion, and with big flaming caption nuke baghdad, nuke mecca, nuke Bin Ladin's nose do you say to them?

[ramdalesh]

One more response to you just for self preservation issues. Take this paper lightly. It is Fiction. I need to get that straight.

If you would prefer to go back to the fun, dry, freerepublic forum and help the National Security Agency plan their war in Iraq, by all means go do that. Freerepublic is free. Go make war.

thank you for the criticism. Hopefully not, this was a difficult paper. I would not have posted something like this here if I was concerned for my sanity. Some of the people who read this regarded; spit nails and have heard it all before. That's fair enough for me. If we need to take it down its easily done

[Rudder]

a raw, pure cultural systhesis.

This I gotta see.

(I really don't know what you're talking about.) Try using real words and complete sentences, and I'll try to follow along.

[ramdalesh]

Have you ever studied Karl Marx?

I guess that you are a student of some form? no? an aristocrat? same difference sort of, no?

[ramdalesh]

When I was was in gradeschool I can remember crawling under my desk for nuclear bomb raid drill. Just like fire drill. My parents generation remember the paranoia of the cold war much more vividly than (you?) or I do.

You've heard the saying, "Life imitates art?" or how about "The Medium is the Message". I'm not war crazed and I don't believe in extra-terrestrials, ( not publically anyways). Look at people. If you notice, they are preoccupied with the self so much that as a culture we have invented the extra-terrestrial in order to see something about ourselves that we are not comfortable looking at. I think the extra terrestrials are part of our culture because without them it would be impossible to get out of our comfort zone. They are charachters of the cultural tapestry, and they exist, as the X-file of the forbidden human psyche. Real or not they have a niche.

Freerepublic talks about war alot. Well if were doing that, then were talking about space people, from far away, who survived holocaust, and came here to warn us, and to search for the meaning of life

[ramdalesh]

You noticed the paraphrase? I like how she writes. Her work is out on an extreme. I hate it when they give you the apparatus blueprint for how they got their inspiration for the literature they write. You hear the metaphysics people always interjecting the authority of their pagan dieties because they've lost the flow or got writers block or something. Write! Create! Imagine!

people are nuts!

[Rudder]

Well if were doing that, then were talking about space people, from far away, who survived holocaust, and came here to warn us, and to search for the meaning of life

Okay.

Are greys, geys and grays one in the same?

Is peace so unbearable that we will eventually condemn ourselves to a passionless eternity of it?

Lost again on this one.

Apparently older than you I do recall the fifties, fall-out shelters, "duck and cover" excercises and fear--not paranoia--of a nuclear war.

Who is Michael Welch?