[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]

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