has anyone ever seen the movie "harold and maude"? its a very good movie. maude is an 80 year old woman and harold is a 20 something rich kid and they fall in love. its so beautiful i cried the first two times i saw it. well, maude was in the holocaust. one of the greatest tragedies of all time (much to the shagrin of that reporter who said the hindenberg was the greatest tragedy of all time) eventhough maude saw horrible horrible things, she was still enlightened as to how the universe worked and she was incapable of feeling hate toward anyone. bad stuff always happens and always will, there will always be positive things and negative things in the world. if this were not the case, nothing would exist. its simple physics. today, thousands of people tragically died. because of this, republicans and democrats, old and young, etc. etc. all people, share a genuine concern for human life. in this country where major crisis rarely happen, people tend to get mad at each other and pick fights about meaningless unimportant things. im a very cynical person, and i usually criticize government, police officers, fire fighters, and television journalists as having meaningless existances. today they had a real job to do. all of them. a very important job. and they all did it well. even george w. bush. he did a good job of keeping american's heads up. he assured us that we will catch these lousy terrorists and put a stop to this. thats all he can do. im confident that this situation will be resolved quickly, and perhaps after it, everyone will remember the brief time when they put all their differences aside, forgot about all their petty grudges, and did whatever they could to help people in need. and maybe someday people will figure out how to keep the world 99% good and 1% bad at all times. maybe this tragedy will help us reach that goal that ALL religions talk about, when evil is permanently held in check. today what is truly important was made clear to those who's perspectives were not properly adjusted. in this world where people die tragically everyday, it is comforting to know that the deaths of the people today served a very important worlwide purpose. this coming decade will be very important in history, almost as important as the decade that happened 2000 years ago. we saw the first generation of these worldwide changes happen in the 60's with people like martin luther king, bobby kennedy, all the hippies, and all the hippy artists. well this is phase 2 of that. and our generation will leave a positive mark on the world for years and years to come. in short, lets do what we can to help the people currently suffering, but remember that its all good. in fact, pretty soon its going to be great. -jer +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+