cancer gardening

[Jeff Bone]

Tom wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Jeff Bone wrote:
>
> --]
> --]benign neglect, choosing to regard everything that grows in it as a
> --]precious flower.
>
> "You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.  You are the same decaying
> organic matter as everything else.  We are all part of the same compost
> pile. We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world".

I understand. In death, a member of Project Mayhem has a name.
His name is Robert Paulson.

;-)

Aside:  my girlfriend actually does make soap for a living.  I can neither
confirm nor deny that waste human lipo makes creamy bars, but indeed lye DOES
hurt like hell...  ;-)

> There are many here who were rasied to NEVER  think of the self, to see
> any self that precludes other selves as evil, the cause of all that is
> wrong with the world and thus be shunned without recourse to reason or
> situation.

Yes, and unfortunately we don't live in BarneyWorld after all.  That message
was written in big letters on the Manhatten skyline on 9-11.

> Where does this lead? To a control structure that makes sure the Self is
> given up in place of the Other.

Not sure I agree with this assessment.  Have to mull it over.

jb