While researching some messages from the not too distant moments behind us, I found the following interesting text:

Message-Id: <8905301533.AA19062@hpfcla.HP.COM>
Date: Tue, 30 May 89 10:58:05 edt
From: Eric Haines <eye!erich@spruce>
Subject: Rapture or Rupture?

Author: `Rapture’ will be on Sept. 1
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A retired NASA engineer who predicted that the
beginning of the end of the world would occur in 1988 now says his forecast was
off by one year.

Edgar Whisenant said born-again Christians will be taken up into heaven Sept. 1
in the “rapture.”

Whisenant, 56, created a stir last year with the publication of “88 Reasons Why
the Rapture Will Be in 1988.” He estimated that he and the World Bible Society
here gave away or sold about 4.5 million copies of the booklet. “The Final
Shout–Rapture ’89 Report” is to be released this week, he said.

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So, does anyone know the address of the World Bible Society? It’s not in
_High Weirdness By Mail_.

–Eric Haines, 157th Incarnation of the Inexorable World Egg

It helps us to know what we’ve said to understand what we will say and do in the future, no matter how strange-sounding, weird or nonconventional.

For instance, in writing a storyline that takes all of us into account, the silent majority is just as interesting as the loud edges.

If Tina Fey wants Sarah Palin to remain in the public eye so she can keep making money the old-fashioned way, we can accommodate her wishes until she becomes a wealthy director/producer behind the camera, but does that mean Comedy or Relative Conservatism wins?

In the New World Order, what do the shareholders in the business of politics want?  Government handouts during lean times or fighting for jobs in a competitive environment where government props do not exist?

And if there is no “either/or” involved, can we put the concept of politics aside and deal with the fact that politicians are symbols of people’s dreams and desires, switchboard operators or gatekeepers of the flow of diverted money-based information, nothing more?

“I WILL KEEP YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS ALIVE,” leaders shout in unison across the ages.

Time for more meditation, this time away from our species and into the bigger universe of non symbolic/memelike interaction of states of energy, unplugging from our shared madness of imaginable pasts/futures.