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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:16:18 +1100, The Dude <dude@biglebowsky.com> wrote:

On 10 Nov 2004 16:43:52 -0800, brotherblue93@hotmail.com (Blue
Resonant Human, Ph.D.) wrote:

FWIW, it appears Eric is no longer with NIDS:
  http://www.nidsci.org/
...and therefore is no longer hanging with John, Jacques, Hal & Kit:

John Mack also checked out.....

Under suspicious circumstances too.
It's only a matter of time when Bush quietly murders the above.  They can
after all finger Bush and bin Laden paid them to post to Usenet............

http://www.centerchange.org/
Sammy

Know Your Enemy! http://www.niaid.nih.gov/default.htm

The Right Nation - Why America is Different 
by: John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge
 
"The Right Nation is the definitive portrait 
of the America that few outsiders understand: 
the America that votes for George Bush, that 
supports the death penalty and gun rights, 
that believes in minimal government and 
long prison sentences, that pulled out of the 
Kyoto Protocol. America, argue John 
Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, 
award-winning journalists at The Economist, 
has always been a conservative country; but 
over the past 50 years it has built up a 
radical conservative movement unlike any 
other country. The authors tell the story of 
how these radicals took over the Republican 
Party, and they deconstruct the Bush White 
House, examining the many influences from 
neo-conservatism to sun belt 
entrepreneurialism. This quest takes the 
authors from young churchgoers in Colorado 
Springs, to gay gun clubs in Massachusetts, 
to black supporters of school vouchers in 
Milwaukee. And they drive to the heart of 
a question that is relevant to us all: 
why does America seem so different?" 
http://www.economist.com/

Know Your Enemy
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usacsl/index.asp
".... Acceptance of the assumption of certainty in 
future war is illogical because the claimed 
source of certainty - technology - is unable to 
remove or even reduce significantly principal 
sources of uncertainty in war."

OR IN ANY OTHER ENDEAVOUR.
There is ALWAYS "measurement error" ...
And beyond THAT, there is always Change,
And therefore UNCERTAINTY, because
COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE AIN'T TO BE HAD!

"The idea that future war will be near-certain 
fails to account for enemy actions, reduces the 
complexity of warfare to identifying and 
targeting things, and ignores the human and 
psychological dimensions of war. Instead of 
pursuing situational certainty, only an embrace 
of the ambiguity of war, and the development of 
balanced Joint Forces, effective joint 
integration, and adaptive leaders will permit 
the flexibility that is the true key to 
future victories." 

And there's always their fear that They KNOW
that YOU KNOW that THEY KNOW that YOU KNOW ...
etc, requiring incoherent, impossible to predict,
nervous-terror responses on ALL SIDES (including
the all-knowing, all-doing, unseen ... VACUUM! ...

SAY! ... Is that sucking sound
the brains of the Brass
being flushed?! ...

<> Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, founder of the Sufi Order,
<> offered this insight in the early part of this century:
<> "The hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a
<> higher evolution." Women have always functioned in all
<> roles of spiritual leadership within the Order.
<> Spiritual practices and service are fully integrated
<> and initial attempts have been made to update the
<> language of the teaching to include the feminine.
<> Women teachers in the Order have made rich contributions,
<> and have joined in developing practices that facilitate
<> an awareness of, and a deeper identification with the
<> feminine aspect of the Divine.
<> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sufi+order+sufism

THE YEZIDIS OF KURDISTAN - ARE THEY REALLY ZOROASTRIANS ???
[...] "The chief divine figure of the Yazidi is
Malak Taus ('Peacock Angel'), worshipped in the form
of a peacock. He rules the universe with six other
angels, but all seven are subordinate to the supreme
God, who has had no direct interest in the universe
since he created it. The seven angels are worshipped
by the Yazidi in the form of seven bronze or iron
peacock figures called sanjaq, the largest of which
weighs nearly 700 pounds." [...]
http://tenets.zoroastrianism.com/deen33f.html

What "Yezidi" Means
The story of the Yezidis can be traced back more than 
four thousand years--before they came to be called 
Yezidis--until the trail disappears into the mists of 
time. Based on few accounts, and those often 
contradictory, it is complex and difficult to follow:
http://www.gurdjieff-legacy.org/40articles/yezidism.htm

"It ain't over 'til it's over." Yogi Berra 
http://deoxy.org/omega.htm

!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!

Meanwhile, way back in Persia:

  I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
 Some letter of that After-life to spell:
  And by and by my soul return'd to me,
 And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell."
                              Omar Khayyam