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Numb The Interactive Newsletter You Never Asked For Great Expectations The whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. What do you say to those four men? How do you feel about what they say? Is there a reason to hope? A reason to try? A reason to live? A reason to die? Do we stand up and move forward? Or do we first assign blame? I shouted out / Who killed the Kennedys? Did you forget about The Grand Illusion? What about The Great Commandment? In this issue we've read a bit about love, and a whole lot about being surrounded. The universe surrounds us. Space-Time is curved, folded back on itself. And we're inside. But don't forget that Beatles song: I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love When one is within curved, folded Space-Time, unfolding seems like a good idea, yes? un•fold v. —tr. 1. To open and spread out; extend (something folded). 2. To remove the coverings from; disclose to view. 3. To reveal gradually by written or spoken explanation; make known. —intr. 1. To become spread out; open out. 2. To be revealed gradually to the understanding. Haven't we been engaged in many of those processes in both issues of un-numb? So, what else is there? And, just after the question mark, a song begins on KFOG: If God had a name / What would it be? Man, I love how that just happens to keep on happenning! Remember this? So, how does one blossom and evolve from a curved, enclosing object? Evolve? e•volve v. —tr. 1. To develop or achieve gradually; devise; formulate. 2. Biology. To develop by evolutionary processes from a primative to a more highly organized form. 3. To yeild, give, or throw off (gas, vapor, or heat, for example); set free. —intr. 1. To be part of or subject to the process of natural, temporal, or biological evolution, as in an organism, plant, or rock stratum. 2. To be developed, disclosed, or unfolded; come forth; emerge: The plot evolves in many subtle ways. 3. To undergo change or transformation; develop; lead. [Latin evolvere, to roll out, unfold: e-, out, from ex- + volvere, to roll (see wel-3 in Appendix).] And... "that which pierces through"... passage, journey... feather, wing... SUPPORT, TRANSPORT... To grant, allot... Latin Parcae, the Fates (who assign one's destiny)... To try, risk... Old English fær, danger, sudden calamity: FEAR... to try, learn by trying: EXPERIENCE, EXPERIMENT... "to hand over," "distribute" ...go-between, negotiator: INTERPRET... To get, allot (reciprocally, to get in return). Hmmm. ...Here, besides encountering the strange spatial and temporal distortions of What Is, the entity discovered itself split into two distinct sub-selves. E Pluribus Unim! Okay, what's that mean? We're sailing in a strange boat / Heading for a strange shore C'mon. Are we really supposed to believe that? Yoda pokes Luke Skywalker with a stick and says: Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. One last time: Man gets tired / Spirit don't Get it? Love Means Never Having to Say You're Psychotic |