Exponentiation

n E exponentiation ezine [6.0] ISSN 1555-693X http://www.anus.com/zine Contents: I. News II. Culture III. Features IV. Literature V. Self-Sufficiency ------- News ------- Neighbor Shoots Musician August 27th, 2007 BURLINGTON, ONT. - On the afternoon of Sunday, August 25th, Ian P. Bele, restaurant owner and Vietnam war veteran, shot and killed twenty-four year old professional musician Donald Snapes while he was playing an acoustic guitar in the back yard of his house in Burlington, Ontario. What appeared to be a calm summer day in the suburban neighborhood was transformed when several neighborhood households reported the soun...

n E exponentiation ezine [5.0] ISSN 1555-693X http://www.corrupt.org/zine CONTENTS I. News II. Culture III. Features IV. Self-Sufficiency V. Literature ------- News ------- American Psychological Association Sleep Study May 9, 2007 WASHINGTON - The APA has recently completed a survey showing a correlation between technological progress and the average amount of sleep individuals get per night. The study shows a nearly perfect relationship between the amount of television sets purchased in the 1950's and the average amount of sleep lost per individual after televisions were adopted in most American households. Similar trends w...

n E exponentiation ezine [4.0] ISSN 1555-693X http://www.corrupt.org/zine CONTENTS I. News II. Culture III. Features IV. Self-Sufficiency V. Literature Against all odds, trails and tribulations, we stand firm against the raging tempest of the world around us. Where the earth is defiled, we will step in and fertilize, where the spirit is ravaged, we will step in and purify, where the cultures lay in ruins, we will step in and build. One of the great virtues of living in the Kali Yuga is the potential to acquire strength and growth through battle. Growth occurs best on the battlefield, be it physical or spiritual, because chall...

n E exponentiation ezine [3.0] ISSN 1555-693X http://www.anus.com/zine This is War When we look at our situation in the world as individuals, we must recognize that we are dependent upon the world around us. If our atmosphere goes away, or war comes to the land, we cannot escape it by changing the channel. Reality is here and will affect our future as well as our feelings toward how well our lives are spent. Knowing that we die, we wish meaning from life, but we would want it otherwise, as the alternative is emotional entropy a.k.a. boredom. The heroic versus the machine Nature is a large machine, if viewed in terms of functi...

n E exponentiation ezine [1.0] http://www.anus.com/zine To live in this time is to recognize the law of inevitability: we consume resources we cannot renew, we make social structures we cannot sustain, and we live empty lives in worlds of either material or mystical or political products. To resurrect the eternal spirit of heroism is to accept the whole as one, obliterating the illusory divisions of subject/object and appearance/structure, and thus to embrace the cosmological tradition of great cultures both ancient and future: this is the goal of exponentiation ezine. CONTENTS I. News II. Culture III. Features IV. Li...

n E exponentiation ezine [2.0] http://www.anus.com/zine Modern society conforms us with bureaucratic linear thinking, contents us with sanitized entertainment, pacifies through meaningless wealth and plastic rewards, domesticates with democratic and moral rhetoric, destroys irreplaceable environments and ecosystems with a blind lust for wealth. We have "rights" and "freedom" but only in the context of such a society; we are not free to live apart from it. Where did meaning go? Heroism? Great art, not pop culture? We throw our bodies onto the fire to keep society running just long enough for the next generation take over. And ...