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.----------------------------------------------------------------------------. |.--------------------------------------------------------------------------.| || ISSUE #123 - March 15th, 1993 || |`-------_#####______-------------------------------------##_---------------'| | _##( )#####################__ __###~ | | ####()####( )#################____ _#####_ | | #####( )##()####( )##############_ _## __######~ | | #####()####( )##()####( )#########_#### _###### | | #####( )#()####( )##()####()## )#######_####### | | ###########( )#()####( )##()# )##~~~~~~~~~~~## .------------------.| | ################( )#()####( )### BITS!(tm) ## | On More Than 350 || | #####################( )#()# )##___________#~ | Registered BBSes || | ##########################()## )############~ | in 39 States and || | ~########################################~ | 14 countries...! || | ~~~################################### `------------------'| | ~~~###############################_-----------------------.| | ~################ ~~ ~##_ 310-371-3734 12-9600 || ||.--------------------.| ~~ ~#####~ ~~ ###_ 310-370-9464 3-2400 || ||| Brought To You By: || ### (c) 1993 ~## Eeeek Publishing Co. || ||| Your SysOps & || | Eeeek Publishing Co. P.O. Box 331 || ||| Eeeek Publishing || | ALL RIGHTS Manhattan Beach, CA || ||`--------------------'| | RESERVED 90266 || | `--------------------------------------------'| `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | This publication is protected by all U.S. & International Copyright Laws! | | NO Part may be changed or reproduced w/o express written permission from | | The Publishers! Eeeeks is FREE, BUT YOU MUST REGISTER to have it on a BBS! | | You may NOT upload it to any BBS on a regular basis without the express | | written permission of the Publishers. Eeeek BITS! is NOT PD or Shareware | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | In order to Register: Call Beyond Eternity at the # above & fill out | | "O" at the main menu, OR EAST COAST CALLERS MAY CALL OUR EAST-COAST | | DISTRIBUTOR, U.S. Datanet at (617)-868-2965. OR you may write us via | | US Mail, include your: BBS NAME, PHONE, APPX # OF USERS, # OF LINES, | | MAX BAUD, STORAGE CAPACITY, SYSOP REAL NAME, PHONE, ADDRESS, SOFTWARE | | RUNNING, WHERE YOU SAW & WHERE YOU'LL RETRIEVE EEEEK BITS! You May | | also register for Datanet Computer News (ALSO FREE) in these ways. | | _________________________ -----------------------------------------------| | # .-------------------. # Beyond Eternity BBS, Contact The Editor #5 | | # | (c)1993 | # (310)-371-3734 12/24/9600 or 370-9464 3/12/2400| | # |Eeeek Publishing Co| # -----------------------------------------------| | # | | # Eeeek Publishing Co | | # |(Taghadossi/Black) | # PO Box 331 Manhattan Bch,CA 90266 | | # |ALL RIGHTS RESERVED| # -----------------------------------------------| | # `-------------------' # "Keep On Eeeeking!" (Philip Fultz) | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----------------------------------------------| `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Little Known Facts...........Page 4 Dimensions In The Dark (9)...Page 26 | | HeadLine BITS!...............Page 5 Diet Tips....................Page 32 | | Quotes N Notes...............Page 6 I MYTHed That One!...........Page 36 | | Behind The HeadLines.........Page 10 The Bachelor.................Page 37 | | Phrase Craze.................Page 11 Philosopher's Bend...........Page 42 | | Historical Facts.............Page 12 Team Eeeek!..................Page 48 | | Laws Beyond Murphy...........Page 13 Not Common...................Page 55 | | Boardwatch Top 100...........Page 17 Strrrrrrrange BITS!..........Page 56 | | Reader survey - PLEASE HELP!.Page 25 The W-Eeeek-ly News..........Page 59 | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ************************************************************************** | | If you have VGA/SVGA ask your sysop to pick up EBVGAMAR.ZIP for you to DL! | | ************************************************************************** | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Ross Perot Believers: Call United We Stand at 1-800-925-4000 for info. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ##_ ##_ #####_ #####_ ######_ #####_ ##_ #####_ #####_ .----------. | | ### ### ###~~~ ###~~~ ~###~~ ###~~~ ### ###~### ###~~~ | (213)- | | | ### #_ ### ####_ #####_ ### #####_ ### ### ### ####_ | 933-4050 | | | ######_### ###~~ ~~### ### ~~### ### ### ###~ ###~~ `----------' | | ########## #####_ ###### ### ###### ### ######~ #####_ BBS (sm) | | ~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~ ~~~~~ ~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Little Known Facts! | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | * President Wm. 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No one was in danger, other | | than becoming sick that is. | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Phrase Craze! | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | * To be left in the lurch: to be left, hopelessly out, without help. | | Years ago the French invented a game, very much like the modern day | | backgammon game, called lurch or lourche. In this game a great deal of | | money came into play. When a player had invested a lot of money and was | | on the losing side he was said to be left in the lurch. Soon the term | | was applied to anyone who was left out of the running with no chance of | | achieving the final goal. | | * Off the Wall: bizarre, not part of the subject matter at hand. The term| | comes to us from games in which bouncing a ball against the wall is the | | method of play to activate your opponent. Games such as squash, hand- | | ball and the like. When a ball is hit against the wall and takes a | | strange angle of return it is said to be "off the wall." The term has | | come to mean anything that doesn't follow the same angle of thought of | | any subject at hand. | | * On a roll: to be on a winning streak, unbeatable. The term comes to us | | from the game of craps. To be on a roll in craps means the roller of the| | dice is making each and every point. If he rolls a five and then rolls | | another five he has made his point and he is on a roll. The term is | | applied to anything today when one continuously has luck and achieves | | their goal without obstacles. | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Little Known Historical Facts! | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | * Paul Revere sent a bill to the Massachusetts State House for 10 pounds | | 4 shillings for payment for his ride. | | * George Washington had no middle name | | * After the American Revolution Congress banned all the standing military. | | * George Washington's mother wouldn't go to her son's inauguration. She | | wrote to him explaining she wanted him home instead of serving as Presi- | | dent. | | * The nickname "Uncle Sam" originated from a butcher. | | * The Battle of New Orleans in the war of 1812 was fought 15 days after | | the war was over. | | * Edgar Allen Poe was expelled from West Point in 1831 for gross neglect | | of duty. | | * In 1834 it was illegal for any solider to carry the flag into battle. | | * James Bowie didn't invent the Bowie knife, but Rezin Pleasant Bowie did. | | * In 1871 war broke out between Korea and the U.S. and lasted 1 month. | | * The Battle of Shiloh actually took place at Pittsburg Landing Tenn. | | * The youngest Brigadier General in the U.S. was 20 years old. | | * The oldest age of a veteran soldier recorded is 113 years old. | | * Grover Cleveland was drafted and still tried to avoid serving the U.S. | | military. | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Laws Beyond Murphy! | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | * It is wise to always keep your feet on the ground. | | * If you think you are original it is a myth. | | * A child will always leave the most important book needed for homework | | at school. | | * Remember, when pursuing a court case, 50 percent of the lawyers in court | | everyday are losers. | | * Given enough credit cards may yield many items but it certainly will | | yield bankruptcy if not used with prudence. | | * The person who is selected for any committee is the one who left the | | room for a moment. | | * Find another word to use if you can't spell it. | | * According to the person on trial, they are never guilty. | | * A wise man knows when to back down. | | * In television shows, if the show is named after the lawyer starring in it| | they will never lose a case. | | * Television and reality are two very different things. | | * News doesn't happen, the media makes it happen in most cases. 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The contest will run from January 1, 1993 through July 1, | | 1993. Winners will be announced at the Online Networking Exposition and | | BBS Convention (ONE BBSCON) held at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado | | Springs Colorado, August 25-29, 1993. The Boardwatch 100 list will be | | published in subsequent issues of Boardwatch Magazine and distributed in | | electronic form world-wide. | | | | PRIZES FOR BULLETIN BOARD OPERATORS | | 1ST PRIZE: Air fare, hotel accommodations and registration at ONE BBSCON | | for one is awarded to the system receiving the most votes. Additionally, | | the system will receive a free full-page black and white advertisement in | | Boardwatch Magazine for a period of three months. An award trophy will | | be presented at the ONE BBSCON and a feature story on their BBS will | | appear in a subsequent issue of the magazine.. | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Boardwatch 100 Reader's Choice Bulletin Board Contest | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | TOP 10: The 10 most popular BBSes selected by the voters will each receive | | an award trophy during a special presentation at the Online Networking | | Exposition & BBS Convention (ONE BBSCON) August 25-29, 1993. Additionally, | | a story describing their system will appear in Boardwatch Magazine, they | | will be included in a special TOP TEN BBS listing in the magazine, & will | | receive a free 1/4 page black & white advertisement in 3 successive issues.| | Finally, they'll be listed in the Boardwatch 100 BBS list. | | | | TOP ONE HUNDRED: The 100 bulletin boards receiving the most votes will | | each be listed in the Boardwatch 100 readers choice BBS list. This list | | will be published in Boardwatch Magazine and freely distributed | | electronically on thousands of bulletin boards world-wide. | | | | PRIZES FOR VOTERS: All valid ballots submitted by voters will be entered | | in a random sweepstakes drawing. As of the opening date of this contest, | | prizes include TWO U.S. ROBOTICS COURIER DUAL STANDARD 16.8K MODEMS, two | | HAYES OPTIMA 14400 + FAX 144 modems, & two ZyXEL U-1496 14,400 bps modems | | - & more are on the way. A minimum of six valid ballots will be selected | | from all entries & each will receive a free modem - from the most popular | | modem manufacturers in the world. | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Boardwatch 100 Reader's Choice Bulletin Board Contest | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | RULES FOR CALLERS: Each voter can vote once, for a single bulletin board | | system. Each ballot must be fully completed, & individually mailed by each | | voter. One vote per address, & we will verify ballots as necessary. There | | are three ways to vote: | | | | 1. Printout and complete this ballot and mail to: | | BOARDWATCH MAGAZINE | | READERS CHOICE BBS CONTEST | | 5970 South Vivian Street | | Littleton, CO 80127 | | | | 2. Print out, complete this ballot and FAX to (303)973-3731. | | | | 3. Or, dial the Boardwatch BBS at (303)973-4222 and complete the online | | ballot provided on the main menu. | | | | Balloting closes at 23:59:59, June 30, 1993. | | | | This contest is not limited to Boardwatch Magazine subscribers, and no | | purchase of any kind is required to participate in this contest. | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Boardwatch 100 Reader's Choice Bulletin Board Contest | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | NOTE: We held this contest during 1992 and it generated 11,152 votes by | | the close of balloting for some 1250 different BBSes. The TOP system | | received about 450 votes. Your individual vote can have a tremendous | | impact on the outcome of this contest. Further, the odds of winning a | | modem in last years contest, were 1 in 1394 (8 modems awarded). | | | | RULES FOR BBS OPERATORS: Bulletin Board Operators may encourage callers | | to vote for their system by offering whatever inducements/encouragements | | they like. There is one rule to this contest for BBS operators. YOU MAY | | NOT HANDLE ANY VOTE AFTER THE CALLER HAS COMPLETED THE BALLOT. YOU MAY NOT| | HANDLE IT IN ANY WAY. | | | | You may provide callers with anything you like, including postage paid | | envelopes, printed matter, solicitations, etc. But once they've completed | | a ballot, if you touch, handle, or otherwise deal with the ballot in any | | way, your BBS will be disqualified from the contest without appeal or | | recourse. | | | | If you wish to post an electronic ballot on your BBS, you may post this | | file IN ITS ENTIRETY. You may post any additional information you feel | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Boardwatch 100 Reader's Choice Bulletin Board Contest | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | is appropriate, but this entire rules file must be available to all | | callers. | | | | Despite the fact that this contest has a minimum of rules, this one rule | | does cause problems each year. You cannot post online surveys or doors to | | allow voters to vote online. This is vote handling. You cannot accept | | ballots & mail or fax them in for callers. The rule of thumb is pretty | | clear: You can provide anything you like TO callers to induce them to vote.| | There is NOTHING you can accept FROM callers in any way pertaining to this | | ballot at all. THEY must complete the ballot & forward it to us themselves.| | | | We actually received FEDEX packages on the final day of the contest last | | year from BBS operators who claimed to have collected a hundred or so | | votes. Infractions are dealt with quite economically - the BBS is | | summarily disqualified without recourse or appeal. | | | | One new element introduced in the 1993 contest is date scoring. All | | ballots received from 1 January 1993 through 30 June 1993 will receive a | | date score based on the date of receipt. Date scores will range from 180 | | for votes received 1 January down to 1 for votes received on June 30. | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Boardwatch 100 Reader's Choice Bulletin Board Contest | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | These date stamp values are cummulative for each BBS and will be used to | | eliminate ALL ties in the TOP 100. Since ties are quite common in this | | contest, it pays to get your votes in early. | | | | This contest is open to all BBSes worldwide with the sole exception of the | | Boardwatch Magazine BBS - which is ineligible. Commercial services such as | | Prodigy, America Online, CompuServe, are considered to be networks and not | | bulletin boards for the purposes of this contest. 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PO Box 331, Manhattan Beach, CA. 90266 | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Diminsions Of The Dark by J.L. Black | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | I felt secure resting against him. It somehow gave me some strength to | | get control of myself. I felt myself calming down. I looked over at | | the lifeless form of Mr. Jacobs and felt a deep sadness for this man I | | hardly knew. I reached over and took Thomas's jacket and placed it | | over Mr. Jacobs head and shoulders. Then I leaned back against Thomas. | | | | Thomas started to say something, but before he could we heard the | | familiar voice of Mrs. Moore hollowing out at us. | | | | "Come on you guys. Get us out of here. Thomas and Carol, there will | | be time enough for romance later." | | | | "I don't think we can get you out," Thomas announced. "The experience | | caused me a great deal of problems. I felt as if I were having a heart | | attack and I have a broken arm. Mr. Jacobs," I grabbed Thomas's arm, | | he stopped, hesitated for a moment then went on to say, "Mr. Jacobs had | | a great deal of trouble as well and is unconscious from the experience. | | If we try to get you out the same way it would vary likely kil... | | injure you. Your going to have to be patient Mrs. Moore and give Carol | | and me some time to think this thing through. I promise we will get | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Diminsions Of The Dark by J.L. Black | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | you out, or di...grow old trying." | | | | "Okay Tom. Carol you take care of him. If his arm is broken you had | | better splint it or something. Tom don't you try moving that arm. And | | make sure Mr. Jacobs is covered up with something and kept warm. A | | chill can set in when you are unconscious." Mrs. Moore said. Her | | motherly instinct showing through her statements. | | | | We could hear Mrs. Jacobs asking questions. Thomas and I did not | | respond to her, hoping she was asking the others for support rather | | than us for a report on the condition of her husband. Neither of us | | could have brought ourselves to telling her that Mr. Jacobs was dead. | | We both felt it was better this way. We were afraid Mrs. Jacobs would | | try to come through the dimensional wall and end up killing herself as | | well. | | | | There was complete silence now. Thomas laid back down on the floor and | | I sat beside him. As I watched his face, the beads of perspiration | | seemed to begin to fade from his forehead, and his color was changing | | from bright brilliant red to a more pallid shade. He appeared to be | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Diminsions Of The Dark by J.L. Black | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | coming back to normal, except for the few times he grimaced from the | | pain in his arm. I noted the time, 2:13 a.m. | | | | "You stay right there Thomas, I'll be back in a moment," I stated. I | | took off out the bungalow door and made my way back to my room. There | | I searched through my luggage for some Darvon I had brought with me for | | a back injury I had sustained some months earlier, from which I still | | had a lot of pain. I looked for anything that might make a splint, and | | when I found nothing but boards, such as the support boards from the | | bed, they were too long and too thick, I took a drawer out of the | | dresser and kicked the bottom out with my foot. The bottom was made | | from slats rather than one solid piece. I then went through my luggage | | for some scarfs I had brought with me. These would function as a | | bandage as well as hold the splint boards in place. I then ran back to | | bungalow 315 and once there, ran to the kitchen and got a glass of | | water and returned to Thomas. | | | | "What are you doing?", he queried. | | | | "I have to set you arm. You'll be of no help if we can't get this arm | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Diminsions Of The Dark by J.L. Black | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | coming back to normal, except for the few times he grimaced from the | | pain in his arm. I noted the time, 2:13 a.m. | | | | "You stay right there Thomas, I'll be back in a moment," I stated. I | | took off out the bungalow door and made my way back to my room. There | | I searched through my luggage for some Darvon I had brought with me for | | a back injury I had sustained some months earlier, from which I still | | had a lot of pain. I looked for anything that might make a splint, and | | when I found nothing but boards, such as the support boards from the | | bed, they were too long and too thick, I took a drawer out of the | | dresser and kicked the bottom out with my foot. The bottom was made | | from slats rather than one solid piece. I then went through my luggage | | for some scarfs I had brought with me. These would function as a | | bandage as well as hold the splint boards in place. I then ran back to | | bungalow 315 and once there, ran to the kitchen and got a glass of | | water and returned to Thomas. | | | | "What are you doing?", he queried. | | | | "I have to set you arm. You'll be of no help if we can't get this arm | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Diminsions Of The Dark by J.L. Black | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | taken care of and get your pain under control. Can you take Darvon?" | | | | "Yes, but if I do I may not be of help to you anyway. It generally | | makes me lethargic", Thomas replied. | | | | "Fine, then we'll open a capsule and remove part of its contents and | | see if you can handle half the quantity better. Now hang on to the | | arch way of the door while I try to set your arm." I instructed, as I | | moved myself to his left side. Once there, I gently held onto his arm, | | just below the break, and tugged on his arm in a gentle and gradual | | move. He screamed at the pain I was causing, "I'm sorry," I said in | | almost a whisper. I saw the bone move and align itself back into the | | flesh. I then took a couple of the scarfs that I had brought from my | | luggage and placed them around the open wound. Then placing the slats | | on either side of the arm, I held them with one hand and clumsily tied | | two scarfs around the boards. It was done. Not a medical coo but it | | would do for now. I then took a capsule from the bottle of Darvon I | | had brought, opened it and poured part of its contents out on the | | floor, placed the two halves of the capsule back together again and | | gave it to Thomas with a glass of water. He took this. Then slid | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Diminsions Of The Dark by J.L. Black | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | himself upward, leaning against the archway of the door and sat quietly | | for a moment. | | | | "Not a bad job," he said surveying his splinted arm. "So, what do we | | do next? Did you get any ideas about what is going on here?" | | | | "The first thing I think we should do is let you relax and wait for the | | Darvon to take some effect. It shouldn't take too long. It usually | | works on me in about ten minutes," I suggested. | | | | I went on to explained to him the events that had occurred at the | | house. I told him who Anna was, her relationship to me, and how she | | had died. Then I told him about her appearance to me. I surprised | | myself, I had never had an experience such as this before. Yet when | | detailing it to Thomas, I stated these things almost as an established | | fact. He did not react as if this was anything unusual. 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The knowledge| | of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in | | general, & above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in | | some sense the principle of animal life. Our aim is to grasp & understand, | | first its essential nature, & secondly its properties; of these some are | | taught to be affections proper to the soul itself, while others are con- | | sidered to attach to the animal owing to the presence within it of soul. | | To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult| | things in the world. As the form of question which here presents itself, | | viz. the question 'What is it?', recurs in other fields, it might be | | supposed there was some single method of inquiry applicable to all objects | | whose essential nature (as we are endeavouring to ascertain there is for | | derived properties the single method of demonstration); in that case what | | we should have to seek for would be this unique method. But if there is no | | such single & general method for solving the question of essence, our task | | becomes still more difficult in the case of each different subject we shall| `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Philosopher's Bend: From "On The Soul" By Aristotle, 350 BC | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | have to determine the appropriate process of investigation. If to this | | there be a clear answer, eg: the process is demonstration or division, or | | some known method, difficulties & hesitations still beset us-with what | | facts shall we begin the inquiry? For the facts which form the starting- | | points in different subjects must be different, as eg: in the case of | | numbers & surfaces. First, no doubt, it is necessary to determine in which | | of the summa genera soul lies, what it is; is it 'a this-somewhat, 'a | | substance, or is it a quale or a quantum, or some other of the remaining | | kinds of predicates which we have distinguished? Further, does soul belong | | to the class of potential existents, or is it not rather an actuality? Our | | answer to this question is of the greatest importance. We must consider | | also whether soul is divisible or is without parts, & whether it is every- | | where homogeneous or not; & if not homogeneous, whether its various forms | | are different specifically or generically: up to the present time those who| | have discussed and investigated soul seem to have confined themselves to | | the human soul. We must be careful not to ignore the question whether soul | | can be defined in a single unambiguous formula, as is the case with animal,| | or whether we must not give a separate formula for each of it, as we do for| | horse, dog, man, god (in the latter case the 'universal' animal-and so too | | every other 'common predicate'-being treated either as nothing at all or as| `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Philosopher's Bend: From "On The Soul" By Aristotle, 350 BC | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | a later product). Further, if what exists is not a plurality of souls, but| | a plurality of parts of one soul, which ought we to investigate first, the | | whole soul or its parts? (It is also a difficult problem to decide which of| | these parts are in nature distinct from one another.) Again, which ought we| | to investigate first, these parts or their functions, mind or thinking, the| | faculty or the act of sensation, & so on? If the investigation of the | | functions precedes that of the parts, the further question suggests itself:| | ought we not before either to consider the correlative objects eg: of sense| | or thought? It seems not only useful for the discovery of the causes of the| | derived properties of substances to be acquainted with the essential nature| | of those substances (as in mathematics it is useful for the understanding | | of the property of the equality of the interior angles of a triangle to 2 | | right angles to know the essential nature of the straight & the curved or | | of the line and the plane) but also conversely, for the knowledge of the | | essential nature of a substance is largely promoted by an acquaintance with| | its properties: for, when we are able to give an account conformable to | | experience of all or most of the properties of a substance, we shall be in | | the most favourable position to say something worth saying about the essen-| | tial nature of that subject; in all demonstration a definition of the | | essence is required as a starting-point, so that definitions which do not | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Philosopher's Bend: From "On The Soul" By Aristotle, 350 BC | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | enable us to discover the derived properties, or which fail to facilitate | | even a conjecture about them, must obviously, one & all, be dialectical & | | futile. A further problem presented by the affections of soul is this: are | | they all affections of the complex of body & soul, or is there any 1 among | | them peculiar to the soul by itself? To determine this is indispensable but| | difficult. If we consider the majority of them, there seems to be no case | | in which the soul can act or be acted upon without involving the body; eg: | | anger, courage, appetite, & sensation generally. Thinking seems the most | | probable exception; but if this too proves to be a form of imagination or | | to be impossible without imagination, it too requires a body as a condition| | of its existence. If there is any way of acting or being acted upon proper | | to soul, soul will be capable of separate existence; if there is none, its | | separate existence is impossible. In the latter case, it will be like what | | is straight, which has many properties arising from the straightness in it,| | eg: of touching a bronze sphere at a point though straightness divorced | | from the other constituents of the straight thing cannot touch it in this | | way; it cannot be so divorced at all, since it is always found in a body. | | It therefore seems that all the affections of soul involve a body-passion, | | gentleness, fear, pity, courage, joy, loving, & hating; in all these there | | is a concurrent affection of the body. In support of this we may point to | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Philosopher's Bend: From "On The Soul" By Aristotle, 350 BC | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | the fact that, while sometimes on the occasion of violent and striking | | occurrences there is no excitement or fear felt, on others faint and feeble| | stimulations produce these emotions, viz. when the body is already in a | | state of tension resembling its condition when we are angry. Here is a | | still clearer case: in the absence of any external cause of terror we find | | ourselves experiencing the feelings of a man in terror. From all this it is| | obvious that the affections of soul are enmattered formulable essences. | | Consequently their definitions ought to correspond, e.g. anger should be | | defined as a certain mode of movement of such and such a body (or part or | | faculty of a body) by this or that cause and for this or that end. That is | | precisely why the study of the soul must fall within the science of Nature,| | at least so far as in its affections it manifests this double character. | | Hence a physicist would define an affection of soul differently from a | | dialectician; the latter would define eg: anger as the appetite for return-| | ing pain for pain, or something like that, while the former would define it| | as a boiling of the blood or warm substance surround the heart. The latter | | assigns the material conditions, the former the form or formulable essence;| | for what he states is the formulable essence of the fact, though for its | | actual existence there must be embodiment of it in a material such as is | | described by the other. Thus the essence of a house is assigned in such a | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Philosopher's Bend: From "On The Soul" By Aristotle, 350 BC | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | formula as 'a shelter against destruction by wind, rain, & heat' the physi-| | cist would describe it as 'stones, bricks, & timbers'; but there's a 3rd | | possible description which would say it was that form in that material with| | that purpose or end. Which among these is entitled to be regarded as the | | genuine physicist? The one who confines himself to the material or the one | | who restricts himself to the formulable essence alone? Is it not rather the| | one who combines both in a single formula? If this is so how are we to | | characterize the other 2? Must we not say that there is no type of thinker | | who concerns himself with those qualities or attributes of the material | | which are in fact inseparable from the material, & without attempting even | | in thought to separate them? The physicist is he who concerns himself with | | all properties active & passive of bodies or materials thus or thus defined| | -attributes not considered as being of this character he leaves to others, | | in certain cases it may be to a specialist, eg: a carpenter or a physician | | in others a) they are inseparable in fact but are separable from any part- | | icular kind of body by an effort of abstraction, to the mathematician b) | | where they're separate both in fact & thought from body to the 1st Philoso-| | pher/metaphysician. But we must return from this digression, & repeat the | | affections of soul are inseparable from material substratum of animal life | | we have seen such attach & not the same mode of being as a line or a plane.| `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Team Eeeek serial: The Dawning of an Age "Little Black Box" | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Carpenter swept his eyes from the front door counterclockwise around the | | entire office. Everything appeared normal. But it hadn't last night. | | | | Last night when he felt jumpy, he looked over both shoulders and he could | | have sworn that he saw figures stepping in and out of the shadows. It was | | like they were walking behind a series of tall mirrors spaced two, three | | feet apart. The forms would appear to cross a short distance then step | | into nothingness. | | | | And what really began to frighten him was that he was beginning to | | recognize the faces. He didn't know who, he didn't know how, but these | | people were beginning to become familiar. Carpenter saw no faces tonight. | | | | But what he did see was a murky cloudiness that erased the walls, ceiling | | and floor and expanded the "space" in which he found himself. Slowly a | | desert appeared around him and pushed its way further toward the horizon. | | In the distance a mountain chain rose out of the nothingness and a sun | | peaked over the highest parts. Carp felt the heat rolling off that | | boiling orb; it drew sweat to his brow. He squinted into the blinding | | light as it climbed higher into the sky. | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Team Eeeek serial: The Dawning of an Age "Little Black Box" | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Soon a figure would step out of the shimmering haze. It would be an older | | man - probably an Indian, by the looks of the setting - and it would be | | someone Carp "knew." Or at least he felt he knew. And that older man | | would ask him odd questions and insist that they were acquainted; then | | the older one would take Carp on a journey of some sort; a journey which | | confused him but also enticed him. It would be like a walk through a | | pleasant dream that one knows he has had but can't remember. | | | | How did Carp know all this? Because it had happened to him before. In fact | | it had happened many times since he had started working the night shift. | | | | "Are you ready, my son?" | | The voice startled Carp but it wasn't unexpected. | | "Where are we going?" he asked. | | | | The figure of an old Indian stepped out of the bright haze and presented | | itself for scrutiny. He was Carpenter's height and build, but unlike the | | technician, his cheekbones rode high on his face, his brow jutted from | | his forehead like the mountain ridge across the desert. And a strong gaze | | reach out from eyes gone cold from too much disillusionment. | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Team Eeeek serial: The Dawning of an Age "Little Black Box" | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "Do I pass inspection?" the old man asked. | | | | For some reason Carp couldn't help from answering, "Yes, you're exactly | | what I expected." | | | | The Indian, waiting patiently as though knowing that Carp hadn't finished | | his study, bobbed his head slowly and said, "Our imaginations never fail | | us." He stood motionless for several long moments and then said, "We are | | going to the seat of power on the mountain." | | | | "Why?" Carp wondered. | | | | One corner of the old man's mouth wanted to crawl up into a smile, but he | | held it in check. Instead he said, "Because you asked to go." | | | | "What about that other?" Carp asked. "That evil one I felt back there - | | in the office?" | | | | "He will be there when you return," the old man assured him. "It is time | | to go." | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Team Eeeek serial: The Dawning of an Age "Little Black Box" | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Before Carpenter could utter another word, the Indian spun on his heel | | and walked into the sunrise. | | *** | | | | The top of the mountain was swept with a firm, insistent breeze which | | rolled up to the pinnacle from every direction. The sun, far to the west, | | burned the vision of that direction from Carp's eyes. But every other | | vista lay brilliantly exposed and sharply defined. | | | | And the reaches of the eye from such a height were otherwise unimaginable | | to the technician; he felt he could see into tomorrow. | | | | "Not quite that far," the Indian said, seeming to read his mind, "but | | nearly." | | | | "What am I to do here?" Carp asked. | | | | "As always, learn the lessons of power." | | | | "How?" | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Team Eeeek serial: The Dawning of an Age "Little Black Box" | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "Sit, wait," the old man swept his arm over the land to the east, | | "watch." | | | | Against a large stone, the two men placed their backs and peered into the | | scene below. It was like looking into a crystal ball in that a mist | | covered the land, swirled away and left them an uninterrupted view of a | | lush green valley. Carp could almost see the moisture in the tall grass | | and vegetation. | | | | He felt a presence entering from the north and noticed that the old | | Indian had his eyes trained in that direction. | | | | Down on the valley floor a lone rider worked a spotted pony around the | | curve of the mountains. | | | | The rider appeared to be wearing leggings and some sort of breast plate; | | a few feathers protruded from his hair. Carp took him to be Indian, the | | type he had seen in old movies. | | | | "Who is that?" he asked. | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Team Eeeek serial: The Dawning of an Age "Little Black Box" | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | The old man turned toward him and almost sighed as though weary of tiring | | questions. | | | | "It is you." | | | | The instant he said those words, Carp found himself astride the painted | | pony, felt the heavy moisture against his bare chest. | | | | Leather reins lay threaded through his fingers and feathers tugged at | | his hair in the slight breeze. | | | | He glanced up the mountain and knew that two men watched him. | | | | Although he didn't know them, he didn't fear them. | | | | He knew why he had come. | | | | Sliding off the pony he faced the mountain and started to climb. | | | | To Be Continued... | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. |############################################################################| |##.----------------------------------------------------------------------.##| |##| Eeeek BITS! 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One night, in a drunken state, he | | decided the best way to get rid of the hiccups he suffered was to | | frighten them away. He took a candle that was lit and placed it to the | | collar of his shirt. The shirt, being made of cotton, became inflamed | | immediately. Mytton began screaming and two servants came in to pull | | the burning shirt from their master. Mytton, though badly burned, noted | | just prior to falling into bed that the hiccups were gone. | | * One of strangest surgeries a doctor ever performed was done by Dr. John | | Brinkley of Kansas. Dr. Brinkley for a fee of $1,500 would implant | | young goat glands in men who were aging. Dr. Brinkley stated that this | | procedure gave these men a youthful energy and encouraged their sexual | | drive. | | * State Representative Bernard Gladstone of Rhode Island tried to enter a | | bill of a $2 tax on each act of sexual intercourse in lieu of income tax.| `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Strrrrrrrange BITS! | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Is it possible, was the first question the person receiving the strange | | phone asked. There was no response to her question. But clearly it was | | possible, she reasoned, because it had happened. | | But the phone call sort of went hand in hand with the other events to take | | place. The opening and closing of doors when no one was near them. The | | strange sounds of a person talking when no one else was in the room. The | | footsteps up and down the hallway when no one was in the hallway. The | | footsteps sounded as though they were on a wooden floor, though the hall | | was fully carpeted. | | These are some of the reports to come from witnesses of the ghostly visitor| | at The Lodge in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. | | The most outstanding events of the ghostly resident is that of making phone| | calls. For some reason the ghost always calls the Governor's Suite, room | | 101. | | A great many employees of the Lodge have reported seeing the ghost. The | | descriptions given have always been the same. A young, beautiful, red | | haired woman. The hotel employees have dubbed her "Rebecca." | | A bartender in the Red Dog Saloon, part of the hotel, reported seeing ash- | | trays move about the room when no one was in there except himself. He also| | reported having seen flames shoot out of the fireplace even though it was | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Strrrrrrrange BITS! | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | not lit and there was no wood or paper in it to start a fire. | | Another employee reported, when changing the drapes in the Governor's | | Suite, she had climbed up the ladder and had the drapes over her arm. She | | clearly heard the door open and then close. She then heard footsteps | | moving across the floor. She called out, thinking it was her husband who | | had entered the room. There was no answer. She climbed down the ladder | | and looked around, nothing. She went to the door and opened it, stepped | | into the hallway and saw no one in the hall. She returned to her ladder, | | dismissing the entire incident. Just as she climbed back to the top of | | the ladder again she heard the footsteps once more then the door open and | | close again. | | On other occasions water faucets would be turned on in the Governor's Suite| | even though it was not being used at the time. | | The belief is that Rebecca was a young woman in love with someone of high | | position and/or power. She was not his wife. The story goes that she was | | murdered and buried in the basement of the Lodge. The man responsible for | | her murder had enough power that he could convince the owners to help him | | bury her in the basement. Rebecca, it seems, threatened, whether verbally | | or merely by her very existence, the man position of power as well as his | | family life. | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Strrrrrrange BITS! | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | The Lodge was built in 1899 by El Paso and Northeastern Railway. It was | | intended to be a lodging place for those traveling the country. In 1909 | | it burned down but in 1911 it was rebuilt and is now in the same form as | | it was during the rebuilding. It has, since 1935 had numerous owners, | | including the well known Conrad Hilton. In fact, it was Hilton's third | | hotel purchase. | | The ghost is said to be Rebecca. No other name given. If it isn't her, | | then the great number of portraits of her that hang in the Lodge are there | | for no reason at all. | | The activities are almost always mellow in action. The worst thing to ever| | happen was the fireplace shooting out flames when no fire was possible. | | The staff do not feel uncomfortable with her there and often times will | | blame the dropping of a dish or what have you on her. | | Reportedly the Lodge is still haunted and the sighting of "Rebecca" is | | best done at night, though she has been seen during the day time. | | The location of the Lodge is 90 miles north of El Paso, Texas in Cloudcroft| | New Mexico. It is a three story mountain inn with an large tower being | | the center point of the building. It is built of wood with 47 rooms and | | suites. It boasts its own restaurant and saloon. The saloon, by the way, | | is in the basement, with Rebecca remains. | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~# | | ~#~~~~~~# The W-Eeeek-ly News (tm) Review #~~~~~~#~ | | ~_ # (c) 1993 Eeeek Publishing Co. All Rights Reserved! # _~ | | _~ ~~~~~~~#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~#~~~~~~~ ~_ | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Week Of:02-02-93 through 02-08-93 * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | | .------------------------------------------------------------------. | | | Published in the United States of America, All rights reserved. | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | This publication is protected under Copyright Laws of the United | | | | States. No part of this E-magazine may be reproduced in any form | | | | or by any means without the written permission of the publisher! | | | `------------------------------------------------------------------' | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ######## ## ## ## ## UNIQUE AND ORIGINAL! | | ## ## ## #### ## News you won't find in any | | ## HE ## _ ## EEEEK!LY ## ## ## EWS! other online publication! | | ## ## ### ## ## #### NOT your typical News or | | ## ~###~###~ ## ## Reporting...Read On !! | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | To Submit Material, Write the Editor, or any correspondence, WRITE TO: | | Eeeek Publishing (TWN) P.O.Box 331, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Grassroots Effort to Protect Middle-Class from Tax Increase | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, | | Council for Affordable Health Insurance, the Employers Council on Flexible | | Compensation, Self-Insurance Institute of America, & the Society of Profes-| | sional Benefit Administrators formed the Coalition to Preserve Health | | Benefits to oppose taxing the premiums employees & employers pay to insure | | the health of 150 million Americans. Though these benefits have been tax | | free for 50 years, the new effort to tax benefits has the support of key | | advisors in the Clinton Admin, members of Congress, & is under consider- | | ation by The President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform, chaired| | by Hillary Rodham Clinton. One plan under consideration by the Admin. would| | limit the amount of tax-free health insurance premiums to the level of the | | least expensive group health care insurance plan in a geographic region. | | Thus, if the cheapest HMO coverage were $2,000 per year, employers and | | employees would be taxed on any health care premiums they pay above $2,000 | | annually. For a worker with an annual salary of $36,000 & health insurance | | costs of $3,000 per year, the worker's additional tax would amount to $280.| | A worker with the same salary whose benefits cost $5,500 would pay an | | additional $980 in taxes each year. Greg Scandlen, exec.dir. of the Council| | for Affordable Health Insurance, said, "Those workers who need health care | | the most will be taxed the most." (See Following Pages) | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | What Taxing Health Benefits Could Mean For You | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Employees will be taxed on that portion of their total annual health care | | insurance premiums that exceeds the cost of the cheapest, basic insurance | | plan in their region. Total annual health care insurance premiums includes | | the total amount paid by the year by an employee for himself & dependents | | as well as the total amount paid by an employer on an employee's behalf. | | Under the proposal, this employer contribution would become taxable income | | to the employee. Estimates below are based on articles published in the LA | | Times and the Washington Post describing the plan. | | Married Taxpayer Joint Income----------------------------------------------| | If Your And Your Health And the Cheapest Your Additional | | Income is: Insurance Costs: In the Market is: Tax Will Be: | | $36,000 $3,500 $2,000 $420 | | $36,000 $4,000 $2,000 $560 | | $87,000 $3,500 $2,000 $465 | | $87,000 $4,000 $2,000 $620 | | Single Taxpayer------------------------------------------------------------| | If Your And Your Health And the Cheapest Your Additional | | Income is: Insurance Costs: In the Market is: Tax Will Be: | | $15,000 $3,500 $2,000 $225 | | $15,000 $4,000 $2,000 $300 | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | The Cost of Taxing Health Benefits | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Proponents argue that taxing benefits will reduce the cost of insurance | | by discouraging employers and employees from obtaining coverage above the | | bare minimum basic package. | | The Case Against it: Taxing health care premium benefits will hit the | | middle class hardest. It will also penalize those families who must take | | out health care coverage above the bare minimum. The more a family pays | | for health insurance, the more it will be taxed to pay for those who have | | none, even those who have access to an employer-provided plan but choose | | not to enroll. Employers will be discouraged from offering benefits above | | the bare minimum. The result: lower quality employer-provided health care, | | less employee choice and less flexibility in employer provided plans. | | Despite many attempts to control health care costs, the price Americans | | pay for health care continues to rise 3 times faster than inflation. Health| | care accounts for 14% of our gross domestic product. No nation spends more | | than the United States on health care. The average worker & his employer | | spend $4,743 a year on his health care. Survey after survey has found the | | public strongly opposes taxing health benefits. A survey also found 73% | | will be more likely to vote against candidates running for Congress who | | support increased taxes on employee benefits. | | WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN! | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Federal Workers To Lobby for "Anti-Freeze" Next Week | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | WASHINGTON/U.S. Newswire: Hundreds of members of the nation's largest | | independent federal employee union, the National Treasury Employees union | | will descend on Capitol Hill next week to try to stop President Clinton's | | federal pay freeze proposal, according to Robert M. Tobias, NTEU president.| | Tobias said the NTEU lobbying activities begin in earnest on Monday, March | | 1, at 8 am at the Capitol Hill Holiday Inn, with registration, opening | | ceremonies & an address by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. Tuesday activities | | include a "first ever" federal employees "Bus Tour" from 11:30 am to 1:15 | | pm beginning at the East steps of the Capitol and ending with a rally in | | Lafayette Park across the street from the White House. "The Tuesday event | | will borrow from the Clinton campaign to show the President that we also | | want change," Tobias said, "But not the kind that will cut our already | | inequitable salaries." The NTEU leader said federal workers have sacrificed| | $119 billion in pay reductions over the past decade. "We've made our | | contribution," he said. "Now it's time for us to catch up. The locality | | pay program he wants to gut is the very vehicle that could help him | | re-invent government," he said. "Don't deep freeze it. It'll never come | | back alive." Lobbying activities will end on Wednesday with closing | | ceremonies and an address by Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) taking place at the | | Capitol Holiday Inn, according to Tobias. | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' .----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Justice Dept Announces Joseph Garfield Brown Pleads Guilty | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | VA/US Newswire: Richard Cullen, US attorney for the Eastern District of VA,| | & R.Bryant, special agent-in-charge of the FBI's Washington Metro Field | | Office, announced Joseph Garfield Brown pleaded guilty in Federal District | | Court to unlawfully obtaining classified US national defense information in| | order to provide it to Philippine government officials, in violation of | | Title 18, US Code, Section 793(b). The 44-year-old Brown is a US citizen | | who has resided in the Philippines since 1985. According to a document | | filed in US District Court in support of the guilty plea, in 1991 Brown | | unlawfully got classified documents from Virginia Baynes, a CIA employee | | in the Philippines, & passed the documents to officials of the Philippine | | government. In May 1992, Baynes pleaded guilty in the US District Court | | to an espionage offense, & was sentenced to 41 months imprisonment. Raynes | | has cooperated with the government under the plea agreement. Brown was | | lured to the US for his arrest in Dec. 1992 by the FBI. FBI Special Agent| | Harrison, who spearheaded the investigation, went to the Philippines with | | another FBI agent, who, posing as a Central Intelligence Agency martial | | arts expert, met with Brown. Brown, a tae-kwon-do expert, was offered a | | position as a martial arts instructor for the CIA & arrangements were made | | for Brown to come to VA for training related to that job. 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