[Peace-discuss] Recent Public Square Commentary

[John W.]

At 07:50 PM 11/13/2006, Jan & Durl Kruse wrote:

>Listen or read below: Creative Writing: an interesting commentary!


Yes.  Arthur Cronkhite: former and founding convenor of the local Prairie 
Green party.  A wise old soul indeed.

John Wason




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>>Subject: Recent Public Square Commentary
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>><http://www.will.uiuc.edu/community/publicsquare/default.htm>http://www.will.uiuc.edu/community/publicsquare/default.htm
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>>Hello, my name is Arthur Cronkhite and I come to you today, asking 
>>questions with regard to the University's mascot.
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>>Why does the University of Illinois use an earth-based religious symbol? 
>>What kind of arrogance allows the University to believe it can somehow 
>>capture the Native American spirit in a mascot? Why do vast numbers of 
>>students and alumni, fervently worship an ancient religious ideal?
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>>When a child of no consequence, adorned in spiritual regalia, dances 
>>forth from an underground passage into the Assembly Hall, what underworld 
>>spirits does he bring with him? As he dances like a madman possessed, 
>>upon dead woods bound and lacquered in a domed hut void of all nature, 
>>what dark forces are spread among the gathered tribe?
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>>As those present stand in devotion, arms positioned to receive "the 
>>spirit", what demons fly from sacred feathers to possess the worshipers? 
>>What malevolent tentacles entangle the hearts of those who have opened 
>>themselves to receive "the spirit"?
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>>Once the channeling is complete, the spirit accepted and the followers go 
>>forth, do they take the underworld with them? Is this why editors of the 
>>student newspaper, published disrespect of Muslim beliefs, or Greeks in 
>>their hedonism taunted those of other color - because the dark spirits 
>>are strong among them?
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>>Is it a tribe of spirits that trick the devoted into believing that The 
>>Chief "is only a mascot and nothing more", or one great demon? What kind 
>>of underworld darkness blinds normally devout Christians, allowing them 
>>to proudly submerse themselves in pagan practice and symbols?
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>>Do these spirits now call to our elected officials? Is it an underworld 
>>vision that leads these men in battle to deny truth? Is it possible we 
>>have found the original source to some of the darkness today - which have 
>>these men aiding and abetting a criminal Presidency that wages war upon 
>>the Muslim world?
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>>Why is it that a place of understanding, truth and wisdom, now comes 
>>under siege by those of dominance seeking submission? Why do these men 
>>seek to practice spiritual legislation that will guarantee continued 
>>desecration? Is it because they must have blind followers, in order to 
>>stay in power?
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>>Or could it be simple ignorance, in what is done each time a child 
>>without a vision quest, unnamed through infant testing, conjuring spirits 
>>without aged wisdom, has produced such a poisonous caldron? Which begs 
>>the last of questions.
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>>When will the elders come and shed light upon these deceived practices? 
>>When will the real Chiefs assemble and confront the dark forces that hold 
>>us captive? When will the fires of the circle be lit and the surface 
>>spirits called, so that all may understand? When will dark hearts be 
>>exposed to the purifying light of spirit dances that only the children of 
>>the earth may practice fully?
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>>For until they do, and until we see, dark spirits will continue to dance 
>>with glee in the hearts of ignorant men.
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