Fw: [Peace-discuss] Student occupation

[C. G. Estabrook]

That's roughly the plot of a recent novel, as I recall.

I did once know a classics professor, a number of years my senior, a Catholic, 
who took acid for the first time in his maturity, and had a vision of God as a 
great mouth in the sky, open to receive him. The vision had a profound emotional 
effect on him, long after the trip was over, and he spoke about it on a number 
of occasions.  Dead now, he knows in some sense the truth of the matter, I 
suppose...  --CGE


unionyes wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "unionyes" <unionyes at ameritech.net> To:
> "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 8:27 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Student occupation
> 
> 
>> WHAT ?
>> 
>> Did I miss something here ?
>> 
>> Don't ridicule God, she will not like it !
>> 
>> I had an African American friend back in the late  1980's, that had a drug
>> indused vision of GOD.
>> 
>> He said that GOD appeared to him and spoke to him.
>> 
>> He stated that GOD was an older heavy set Black woman in bermuda shorts, a
>> straw hat, and smoking a cigar. He said that she ( GOD ) scolded him for
>> being such a fool, and that he needed to grow-up at age 31 and get serious
>> about life.
>> 
>> He took her advise !
>> 
>> Who knows if it was hallucination or real vision ?
>> 
>> Does it matter ?
>> 
>> David J.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> David J.
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> 
>> To: <jencart13 at yahoo.com> Cc: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net> 
>> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 7:38 PM Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss]
>> Student occupation
>> 
>> 
>>> I modestly decline John's nomination (which I know is heart-felt).
>>> 
>>> As Gore Vidal put it with a sigh, "Always a godfather, never a ..."
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
>>>> And now JOHN is referring to CARL as God!!  (Didn't we go thru 
>>>> something like this before??) Has Hell itself frozen over??? --Jenifer
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --- On *Sun, 2/8/09, John W. /<jbw292002 at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> From: John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] 
>>>> Student occupation To: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> Cc: "Peace
>>>>  Discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net> Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009,
>>>> 12:07 PM
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:41 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu 
>>>> <mailto:galliher at uiuc.edu>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I taught at the U. of Rochester for two years in the dark backward and
>>>> abysm of time (1978-80) and in fact enjoyed it a lot.  Following this 
>>>> link, I found that Rochester's "Campus Times" has not changed its type
>>>> face in 30 years. (It was I think one of the first university
>>>> newspapers to be written and edited entirely on computers.)
>>>> 
>>>> Rochester is a strangely isolated place.  (The campus is partially 
>>>> surrounded by a cemetery, which contains the mortal remains of both
>>>> Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony; it's so cold and snowy that
>>>> the major campus buildings are connected by tunnels; and Steve, the
>>>> bartender at the faculty club, who made a famous vodka martini with the
>>>> conjuration, "It's all in the wrist," pried the Watney's Red Barrel
>>>> dispenser from the bar and presented it to me as I left town.)  If I
>>>> may be allowed one self-referential story, as the election of 1980
>>>> approached, the then-editor of the student paper asked me to write an
>>>> analysis for a special edition; he also asked a number of members of 
>>>> the political science [sic] department to do so; they agreed -- on the 
>>>> condition that the paper not publish my article...
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> So dear God, what happened???  Whose article(s) did the student 
>>>> newspaper publish?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I'm proud of the contemporary UR students. --CGE
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Just wait till it gets warmer...
>>>> 
>>>> David Green wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> http://prometheus.scp.rochester.edu/ursds/node/86
>>>> 
>>>> SDS Students occupy a building for 9 hours on behalf of Palestinian 
>>>> cause. Maybe Carl is wrong about cold weather uprisings. It's a start.