[Peace] a modest alternative

[Jim Buell]

I responded just to John on this one already, but I should clarify to the 
list too. The term came to mind from everybody's favorite conspiracy 
trilogy back when I was in college, the Illuminatus (Robert Anton Wilson 
and Robert Shea). The storyline, as I recall, had it that the Knights 
Templar and other secret organizations from the time of the Crusades to the 
present day, among them Masons, the mafia, assassination conspirators, 
etc., were secretly "Illuminati" working consistently toward one aim - 
"immanentizing the eschaton," i.e. bringing on full-scale Armageddon to 
pave the way for the biblical second coming. Guess the reference was a 
little too obtuse.

Not to cast aspersions on anybody's beliefs, but I can't be the only one 
around with nightmares this week about how maybe, just maybe, there might 
be a few literal interpreters of Revelations somewhere in the corridors of 
power, looking at their calendars and the expiration dates on the canned 
food they socked away for Y2K ... and not worrying over-much about whether 
a crazy series of escalations might just set off a nuclear exchange between 
Pakistan and India for instance. Bombarding the Afghans with food is a much 
better direction to go, wouldn't you agree?

Jim

At 05:30 PM 9/19/01 -0500, Arun Bhalla wrote:

>Jen Roth writes:
> > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, John Wason wrote:
> >
> > > At 05:59 PM 09/18/2001 -0500, James Buell wrote:
> > >
> > > >"Bomb Afghanistan with food." Sounds a hell of a lot better than 
> GW's plan
> > > >to immanentize the eschaton.
> > >
> > > *smile*  I assume you're satirizing Dubya's speaking ability here, 
> Jim.  Ca
> > n
> > > you supply the translation?
> >
> > I'm not Jim :) but I'm going to guess "bring about the end of the world."
>
>Yeah, those words are too big for Dubya's vocabulary. ;)
>
>Arun
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