From: The Moonshadow Area: Night Side To: Deep Black 17 Apr 94 16:29:22 Subject: "It" UpdReq |DB}It gave me a really deep respect for vets who have returned home from co| |DB}I saw it once; but they had to live and breathe that hell every day. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ the unfortunate thing is that they cant really communicate what it was like to people who were not there & have no similar experience. the closest i've seen is the movie "platoon" & a segment on "day 1" by jack smith. pretty terrifying shit! ___ MegaMail 2.10 #0 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: The Moonshadow Area: Night Side To: Deep Black 17 Apr 94 16:31:24 Subject: "It" UpdReq |DB}Well.....after finishing up all the attendant investigation and being wi| |DB}her parents, etc; moi cleaned it up! | yuk. i remember reading an article by a woman who had to deal with the same situation, but it was a lot less messy, since the person committed suicide with pills. but still, the woman who wrote the article was in another part of the house when the suicide took place, so it was pretty horrible for her when she found out what had happened. |DB}Who else was gonna? That frozen microsecond when the hammer fell was fo| |DB}by a ear-ringing blast. My first impression was hair.....lots of it jus| |DB}drifting slowly over the bed. The smell of gunpowder and blood. | |DB}I freaked and ran around aimlessly screaming. Somehow, I lost my glasse| what a terrible thing for one person to do to another (her to you). she obviously didnt think about the devastating effect her actions would have on others. very irresponsible to leave you with the mess. ___ MegaMail 2.10 #0 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: The Moonshadow Area: Night Side To: Kayla Block 17 Apr 94 16:34:26 Subject: Book UpdReq |KB}no, but i'm a big malcolm forbes fan, i will have to look | |KB}for it. (i was really bummed when forbes died. wish i | me too. he lived in the next town from us. i was gonna crash his magazine's 50th anniversary party, but we would have had to bicycle up there, a potentially life-threatening situation around here! |KB}could have met him first. if he had hung out a bit longer, | |KB}i probably could have too!) | i never met him, but i did see him at a balloon festival, & i met his lamborghini at the mall once. (of course, you could tell where it was parked--there was a crowd around it.) |KB} TM> i read that there's only one verifiable case of suicide by crucifix| |KB} TM> (no, it wasnt HIM! some spanish guy in the u.s.) | |KB} | |KB}whaa.....that is too too weird. i don't even see how | |KB}someone could commit suicide that way. sounds like the guy | |KB}was probably catholic, eh? | he was hispanic. i cant remember how he did it, but there was a description in the book, something about putting the nails thru his hands & then fitting them into pre-drilled holes in the cross. gruesome! |KB} TM> for really good pictures, you have to get one of those p| |KB} TM> academy texts with the training photos in them. gross! | |KB} | |KB}undoubtedly. and where, might i ask, does one find such things? | believe it or not, they are put out by textbook publishers such as john wiley! you might try "subject guide to books in print". they are usually sold by mail order, since very few are bought. (gee, i wonder why!) or perhaps yer local police academy has a libary! one of our nearby colleges has a curriculum for undertakers--they might have some of these texts in their libary too. |KB}(i just finished reading 'how we die' and some other book whose name esc| oh, i've heard that is an excellent book! how did you like it? |KB}me at the moment on a similar topic. it seems like what | |KB}was a rather peripheral interest has become more intense | |KB}for me for some reason. now, i'm even looking into 'field | |KB}trips'. (a friend of mine used to work at a mortuary, and | |KB}he still has 'connections' there.) | i used to know an undertaker who had an apartment above the funeral home. he used to blast rock n roll on his stereo loud enuf to wake the dead. fortunately, it didnt. :) ___ MegaMail 2.10 #0 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: The Moonshadow Area: Night Side To: Kayla Block 17 Apr 94 16:41:28 Subject: Grumping around UpdReq |KB}those days. now that scene has become full of gang | |KB}bangers, and violence. i've wondered if it's because the | |KB}drugs have changed. people were doing psychedelics back in | |KB}the early house scene, and now it seems like pcp and | |KB}methamphetamine have become the drugs of choice. i don't | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ i share yer opinion on that one. pot made you mellow; but coke, today's prevalent drug, makes you spaz out. lsd makes you too busy tripping to shoot anybody, or steal. i think they should start giving it out on street corners. it seemed to put a halt to the gang violence of the 1950s. ___ MegaMail 2.10 #0 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: The Moonshadow Area: Night Side To: Deep Black 17 Apr 94 16:44:30 Subject: Nazi Material UpdReq |DB}There are certain factions within the Temple of Set who have produced a | |DB}skeletal outline. It would be an arduous task, to be sure. | that's probably why they projected a thousand year life for the reich! |DB}TM> hey, free money! i can just see the next llewellyn book: "how to | |DB}TM> use nazi magic to manifest wealth!" (or at least make a living.) | |DB} | |DB}And we could have Bonewits do the editing! No doubt it would get a good | |DB}review in _Green Egg_! | rofl! ___ MegaMail 2.10 #0 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Christeos Pir Area: Night Side To: The Moonshadow 17 Apr 94 20:26:28 Subject: Modern Psychosis... . UpdReq -=> The Moonshadow sent a message to Rose Dawn on 15 Apr 94 20:55:06 <=- -=> Re: Modern Psychosis... . <=- Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. TM> it always cracked me up that people who bitch about "welfare mothers" TM> seem to be the same ones who want women to stay home with their kids TM> instead of getting a job. wyrd, isnt it, how they cant seem to make up TM> their minds. Oh, you mean the ones who want forced prayer in the schools, but say that sex education belongs in the home (a little TOO close to the truth for some of them)! Love is the law, love under will. - CP ... There is no act or passion that shall not be a hymn in mine honour. 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718