At 03:32 PM 1/9/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >"Soma"? Despite the fact that I've read large chunks of the Rig Vedas, I >don't remember anything called "Soma" (unless this is a Brave New World
>Reference). Of course, the Bhagavad Gita is a subsection of the >Mahabarata....but I don't imagine this is what you are referring to... Well then do a fucking google on the word in the Indian context. Maybe your highschool has firewalled off anything that will lead you to Hoffman, Ott, Huxley, etc. Hmm, the 21st century: all the world's libraries at your fingertips, but now you're obligated to use them! ... >Of course Hitler and the gang appropriated this term and pumped it with some >very different meanings, LIST: even playing with a kitten and a laser pointer get tiring eventually. Tyler, we know this shit. We're not undergrads doing September here. Next you're going to tell us how the swastik was a groovy Amerind sign before it was coopted by Austrians. Or continue to slog through the history of the old world tribes. See _guns germs and steel_, btw. including notions of "racial purity". I was curious >as to whether Tim May meant this version of the term or what (and all that >is concomittant, including hoped-for genocides), in which case bludgeoning >him with a heavy, blunt object in the base of the skull would be a break for >all humanity. > >-TD Here's a very general clue: Tim has a clue. Tim's exposed himself under that nym for some time now, do some research. Another hint: keep your irony meter powered up when reading posts here. Carefully remove the sarcasm filter from the satire window to detect tongue-in-cheek rays. Bigger hint: you might have saved us all some once-ever-so-precious-bandwidth by writing off Aryan as a simple sound pun: Bay Area -an, get it? Finally, here's something to keep in mind: culture != race. You can slam a culture --after all, values are choices-- pretty rationally, thought there's not much evidence for slamming gene-based human groups. You can decry zionist colonialism without animosity towards hebrews. You can mock decrepit urban negro, or appalachian caucasoid, or suburban soccermom culture without impugning the genome of the actors. But this explaining of the obvious is becoming painful, please assume we're a group of at least peers, if not polite tolerant but decreasingly amused elders. Merci
