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Number 666, April 15, 2012
"The Number of the beast
(or not) on a date that
will live in infamy"


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EDITORIAL MATTERS:

This being Issue Number 666 our motto is "the number of the beast" except some ancient manuscripts have that number as 616 instead. Which is correct? How could ya tell?

The feature article is a little book by Friedrich Nietzsche Der Antichrist, which means both "the antichrist" and "the anti-christian" in German. It's things like that that drive translators crazy.

Nietzsche was the greatest philosopher of the 19th Century, and the greatest German philosopher ever. He was also a great writer, which means his work can be read as literature as well as philosophy. This paradoxically makes him harder to understand since he always went for the most striking and provocative imagery in his writing when a milder turn of phrase might have been more clear. His reputation suffered in the 1930s and '40s when the Nazis issued special editions of his books with things changed around to fit the Nazi view of life, even if it meant making the text say the exact opposite of what it originally said. Don't ya just fookin' hate Nazis?

I have come to suspect the computer problems I reported on last week are mostly hardware problems. It seems to be either a disk controller or a bad disk drive. At any rate it looks like a new desktop machine looms in my future. Currently I'm using a little box that was my music server gizmo thing. Got that 64-bit Windows 7 thing on it. Kinda sluggish it seems. Ah well.

For this weeks must-read article, we have this:

Study: Trust in science among educated conservatives plunges
by Liz Goodwin

Conservatives, particularly those with college educations, have become dramatically more skeptical of science over the past four decades, according to a study published in the April issue of the American Sociological Review. Fewer than 35 percent of conservatives say they have a "great deal" of trust in the scientific community now, compared to nearly half in 1974.

"The scientific community ... has been concerned about this growing distrust in the public with science. And what I found in the study is basically that's really not the problem. The growing distrust of science is entirely focused in two groups—conservatives and people who frequently attend church," says the study's author, University of North Carolina postdoctoral fellow Gordon Gauchat.
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The Antichrist
by Friedrich W. Nietzsche
The conditions under which any one understands me, and necessarily understands me—I know them only too well. Even to endure my seriousness, my passion, he must carry intellectual integrity to the verge of hardness. He must be accustomed to living on mountain tops—and to looking upon the wretched gabble of politics and nationalism as beneath him. He must have become indifferent; he must never ask of the truth whether it brings profit to him or a fatality to him.... He must have an inclination, born of strength, for questions that no one has the courage for; the courage for the forbidden; predestination for the labyrinth. The experience of seven solitudes. New ears for new music. New eyes for what is most distant. A new conscience for truths that have hitherto remained unheard. And the will to economize in the grand manner—to hold together his strength, his enthusiasm.... Reverence for self; love of self; absolute freedom of self....
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Chapter Twenty-eight: Council of War
An Excerpt From the forthcoming novel Blade of P'Na

by L. Neil Smith
The boss called ahead. Instead of parking at the curb when we got there, he pulled around to the north side of the Elder's house—putting the shoreline to our left—into an open door wide enough for ten veeks. We'd been here once before, when we were "taken for a ride". One of the dozens of machines parked inside was immediately familiar. It belonged to Eneri Relda. The four of us wondered what was going on.
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Tale of a Rogue
by Dean West
I don't usually advocate military intervention, but I am aware of a country that would seem—by our government's standards—to desperately need it. This nation has one of the largest standing armies in the world. They spend an enormous portion of their GDP on their military, and on devising new and more dangerous WMD. While claiming their love of peace, they routinely bully or invade other nations.
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What Would Jesus Shoot
by A.X. Perez
The illustration for the Easter (April 8th) 2012 issue of The Libertarian Enterprise is a picture of Jesus Christ holding a Winchester lever action rifle captioned "WHAT WOULD JESUS SHOOT?" While many faux Believers (many of them quire bloodthirsty I might add.) might object to this I feel it is a fair question. After all He did ask His Apostles how many of them were heeled before He sent them out to spread the Word, and He did advise that "he who owns a cloak should sell it and buy a sword." While He did tell Simon Peter to stand down at Gethsemane, tactically all Peter could have accomplished would have been the slaughter of Jesus and His followers. Strangely, the bosses who want the rest of us to bare our throats to their knives only remember this story and use it as an example of why we should not forcibly resist tyranny. Makes ya go "hmmm."
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The Hunger Games, A Brief Review
by David Walker
Have you read the book or watched the movie? Because I write and prepare media for a living now (instructional manuals—GAG!!), I really don't like to read or watch movies any more. Add to that the way Hollywood fucks everything up, and I just don't have time to live vicariously through folks I find offensive and stupid.
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History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
by John William Draper
WHOEVER has had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the mental condition of the intelligent classes in Europe and America, must have perceived that there is a great and rapidly-increasing departure from the public religious faith, and that, while among the more frank this divergence is not concealed, there is a far more extensive and far more dangerous secession, private and unacknowledged.
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The Age of Reason
by Thomas Paine
IT has been my intention, for several years past, to publish my thoughts upon religion; I am well aware of the difficulties that attend the subject, and from that consideration, had reserved it to a more advanced period of life. I intended it to be the last offering I should make to my fellow-citizens of all nations, and that at a time when the purity of the motive that induced me to it could not admit of a question, even by those who might disapprove the work. The circumstance that has now taken place in France, of the total abolition of the whole national order of priesthood, and of everything appertaining to compulsive systems of religion, and compulsive articles of faith, has not only precipitated my intention, but rendered a work of this kind exceedingly necessary, lest, in the general wreck of superstition, of false systems of government, and false theology, we lose sight of morality, of humanity, and of the theology that is true.
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About The Holy Bible
A Lecture

by Robert G. Ingersoll
THERE are many millions of people who believe the Bible to be the inspired word of God—millions who think that this book is staff and guide, counselor and consoler; that it fills the present with peace and the future with hope—millions who believe that it is the fountain of law, justice and mercy, and that to its wise and benign teachings the world is indebted for its liberty, wealth and civilization—millions who imagine that this book is a revelation from the wisdom and love of God to the brain and heart of man—millions who regard this book as a torch that conquers the darkness of death, and pours its radiance on another world—a world without a tear. They forget its ignorance and savagery, its hatred of liberty, its religious persecution; they remember heaven, but they forget the dungeon of eternal pain.
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Atlantea The Beautiful No. 172
by L. Neil Smith and Rex May
Number 172 of a weekly cartoon series.
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Many feel that this is the funniest book I've written so far—at least intentionally—and features our old friend Win Bear, G. Howell Nahuatl, a sapient coyote, time traveler Bernie Gruenblum, and Georgie, the time machine who loves him.

The price: $12.99.

The place: CD Baby.

I understand that it will soon be available in iTunes, as well.

—L. Neil Smith


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