Mary, the wife of Jesus, dumped some expensive oil on the feet of Jesus before the Romans hung him on the cross for a few hours. His buddies made a big stink and said the money from the oil could rather be given to the poor. "The poor will be with us always, me, I'm out of here. Let her oil my feet." Sounds a little arrogant but it's true enough.

There will be people yelling about sending billions of dollars into space. They have a point and I'd be tempted to agree with them except that we are the way we are and practical isn't one of our traits. Adventurous is. Sometimes it gets us into trouble but it also takes us into our future. We aren't an animal that is content to make things nice here on Earth and relax for the next 50 thousand years. We could have arranged that many years ago. We are not suited to be content. We need to go farther.

As sure as the stars are out there, it will be our goal to get to them. It used to be science fiction. It is no longer science fiction that we can go to the moon and build a city in empty space. Good or bad is not the question. There is no question. As much as there is a destiny, it is ours to mould and fulfil it. The space station will come, a station on Mars will come and one day we'll leave our solar system. There is no science fiction, we're just working on the technology.

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THE BLUE RIBBON QUESTION

What is appropriate?

Social systems are constructed out of convictions that we believe to be appropriate. A social system gives us a basis, a foundation on which to build our concepts. Our condition of consciousness requires some basis, foundation beliefs. This is what makes us different from most other animals.

Most of us now believe that it is inappropriate to sacrifice 12 year old virgins at parties celebrating the return of the sun. Here in the western world, many now believe in Santa Claus and that Jesus Christ is our saviour and is somehow our link to God. There is no more ground for believing in Jesus or Santa Claus than there was for virgin sacrifice. It just fits better to our social system. Most believe that it is not appropriate to have sex with children. It is our belief, it is based on what we think is socially appropriate.

Sex with children and in turn the making public of such practices on the internet doesn't fit with our idea of an appropriate social attitude. Exploiting children for the sexual perversions of deviant adults does not help the well being of these children that are part of our society. Not good for our children, not good for our society. This belief can be supported by observation and experience. It is one of my beliefs. It wasn't always every societies belief. There are stories that the Roman soldiers returning home from war were awarded 12 year old boys to do with as they pleased. I don't believe it was a good thing for the boys. In some belief systems it is forbidden to have sex with a woman outside of marriage. To rape a young boy is not adultery. This belief is not good for the child.

Before children have reached puberty, they are not sexual and it is my belief that it is not good for the children to be involved in sex, less good is it for them to take part in pornographic productions. Do we censor such things on the internet? Though I am against censorship, for the sake of the children, I believe it may be necessary. If I had a child and some bastard used him or her in sexual practices to make pictures to place on a web page for sick freaks, I'd want the bastard hung up by his nuts and left to die over an ant hill. He would then have trouble making a child porn web page. That is what I believe would be appropriate. Not everyone has the same belief but one thing that is fairly certain in our society's belief system is that children should be protected from such abuse.

I don't like hate propaganda but I'm not sure if one can censor it. One can dislike it and say so. One can bombard such a web site with millions of letters explaining to the owner of the page that his work is not liked. The trouble is, where do we draw the line. I believe religion is wrong and crippling to a society. I am in a very small percentage. Most people have a religious belief. Our society now allows for freedom of religious belief and freedom of political belief. That isn't something we always had and it isn't something that everyone has. It is something we have to protect. I want to be free to believe what I conclude to be right. I want to be free to change my mind about what I believe when I want and I want to be free to say what I believe. That is a lot to ask, but we have come that far in our society and to take that freedom away is to go backwards.

The internet represents a connections of people from all over the world with various beliefs. We have to tolerate that some people think different than us. We must be open to accept that we are not the owners of the one true belief. There is no one true belief. Belief is belief, everyone has to work that out for themselves and everyone should have the freedom to say what he believes. No one is qualified to decide what is right and wrong when right and wrong is part of each belief system. It is my opinion that the internet should go uncensored. It is the users responsibility to not take part in things he believes to be wrong for his belief.

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An Article to let you know a little about José Wombat:


Another Virgin Birth


In a small town of 6 people, José was born to a ten year old virgin that was not yet fertile. She was a half-breed. Half Aborigine and half the white guy that raped her mom. Where she shit, flowers would grow. Springing out of the earth like telephone calls. José was conceived when his mom engulfed the entire universe into her soul through her tight vulva. Every god of every cult from every planet had a conference in her womb and decided on José Wombat. Not only to make a new religion to keep the coolies in order but to save the entire universe from sinking into the chaos that it was racing for. Many of the gods were trapped in her womb and became part of José. So not only is José the son of all gods, he is also many of the gods. That's why he's the coolest and those who ignore him are most fucked and those who listen and believe his word will be truly blessed. José says: "Blessed are those who hear my word and take heed for they have in them the truth. But don't go around mocking others that don't believe. That ain't cool. Don't even throw stones or laugh among yourselves for those who build pedestals for to stand on will truly look down on others and see only the tops of their heads or maybe down a few cleavages, which can be pretty fun, but it doesn't compare with loving your fellow man, down on the earth where all earth creatures walk, where perhaps we can touch a cleavage, even of a stranger when she bumps into us in the crowd. Live your life with the wisdom of my word and others will receive my blessing through you even if they don't accept the word. And hey, words are important but they ain't everything."

And one short quote out of context:

"You can eat a whack of chocolate and can sand a nice piece of wood to stick up your ass if that's how you get your kicks, but on Bogelslof island they sit under trees and paint pictures of the blue sky and never grow tired of watching to see if a bird will interrupt the endless horizon while the day turns to night like the night turns to day and never does another have a mean word to say and the Americans, wanting to test a new French bomb built by the Chinese in India, blew the fuckin' island off the map."

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An Article Requested from Speedqueen Records:

$10 Rolls Royce

What's up with technology? Automobiles have been around for a hundred years and although they have changed their looks a little, the technology has made almost no advancement. Why not? No one cares. They work fine, why bother making them better. Who wants a Rolls Royce for $10 that gets 600 km. per litre? Not me. I'd much rather pay 4,500 marks for a ten year old bucket of Japanese bolts and fill it with gas once a week. Gas is so damn cheap.

Computers on the other foot are a different story. I remember our school computer. It was hardly a Model T. It was as big as a kitchen and took two hours to eat a hundred punch cards so that it could print out a picture of Snoopy with 400 x's on a huge piece of paper that was pulled with a tractor through the slamming spinning head printer. Only Henry and a few others knew how to operate the monster.

I had to learn how to punch out a few million of these cards to do my cost estimate project in college. What was it good for? Not much. I can't remember what I had to do to get all those cards but I'm glad we don't need them any more. Not since the Commodore 64. A computer that is about a tenth of a third of a half a percent as good as what I now have at home. A three year old computer that gets on my nerves because it doesn't do what I want it to do fast enough or not at all. In the last 20 years, computers have developed 100's of time faster than most any other technology man has worked at. Today we sit at a computer that performs 100's of functions and complain that it doesn't do it fast enough and that it doesn't do more. We want them better and better.

Like cars, computers have changed our lives. Some of us work all day or play all day on a computer. We don't buy stamps anymore. We communicate with people on the other side of the world in no time and collect information from almost anywhere. Not all of this is good, there is much garbage to weed through. It's still in fad mode and we are still content to look at tits and struggle through trashy homepages. That is just a process. The internet will be a communication network enabling bands with no label to give samples of their music to Aborigines in Australia. The internet will allow those same Aborigines to study an online law course so that they can prepare themselves for land right court cases. It lets us find out what the traffic situation is in Bangkok. We can check out the weather in China. We can have a online chat with 12 people from 13 different continents. We can send a picture of our fish to a email pen pal who lives in the dessert. We can make a home page telling the world anything we think they should know. We can buy almost any book from anywhere in the world. We can order our groceries. Find a used car. Cake recipe. Historical information on a land we never heard of. We can do almost any kind of communication in almost no time anywhere there is a phone link. That includes handies. And we think this is normal. It is now. And we want it faster, better and more of it. This wasn't at all normal just a few years ago and I don't think we realize how much it has changed us already and how much it will change us very soon.

So what's my point? To tell the truth, I don't know if I have one. I just wanted to alert you to the comparison. We lived fine without computers 20 years ago or less, now we all have to have one and we have to have one that can do many things. Things we never did before but now seem important to be able to do. I still think a computer is too much money, but really, a computer is a $10 Rolls Royce.

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You think you're having a bad day.


Taken from my newest book, 'Letter to Eva', is:

On a placid ocean, sitting alone in a rubber dingy, with the scorching sun burning out his eyes and the cold breeze chilling his bones, Hans said out load, "Fuck."

Later on, in the late afternoon, Hans killed a seagull that thought it could feed on the not quite dead flesh on Hans' face. Without thinking of his hunger, Hans threw the dead bird in the water. It wouldn't sink so he beat it with an oar until it was an unrecognizable blood stain on the quiet water. "Fuck," Hans said aloud.

The bird was suddenly gone and in its place, a great white shark burst through the surface, smashing down on Hans' dingy and that was about it.

"Fuck," Hans said one last time before he sank under the surface with one leg in the shark's jaws.

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How about this for a blow to the ego. You're sitting on your throne in your kingdom on your land, celebrating the day where the gods started mankind there in your palace and the whole country celebrates with you and considers you an offspring of God himself and love you, adore you and you get the picture. Things are looking not bad for 'enjoying what you do.'

Aber, that's 'but' in German but somehow I like it in German better, it's a little more than a but, a little more scary in it's forshadowing. Maybe we'll have to ask the experts why I believe that and if there's anything in it. Anyhow, back to the king:

In sails a bunch of foreigners from over the ocean and you don't even know what a ship is and you've never known another human civilization and suddenly here they are, bigger, whiter skin, harrier faces, extravagantly clad in shiny metal, carrying a sword and what all. And they say, "Okay fuckers, the party is over. We take your land, we take your gold, we fuck your woman and you have to work for us if you want to live on the land that we claim now as ours 'cause we have guns and you don't."

Where was I going with this? Oh, something about how the fuck would a guy feel? Pretty fuckin' shitty. There was a man like that. Maybe even a few more than one, maybe very many. And in some cases, much worse, with murder, genocide, famine and what all. In fact, it's practically common occurrence. And we complain when the TV signal isn't very good when it rains.

Makes you wonder if we aren't a little soft.