rad's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=rad2001-09-13T18:16:49ZSeptember 13, 2001 (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/rad/writeups/September+13%252C+2001radhttp://m.everything2.com/user/rad2001-09-13T18:16:49Z2001-09-13T18:16:49Z<small><a href="/title/everything">everything</a></small>.<br><br>
I haven’t <a href="/title/noded">noded</a> in six months, though it has probably gone <a href="/title/unnoticed">unnoticed</a>. I have been riding out the few remaining months of my system administration job with nothing but <a href="/title/e2">e2</a>, <a href="/title/megatokyo">megatokyo</a> and <a href="/title/pepsi+one">pepsi one</a> to keep me together. <a href="/title/Shanoyu">Shanoyu</a> told me Tuesday morning that <a href="/title/Hermetic">Hermetic</a> killed himself. I read his <a href="/title/nodes">nodes</a>, hell I have probably read at least <a href="/title/one">one</a> node by everyone in the last year. I feel it now, the essence of <a href="/title/everything">everything</a> as a community and this is one for the few things that has pulled me through the <a href="/title/stress">stress</a>, <a href="/title/confusion">confusion</a> and <a href="/title/anger">anger</a> of the last few days. It seems like such an <a href="/title/idiotic">idiotic</a> thing to focus on as death rides across the east coast, this <a href="/title/silly">silly</a> web site and all it’s strange, strange <a href="/title/denizens">denizens</a>. I can’t understand it, however I am <a href="/title/thankful">thankful</a> for anything at this moment in time. <br><br>
Though I feel I am one of the more or less <a href="/title/unknown">unknown</a> <a href="/title/everythingian">everythingian</a>s, and perhaps my ego precedes me, I simply want to <a href="/title/express">express</a> something towards the community as a…The Industrial Revolution: Blessing or curse for the working class? (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/rad/writeups/The+Industrial+Revolution%253A+Blessing+or+curse+for+the+working+class%253Fradhttp://m.everything2.com/user/rad2001-03-15T02:13:28Z2001-03-15T02:13:28Z When one considers the effect that the Industrial Revolutions of the 19th and early 20th century, the workers whose backs bore it are seldom reflected upon. It becomes ponderous whether the revolution was a <a href="/title/boon">boon</a> or a <a href="/title/malediction">malediction</a> upon the working class and if they were truly aided by the great rise in standard of living that hallmarked this time. Those who would defend the period would cite pre-<a href="/title/Industrialization">Industrialization</a> scenarios, toiling under feudal <a href="/title/lords">lords</a> with no future beyond <a href="/title/death">death</a> and an unmarked grave. An opponent of this idea, such as the renowned <a href="/title/Karl+Marx">Karl Marx</a>, would state, 'The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.' (<a href="/title/Marx">Marx</a> and <a href="/title/Engels">Engels</a>, The <a href="/title/Communist+Manifesto">Communist Manifesto</a>)
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Though the great revolutions lead to many hardships for the working class, it can be said that they benefited from it equally. As…Dream Log: March 5, 2001 (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/rad/writeups/Dream+Log%253A+March+5%252C+2001radhttp://m.everything2.com/user/rad2001-03-05T22:39:13Z2001-03-05T22:39:13ZFell asleep listening to <a href="/title/Richard+D+James">Richard D James</a>' <a href="/title/Selected+Ambient+Works+Volume+II">Selected Ambient Works Volume II</a>. Those of you who have heard the masterpiece that is said album, you know that this could lead to some interesting dreams.<br><br>
Floating in a collumn of dark <a href="/title/blue">blue</a> liquid. It's so blue, but I can see through it, all around me a blue world. Purple orbs float lethargicly upwards, always upwards. The green <a href="/title/cones">cones</a> float down, this is their sole <a href="/title/duty">duty</a>, their only function. The pace increases, things are going faster now. Specks of ruby are introduced to the system, contrasting all that the <a href="/title/world">world</a> stands for. At first they are small, so small that I can't even see them but I know they are there. They grow bigger, like beautiful gems of pure crimson. They bleed out, polluting the wonderful blue dream liquid. The cylinder is ensconsed in red.
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Down through a small rusty grate go me and the red substance. In a barren white room, <a href="/title/serile">serile</a> and lonely. Winds born of hades wip around the non-landscape, rasping my naked flesh…set (person)http://m.everything2.com/user/rad/writeups/setradhttp://m.everything2.com/user/rad2001-02-03T07:49:37Z2001-02-03T07:49:37Z<p>The <a href="/title/legend">legend</a>s surrounding <a href="/title/Set">Set</a> are many, and even his description varies from the form of a <a href="/title/serpent">serpent</a>, an <a href="/title/aardvark">aardvark</a>-headed man or even a <a href="/title/greyhound">greyhound</a>. What he symbolizes is also a matter of some <a href="/title/dispute">dispute</a>, as some believe it is <a href="/title/chaos">chaos</a>, others claim outright <a href="/title/evil">evil</a>, while many Egyptologists cling to the idea that he is the <a href="/title/deity">deity</a> of <a href="/title/iron">iron</a>. In many myths, Set is portrayed as the brother of <a href="/title/Osiris">Osiris</a>, which in turn leads to the bizarre account of Set’s murder of his <a href="/title/brother">brother</a>. Stories surrounding this fratricide range from the [intense[ to the <a href="/title/mild">mild</a>, going so far as to speak of dismemberment and <a href="/title/rape">rape</a> of the corpse of <a href="/title/Osiris">Osiris</a>. Within the <a href="/title/Book+of+the+Dead">Book of the Dead</a>, <a href="/title/Set">Set</a> is said to be “the great northern sky”, responsible for cloudy skies and <a href="/title/stormy">stormy</a> weather. In the <a href="/title/Book">Book</a>, is said to protect the sun god Re on his nightly voyage through the underworld. The <a href="/title/cult+of+Set">cult of Set</a> finds significance in the <a href="/title/Desert+Oryx">Desert Oryx</a>, <a href="/title/crocodile">crocodile</a>, <a href="/title/boar">boar</a>, and <a href="/title/hippopotamus">hippopotamus</a>, in that they are all destroyers of field and boat.</p>The revolution is over, and we have lost (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/rad/writeups/The+revolution+is+over%252C+and+we+have+lostradhttp://m.everything2.com/user/rad2001-01-30T11:57:05Z2001-01-30T11:57:05Z<big><a href="/title/Rebuttal">Rebuttal</a></big><br><br>
<p> The <a href="/title/revolution">revolution</a> is not over. It never started. We as <a href="/title/denizens">denizens</a> of this <a href="/title/godforsaken">godforsaken</a> <a href="/title/realm">realm</a> can see that, and now the <a href="/title/hope">hope</a> of the revolution lives on in the ruin of oh so many “<a href="/title/internet+start+up">internet start up</a>s” and “<a href="/title/eBusiness">eBusiness</a>es”. It’s almost beautiful in a <a href="/title/nihilistic">nihilistic</a> way; the collapse of the corporate Internet makes way for the revolution. Yes, <a href="/title/Gil+Scott-Heron">Gil Scott-Heron</a> was right, <a href="/title/the+revolution+will+not+be+televised">the revolution will not be televised</a>, It will be live. <a href="/title/Ad+serving+firms">Ad serving firms</a> and <a href="/title/pets.com">ridiculous online corporations</a> collapsing to the dust from which they came is the sign, <a href="/title/the+mandate+from+heaven">the mandate from heaven</a>! Let’s go out. Let’s keep moving.</p>
<br><br><small>Alright, I'm only about 10% <a href="/title/serious">serious</a>..</small>The Book of Lies: Chapter 2 (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/rad/writeups/The+Book+of+Lies%253A+Chapter+2radhttp://m.everything2.com/user/rad2001-01-21T04:27:18Z2001-01-21T04:27:18ZLet’s assume Gerner’s statement that <a href="/title/Hoor">Hoor</a> truly refers to <a href="/title/Horus">Horus</a> of <a href="/title/Egyptian">Egyptian</a> <a href="/title/folklore">folklore</a>. It is the belief among some scholars that the legend of <a href="/title/Set">Set</a> and <a href="/title/Osiris">Osiris</a> is actually the basis for the <a href="/title/Christian">Christian</a> <a href="/title/Bible">Bible</a>. Set, for all intents and purposes, is the <a href="/title/devil">devil</a>, while Osiris is God; and more importantly <a href="/title/Horus">Horus</a> is the son of Osiris and Isis and the link between <a href="/title/life">life</a> and <a href="/title/death">death</a>. The lines beginning with “Thou-child!” and ending with “Here is the blood” bare a striking resemblance to a Christian prayer, one focusing on <a href="/title/Jesus">Jesus</a>. So what is <a href="/title/Crowley">Crowley</a> trying to impart through this <a href="/title/mad">mad</a> passage? Simply that he believes (or knows) in the <a href="/title/Egyptian">Egyptian</a> notion that the story of Jesus is plagiarized.
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<small>…<a href="/title/rad">rad</a> does not claim this as truth, but rather suggests it as a possibility.</small>