On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:03:14 GMT, "kenneth collins"
<kenneth.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>Necessary Clarification added, below.
>>"kenneth collins" <kenneth.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>news:FK8Ld.42906$8u5.41378 at bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...>| "Sir Frederick" <mmcneill at fuzzysys.com> wrote in message news:1o2qv09j4gdt87jj8uc6pq9i6cjhu6i9jo at 4ax.com...>|| On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:13:06 GMT, "kenneth collins"
>|| <kenneth.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>||>|| >"Sir Frederick" <mmcneill at fuzzysys.com> wrote in message news:7h8ov05tr8eq4r15756e4592g562l5s6ug at 4ax.com...>|| >| Please describe and give web references (available to me) for all your acronyms.
>|| >| Thank you for your definitions.
>|| >
>|| >Do a date-ordered =Groups= Google[tm] on
>|| >my ID.
>|| >
>|| >Since I came back online, at the beginning of
>|| >November, 2004, I've done a reiteration of
>|| >NDT's general position [which was 'complete'
>|| >by the middle of December, 2004].
>|| >
>|| >There're several hundred posts, but, if you
>|| >actually want to understand, there it is.
>|| >
>|| >I suspect, though, that what you actually want
>|| >is an introductory text. That is what AoK is.
>|| >It's out-there, available for free.
>||>|| Where out there?
>|>| If you give me permission to do so,
>| I'll send it to you. It's an old MSDOS[tm]
>| hypertext "book" that also runs under
>| Windows[tm], and is about 350k as a
>| compressed [self-extracting] attachment.
>| [If you allow me to send it to you, you'll
>| have to be patient. I've got to dig it out
>| of back-ups, so that'll take a while.]
>|>| Many folks have it. If you say you
>| want a copy, perhaps someone else
>| will send it to you. If not, I will.]
>|>|| >If that's inadequate, then help me find a Pub-
>|| >lisher that'll Publish a regular book :-]
>||>||>|| I hear self publishing is quite easily done these days.
>|>| Yeah, so do I. It's just that it's about
>| a 'decade' since I've had the wherewithal
>| to do anything but just hold-onto-Life.
>|>| I'm broke, 'live' in a cross between a
>| "sardine can" and a deep-freeze, can't
>| find employment ["because", in desper-
>| ation, I undertook a series of acts of
>| "civil disobedience" in efforts to "break
>| through" -- I was arrested multiple
>| times, so, now, I have a "record",
>| which is all anyone sees when I
>| apply for work, and no one will hire
>| a "trouble-maker". So, if nothing
>| breaks, I'll starve to death. I've
>| been getting-by spending a little
>| more than $20/wk on food and
>| nursing a tank of gas for 3 months,
>| turning my thermostat way down.
>| Etc.
>| [...]
>>As I've discussed in long-former posts
>here in b.n, when I way Young, and
>before I'd unified NDT's understanding,
>I "self-medicated" using alcohol -- to
>'escape' in the midst of the "Terrible
>'times'", during which I was, otherwise,
>pushing-myself mercilessly -- be-cause
>I'd =Seen= what was at-stake, but had
>not yet, then, been able to bring-things-
>together.
>>So four of my arrests were alcohol-re-
>lated, and, although I was doing, then,
>was literally Saving-my-Life by temp-
>orarily "releasing" from the crushing-
>weight of what had fallen to me to do,
>I cannot "excuse" myself from the cir-
>cumstances of those arrests. I was,
>in fact, behaving in a "drunk and dis-
>orderly" way -- almost always innoc-
>cuously -- just "releasing", without giv-
>ing anyone any trouble, but being re-
>ported by folks who, when they see
>something that can be "reported", re-
>port it. [The one 'time' that I took
>aggressive action while drunk was
>when I went to the Defense of a
>Friend who'd been accosted by a
>fellow that was hugely-bigger than
>him, and I ended up in a Brawl.]
>>In the acts of "civil disobedience"
>that addressed in my earlier post,
>there was no alcohol involved, and
>all were deliberate attempts to just
>take stands in the hope that doing so
>would create circumstances in which
>NDT's understanding would be com-
>municated.
>>But I was "arrested", or 'institution-
>alized', and the "charges" were always
>so devoid-of-rationale as to be 'comic-
>al' -- but the Consequences that fell to
>me, and Sadly, to my Father were,
>themselves, Criminal acts by the "Auth-
>orities" who "arrested" and "prosecuted"
>me.
>>=I was acting under Obligation to the
>Facts of my Citizenship= -- under Ob-
>ligation to The Constitution Of The
>United States Of America, and those
>who "arrested" and "prosecuted" me
>did so =outside= of the Law, Savagely
>ab-using it.
>>And the Consequences of their Actions
>fall-upon me, still.
>>=Needing= "release", I went to see
>=Million Dollar Baby= yesterday.
>>The gender is opposite, but my Life
>has been almost exactly like that.
>>I'd like to discuss it, but I want not to
>spoil this deeply-moving Movie for
>folks. See it, and, perhaps, you'll un-
>derstand.
>>Anyway, what I actually wanted to
>say in this addendum to my prior post
>is that my "inability" to find employment
>is =not= Justified in the facts of my
>"record".
>>Now, I've a craving for some "home-
>made lemon merinque pie".
>>k. p. collins
>One of my favorite pies. I no longer can
take the sugar, so sometimes I will take a
lemon, peel it, and eat it like an orange.
It makes me pucker, which I enjoy.
Sometimes a lime will do. Good qualia!
--
Best,
Frederick Martin McNeill
Poway, California, United States of America
mmcneill at fuzzysys.comhttp://www.fuzzysys.comhttp://members.cox.net/fmmcneill/
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