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Dear Colleagues, Amid these grim times, may I venture the opinion that as both the UK and the US teeter on the brink of "friendly fascism" on executive dictatorship, that an occasional bit of inspiration, clearly labeled, be tolerated on CASI. In the U.S. anyway it requires greater and greater courage (or recklessness) to speak out on any subject in any venue including at universities on even topic even remotely connected to politics. . This a a very harsh season, that if you allow me the inspirational phrase of Tom Pane, "which try men's [and women's] souls. Perhaps some so on this listserve are strong in their commitment that they have no need for occasional, clearly identified in the subject line, inspiration. These extraordinary soul might tolerate the weakness of their lessor colleagues and just hit delete or set a bozo filter to block such material. Sincerely but not I hope not excessively inspirationally or alamistically, Tom Scared enough to be seeking Canadian citizenship, a country that resembles the democracy that we were indoctrinated to believe in and which trashes its Bill of Right at every crisis. Also, my faculty email may go down at anytime, until I get a faculty email at MacMaster U. where I'll doing a sabbatical in Peace Studies, please send any mail to me a nagy@gwu.edu + tom500k@yahoo.com Voices UK wrote: > Dear List Members, > > Could I reiterate my request that List members not post irrelevant, non-Iraq > related posts to this List. John-Peter: if you want to send a message of > this nature to Andreas, please do so by e-mailing Andreas rather than the > whole list. I have enough e-mails to delete as it is (as I'm sure do many > others on this List). > > Best wishes, > > Gabriel > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John-Peter Hopperger" <j-ph@mindspring.com> > To: <casi-discuss@lists.casi.org.uk> > Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 8:56 PM > Subject: [casi] Andreas: Zarathustra's Prayer Call > > > Andreas, > > > > Here is my attempt at your beautiful selection > > from the Avesta. > > > > Best regards, > > JPH > > > > > > "Even the wisest among us > > must not be judge." > > > > "He lives his life, > > the others theirs. > > GOD only knows the end." > > > > ... > > > > "I simply know that by doctrines > > something gets crushed within my heart, > > that yearning for the good is slowly smothered, > > and that I'm made to cry for liberation." > > > > "Him thus, I call false teacher: > > who soils what is the innermost, > > who desecrates my earth for me, > > and bars my gaze up to the sky, > > who only makes the clever slyer, > > imparts no more than earthly gain, > > beats down the one reaching beyond." > > > > ... > > > > "Yes, they live well, but off the want of others, > > whom they defraud out of their pay, > > and by example they tempt new ones > > forever with their own corrupted ways." > > > > ... > > > > "Leaving them be, just what they are, > > will be penance enough for them. > > But to make sure they can't grasp farther, > > discern with me the end to which such doing leads, > > and have this understanding keep you whole." > > > > "Set free for us, once more, this earth, > > now she is but a sacrifice for those gone mad. > > Ideologues and victimizers reign in life, > > but, siding with that life, we will prevail." > > > > "Because our life is more than food and drink: > > Justice it is, > > and all pervades heaven and earth." > > > > ... > > > > "You, Oh GOD, doest know: > > that I pray thus > > only because I love mankind." > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. > > To unsubscribe, visit > http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss > > To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk > > All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. > To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss > To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk > All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk