Letters
Etiquette quiz
Recently, I received two calls
harassing me for my letter
"Creek lifestyles."
(ireekies, must you prove me
right? If I would write the first
letter about your behavior, why
wouldn't I comment on this
too?
Since you're incapable of do
ing It yourselves. I’ll provide
you an etiquette quiz. Thus, the
proper course of action will be
utilized when someone paddles
you in print.
1. Dealing with negative
letters?
a. Ignore the writer, knowing
that they're a fucking narrow
minded son-of-a-bitch.
b. Drink Inter and throw the
empties out the broken win
dows of your house,
c. Call and harass them for the
answer.
2. When you decide on
answer C. the next step is?
u. Call the writer a fucking
narrow-minded son-of-a-bitch
and threaten to breuk his face.
b. Drink beer and throw the
empties out the broken win
dows of your house.
C. ('ail and harass them for the
answer.
3. After choosing C again,
you?
a. Ask for the address bet
ween gulps of beer so that you
can break the face of the fucking
narrow-minded son-of-a-bitch
b. Have the guys in your
house drink laser and throw the
empties into the street.
c. Decide that you drank too
many beers and call and hnrass
the person.
I'm sorry if this test was bias
ed or too hard to answer Most
words were under two
syllables. Don't harass people.
It's uncool (oh no) and proves
the charges I leveled against the
Creeks.
Blake 1-ouis Sliter
Political Science
Abhorrence
It is appalling that the current
administration of this country
knows no restraint in promoting
a negative international image
of the United States; the image
of a society of elitist, war
mongering malcontents who are
willing to provoke and resort to
violence anytime it serves even
a limited self-interest.
Thus far it has graced us with
distribution of CIA pamphlets
to Nicaraguan “freedom
fighters” advising the best
methods for abduction and
‘•interrogation" of civilians. It
has involved us in air piracy
with the forcing down of an
unarmed Egyptian airliner in
Italy by U.S. fighter planes.
It has steadfastly refused to
negotiate realistic arms control,
despite pleas of willingness by
the Soviets, and aluindoned
diplomacy entirely by schedul
ing nuclear tests in the face of
their voluntary unilateral test
ban.
Now. with the bombing of
Libya, we are treated to a direct
act of war by the United States
against a country which cannot
possibly pose any serious direct
threat to national security,
despite khadafy's ravings. If
Congress has any conscience at
all. it will immediately relieve
Konald Keagan of all presiden
tial duties pending the outcome
of im|>eachment proceedings
for this latest outrage.
All my life I have found some
points of disagreement with
government policy, but not un
til the Keagan administration
have I been so thoroughly
disgusted as to actually feel
ashamed to la- an American.
Hiawatha
Graduate. Music
Inexcusable
Concerning the Libyan
laimhings:
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President Reagan's "eye for
an eye, tooth for a tooth"
philosophy will merely gain for
us a nation of sightless people
who cannot communicate.
There are other options which
can he exercised; to answer
madness with further madness
is inexcusable.
Christine Wilson
Eng!ish/|oumalism
Religious myths
Some candid reflections on
the human condition and death:
The conceptual intelligence of
human beings has enabled us to
apprehend our condition as
finitemortal. But we have dif
ficulty accepting this limited
existence. And so the idea of
death — our impulse to deny it
— has become a motivational
force in human history.
In the efforts of the human
animal to overcome the ir
repressible anxiety regarding
death as our final destiny,
various mythologies have been
devised. For example, there are
the religious cosmologies
which feature an heroic savior
with supernatural powers, who
rises from the dead and
demonstrates the possibility of
our ■'extension into .eternity.”
Out of these myths (nurtured by
the irrational faith of religious
encapsulation), a belief in im
mortality is implanted. With
this illusory belief, many then
manage to avoid facing our ap
parent puniness in an am-,
biguous. disinterested cosmos.
In short, to see the human
predicament as it really seems
to be. and to grapple with the
problem of meaning in the con
text of our organism impotence
and death, can he
psychologically overwhelming
Hence, the "leap of faith'belief
in Cod stratagem as a taming of
the terror of the unknown.
But in the interest of honesty
and intellectual maturity, do we
need to Iks protected from reali
ty by these culturally-ingrained
fantasies?
Humankind can achieve
"functional transcendence" by
becoming responsibly engaged
with constructive endeavors in
the secular here and now —
while continuing to remain
open to fresh scientific evidence
relative to the unknown.
Ronald |. Kousscve
Professor
Counseling Psychology
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