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BY WWW.AUTHORHOUSE.COM AND ALSO FOUND AT WWW.CUSHCITY.COM ALSO SEE THIS GREAT BOOK ALSO ON WITH HIP-HOP/RAP POLITICS AND ISSUES, "A HISTORY OF EDUCATION BOOK II," PUBLISHED BY XLIBRIS, WWW.XLIBRIS.COM READ ABOUT BOTH AT HTTP://COMMUNITY.WEBTV.NET/NUBIANEM NUBIANEM2@WEBTV.NET NUBIANEM@YAHOO.COMPIANKE NUBIYANG, NUBIANEM@YAHOO.COM HMMMMM WE STILL CRAZY WE STILL LOST, HOPELESS, KINDA LIKE WITHOUT A FUTUR DO YOU BELIEVE THAT! LOOK WE ALL MISSING THE BIG POINT SO IM JUST GONNA SAY IT AND SEE IF ANYONE CATHCES IT. LISTEN.......... ITS NOT ABOUT BLACK AND WHITE YELLOW OR GREEN - THATS WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK - ITS NOT ABOUT TERRORISM OR HATE - THATS WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK - FORGET GLOBAL WARMING, AIDS, DRUGS, - SHIT FORGET EVERYTHING THAT THEY PUMP AT US EVERYDAY - PAUSE - NOW THINK - WHAT MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND - WAIT DONT SAY IT - DONT SAY IT CAUSE ITS NOT MONEY. - UH HUH THATS RIGHT THATS THE ANSWER - IM NOT GONNA TELL YOU CAUSE YOU ALREADY KNOW - YOU JUST GOTTA BELIEVE - DO WHAT WE WAS PUT HERE TO DO - UNITED - FUCK A RACE - WE ALL THE SAME - AND GONNA END UP IN ONE OF TWO PLACES. - BELIEVE - SO LONG AS WE ARE THE MAJORITY - WE WIN - ITS THAT EASY - CAUSE IF ITS JUST ME AND YOU - WE CANT CHANGE SHIT.- AND THIS IS WHAT THEY DONT WANT YOU TO THINK. - YEA "THEY" A TRUE AND I MEAN A TRUE - LOW MEANING FOR A HUMAN BEING - BECAUSE - LIFE SHOULD BE A WHOLE LOT BETTER - FOR EACH AND EVERYONE OF US FOR REAL.ZU, WARRIOR_SONG@YAHOO.COM TO ALL THOSE MONGREL MOB WHANAU OUT THERE, STAY HARD AND KEEP COOL. THE WORLD IS UGLY ENOUGH AS IT IS, WE DON'T NEED TO TAKE THE WHITE MANS DRUG "P" WE'RE CRAZY ENOUGH AS IT IS. KEEP THE KAUPAPA OF THE MONGREL MOB ALIVE AND THAT IS WHANAU MINDED. LOOK AFTER OUR MAORI TAMARIKI AND REMEMBER THAT THE MONGREL MOB WILL ALWAYS BE A PART OF OUR FUTURE GENERATION. LETS BECOME THE LEADERS OUR PEOPLE ARE SURPOSE TO BE AND LETS NOT FIGHT AGAINST EACH OTHER ANY MORE!!! HEARTY HEIL TO THE WORLD AND TO ALL THE MONGREL MOB A BIG SEIG FUCKEN HEIL FROM SYDOG AND PASSED BUT NOT FORGOTTEN BLACK JACK...KINI, MAUIMAAKA@MSN.COM "IN LIFE WITH VERSUS SO TAINTED AND CORRUPT,BUT BEING SEASOND WITH A GRACIOUS VOICE OBSCURES THE SHOW OF ALL EVILNESS"IF YOUR EDUCATED ENOUGH BY STREET KNOWLEDGE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS GIVEN TO YOU!!!!!!NRTHSTR, XIVER/14 I THINK THAT GANGS ARE A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT MADE A VERY BAD CHOCIE I KNOW B/C MY BOYFRIEND IS IN ONE AND TELLS ME ALL THE TIME THAT HE WISHES HE COULD GET OUT OF IT BUT DAT DAY THAT HE MADE THE CHOCIE TO BE IN IT HE DID NOT KNOW DAT HE WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO GET OUT OF IT SO ALL YOU PEOPLE DATS BEEN TALKIN STUFF A/B THE GANG MEMBERS AND GIVIN DEM NAMES THAT THEY DID NOTHIN TO DESERVE YOU NEED TO GET TO KNOW DEM 1STHANNAH, BABYGURL3227@YAHOO.COM THE WORLD IS ONLY GOING TO GET WORST,THE DEVIL HAS ENFECTED ALMOST EVERYONE IN SOME WAY,(LIKE MYSELF) DRUGS,MONEY,WORK PLACE ENVIRNMENT,JEALOUSLY,SCHOOLS,THE RICH, THE POOR,KIDS MINDS.THIS IS NOT FARE, BUT ITS MOST PEOPLES LIFE. PEOPLE DON'T CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER,PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO TRY AND REALLY LOOK AND UNDERSTANDS ALL DIFFRENT TYPES OF LIFE AND PEOPLE, GAYS, DRUG ADDICTS, MENTALLY ILL,HANDICAP, RACES, HOMELESS,EX CONS,AND NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TRY TO TEACH, THEY WILL NEVER KNOW, AND THERE WILL ALWAYS BE ALL TYPES OF WARS, TILL LIFE JUSTS ENDSSPANISH FLY, MELLYMEL69695@HOTMAIL.COM A LOT OF PEOPLE TODAY ONLY WANT MONEY AND WEALTH AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT. MY GRANDPA'S ALWAYS TELLING DON'T GROW UP TO BE THAT GUY STANDING ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD HOLDING UP THE "STORES CLOSING" SIGN. I THINK IF THATS THE ONLY JOB THAT HE CAN GET AND HE MADE AN EFFORT THATS GOOD ENOUGH. ALOT OF PEOPLE DON'T EVEN TRY TO GET A JOB. MY HATS OFF TO HIM.AMANDA CASTELLANO, CASTES101@HOTMAIL.COM WHAT I THINK YOU COULD NOT UNDERSTAND FOR WHAT I KNOW IS SOMETHING YOU COULD NEVER BE AND WHERE I HAVE BEEN YOU WILL NEVER TRAVEL, YOU WILL BE TRAPPED IN YOUR WORLD FOR EVER AND NEVER SEE MINE AND ONE YOURS WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO LIVE FOR MY FRIENDRYAN ALI, MECCO@HOTMAIL.COM I THINK WITH ALL THIS EVILNESS AND SHIT WE WILL BE SEEING THE END VERY SOON AND THIS IS MY FIRST TIME ON THIS SITE. ITS COOLFEIRCE LIONETTE, CALIANGEL052000@YAHOO.COM I READ A LOT OF GANG SHIT / SOME CONSCIOUS SHIT / AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER SHIT / AND FROM WHAT READ ONLY A FEW PEOPLE HERE ON THIS PAGE / ARE WHAT I CALL A LIBERATED THINKER / IF YOU ARE PATRIOTIC YOU ARE NOT LIBERATED / IN A GANG YOU ARE NOT LIBERATED / IF YOU FOLLOW THE SYSTEM LIKE A RELEGION YOU ARE NOT LIBERATED / IF YOU DRINK SMOKE WEED OR CIGARETTES OR ANYTHING AT ALL YOU ARE NOT LIBERATED / IF YOU HAVE A DESIRE TO BE RICH YOU ARE NOT LIBERATED / IF YOU CANT SEE THINGS WITH AN OPEN MIND YOU ARE NOT LIBERATED / WE ALL WANT TO BE FREE / BUT FREE OF WHAT / NO ONE REALLY KNOWS WE ALL WANT PEACE / BUT WHAT KIND OF PEACE / WE ALL WANT TRANQUILLTIY / BUT WHAT KIND OF TRANQUILLITY / WE ALL WANT TO BE CONTENT / BUT IN WHICH WAY / THE GOOD IN THIS WORLD / WILL ONLY COME IN ONE WAY / HOW DO I KNOW / BECAUSE 1+1=2 /WE CANT ADD IT ANY OTHER WAY / THE SUN RISES THE SUN SETS / WE CANT CHANGE THAT EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SET UP IN A SPECIFIC WAY / SO WHEN WE CHOOSE WHATS RIGHT THEN WE'LL BE / OK THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO LIVE OUR LIVES / WE WILL KNOW / WHEN WE BEGIN TO LIBERATE OURSELVES / ITS NOT GOING TO BE EASY / THE PROBLEMS WE HAVE TODAY / IS ONLY BECAUSE WE CHOSE A DIFFERENT WAY / MANY DIFFERENT WAYS / WE ARE ALL NOT ON THE SAME PAGE / WE NEED TO BE ON / IF NOT ALL / THEN THE MAJORITY / IF THIS DONT HAPPEN THEN SHIT WONT CHANGE / AND ALL WE WILL DO / AS WE ALWAYS HAVE DONE IS COMPLAIN COMPLAIN COMPLAINZU, WARRIOR_SONG@YAHOO.COM HIS STORY IS NOT MY STORY NOR MY STORY YOUR STORY A STORY SOMETHING MEANT TO BE LISTENED TO NOT REALLY TRUE LIKE A FAIRY TALE A FABLE THEY ALL COME WITH MEANING A DIRECTION MEANT TO LEARN FROM HIS STORY IS NOT MY STORY NOR MY STORY YOUR STORY HIS STORY OR MY STORY IS IT MY HISTORY OR HIS HISTORY DO YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN HIS HISTORY IS LIKE HIS STORY A STORY SOMETHING MEANT TO BE LISTENED TO NOT REALLY TRUE LIKE A FAIRY A FABLE THEY ALL COME WITH MEANING A DIRECTION MEANT TO LEARN FROM BUT THE DIRECTION WE SEEK FROM OUR HISTORY SOMETIMES MISLEADS SO IS IT HISTORY OR HIS STORY SEE WHAT I MEAN CONFUSING ISN’T IT WHEN YOU REALLY START TO THINK ABOUT IT DID HE DISCOVER IT ………… OR ………… DID HE CONQUER IT ………… MISLEADING ISN’T IT SO TELL ME IS HIS STORY YOUR HISTORY OR IS HISTORY YOUR STORY CONFUSING ISN’T IT THAT’S HISTORY NOT MY STORY YOU SEE.ZU, WARRIOR_SONG@YAHOO.COM TITLE: YA DEAD FUCK THE WORLD IS ALL WE CAN SAY BUT THE LIFE WE LIVE IS HOW IT WAS MADE FROM BIG TIME TOO BIG CRIME FROM CIGARETTES TO A LITTLE SESS AND THEN WE GRADUATE TO ANOTHER LEVEL A LITTLE LOST NOT KNOWING BLIND TO SEE THE PLOTS UNFOLDING BUT ITS COMING WE DONT SEE IT BUT IT'S THERE FUCK THE WORLD IS ALL WE CAN SAY BUT THE LIFE WE LIVE IS HOW IT WAS MADE TIME HAS RUN OUT..... YA DEAD!!ZU, WARRIOR_SONG@YAHOO.COM WHEN I THINK CAINT HELP BUT THINKING OF INDIVIDUALS LATELY THEIR REACTIONS TO THE SYSTEM MAKE MY WANDERIN MIND HAZY MY BABY IS FACING 3 YEARS PROTECTING HIS RIGHTS FROM THE COPS THEIR WORLD TRUMPHS ALMOST EVERYTHING WE GOT I THINK NOT I'M TIRED OF REACTION AND NO ACTION WALKING BILLBOARD MUTHAFUCKAS AMALGAMAITON OF FIGHT AND FRUSTRATION I JUS HOPE THIS ISN'T ANOTHER MOVEMENT SPONSORED BY THIS THAT AND THAT INC. BECAUSE ALL THESE PRECONCIEVES FOLKS MAKE MY ESSENCE STINK AND IN A BLINK THIS IS COOL THAT IS JUNK MOVE HERE YOU GET TO LIVE LIFE I'M TIRED OF HIP BEING MADE FROM STRIFE..THANK YOU FOR THIS CHANCE I'M TIRED NOT TO SOUND LIKE DEFEAT BUT THIS CYCLICAL GRIME IS LURKING FROM BENEATH AND BEING DISREGARDED WITH THE HIP TERM STREET...............FUCK IT I'M SQUARE PEACE2TONETRAGIC , 2TONETRAGIC77@EXCITE.COM YO MY EMPIRE STRIKES WITH THE STRENGTH OF POISONOUS SNAKES MY ENTIRE UNIT LOADED UP WITH SNAKE NIGGAS THAT HIRE STAKES WE PULL OFF A HIGH STAKES, GREAT ESCAPES, EXPAND, SHIFT TEAM DOWNSTATE DREAMS ARE GROWING OVER AND MY SON'LL LIVE GREAT LITTLE MAN I'M PLANNIN TO ENHANCE YOUR MINDSTATE THE REBIRTH, A NIGGA WHO LIVED AN ILL LIFE THE ONE BEFORE ME WAS OF AN EVEN MORE TRIFE MY UNDERSTANDIN, I'LL RAISE YOU WITH PRECISE PLANNIN AND PUT YOU ON TO THE WHOLE GAME OF THIS PLANET BUT I GOTTA SURVIVE IN ORDER TO FOLLOW THRU PLANS TO LIVE LOT - O ME AND MY LIL' GETGO, ANY MAN TRYIN TO STOP US HE GET WET - O HE COULDN'T WITHSTAND THE SNAKE BITE, THERE IS NO HANKY DON'T YOU PUT YOUR HANDS TOO CLOSE AND TRY TO APPROACH I WON'T SNAP AT YOU I'M GOIN FOR THROATS AND WHEN YOU FEEL MY BITE 'CHA SING HIGH NOTES I PEEPED YOU FROM DEEP AND THEN YOU GOT CUT THROATS MY FORMULAE - I LIVE LIFE DO OR DIE STARE INTO THE EYES OF A DEEP WISEGUY PRODIGY TURNIN NIGGAS TO PROTOGES MY PROTEGE I ADVISE YA ASS TO MAKE WAY MAKE WAY... FOR FULLY - AUTO GUN SPRAY YOU'RE SMALL PREY, I'LL EASILY BAIT AND TRAP YEA THIS MAN IS HALF MAD SCIENTIST - HALF SANE CREATIVE RHYME LABRYINTH LIKE POISONOUS CANNABIS HERE TAKE A TOKE OF THIS DAILY RARE ROACKALIST OVERPOWER Y'ALL, TINY NOISE LIKE LOCUST LIKE SUNLIGHT THRU A MAGNIFYING GLASS I'LL FOCUS EM BURN A HOLE STRAIGHT THRU YA BRAIN AND LEAVE YA OPEN (OH SHIT!) AND LET THE VENOM SOAK IN YOU START SWEATIN AND GOIN THRU CONVULSIONS FROM DOPE SHIT I WRITE LEAVIN NIGGAS STUCK, I LET SPIT TRAPPED UP IN A WEB OF A NIGGA THAT'S SICK I'LL WRAP YOU UP IN COCOON, YOU CAUGHT UP IN THE MIDST AS DANGEROUS AS RISKY BUSINESS FUCKIN WITH THIS CONTENDER NUMBER ONE I PUT YOU ON TOP OF THE LIST YOU'RE THE BEST CHALLENGER SO FAR I'LL GIVE YOU THIS BUT PEEP THIS (WHAT?) FATAL SHOTS THAT SOLOPLEX MAN DOWN, NOW WHO DARES TO GO NEXT? LIKE GENERAL MONKMONK ORDERS TO CHOP NECKS I SEND A MESSAGE TO MY WHOLE CLIQUE TO BOMB SHIT ATOMIC, NO TIME FOR CALM SHIT WE HYPERACTIVE AND IT'S TIME FOR VIETNAM BIT YA WHOLE ALLIANCE GETS SINGLE HANDEDLY BOMB -DA DON, INVU_IN_2005@YAHOO.COM WASUP TO U ALL NAUGHTY HEADED NIGGAZ OUT THERE. THIS IS MY FLOW. I'MMA G FROM THE DIRTY COUNTY .IF U EVER LOOKING FOR ME ALB IS WHERE U FIND ME. DUCKED OFF IN THE CUT ON THE SOUTH SIDE, AN I LOVE 2 GET HIGH. 4 POUNDS SIT OFF IN THE TRUNK WITH MY 45. DARK RED ASS EYES, B/C I'M FUCCED UP. BITCHES SWEAT ME B/C I BALL. AN ALL THESE HATTING ASS NIGGAS WANT A NIGGA 2 FALL.STRIP MY HOOD ON THE WALL,( MY HOOD ON THE WALL ) 2 LET IT B KNOWN THAT I'M TRU BLUE CRIPPING AN I ALWAYS STAY STRAP 2 CATCH A NIGGA SLIPPING , BITCH I AINT TRIPPING. AN I ALWAYS ROLL WITH A GROUP OF NIGGAS, 12 AINT THAT MANY SO WE GO AN ROUND UP PLENTY... AN FOR THE HOE WHO ONLY WANNA FUCC, COME AN HIT A NIGGA UP, BITCH B/C U KNOW WHATS UP...ITS ALL ABOUT THESE THUGS, I KNOW U WANT ME AN I'M FEELING THAT IF U DROP ME A COUPLE LINES I BE SURE 2 HIT U BACK , AN THATS A FACT, BUT IF UR HATING THEN KEEP UR MOUTH CLOSE, B/C I HATE 2 BLOODY UR NOSE AN LEAVE U FULL HOLES ,AN FUCK UP UR CLOTHS, AN THATS FOR SHO... SO U KNO BOI I GOTTA B OUT THESE IS FOR EVERY MUTHA FUCCA WHOS REPPING THE DIRTY SOUTH DA DIRTY SOUTHROBINHOODZ, FIVESEVEN61@HOTMAIL.COM I DIDENT EVEN MEAN TO COME HERE BUT I READ SOME STUFF AND ALMOST ALL YOU GUYS NEED SOME HELP AND A DICTIONARY, WHY DO ALL YOU PEOPLE WAIST YOUR TIME HERE TRYIN TO CRACK JOKES ANY WAYS WHAT YA REALLY NEED IS A BIBLE TO READCHERI, DACHIC#1 JUST WANA SAY WHAT UP TO ALL MY MAYNES HOLDIN IN DOWN IN THE EASTSIDE OF ALLISTON BRIDGE WORD IS BOND,KEEP THAT CRIP SHIT LOCKD YO,CRIP FO LIFE,SPICALY SHOUT OUT TO ALL MY NIGGAZ WITCH AIDS. PACETRE STYLES, LOOP1REALS@HOTMAIL.COM I JUS WANNA SEND A SHOUT OUT TO ALL DE GANAGTSAS IN THE MOTHERLAND, AFRICA! KEEP IT REAL, N DONT TRY N BE LIKE THEM AMERICANS, WE GOTTA BUILD OUR OWN SHIT THROUGH OUR OWN STRUGGLE. OUAT UP PEEPS IN MAFIKENG, WHAT UP PEEPS IN M.I.S, WHAT UP MY JO' BURG THUGS, MY M.P.T HOME BOYS} FANDER, MANO LOCO, ENYGMA, CHRIS(WHITE DREADS),KRAK DA CHAI,LIAM N LAST BUT NOT LEAST MY GIRL LEISHA(I GOT LUV 4 DAT AZZ). DIS IVAN DOS SANTOS, I THOUGHT U KNEW.MOZZIE_PIT, PITMANAGER@HOTMAIL.COM I'M SURPRISED MOST OF Y'ALL DUDES ON THIS SITE HAVE COMPUTERS. MY GOODNESS, WHAT DO YOU USE THEM FOR?!?! FOR EVERY DECENT IDEA OR OPINION THAT I SEE, THERE'S 15 IGNORANT, PAROCHIAL ONES THAT PISS ME OFF!!! IS THIS HOOD DYNAMICS? HUH? WHAT MOST OF YOU PEOPLE (TO WHOM THIS DOES CONCERN) NEED TO DO IS GO TO DICTIONARY.COM, LOOK UP SOME WORDS, GET A LARGER VOCABULARY, AND FINALLY GROW UP AND STOP RELEGATING SO MUCH OF YOUR COMPUTER TIME DISSIN' OTHER GANGS! A BUNCH OF INTERNET THUGS! MY WORD! I'M FROM THE HOOD AND I'M NOT A SELL OUT. I'M MERELY A BROTHER THAT'S GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, NOT JUST MERELY TALK ABOUT POLICE BRUTALITY AND STUFF. WE NEED TO REVERSE THE CURSE OF SEDIMENTATION (LOOK IT UP) AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITIES (ALBIET AFEW) WE AS BLACKS AND LATINOS HAVE IN THIS COUNTRY SO WE CAN TRANSMOGRIFY THE SYSTEM AND BRING ABOUT REAL POSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM FOR THE NEXT GENERATIONS TO COME! NOW THAT'S WHAT'S UP!XAVIER TYLER, HOLLA_LUYA@HOTMAIL.COM I JUST STUMBLED ONTO THIS WEBSITE ACCIDENTALLY, AND FOUND IT INTRIGUING. THE CORE PHILOSOPHY OF GROWTH, UNDERSTANDING, AND ULTIMATELY A PEACEFUL EXISTENCE MAKES THIS SITE A VIABLE COMMODITY TO ANY LIVING, BREATHING, THINKINING PERSON. THOUGH, I'M VERY DISSAPOINTED WITH SOME OF THE MESSAGES LEFT ON THIS FORUM. SO MUCH OF IT IS EGOTISISTICAL, TESTOSTERONE DRIVEN, PRIDEFUL, WAR MONGERING. DO THESE PEOPLE THINK THAT IN BEING CONTEMPTUOSE OF EAHOTHER,JUST BECAUSE OF WHERE THEY LIVE IS IN ANY WAY BENEFICIAL TO THEMSELVES OR OTHERS? WHY WOULD YOU YOU WANT TO CONTINUE BEING THE PROPRIETORS OF SUCH CHILDISH DISPUTES? YOU MY FRIENDS ARE NO BETTER THAN THE CAPITALIST GOVERNMENTS OF OUR WESTERN NATIONS. SO MUCH ENERGY IS SPENT ON WEALTH AND POWER, WHY NOT DIRECT YOUR COLLECTIVE ENERGIES ON TRYING TO RESOLVE TURF WARS. WHAT THE HELL DO YOU PEOPLE THINK THE GOVERNMENTS ARE TRYING TO DO? THEY ARE TRYING TO INSTILL THIER VALUES AND BELIEFS INTO PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. GLOBILAZATION IS LIKE ONE GREAT TURF WAR, IT'S THE SYSEMATIC REMOVAL OF INDIVIDUALISM.SO, YOU'RE MINISCULE LITTLE GANG RIVALRIES, WHICH ARE SO CONTRIVED, AND INFANTILE BY THE WAY, ARE LIKE CHEAP LITTLE PERVERSIONS OF GOVERNMENTS WAGING WAR. IS THIS THE KIND OF MENTALITY YOU WANT TO SURROUND YOUR CHILDREN? I THINK NOT. PLEASE RECONSIDER THE PATHS YOU'VE CHOSEN, AND STOP FORCING YOUR TWISTED PERCEPTIONS ON THE WORLD DOWN MY THROAT, BECAUSE I AM AN ADVOCATE FOR A WORLD BONDED BY AN INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING, AND A UNIFIED BROTHERHOOD, FREE FROM RIDICULE, PREJUDICED AND RACISM.THANK YOU FOR LISTENING.JESSE GANDOL, GANDOL_5@HOTMAIL.COM I HAVE NEVER SEEN YOUR WORKJONATHON, PIMPEDOUTSKATER3002@YAHOO A GOOD START WOULD BE TO VOTE DEMOCRAT.VOTE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE.QUIT POSTURING AND CUSSING.LEARN HOW TO SPELL BEFORE YOU GET GET ON THE INTERNET.TRY FINISHING SCHOOL TO CHANGE THE WORLD.GO WORK IN A NURSING HOME AND HELP SOME VETERAN WHO SAVED YOUR WORLD INSTEAD OF PIMPING AND SELING DRUGS.GOD HELP THE PEOPLE MY AGE WHEN WE ARE OLD AND IN YOUR CLUTCHES.TRY LISTENING TO THE MESSAGES IN SOME OF OUR MUSIC IMAGINE,BY JOHN LENNON.GET INVOLVED IN YOUR COMMUNITY AND START WITH YOUR OWN SELF,THEN HELP YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.GET OFF ALL DRUGS.I HOPE IN A FEW SHORT YEARS THAT WE CAN DIRECTLY VOTE OVER THE INTERNET AND ELIMINATE THE CORRUPTION IN POLITICS.I HOPE YOU KIDS WILL ELECT PEOPLE WHO HATE WAR,NOT PEOPLE,WHO LOVE THE EARTH,AND ANIMALS,AND WANT TO EXPLORE SPACE.I HOPE MEDECINE AND COLLEGE BECOME FREE SO WE WILL REALLY HAVE EQUALITY.I HOPE THE CONCEPT OF RACE ,(BUT NOT ETHNIC PRIDE,HISTORY AND CUSTOMS)IS FORGOTTEN IN A FEW GENERATIONS.I HOPE THAT ROCK AND ROLL,OR WHATEVER IS IN STYLE,WILL CARRY THE DESIRES AND THE WILL OF THE YOUNG AMERICANS AND ULTIMATELY HELP SHAPE THE WORLD.MUSIC IS POWER.IT DEFINES ATTITUDE AND CULTURE.YOU ALL KNOW THAT.GO OUT AND MAKE THE WORLD BETER AND QUIT HATING.DO IT.JOE, KABRYA3@ZOOMINTERNET.NET KEEPIN' THE "B" IN IT FUCKING CRACKERZ THINKING THERE HARD AND SHIT BLOOD IS LOVE, BLOOD IS FOR LIFE!! FAKE ASS WANNA BE'S COME SEE ME IN L.A SON THAT IS ON RED. WEST SIDE ROLLIN' 20S NEIGHBORHOOD BLOOD CK INTELL THE DAY I DIEBIG RED, LLVLLASTER_HACKOZ@YAHOO.COM WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE SKULL AND BONES CONTROLING THE GOVERNMENT.JOHN J. CRAVEN, MERLINCENTAUER69@HOTMAIL.COM YOU SHOULD ALL STOP BULLSHITING YOURSELFS AND COME-OUT WITH THE TRUE! WHAT'S YOUR REAL PURPOSE OF LIFE?DESTINY, NAOMI I THINK USA SHOULD BE DESTROYED . CUZ IT IS JUST A SHIT AND CREATING TROUBLE ALL AROUND THE WORLD AND ALL THE RESPOSSIBLE PERSONS FOR THESE KILLINGS SHOUL BE KILLED. AND THERE IS NO NEED OF COUNTRY LIKE ISRAIL. IT SHOULD BE DESTROYED 2.PAPA, URFATHER@BIBI.COM IT IS GOOD I HOPE WE CAN TALK SO TIMELOVER, MERRYROLLE_19@HOTMAIL.COM I AM 'POSITIVE' U R AWARE THAT THIS QUESTIOIN HAS NEITHER BEEN UPDATED NOR PAID ATTENTION 2, I AM 'OPTIMISTIC' THAT U WILL RECTIFY THIS ANY TIME SOON COZ U R A LAZY STONER. THE YEAR HAS GONE UP! NOTHING HAS GONE DOWN, ASIDE FROM THE WHOLE WORLD BEIND IN CHAOS! PEOPLE ARENT OPTAMISTIC NOR POSITIVE, REGARDLESS OF HOW MANY VALID ATTEMPTS PEOPLE MAKE TO TRY AND CONVEY THEMSELVES AS SOMETHING THEY ARE TRUELLY NOT. IF THERE WERE OPTEMISTIC PEOPLE OUT THERE, THEY CERTAINLEY ARENT THE ONES WHICH ARE ICONICLY PRESENTED 2 US. THEY ARE CERTAINLLY NOT OUR WORLD LEADERS AND PUBLIC SPEEKERS, WHO SPEEK BECAUSE THEY ARE PROGRAMMED 2 REACT TO THEIR INDEVIDUALL CIRCUMSTANCES. IF OPTIMISM AND POSITIVITY CO-EXISTED WITH HUMAN INTUITION, WAR WOULD BE PEACE, HATE WOULD BE LOVE AND SKY WOULD BE CHEAP! EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF DAILY LIFE ENCOURAGES AND PREMOTES CONFLICT AND DISORDER. EVEN THIS WEB PAGE IS ENCOURAGING CONTREVERTIAL AND SOMETIMES DISTASTEFULL CONVERSATION REGARDING THOUGHTS AND NOTIONS WHICH WILL BE DISREGARDED AND CHALLENGED, THEREFORE PROVEING THAT YOU IN CHALLENGING ME AREN'T BEING OPTAMISTIC AS THERE IS A PLAUSIBILITY THAT I COULD BE RIGHT. AND BY ACCEPTING WHAT I SAY YOU WOULD NOT BE COMPLYING WITH CONNOTATIONS OF BEING POSITIVE. SO THIS QUESTION IS BOLLOKS!! AS POSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM IS NEITHER SEGNIFICANT OR INSEGNIFICANT. HOW CAN ANYONE BE POSITIVE AND OPTAMISTIC WHEN EVERY YEAR MORE PEOPLE DIE, OUR EARTH IS SLOWLY DETERIORATING, AND MASS DESTRUCTION IS OCCURING. GO ON, THROW MEDICAL ADVANCEMENTS AT ME!! THERE ARE FAR MORE DISEASES AND ILLNESSES AND SERIOUS ONES! THESE DAYS THAN THERE EVER HAVE BEEN IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND. AND WHY BECAUSE OF OUR CONSTANT RELIANCE UPON WHAT WILL SOON BECOME NON AFFECTIVE DRUGS, DUE TO VAST AND UNECCISSARY DISTRIBUTION, OF MEDIOCAR DRUGS SUCH AS PARACETAMOL, WHICH A HUNDRED YEARS AGO POSSIBLY IN ITS CURRENT SHITTY STATE WOULD HAVE CURED SOME OF THE MOST MAD ILLNESSES, BUT NOW THAT WE HAVE A BIT OF A SELECTON THEY BEARLY CURE EVEN THE SLIGHTEST HEADACHE. BALLS, BOLLOKS, FISH TWAT SYNDROME! U WOULD NEVER GUESS I WAS AN 18 YEAR OLD INTOLLERANT, NON GOTHIC, NON SUICIDAL, BLOND HAIRED BLUE EYED GIRL WOULD U? I'M FRICKIN EVIL MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OR I MIGHT SMOKE A BIT TOO MUCH DOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!:)!DAZED AND CONFUSED, DAVIDJAMES70@HOTMAIL.COM I 1ST JUST WANNA START OUT BY SPITTIN A LIL' LITE OF GOD ATCHA..."AND THE PEACE MAKERS WILL INHERIT THE LAND..."WELL I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMER-"I CAN" DO,SAY,TOUCH AND ECT.IM NOT IN FAVOR FOR WAR, BUT NOW THAT IT IS IN ACTION I CAN ONLY PRAY TO JESUS CHRIST TO PROTECT OR TROOPS AND TO DESTROY THE PLAN OF THE ENEMY,TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT AND TO BLESS OUR WORLD WITH PEACE,TO LET THIS RUN BY QUIK AND TO GIVE ME PEACE OF MIND,HAPPINESS,FAITH ANDALL THE FRUITS SO I CAN GO ON,AND ALSO TO N-1 ELSE WHOM FEELS THA SAME WAY...I BELEIVE THESE R THE LAST DAYZ AND WE NEED TO GET RITE WITH THE 1 ABOVE AND IF U DONT FEEL THE SAME WAY THEN THATS U BUT IF YO WITH ME THEN THATS KOO TOO,BUT TAKE CARE AND I REALLY WISH PEEPZ WILL STOP THE ANTI WAR PROTESTING CAZ ITS ALREEDIE HAPPENING....SUPPROT OUR TROOPS!!!!AND WHY PROTEST AGAINST WAR AND VIOLENCE AND YOUS IGNORANT AIRHEEDZ R FIGHTIN AT THE PROTESTS?THINK ABOUT IT...USA-USA-USA-KEEP IT SAFE FOR OUR FUTURE SONS AND DAUGHTERS SO THEY CAN HAVE THE SAME RITES AS WE HAVE AND PROBABLY EVEN MORE..(GOD WIILING)GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!!!CORINA OLIVAREZ, WWW.PIMPSIDE21@YAHOO.COM I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU WE HAVE THE SAME NAME AND I THOUGH I WAS THE ONLY ONE WITH THAT NAME. I'M SORRY IF WHAT I AM SAYING IS NOT RELATING TO THE TOPIC I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW.TERRIKA WASHINGTON, UNIQUE_O5@HOTMAIL.COM FUCK PRESIDENT BUSH I HATE THAT BITCH FUCK HIM I WANT CLINTON BACK OR SOME BODY DAT CAN PROMOTE DA PEACE FUCK WE NEED A BLACK PRESIDENT TO RUN THESE STREETSNOT REQUIRED, NONEOFURS@SOMEURL.COM ALL YO NIGGA'S AND PIMPS NEED TO LISTEN TO THE STREETS AND LISTEN TO WHAT IS GOING ON AND THEN RELISE WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO YOUR WORLD. THINK OF CHANGE AND PEACE TO ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE AROUND BEFORE THE STATE YOU LIVE IN CURRUPTS INTO MORE KILLINGS, ROBBERY AND OTHER BULLSHIT THAT HELPS YO GET YOUR DOLLA FOR DRUGS. SO THINK.JOESEPH ALI, MOOWER@HOTMAIL.COM I THINK IT IS ART! JEG KAN IKKE ENGELSK Så GODT, MEN "REND MIG!!VANESSA , VANESSA.SOERNSEN@JUBIIMAIL.DK I LIKE WHAT I SEE HERE .. BUT IS THIS UPDATED? IS THIS STILL ACTIVE AND FRESH THIS SITE? IT SAYS THE YEAR 2000. IT IS NOW 2003 AND WE'RE ABOUT TO GO TO WAR AND THERE ARE STILL TOO MANY HEADS WERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE AND IT SEEMS HORRIBLY CONTAGIOUS YOU FEEL ME .. SPREADING.. YEAH WHAT CAN WE DO AND MORE IMPORTANTLY WHAT WILL WE DO?JULIETTE, JUSEAS1@MSN.COM WHAT DO I THINK? I THINK EVERYONE IS TOO CLOSED MINDED AND STUPID TO SEE THE TRUTH. EVERYONE RUSHING TO THEIR JOBS, SCHOOL.. WHATEVER.. NO ONE SEES LIFE FOR WHAT IT IS. A LIFE GONE... OH WELL.. JUST ANOTHER SOUL TO BURN IN HELL... I SAY FUCK THAT! EVERYONE NEEDS TO PULL THEIR DAMN HEAD OUT OF THEIR FUCKIGN ASS AND GROW THE FUCK UP. ALL THE WAR/FIGHTING... ITS ALL FUCKIGN POINTLESS. WHAT DO I THINK IS GOING TO GO DOWN? ALOT OF FUCKIGN BULLSHIT! I'LL CRY FOR EVERY HUNGRY CHILD, FOR EVERY HOMELESS PERSON I SEE, EVEN FOR THE RICH FUCKERS WHO CAN'T SEE PAST THEIR WEALTH AND FAME. STOP THE FUCKIGN HATE , STOP THE FUCKIGN CRIME. GROW THE FUCK UP OR THIS IS GANNA BE ONE SHITTY FUCKIGN YEAR!ADAM, DEFTONES898@MSN.COM I FOUND OUT THE DEEPEST THING TODAY AND I CANT WAIT TO SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD.WHAT I FOUND OUT IS THAT IT GETS QUITE COLD IN THE UK PARTICULARLY IN WINTER! CAN ANYONE HELP?BURUKUTU, JOHN_AKINYEMI@HOTMAIL.COM IN THE YEAR 2000? WAKE UP PEOPLE AND WALK INTO THE LAST DAYS OF 2002. WHAT A YEAR, WHAT A BLAST, WHAT CAN I SAY. HIGHS, LOWS, TRANQUILITY AND CHAOS, BUT YOU KNOW WE ARE SEEING OUT THIS YEAR IN STYLE!POSITIVITY IS THE ONLY WAY , DID I HEAR YOU SAY ? YES BRO, COS WE ARE HERE TO STAY!!! ITS ALL ABOUT AN INNER FAITH AND AN ABILITY TO KEEP IT REAL AND TRUE EVEN WHEN WE IS BLUE. GANJA AIREEEEE!!!JOHN AKINYEMI, JOHN_AKINYEMI@HOTMAIL.COM I THINK THAT SOME PEOPLE BE TRIPPIN AND SOME PEOPLE ARE OVER DRAMATIC AND I HATE GEORGE BUSH AND I WONT BILL CLINTON TO COME BACK!! DOES N E ONE FEEL THIS WAY? HOLLA AT METERRIKA, BABYDOLLA2006@YAHOO.COM I THINK IF WE JUST SAT BACK N SMOKED A BIG FATT BLUNT OF THE ONE HITTER QUITTER SHYT WE WOULD ALL JUST SIT THIER N B COOL N GET ALONG BOUT THE WHOLE WAR THING N COME TO THE CONCLUSION THEY HAVE TO PAY 4 WHAT THEY DID TO USLIL-STEVE, SLO4UNME@AOL.COM ITS 2002 ABOUT TO BE 2003. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?IRENE ROCHA, FOXY135 IT'S GOOD THAT OTHERS ARE VOICING (WRITING) THEIR OPINIONS, EVEN THOUGH SOME DON'T QUITE MAKE SENSE, YOU KNOW IT'S JUST THE FACT THAT SOME PEOPLE FEEL SECURE KNOWING THAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE THE SAME IDEA, I ON THE OTHER HAND DON'T, I MEAN WHAT ARE WE REALLY ACCOMPLISHING BESIDES THE FACT THAT WE KNOW HOW TO SET UP AN EMAIL ADDRESS, AND WE CAN USE IT. I AM A STRONG BELIEVER IN MY OPINION, IT MAY NOT ALWAYS MAKE SENSE, BUT YOU KNOW IT'S THOSE PEOPLE WHO SPEAK WHO TRULY WILL STAND BEHIND THEIR WORDS, THAT ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL WE SHOULD DO ABOUT THE WORLD CRISIS', DAMN I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME GROUP DISCUSSIONS LIKE THAT, JUST SEEING PEOPLE ARGUING, PLOTTING, COUNTERACTING, INTERACTING WITH EACH OTHER, UNTIL THAT ONE STUBBORN ASSWIPE GETS THERE WAY. NOW THAT MY FELLOW INTERNETTERS IS THE KIND OF PERSON TO LOOK FOR. SHIT MINE AS WELL BECOME ONE FOR YOURSELF, HUH I LIKE TO SEE THAT SO MANY PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATED ABOUT THE U.S., BUSH, 9/11, THIS TRAGIC SAGA, YOU KNOW THAT'S THE WAY WERE GOING TO GET THROUGH IT, WELL EVENTUALLY WERE GOING TO HAVE TO BUT WHEN PEOPLE GET FRUSTRATED, THAT'S WHEN THEY START WANTING TO DO THINGS FOR THEMSELVE, TAKING MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS, BE IF IT MAY A AR-15'S,SHOTGUNS, PISTOLS, WHATEVER, EVENTUALLY IT'S GOING TO COME TO THAT POINT WHEN SOCIETY IS GOING TO GET WEAK AND NOT BE ABLE TO STOP THOSE ARROGANT PEOPLES FROM TAKING "IMMEDIATE ACTION" THEN WHAT ARE WE TO DO, HIDE? FUCK NO, NOT SUBMERSE OURSELVES, RATHER WE SHOULD PREPARE OURSELVES, OUR KIDS, STEP OUTSIDE THAT DOOR, STAND TALL, BE READY FOR THE WORSE. AND LOVE IT WE NEED SOME DEDICATION, COMPASSION, EVEN PATIENCE. I AGREE WITH THE DUDE WHO WROTE THAT WE ARE TURNING INTO ALDOUS HUXLEY'S "BRAVE NEW WORLD", DAMN I CRINGE WHEN I THINK OF HOW FAR THE GOVERNMENT WILL GO WITH TEST TUBE BABIES. WELL LADIES AND GENTLEMEN I MUST DEPART, MY TWO CENTS ARE HERE NOW TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT...JESSA, SHELUVSTHAGANJ@EXCITE.COM WHY IS IT THAT PEOPLE WILL SAY THINGS LIKE DON'T TREAT ME LIKE I AM STUPID, BUT WILL SAY IT IN A LANGUAGE THAT CALLS FOR THEM TO BE STUPID? I.E. DONT YA BE TRIPPIN' ON MY SHIT, YO! IF YOU WANT TO BE TREATED EQUALLY IT IS ONLY RIGHT THAT YOU ACT LIKE YOU ARE EQUALLS, OR AT LEAST PRETEND.HONKY JAMES, BOB@BOB.COM THIS IS A TIGHT WEB ABOUT FRIFFITIANTHONY, SJHGY@ATTBI.COM YA'LL WHAT EM SAYING IS I THINK 5'0 SHOULD BACK DA FUCK OFF.THEY RUN UP IN DIS MOTHERFUCKER LIKE WE ALL CRIMANALS SOME OFF OFF DO GO TA SCHOOL.SO WHAT IF WE JUST WANT TA SIT BACK AN BLAZE A BANE YO.CRIME, LOOP1REALS@HOTMAIL.COM I THINK IT IS DA SAME, NO MATTA WERE U GO IN THIS WORLD THERE IS IGNORANNT PEOPLE WHO WILL MESS UP OUR ENVIROMENTVINCE, JASDHGJHDSG@AOL.COM WHAT IS CRACKIN?MY NAME IS SMILIE AND A HOMIE LET ME USE THERE NAME TO SPIT MY SHIT .KNOW OPEN UR MIND TO MATTER SPOKEN .I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY THINGS ARE SO FAKE? OPINION OF ANOTHER MATTERS SO MUCH THE ONLY THING THAT REALLY COUNTS IS IF U BELIEVE UR SELF U CAN TELL SOME A FACT AND THEY BELIEVE WHAT UR SAYING BUT IF BEING FAKE WHAT WAS TGE POINT OF STATING UR MINDASHLEY, ASHES_ANGEL@HOTMAIL.COM WELL YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK TO ALL THEM PIGS THAT PUT MY BOYS IN JAIL I THINK THEY SHOULD BE DEAD WE DON'T FUCK WIT THEM THEY DON'T NEED TO FUCK WIT US, SO WHAT WE ARE POTHEADS WHO GIVES A FUCK I DON'T.ASHLEY, HOT_BITCH48813@YAHOO.COM YOUR F***ING CRAZY GO TO A DAMN CHURCH AND PRAY TO GOD THAT HE DOESENT STRIKE YOU DOWN RIGHT THERE. P.S. ONE FLEW LEFT, ONE FLEW RIGHT, YOU FLEW INTO THE COOKOOS'S WINDOWCLINT, AGANONMEM1025@HOTMAIL.COM YO CHECK THIS,FIRST OFF I GOTTA SAY I'M A PARANOID MOTHER FUCKER,..I TRUST NOTHING ON THE WEB,..EVERYTHING IS MONITERD "TERD" I WOULD NOT BE SUPRISED IF THE INTERNET WAS SET UP FOR THE MASS PEPES TO BASICLY INCRIMENATE THEMSELVES AS A DAILY EVENT WITH A FINGER PRINT IN THE FORM OF AN IP ADDRESS ALL WITH THE THOUGHT THAT "GOSH THE GOVERNMENT CANT REGULATE THE WEB! WE ARE SO LUCKY!,..REGULATE THEY CAN WILL AND DO,..HOW BOUT THIS,..HHHHMMMMM......WORLD IS OVER POPULATED WE NEED PEOPLE TO STOP HAVEING KIDS AND START DYING,..LIKE YESTERDAY,...SOOOOO,..HOW BOUT BIRTH CONTROL IN EVERY FOOOD THAT THE MAJORITY EATS,..(FAST FOOD ,..SAFEWAY TRASH,...ALBERTSONS,...YOU NAME IT,...ALL FOOD COMPANYS ARE OWNED BY JUST A FEW DIFFERNT COMPANYS WITH TONS OF DIFFERNT NAMES SO YOU THINK YOU HAVE A CHOICE,..."DO I GET THE STOVE TOP STUFFING AND NOT THE SAN FRANCISCO TREAT?" WERE BEING FUNNLED AND TRAINED LIKE RATS WITH ONLY ONE TRUE END,..THE CHEESE.......BASTERD SAM, HEMPHAWG@HOTMAIL.COM GIRLS ROCK. I'M NOT INTO THAT SPEARS CHICK OR SPICE GIRLS. I SIMPLY THINK THAT AS A PERSON I SHOULD HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS A DUDE. YEP I'M FEMALE. AND TO ALL THE DUMB ASS GUYS THAT THINK THAT FEMALES CAN'T KICK IT WITH THE DUDES. YOUR WRONG. LIFE IS ABOUT SPEAKING YOUR MIND AND KNOWING WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN AND WHAT YOU WILL AND WILL NOT STAND FOR. IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU STAND FOR AND WHO YOU ARE. DON'T WASTE YOU TIME ON PEOPLE THAT AREN'T WILLING TO WASTE THERE TIME ON YOU. KNOW THAT YOU NEED TO MAKE YOURSELF A BETTER PERSON AND KNOW WHO YOU ARE BEFORE YOU CAN EXPECET SOMENE ELSE TO KNOW YOU. TRUST YOU OWN JUDGEMENT AND WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE. LOVE HAPPINESS AND PEACE OUTSHANNON LAW, GIRLYRIDINLOW@AOL.COM I AM A HIGHSCHOOL PUPIL WHO HOPES TO PURSUE AN ART CAREER, RIGHT NOW I'M WORKING ON A POP ART PROJECT BECAUSE OF ITS POLITICAL FLAVOUR, LOOKING AT THE GREED AND CONSUMERISM OF WESTERN SOCIETY WITH ITS CONSTANT BOMBARDMENT OF ADVERTISING AND THE IDEALISM OF A 9-5 JOB.OUR SO- CALLED REPRESENTATIVES, BLAIR AND BUSH SEEM MORE INTERESTED IN WAR, ARMAMENTS, OIL AND MONEY RATHER THAN WORKING TOWARDS A MORE PEACEFUL SOCIETY BY CONSERVING THE ENVIROMENT, TACKLING RACISM AND DEFEATING POVERTY. NOWADAYS THERE ISN'T ANY STRONG POLITICAL PARTY THAT FITS INTO EQUALITY AND PEACE. PEOPLE ARE MORE INTERESTED IN HAVING A FANCY HOUSE AND OWNING A CAR. OUR SOCIETY IS CRUEL AND SELFISH AND OUR CHRISTIAN MORALS ARE A FALLACY WHICH IGNORE THE WORMS THAT CRAWL BENEATH OUR FEET. BUERACRACY AND HYPOCRISY RULE OVER OUR SOCIETY AND IT ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO BREAK AWAY FROM THE STRUCTURE THAT THEY HAVE CREATED. THE PREDICAMENTS IN THE BOOKS "1984" "A BRAVE NEW WORLD" AND "A CLOCKWORK ORANGE"ARE BCOMING MORE AND MORE LIKELY AS TIME PASSES WITH GM FOOD, TAGGING CRIMINALS, TEST TUBE BABIES, C.C.TV,SCAPEGOATS, AND THE AUTHORITIES CONSTANT HUNGAR FOR CONTROL AND POWER. ITS SAD TO ADMITT BUT TOO MANY JUST DONT CARE, THEYRE CONTENT WITH THEIR DULL JOBS, HYPOCRITICAL VALUES, FAST CARS AND PRETTY HOMES.ROZ, VADSCO BURN YOUR MONEY AND CREDIT CARDS , AND YOUR SS CARD - BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN AND YOUR CAR ,WALK OF INTO THE FOREST AND GET BACK TOTHE BASICSNEZ, NEZZLIFE@YAHOO.COM I BELIEVE THAT OUR GOVERNEMNT REPRESSIS THE UNDERGROUND ART COMMUNITY. IN OTHER WORDS GRAFFITI ARTISTS. I MYSELF AM A RESPECTABLE CITIZN AND IN THE UNDERGROUND WORLD I AM A RESPECTED ARTIST. NOW OUR GOVERNMENT SAYS THAT GRAFFITI IS GANG RELATED AND EVERY GRAFFITI ARTIST IS DESTINDED TO A LIFE OF CRIME. I DO BELIEVE THAT SOME GRAFF IS GANG RELATED. I FIND THAT VERY SAD. IT GIVES THE REST OF US A BAD NAME, BUT I DON'T NOT HOWEVER SUPPORT THE FACT THAT A GRAFFITI ARTIST IS DESTINED TO A LIFE OF CRIME. NOW THIS IS ANOTHER OPION THAT I HAVE, I BELIEVE THAT IF A GRAFFIT ARTIST IS CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF A SO CALLED CRIME THEN YES THEY MAY END UP HAVEING TO LIVE A LIFE OF CRIME BECUASE OUR GOVERNMENT HAS FORCED IT UPON THEM. I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS TRUE BECUASE IF A GRAFFITI ARTIST IS CAUGHT H NORMALLY GETS A BIG FAT FELONEY CHARGE SLAPPED IN HIS FACE. WOW A PERSON CAN GET FELONEY FOR EXPRESSING HIS FORM OF ART. YEA HE WAS DOING IT ON SOMEONE ELSE'S PROPERTY BUT THE GRAFF ARTISTS O THIS WORLD ARE FORCED TO GO TO ILLEGAL WALLS. THIS IS BECAUSE WE HAVE BARELEY ANY LEGAL WALLS. I FIND THIS A VERY SAD FACT. I LIVE IN COLORADO AND I KNOW THAT IN ALL OF COLORADO THERE ARE PROBABLY 3 LEGAL WALLS. ONE OF THEM IS IN THE MIDDLE OF FIVE POINTS. I GREW UP THEIR AND IT IS NOT A PRETTY PLACE. PERSONALLY I WOULDN'T WANT TO HAVE TO GO THEIR TO DO SOME ART WORK. THE OTHER TWO ARE VERY VERY FAR AWAY. NOW THE POINT THAT I'M TRYING TO GET ACROSS HERE IS THAT I BELEIVE THAT IN EVERY CITY IN EVERY STATE IT SHOULD BE MANDITORY FOR THER TO BE AT LEAST TWO LEGAL WALLS. NOW OF COURSE THEIR WILL STILL BE PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING ILLEGAL GRAFFITI, BUT THAT IS BECUASE THIS STILL ISN'T ENOUGH FOR EVERY GRAFF ARTIST, BUT I DO BELEIVE THAT IT IS A STAT. I WOULD LIKE ANYONE THAT HAS AN OPION ON THIS OR WOULD LIKE TO HELP ME FIGHT TO MAKE MORE LEGAL WALLS TO PLEASE E-MAIL ME WITH YOUR THOUGHTS. THEY ARE VERY MUCH APPRIECIATED. AGAIN MY E-MAIL IS OSIRISSK87829311@AOL.COM. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIMEANDREW, OSIRISSK87823911@AOL.CM THERE WAS ONCE A TIBETAN MONK WHO SOUGHT ANSWERS TO SUCH GREAT QUESTIONS AS "WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE" AND "WHY ARE WE HERE". HE CLIMBED TO THE TOP OF THE TALLEST MOUNTAIN WHERE HE SAT ALONE IN DEEP THOUGHT ON THE SUBJECT FOR 40 YEARS. APON RETURN TO HIS VILLAGE THE PEOPLE CROWDED AROUND, EAGER TO HEAR HIM SPEAK. HE STOOD MOTIONLESS AND PROCLAIMED "YOU CAN SEE VERY FAR FROM THE TOP OF A MOUNTAIN EXCEPT WHEN IT IS CLOUDY". FRIENDS, AFTER READING ALL OF YOUR POSTS I FEEL THAT A FEW OF YOU MAY ALSO BE PRISONERS OF YOUR OWN MIND. IF SO, PLEASE COME BACK. THE FOOD AND WINE ARE GOOD DOWN HERE AND MAYBE LATER WE COULD DANCE OR SWIM OR THROW A BALL FOR A DOG. WE SHALL LIVE THE SIMPLE AND PRIMALLY SATISFYING EXISTANCE THAT OUR CORE SELF LONGS FOR. WE MAY AGAIN FIND HARMONY WITH OUR SURROUNDS, SAVING OUR PLACE IN THE FUTURE OF THIS GENTLE GREEN PLANET. ONE OR TWO ROBOTS MAY BE MOVED TO JOIN US AT OUR WARM HYPNOTIC CAMPFIRE WHERE THEIR TIN SUITS WILL MELT AGAINST THE FLAME AND THEY WILL BE REBORN OUR SISTER AND BROTHER.MARK, JUMPCATCH@YAHOO.COM THINK ..........NOW THINK AGIAN. P.S. DID YOU KNOW YOU JUST WAISTED A A MINUTE OF YOUR LIFE THINKING.NYGHAKER, NYGHTHAKER@YAHOO.COM WELL MAN I CAN'T REAL SAY THAT MUCH ABOUT IT JUST THAT ALL THIS FUCKING TALKING IS NOT DOING A DAMN THING WE STILL HAVEN'T FOUND THAT BASTERD. SO WE SHOULD GO AND KICK EVERY ONE OF THOSE BITCH HERE AND NOW! ALSO ALL THESE OLD PEOPLE AREN'T HELPING ETHER SO WE SHOULD DO IT ARE SELFSSWEY37, LATINBBOY14@JUNO.COM I JUST READ IN THIS SITE SOMEONE WHINING THAT WE NEED TO NOT SCREAM AND BOMB OTHER COUNTRIES FOR WHAT THEY DID TO US. THIS IS A GOD GIVEN NATION, AND NO ONE IS ALOWED TO STEPP ON OUR TOWS NOT AND FEEL ITS WRATH. THIS COUNTRY WASNT WON BY TALKS OF PEACE AND SITTING AROUND DRINKING TEA WITH THE ENEMY, IF WAS WON WITH THE BLOOD OF MILLIONS OF OUR COUNTRYMAN WHO FOUGHT AND DIED FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVED IN THEN, AND WHAT WE ARE ALLOWED TO BELIEVE IN TODAY. BECAUSE THEY GAVE THERE LIVES TO MAKE IT THAT WAY. YOUR EITHER WITH THE UNITED STATES, OR AGAINST HER. ITS PEOPLE LIKE THE PERSON WHO WROTE THAT THAT THE COUNTRY WE ARE COMING UP AGAINST IS THE WAY IT IS, PEOPLE WHO SET BACK AND BICTH ABOUT STUFF THEY HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT, AND WILL NEVER DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT ANYWAY. AND SIT THERE AND LET THIER GOVERNMENT, OR REGEME, DO WHAT EVER THEY WANT, AND NOT CARE. THATS COMUNISM. IF PEOPLE LIKE THAT WHERE IN THE GOVERNMENT TODAY,(WHICH THERE ARE A FEW), THEN OUR ECONOMY IN OTHER COUNTRIES WOULD BE IN SHAMBLES. GOD I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE QUESTION THE STABUILITY OF OUR NATION WHEN IT COMES TO ACTION, WHEN THEY TAKE FOR GRANET WHAT GOD HIMSELF GAVE TO US, AND NOT SUPPORT THE DESISIANS OF OUR LEADERS, WHO ARE ALSO GOD GIVEN. I THINK ANY ONE WHO IS WILLING TO SIT THERE AND SIMPOTHISE WITH TERRORISTS IS A DAMN TRADER, AND IS FROM THAT MOMENT ON, STANDING ON ENEMY SOIL! AND THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO DEAL WITH TRADERS!GABRIEL HERNANDEZ, GABE2GABE@HOTMAIL.COM YOU GUYS SHOULD LEARN PROPER ENGLISH BEFORE UNLEASHING YOUR GRAND WISDOM UPON THE WORLD, BIATCH!SPANKY NUTZ, DEEZNUTZ@BIZNITCH.COM I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE GOV THAT DON'T REALLY REPRESENT ALL THE CULTURE THAT EXISTS IN THE WORLD, BUT SOME DO. I'M AN 18 YEAR OLD THAT SMOKES BUD EVERYDAY AND GETS DRUNK EVERY WEEKEND WHO BELIEVES IN PEOPLE'S CHOICE TO DO WHAT THEY WANT. WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANNA DO, YOU CAN DO IT. THAT'S WHAT FREEDOM MEANS. I HAVE SOME QUESTOIN IN MY NIMD THAT WHEN WILL BE WORLD WAR 3 GOGNA START?IS IT STARTING TODAY TOMMOROW OR SOME DAY ELSE.CAN U PLEASE TELL ME WHEN IS IT STARTING?SUNDUS, SAGITA89@HOTMAIL.COM NO ONE WILL UNDERSTAND UNLESS THEY USE TRUTHFULL LAW PROCEEDURE:ALEC: MURRAY, EMAILCAMBELL1@ICQMAIL.COM A LOT OF JAIL TIME FOR BLACK AND MEXICAN TEENS. WITCH IS BULL SHIT.JUSTIN, OZZY71@HOTMAIL.COM DO NOT SPEND TOO MUCH TIME THINKING ABOUT WHAT THE ENEMY IS DOING. IT DRAINS YOUR ENERGY. INCREASE THE STRENGHT OF YOUR WILL AND LET THIS POSITIVE WILL BECOME INFECTIOUS PLAGUE THAT YOU SPREAD TO ALL. ACT ON SOLUTIONS WITH ALL YOUR ENERGY. FEAR NOT DEATH OR FAILURE. THIS IS TEMPORARY. KNOW THY SELF, USE YOUR POWER. LEARN ALL THAT YOU CAN FROM EVERYTHING AROUND YOU. THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS IN FRONT OF YOU...YOU MUST KNOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. USE YOUR ENEMIES AND BEWARE OF YOUR FRIENDS. USE YOUR HEAD.JASON WARREN, JWARREN@HOTMAIL.COM CONTROL THE MIND AND THATS THE WAY TO THE SOUL.WHY LIMIT YOURSELF PEOPLE CAN DO SO MUCH. WE HAVE THE APPLE OF KNOWLEDGE IN US.ALL THE PEOPLE ON EARTH HOLDS ARE MINDS BACK BECAUSE OTHER PEOPLE(GOV)HOLD US BACK. IF WE EXPAND PEOPLE WE CAN EXPAND THE MIND AND SOUL. THEN WE WILL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND ARE LIMITS AND SEE THE TRUTH ABOUT ARE EXPECTATION. WE COULD CONTROLL SPACE IF WE SHARE /WE COULD WALK THE PATH OF NOTHING AND KNOW EVERYTHING!/GUY AMBROSE III, E.C.SQUEAKY-69 I'D RATHER LOOK AT THE BIGGER PITCURE OF OUR WORLD AND OUR RACE. WE ALL SEEM TO HAVE OUR EYES CLOSED. WE FIND OURSELVES COUGHT UP IN SOCIETY, CONFORMING TO IT JUST BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT WE ALL LIVE WITH THE SAME SENSE OF PROGRAMMED THINKING AND WE ARE FORCED TO CONFORM TO IT TO SURVIVE. I WOULD RATHER NOT FESTER IN A DULLING EXISTANCE, I WOULD RATHER NOT BE A ZOMBIE OF SOCIETY, FANCY PRODUCTS, MEDIA AND TELIVISION IN GENERAL. I'D RATHER LOOK FROM ALL ANGLES AND MAKE MYSELF A MAP THAT POINTS TO WHO IS GETTING WHAT FROM WHO. I AM A DRONE JUST LIKE YOU. I AM A BATTERY FOR THE POLITICAL POWERS WHO DRAIN US EVERY DAY. I CONSUME JUST AS YOU DO, I PURCHASE AT TIMES, SHIT I DON'T NEED, ULTAMATELY FEEDING THE BELLY OF THE BEAST. WE ARE SERVENTS, BONDED WITH INVISABLE CHAINES TO SOMETHING WE CAN'T GET AWAY FROM IF WE TRIED. YOU AND I HAVE BECOME BITTER FROM LIVING INSIDE THESE WALLS. WITHOUT THE BARRIERS WE BUILD, WE CAN BE UNITED UNDER THE NATURAL CAUSE OF HELPING HUMANITY INSTED OF ENSLAVING IT. I AM ONE OF FEW WHO WANTS A BETTER WAY OF THINKING, SOME PIECE OF MIND AND TRUE FREEDOM. IF YOU CAN TRY TO SEE A BIT MORE CLEARLY, YOU TOO WILL SEE YOUR CHAINS THAT ANCHOR YOU TO YOUR MASTER. THE FIRST STEP TO BETTER LIVING IS LOOKING IN THE MIRRIOR AND SEEING WHAT YOU REALLY ARE.MUREX, BOOKERTWA@YAHOO.COM DON'T WE ALL FEEL PROGRAMED AND USED. WERE ALL PUSHED INTO SUBMISSION AS SOON AS WE STEP INTO A CLASSROOM NONE OF US KNOW WHATS TO COME AND THE FEW OF US THAT WAKE UP AND SEE THAT WE HAVE REALLY HAD NO OPTION TO THINK FOR OURSELVES CAUSE THESE TEACHERS KEEP CRAMMING SHIT DOWN OUR THROATS. WE ALL LIVE IN A COMMUNITY AND WE ALL HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER IN ORDER TO WIN WHY ARN'T OUR STUNDETS, US, YOU OUR FUTURE KIDS AND PRESENT KIDS WHY ARN'T WE ALL THINKING FOR OURSELVES AND JUST BECAUSE THE TITLE IS TEACHER DOSN'T MEAN THAT THERE IS SOMETHING THEY CAN BRING TO US. OTHERWORDS KEEP AWAKE WE ARE ALL HERE NOT TO ARGUE AND WE ALL UNDERSTAND WE ARE LOOKING FOR MORE THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON BUT WE NEED HELP AND MASSES AND MILITIAS, COUPS, LEADERS LIKE CHE GUEVARA OR ZAPATA, SOMEONE NOT AFRAID TO TAKE RESPONSIBLITY FOR THERE ACTIONS FOR WE ARE ALL HUMAN AND ONE ISN'T BETTER THAN THE NEXT. NO ONE CAN GET THIS ALONE BECAUSE IT ALSO ISN'T JUST FOR ONE OF US WE NEED UNITY FOR ALL OF US.KEVIN, KINGNOTHING26@AOL.COM WERD UP I THINK THAT THERE GONA B A REVOLUTION AND I THINK THAT ITS GONA HAPPEN WEN MY KIDS IS YOUNG... THA SKOOL SYSTEMS IS CORRUPTIN OUR CHILDRENS MINDS,, TURNIN OUR KIDS IN2 GOVERNMENTAL SLAVES,, A.K.A. DA GOOD PEEPL OF SOCIETY,, YA O K.. AND KNOWLEDGE FROM BROOKLYN I FEEL U DAWG,, DA ONLY REAL PEEPL IN DIS NATION IS DA MINORITYS.. CUZ FROM DA ROOTS WE WAS TAUGHT HOW 2 SURVIVE.. N LEARN FROM OUR FAM N XPERIANCE,, NOT BRAINWASHED..SO I THNK THATS ITS BOUT TIME THAT WE SHOULD STOP TALKIN BOUT WEN DA REVOLUTION IS GONA HAPPEN N MAKE IT HAPPEN.. CUZ I DONT WANT NO1 BUT MY CHILDS FAM 2 RAISE HIM,, NOT SUM WANNABE KNOW IT ALL WITE KRAKAS WHO THINK THEY THA SUPREME BEIN.. STEELIN OUR KIDS FROM OUR GRASP. PUTTIN GOOD HEARTED PEEPL IN PRISON 4 ACTS THAT GOD WOULD NEVA CONSIDER A CRIME.. AND 2 ANSWER DAT QUESTION.. HEELLL NO, WILL THERE B POSITIVITY,, CUZ THERE ALWAYZ GONA B A GHETTO.. N THERE ALWAYS GONA B WITE KRAKS WHO FOCUS ON KEEPIN REAL PEEPL IN DAT GHETTO, WHO IF THEY HAD ENUFF POPULATION, WOULD OVA THROW DA GOVERNMENT,, BUT LIKE I SAID THEY DONT WANT US 2 RISE THATS Y THEY POISON US,, N PUT DISEASE IN DA GHETTO 2 MAINTAIN DAT POPULATION.. JUS 2 LET YAL KNO IMA OUTKAST I NEVA FINISHED HIGH SKOOL.. IMA REAL MUTHAFUKA. N ALL U CATZ WHO TALK BOUT YA REAL.. KNO DA XPLANATION, B4 U RATE YASELF. 1LUV 2 ALL MY DAWGS STUK IN DA MAZE. 1 DAY YA FIND DA WAY OUT.INFAMUSCHULO, INFAMUS_CHULO@NETZERO.NET THE TIME APROACHS...THE DAY IS NEAR...THE HOUR IS CLOSE...THE MINUTE BECONDS...THE SYNDICATE GROWS STRONG....THE SYNDICATE, SYNDICATE@SYNDICATE-WORLD.COM CHECK IT OUT THERE IS NOT A DAMN THING GOING TO GO DOWN.SINCE I WAS A YOUNGSTER ALL I WOULD EVER HEAR FROM MY PARENTS AND ALL THE OLDER PEOPLE THAT WAS AROUND ME WAS TO COMPLAIN ABOUT POLITICS,HOW THIS IS WRONG AND THAT IS WRONG AND HOW THIS POLITICAIN IS A CROOK AND THE GOV. ARE LIEING TO THE PEOPLE OR THIS PARTY IS THE CAUSE OF THIS AND THAT.NOW I AM OLDER AND I WATCH THE NEWS READ THE PAPER I KNOW THE ISSUES JUST LIKE EVERYONE EALSE DOES.YOU SEE THATS JUST IT EVERYONE KNOWS THE PROBLEMS EVERYONE CAN SIT AND FIGHT OUT THE ISSUES AND REPEAT THEM OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER DO YOU SEE MY POINT??? I HAVENT HEARD ANYONE YET SAY WAIT LETS FIX THE PROBLEMS LETS ALL JOIN TOGATHER AND PUT A END TO THIS ALL I THINK WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH TIME HERE ON EARTH TO COME TO SOME KIND OF CLUE, BUT YOU SEE THATS WHAT IS WANTED OF US SHEEP.SO IN CONCLUSION TO THIS ALL IS OVER AND OVER AND OVER YOU CAN SPIN IN CIRLES ALL YOU LIKE BUT I AM NOT THAT STUPID WHEN WE CAN PULL ARE HEAD OUT OF ARE ASS MAYBE SOMETHING WILL CHANGE!!!!?????????????????JAMES BOND, WORLDCHEIF@HOTMAIL.COM YES POSITIVITY AND ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN MINDDERRICK NAYYAR, DERRICK_NAYYAR@YAHOO.COM HI, I`M SIMON FROM GERMANY I`M 18 YEARS OLD AND I WANT TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE SITUATION OF THE BLACK PEOPLE IN THE US FOR MY SCHOOL LECTURE. MAYBE YOU COULD HELP ME A LITTLE TO KNOW WHAT YOU FEEL BECAUSE I DON`T WANT TO SAY SOMETHING WHAT I READ IN BOOKS ABOUT RACISM. SO PLESE HELP ME TO TELL THE GERMAN STUDENTS ABOUT THE REAL SITUATION. THANKS A LOT SIMONSIMON , S_W_A_G@HOTMAIL.COM I.M TRYING TO FIND SOMEONE TO SHARE MY IDEA ABOUTCLOTHING WITH SO I CAN BE MY OWN BOSS AND HELP MY CHIDREN LIVE A BETTER LIFE SO THAT WHEN I.M GONE THEY CAN SAY THAT MY DAD DID MORE THEN JUST WORK A 9/5 JOB HE MADE HIS MARK ON THE WORLD BY DESING HIS OWN CLOTHING LINE THIS IS MY DREAM TO HAVE SOME THING POSITIVE IN MY LIFE BESIDES GOING UP AND DOWN IN THIS WORLD WHICH PUSHES BLACK PEPOLE TO DO WRONG BUT ALL I NEED IS ONE CHANCE TO DO RIGHT SO IF YOU CAN HELP ME FIND SOMEONE WHO IS LOOKING FOR NEW CLOTHING IDEAS SEND YOUR REPLY TO MY EMAIL(MY CLOTHING LINE WILL BE URBEN STLY)CARLOS TIPTON, C_TIP@YAHOO.COM I THINK THAT PEOPLE NEED TO MIND THEIR OWN BUISNESS. UNLESS PEOPLE ARE INVOLVED OR OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE INJURED.SARA-JEAN ANDERSON, LOVE_PUPPY_69_2000_2000@YAHOO.COM SALUT MAMANMELISSA, MELI@THIB I THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE SOME PICTURES OF BLACK PEOPLE BEING OPRESSED DURING THE RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE CIVIL WAR. P.S. IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED IF IT COULD BE DONE WITHIN THE NEXT TWENTY MINUTES. THANKS FOR NOTHINGENRIQUE, JIBBO@HOTMAIL.COM IT DEPENDS,ON WHO IS LEADING OUR COUNTRY THERE.GEORGE BUSH WANTS TO SHUT DOWN SCHOOLS,THAT DONT HAVE HIGH-TEST SCORES,HOWEVER,THAT JUST SHUTS OFF THE LEARNING OF,SAY LITTLE JAMEEL WATKINS,WHO IS A CHILD PRODIGY,NOW JAMEEL IS EVEN MORE SHUT OFF,WHY SHOULD HE LEARN?WHY THER HELL SHLD HE CARE,AINT NOBODY WANTS HIM TO SUCEED,OBVIOUSLY NOT GROWN-UPS.IF YOU JUST PROVIDE FUNDING,LIL' JAMEEL GOT A COMPUTER,HE CAN TYPE ALL HIS PROJECTS,HE HAS ONE OF THE LARGEST COMUNICATION PRUDUCT IN THE WHOLE WORLD,RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM-THE INTERNET.BUT BLACK-ON-BLACK GOT TO STOP,WE GOTTA GET ALONG,NUF VIOLENCE,WE CANT AMOUNT UNLESS WE AGREE,AND UNTIL THAN THE MAN JUST GON' KEEP HATIN ON US.PEACE ONE LOVENICK, SWEET_SUGA_21@HOTMAIL.COM HI I LIKE GRAFFITI ART NAD I WANT TO KNOW HOW CAN I GET BETTER. I TAG CAZER MY CREW IS HST.(NACH)NAZARIO, NACHO9999900@YAHOO.COM/ JE CROIS OUVRIRE LA PORTE POUR POUVOIR REGARDER A L EXTERIEURE EST LE DEBUT DE L OUVERTURE DE SA CONSCIENCE DE LA REALITER ET DE L INCONNU...PAT D, AM_DEAD I THINK THAT ALL YOU PEOPLE NEED TO GET OVER YOUR SELF'S BECASE WE ALL THE SAME. ARE MINDS, ARE HEARTS, AND AREE LOVE FOR OTHERS. SO GET OVER IT. IF YOU WANT THINGS TO CHANGE YOU NEED TO TALK TO REAL PEOPLE.SO GET A REAL LIFE.APRIL WRIGHT, NONE THE YEAR 2000 IS NOTHING SPECIAL THERE ARE JUST SOME RICH FUCKERS CONTROLING THE WAY THE WORLD TURNS WHEN THEY GO TO BED THEY DONT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEIR NEXT MEAL OR SHELTER ITS WHEN THEY ACTUALLY FOCUS ON THE REALITY OF IT ALL AND NOT JUST POLITICS SOMETHING WILL BE DONE AS ONE WORLD ONE LOVE ALL FOR EXAMPLE :THE US ELECTIONS IMAGINE THEY GAVE ALL THAT WASTED MONEY TO THE HOMELESS WE ARE TALKING MILLIONS ITS BULLSHIT PEOPLE SHOULD NT BE SO BLIND FUCK THEM ITS HAPPENING ALL OVER TJHE WORLD ENGLAND USA AUSTRALIA SOUTH AFRICA MONEY CONTROLLS THEIR THOUGHTS THEREFORE ONCE THE GREED STOPS OR SOMEONE WHO DOESNT CARE FOR MONEY STEPS IN NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE!!!!!ASKIN, FLIPSIDE I THINK THAT AMERICA IS TO HARD ON THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE AND I BELIVE THAT THE BLACKS AND HISPANICS SHOUD UNITE AND SHOW THE WORLD THAT WE ARE PEOPLE TOO AND WE CAN SHOW THE WHITE MAN THAT ANYTHING THEY CAN DO WE CAN DO AND DO IT BETTER AMERICA IS A FREE COUNTRY AND FREEDOM IS NOT JUST FOR THE WHITE MAN LETS RISE ABOVE THEM AND TOGETHER WE CAN SHOW THEM THAT WE ARE A SUPREAM RACE........KNOWLEDGE, KNOWLEDGE718@AOL.COM PLEASE SEND ME YOUR THOUGHTS....I'M TRYING TO START A POET'S FORUM AND I NEED CONTRIBUTIONS OF ALL THAT POETIC KNOWLEDGE I KNOW IS OUT THERE SOMEWHERE! MEANWHILE, READ THIS NEXT PIECE; IT'S CALLED "THE RHYMES FOR THE TIMES, OR SO I MAY PRECONCEPTUALIZE" -PEACE-JAH, JAH_LOVE81@HOTMAIL.COM THEY HAVE STRIPPED US OF HOPE, THEY HAVE SHATTERED OUR PRIDE, THEY HAVE STOLEN OUR DREAMS AND FED US LIES, SO WHO DO WE CREDIT FOR SUCH OPPORTUNITIES? WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO, WELL IT SURE AS HELL AIN'T WHAT THEY BELIEVE! THIS IS US, THE GENERATION OF SWINE, AND WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO WAIT IN THEIR LINES FOR NICKELS AND DIMES. EVERYTHING THAT THEY MAY THINK, WE MUST EXCEED ALL EXPECTATIONS. ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, WE MUST POSESS THAT MOTIVATION! EVERYDAY, WE MUST USE THAT INSPIRATION TO TURN THAT SHIT INTO A FULL-TIME MENTAL OCCUPATION.SEE, WE'RE CREATING THIS INTELLECTUAL COMPILATION, THEN WE'RE TAKING WHAT WE LEARN FROM OUR EXPERIMENTATION AND DISCOVERING A NEW LEVEL OF REALITY. WE'RE ABOLISHING THOSE AMERICAN DREAM NORMALITIES AND MIND-CONSTRUCTING OUR OWN MORALITIES. AS WE BALANCE THE DUALITIES OF CONFORMITY AND CONFLICT, WE'RE EXPERIENCING THE ROLES OF COURTROOM AND CONVICT. FIGHTING OUR WAY THROUGH MISDIRECTION AND DECEPTION, WE'RE BURNING THE DICTIONARIES OF DESTRUCTION. NO LONGER LOST IN THE CONFUSION OF TRADITION, BUT LOST IN THE INNOVATION OF IDELOGIES. SO WE MAP OUT A PATH TO LYRICAL ENLIGHTENMENT, AND FORGETTING THE PAST, OUR SENSES ARE HEIGHTENED. YOU SEE HOW LIFE'S TAKING ON A NEW FACE? BECOMING A NEW PLACE? OUR OWN EXISTENCE IN TIME AND SPACE, ATTAINING CONSISTENCE AND SETTING THE PACE. NOW WHO DO YOU THINK IS WINNING THE RACE?! THEY'RE BEING LEFT IN OUR DUST WITHOUT HARDLY A TRACE, LIKE BEING SPRAYED STRAIGHT IN THE FACE WITH MACE, THEY'RE BLIND TO OUR MOTIVES, IGNORANT TO THE SEASONS OF CHANGING REASONS! AS THE CORPORATE CONCENTRATION KEEPS COMMITING TREASON AGAINST THE SO-CALLED DEMOCRACY OF CAPITALISM, THEY'RE PROPAGATING PROFITABLE PROCREATION, BUT DIGGING THEIR CHILDREN'S GRAVES BEFORE THEY'RE EVEN BORN! HIDING THE TEARS THEY'VE SHED THROUGH THE YEARS, THEY'RE DROWNING IN FABRICATED FEARS AND DENYING THE ONCOMING STORM, TRYING TO SAY THEY HAVN'T BEEN WARNED! SINCE WE SEE BEYOND THEIR BLATANT BLASPHEMY, WE WILL PROCEED TO GIVE YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO PLANT THE SEEDS AND RECONSTRUCT THE DECONSTRUCTION, FOR WE NOW HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO REJUVINATE AND REHABILITATE, SO LET'S SEE WHAT WE CAN GENERATE! AND IF YOU DISAGREE, TAKE A LOOK DOWN AT THE GROUND. SEE THE WORLD CRUMBLING BENEATH YOUR FEET? THE TIME IS NOW, TO BUILD THE FOUNDATION OF A NEW NATION! GO ON, STAND FIRM, BE TRUE, 'CAUSE THEY'LL TAKE OFF YOUR HEAD AND PUT IN NEWS CREWS. YOU'LL BLINK WHEN THEY WANT, NOT WHEN YOU NEED. THEY'LL GIVE YOU RAW SHIT WHEN YOU NEED TO FEED. SO PICK UP YOUR WEAPON OF KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH, DON'T JUST STAND THERE AND CRY! SOON YOUR KIDS WILL BE DYING, AT YOU FEET THEY WILL LIE. WE HAVE TO DO MORE THAN STAND BY AND ASK WHY, WE MUST QUESTION THEIR INTENTIONS AND IGNORE THEIR LIES! SIMPLY PUT; WE MUST BECOME WISE, AND UPRISE! OUR ONLY OPTION IS TO UNIFY, SIMPLIFY, AND GLORIFY OUR EXISTENCE! YOUR INTELLIGENCE IS IRRELEVANT, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU KNOW, IT ONLY MATTERS WHAT YOU DO! AND YES, THIS MESS IS FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU!JAH WRIGHT, JAH_LOVE81@HOTMAIL.COM /\\ /\\ /***\\ /**\\ /******\\ /****\/**/\*****\\ /**/\****// \******\\ /**// \**// \*******\\ /**// \// \********\\ /**// _\********\\ (**(( / )********)) \**\\ / /********//\\ ---\\ ( /********//\ \\ \---------// ) )) \ \\ \ \__/ // \ \\\------- ______________\ \\_____ /***************\ \\***\\ /*****************\______\\**\\ /******************************\\ ______________________*******___\\ /****// /****// _ /*****// _ - @ @/******//@\\ _ -@ @ @ @ @/*******//@@\\ \@ @ @ @ @ @/********//@ @\\ \@ @ @ @- ^ ^ @ @ @!! \@ - @ @ @!! @ @ @ @!! (@ @ - @ !@ @ @ @!! (@ @(( ) @ @ @ @ @!! (@ @((__)@ @ @ @ @!! (@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !! \@_@_@_@_@_@_@_@/ /\ /\\ /*\\ /**\\ / ^*\/*/\*\\ (*( \**// \*\\ \*\ \// )*)) ORPHO5I5 \*\ /*/ / /*/ / /*/___/PLAYBOY_STU, DYNALIBRIUM@HOTMAIL.COM WE AS HUMAN BEINGS NEED TO START ACTING ON THESE CONVERSATIONS RATHER THAN JUST TALKING ABOUT THEM. LIFE IS GOING ON, AND THE WORLD IS PASSING US BY. WE HAVE TO MAKE A MOVE TO IMPROVE THIS PLANET, STARTING IN OUR OWN CITIES AND STATES. I AM STARTING A BUSSINESS, AND GIVING 1/10 OF MY PAY CHECK FROM IT TO THE POOR,OR TO THE CHURCH. PEOPLE NEED TO STOP TALKING ABOUT MAKING THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE, AND START WORKING ON IT. I BELIEVE THAT ONCE WE ALL START WORKING TOGETHER, WE WILL WIN THE WAR. WE WILL BWCOME BETTER PEOPLE BECAUSE OF IT.MEKA NECHAN, SWISS2MISS@YAHOO.COM IT SURE IS NICE TO READ SOME OF THESES THOUGHTS. WHAT I DON'T UNDER STAND IS WHY WE ALL COMPLAIN ABOUT THINGS BUT DO NOTHING? 1-GAS PRICES DO WE DO ANYTHING NO 2-GOVERMENT DO THEY CARE ABOUT US OR JUST THERE PAY CHECKS ? THEY DON'T CARE.IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY TO THEM. 3-THE GOVERMENT MAKES RULES-LAWS ON OUR AIR THAT WE BREATH AND OUR WATER THAT WE DRINK ----- BUT DO THEY DO IT THEM SELFS NO. 4-ALL THE RICH DO IS TALK ABOUT HOW TO HELP THE POOR BUT DO THEY NO ( GIVE UP SOME OF YOUR MONEY JUST DON'T THINK ABOUT IT DO IT ). 5-THE COURTS ARE EASY TO PUT PEOPLE AWAY BUT OR PUT IT OFF UNTIL ANOTHER DAY. ONCE AGAIN IT'S ALL ABOUT THE PAY CHECK AND NOT GETTING THE HELP THAT PEOPLE NEED. WHY? 6-THE FORESTES OF THE EARTH ARE BEING CUT DOWN EVERY DAY AND ANIMALS KILLED BUT WE NEED OUR WOOD & LAND TO SELL. 7-WHAT IS IT GOING TO TAKE FOR THE WOULD TO WAKE-UP ? 8-MAYBE ANOTHER WORLD WAR BUT THIS TIME ALL WILL PROBLY DIE ? 9-EVERY ONE THAT READS THIS SHOULD REALLY THINK ABOUT HOW THEY ACT AND WHAT ROLL THEY HAVE IN THIS WORLD TO START TO MAKE IT BETTER ? EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS. 10-REMEMBER THAT " NEVER ATTACK THE INDIVIDUAL.WE CAN BE IN TOTAL DISAGREEMENT WITH SOMEONE WITHOUT DENIGRATING THEM AS A CONSEQUENCE." THIS SIMPLE TOLERANCE AND (RECOGNITION OF ) THE REAL AND PROFOUND DIMENSIONS OF EACH HUMAN BEING,REGARDLESS OF BELIEFS,ORIGINS,OR VALUES. MAY GOD GO WITH YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES AND BE THE CENTERPIECE OF ALL YOUR HEARTS. GOD BLESS. IF YOU WISH TO E-MAIL ME BACK I WILL RESPOND TO YOUR E-MAILS?MICHAEL-SHANE STRONG, MICHAEL-SHANE@HOME.COM I THINK THAT IT IS PRETTY HARSH, THINKING ABOUT WHAT THE OWRLD OS COMMING TO...I MEAN A LOT OF US HAVE YOUNGER BROTHERS AND SISTERS...WHO WE CARE AND LOVE...EVEN MIGHT HATE,,,,BUT WE CARE..THEY GO TO SCHOOL TO THE MALL ANYWHERE THAT THEY WANT TO GO AND ALREADY THEY ARE OFFERED DRUGS AND SUCH...THEY ARE JUDGED BY THE CLOTHES THAT THEY WEAR..AND I THINK THAT IT IS PRETTY SAD...NOW A DAYS EVERYBODY IS CLASSIFIED ONTO A GROUP....ITS SAD!! ASHLEYASHLEY, GINGER_69_00@HOTMAIL.COM I DON'T KNOW WHY EVERYONE IS ALL IN IS YEAR 2000 THING. ITS ALMOST DONE AND NOTHING HAS REALLY HAPPENED OUR LITTLE WROLD DID NOT CRUBLE AND FALL DOWN WE ARE ALL STILL HERE. THING WILL CHANGE BUT EVERTHING DOES JUST BECAUSE WE ARE IN A CERTAIN YEAR DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING. NOBODY MADE A BIG DEAL ABOUT 1999 SO WHY IS EVERY ONE FREAKING ABOUT THIS. I THINK THAT EVERYONE SHOULD CALM DOWN AND TAKE A CHILL PILL SO THE REST OF US CAN MOVE THE HELL ON.ATHENA BARRETT, DAISY@HOTMAIL.COM I THINK IT IS TIME FOR THE TRUTH TO BE TOLD YET FREEDOM FOR THE ONE MINE STATE TO KNOW THAT WE ARE THE ONE GOD IF NOT LETS DESTROY IT READY TO DIE I AM FOR PEACE OF MIND TEJAMES SMITH, NO I FIND IT FUNNY TO SEE THAT PEOPLE THINK THAT THE YEAR 2000 BRINGS WITH IT A DIFFERENT WORLD. THAT ON THE DAWN OF A NEW MILLENIUM, THE WORLD WILL SUDDENLY CHANGE, AND WE AS A RACE WILL SOMEHOW REACH ENLIGHTENMENT OR FALL INTO THE PITS OF HELL. I BELIEVE THAT THE YEAR 2000 PRESENTS A CHANCE FOR CHANGE, IF NOTHING ELSE. POSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM ARE THINGS THAT WE BRING WITH US INTO THE YEAR, THEY ARE NOT SOMETHING THAT MAGICALLY APPEARS WITH THE CHANGE OF A CALANDER DATE. IT IS TRUE THAT THE HUMAN RACE HAS, AT TIMES, LEFT A DARK AND BLOODY TRAIL. BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, WE HAVE CREATED CIVILIZATIONS, WORKS OF ART, MUSIC, AND THE CONCEPTS OF RIGHT AND WRONG. AND NOW WITH THE INVENTION OF THE INTERNET WE HAVE A CHANCE TO JOIN OUR ENTIRE RACE AS A WHOLE, TO BRING US TOGETHER IN A GLOBAL UNITY THAT HAS NEVER BEFORE BEEN SEEN ON THIS PLANET. SO TO ME, I BELIVE THAT THE YEAR 2000 OFFERS US THE OPPERTUNITY TO THINK POSITIVE, AND TO HAVE AN OPTIMISIC OUTLOOK ON LIFE. BUT PERHAPS THAT IS JUST BECAUSE I DO NOT BRING WITH ME NEGITIVE FEELINGS FROM PAST YEARS, AND RELY ON MYSELF TO SEE OUR WORLD AS A PLACE WITH ENDLESS POSSIBLITES.JASON, GUS380@YAHOO.COM HOW CAN WE BE POSITIVE WHEN OUR WORLD IS SO NEGATIVE??? WE LIVE IN A COMPLETE DISORDER AND WE STILL HANG ON IT LIKE IT WAS THE ONLY THING WE HAD! EXCUSE ME PEOPLE BUT WE SUCK! WE ARE ALL LOSERS, CAUSE WE'RE LOOKING AT THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM DESTROYING OUR PLANET AND KILLING OUR BROTHERS AND WE STAND THERE SAYING: OH! IT'S SO WRONG BUT WHAT CAN WE DO...WE'RE NOTHING COMPARE TO THIS BIG CORPORATION PRESIDENT! LET'S GIVE GLORY TO THOSE WHO WOSHIP THE DEVIL'S AND LET THEM RUN OUR PLANET! FUKOFFF! IM FUKING TIRED OF THIS CRAPT AND EXCUSE ME AGAIN BUT THERE'S NOTHING POSITIVE IN THIS WORLD ELSE THEN HOPPING THAT IT WILL END AND THAT JESUS WILL COME BACK TO DELIVER US FROM THOSE DEMONS! BUT I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU MY BROTHERS...IF YOU KNOW THAT THIS SYSTEM IS WRONG YOU BETTER GET UP AND FIGHT RIGHT NOW FOR YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS CAUSE THE END IS NEAR...WHAT!?! YOU THINK IT WILL LAST 10 MORE YEARS! YOUR TOTALLY CRAZY! BY THE END OF THIS YEAR THE ECONOMY IS DOWN AND THE TOTAL CHAOS WILL RAIGN ON EARTH...YOU THINK I'M CRAZY!?! MAYBE BUT AT LEAST I'M PREPARED FOR THE WORST. AND BY THE WAY JESUS WILL NOT COME HERE AND SAY: HELLO PEOPLE YOU ARE ALL FOOLS BUT I LOVE YOU...NO HE WILL SAY: MY WORDS WERE CLEAR END THOSE WHO HEARD THEM AND LOOKED AWAY WILL PAY FOR YOUR SINS! TAKE A LOOK AT OUR HISTORIE, ARE YOU PROUD OF IT???IT'S ONLY BLOOD AND WAR...WE'VE BEEN RULLED BY SATAN SINCE THE BEGINNING! IT'S TIME THAT WE GET UP AND KICK IS ASS, HE WILL NEVER LEAVE ALONE, HIS GOAL'S ARE BAD AND HE KNOW IT! DON'T FORGET SOMETHING IMPORTANT: SATAN IS NOT IN A SPECIFIS PERSON BUT IN ALL OF US UNTIL WE STAND UP AND STOP THIS MESS...NOTHING WILL CHANGE BY ITSELF, IN FACT THE BIG CPITALIST CORPORATIONS HAVE MORE AND MORE EVIL PLANS FOR THE NEAR FUTURE...IT'S TIME OR NEVER TO DO SOME FOR OUR LORD AND OPEN THE PATH FOR IS RETURN! OH! HE'LL COME BACK ANYWAY BUT YOU SHOULD READ THE LAST PART OF THE BIBLE "THE BOOK OF REVELATION" YOU'LL SEE WHAT'S COMING AND WHAT HAVE ALREADY BEGUN...ON THAT MY BROTHERS AND SITERS I WISH YOU A GOOD END OF THE WORLD AND STAY WITH THE LORD HE WILL PROTECK YOU FROM ALL THE PLAGUES... MAT THE MATRIX AKA MATEMATIX AKA THE .M.MATEMATIX, MATTT@ZWORG.COM IT IS SAID THAT GOD IS THE MOST PERFECT BEING. THEREFORE AS MAN IS MADE IN GODS IMAGE AND GOD IS PERFECT THEN MAN MUST BE PERFECT.FOR A PERFECT BEING COULD NOT CREATE SOMEHING THAT WAS LESS THAN PERFECT! THIS BEING SO THEN MANS CREATIONS MUST BE PERFECT? ARE THEY JUST USED FOR THE WRONG PURPOSE? WITH MODERN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY ARE WE CREATING THE OBEIDIANT OPERATING SYSTEM OF A STAR TREK SHIP OR THE HORRORS OF A TERMINATOR TYPE SYSTEM? THE CHOICE IS OURS IF WE DRIVE TECHNOLOGY THEN WE GET CONTROL IF TECHNOLOGY DRIVES US WE GET REAL PROBLEMS. TECHNOLOGY COULD OPERATE THE WORLDS SYSTEMS BETTER THAN MAN AS IT WOULD DO SO LOGICALLY ( AS IN ASIMOVS "EVITABLE CONFLICT"). SO LET HUMANS CARE FOR THE HUMANS WELL BEING AND LET TECHNOLOGY TAKE CARE OF PRODUCTION ETC.ROB YOUEL., SUE.YOUEL@TALK21.COM I THINK THAT BUDDHA IS A SHORT, ROUND, JOLLY FELLA THAT BRINGS GOOD LUCK TO WHOM RUBS HIS TUMMY. THE INTERNET SEEMS TO DIFFER WITH ME. I CAN'T NOT FIND THE SHORT, ROUND, JOLLY FELLA NO WHERE ON THE NET. I WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO LOOK. THE DANG INTERNET HAS NO CLUE!CHARITY, FOURDAYS@PICOSITO.COM THIS IS THE ONLY MESSAGE I WILL SEND AND I HOPE GOD ALLOWS ME TO SAY THE RIGHT WORDS. WILL IT HAPPEN, ONLY IF WE BASE OUR POSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM ON BASIC IDEALS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AND BASIC MORALS.GARY , GARY.L.GRAVES@WORLDNET.ATT.NET I THINK THAT AS LONG AS WE HAVE ORGANISED RELIGION IN THIS WORLD WE ARE GOING TO HAVE FRAUD , DECEPTION , WARS , FANATISM , ETC. THERE HAS BEEN MUCH STUDY INTO ALL THE MAJOR RELIGIONS AND ALL OF THEM HAVE COME UP WANTING. CHRISTIANITY IS NOT WHAT WE ARE TOLD. THE BIBLE , WHICH WAS PUT TOGETHER BY A PAGAN ROMAN EMPIRE HAS MANY DECEIVING PARTS ADDED TO FIT THE MANY PAGAN AREAS OF THE EMPIRE. THE ORIGINALS HAVE ALL BEEN DESTROYED TO CLOKE ANY DECEPTION. UPON THE DISCOVERY OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS WE CAN EASILY SEE THE VARIOUS DIFFERENCES OF THE TWO. THEN THERE WAS THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAG HAMMADI. ANOTHER GROUP OF WRITS FOUND DURING THE 1949 ERA. THESE HAVE BEEN HIDDEN FRON ALL ORGANISED GROUPS BECAUSE OF THEIR DIFFERENCES TO THE BIBLE AS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WOULD HAVE US BELIEVE. MANY OF THE ASPECTS OF MODERN RELIGION HAVE BEEN ALTERED TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY ARE NO LONGER THE WORDS OF CHRIST. YET WE ARE SO FANATICAL THAT WE CANNOT SEE THIS. LETS GIVE OUR HEADS A SHAKE AND RESEARCH JUST EXACTLY WHAT IT IS WE ARE WORSHIPING.ROY, R.BELL@LYCOS.COM IN THE YEAR 2000, NOT THE MILLENIUM BUT THE YEAR. BRINGS OUT A NEW PERSPECTIVEON LIFE. I BELIEVE THAT MY EYES ARE OPEN TO ALL THAT CAN BE AND WAYS THAT CAN BRING ABOUT CHANGES TO OTHER PEOPLE. IN THIS UPCOMING MILESTONE OF OUR BIRTH WE NEED TO REFLECT ON PAST MISTAKES, MAY THEY BE ONES THAT WE HAVE PERSONALLY COMMITED OR ONES THAT HUMAN BEINGS HAVE DONE AS A WHOLE. WE NEED TO TAKE THE TIME TO KNOW WHO WE ARE WHAT WE WANT TO BE IN THE NEXT 100 TO 1000 YEARS TO COME AND PROSPER AS WHAT WE 'VE ALWAYS DREAMED OF BEING. WE NEED TO EMBRACE EACH OTHER'S DIFFERENCES. INTERMINGLE AMONGST MINDS. FEEL PEOPLE'S PAIN AND CONFRONT OUR OWN SO WE CAN MOVE ON AND BE A BETTER SOCIETY FOR THE HUMAN RACE... I BELIEVE THAT WE ARE REACHING THAT POINT BUT I CAN'T SAY WHERE IT WILL GO FROM HERE.ADRIENNE, AHEIM50928@AOL.COM I HOPE THAT POSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM WILL CARRY US THROUGH...BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S POSSIBLE WITHOUT CONSCIOUSNESS. HOPING WITH CLOSED EYES CAUSES US TO BLISSFULLY RUN INTO WALLS, THE SAME WALLS, OVER AND OVER. I DON'T MIND FALLING, AND I DON'T MIND BLEEDING, BUT I WILL DO IT WITH MY EYES WIDE OPEN. THE TRICK IS MAINTAIN FAITH WHILE ACKNOWLEDGING THE REALITY THAT EXISTS. SUCH AS: WE ARE FORCE-FED BY GLOBAL MEDIA COMGLOMERATES. WE ALL SUFFER FROM THE DIVISION OF PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT SKINS. WE LIVE (AT LEAST THOSE OF US IN THE US) ACCORDING TO IDEALS THAT BY THEIR NATURE WILL KEEP US STEPPING ON AND OVER EACH OTHER, RATHER THAN EXTENDING OUR HANDS TO OUR FELLOW MEN. IT IS EASY, AND CHEAP, TO BE POSITIVE AND OPTIMISTIC WHILE CHASING THE DOLLAR FIRST AND FOREMOST, WHILE ACCEPTING THE PRESENCE OF AN INSIDIOUS AND DESTRUCTIVE MEDIA, WHILE REJECTING OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS BECAUSE THEY ARE ANOTHER COLOR. IT IS A MUCH MORE DIFFICULT AND VALUABLE PURSUIT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER AND TO THINK FOR OURSELVES.VERITO, LOLITAYAYA@HOTMAIL.COM HELLO! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!! AFTER READING THOSE COOL FEALLINGS THE ONLY THING I CAN SAYIS: < I THINK IT'S TIME TO CHILL OUT AND THINK...JUST THINK A LITTLE BEFORE PRE-JUDGING A PERSON OR JUMPING 2 CONCLUSIONS ABOUT SOMETHING WHICH IS MERELY A PART OF A BIGGER PIC. MAYBY THERE'S A REASON WHY THAT PARTICULAR PERSON ACTED THAT WAY. SURE - IT MIGHT NOT JUSTIFY THE ACTION...BUT AT LEAST YOU CAN COMPREHEND WHY...HAVE YA TRIED TO IMAGINE THE WALK THRU YA NEXT MAN'S SHOES...? I FIND MANKIND TO B A VERY TRAGIC BEING...SO MUCH CAPACITY AND SO MISLEAD AND MATERIALISTICALLY FOCUSED. SAD TO MEET PPL WHO ACTUALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT OR WHAT THEY THINK...GET IN TOUCH WITH YA OWN MIND AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND AND RESPECT THE NEXT PERSON'S MIND. AND BEING A MALE I FINALLY JUST HAVE TO ASK - ISN'T IT ABOUT TIME WE CHILL WITH OUR MACHOATTITUDE, NUTTIN BUT A SIGN OF INSECURITY - INNIT ? BE CURIOUS ABOUT EXOTIC AND NEW STUFF - NOT SUSPICIOUS. HARD IN A WORLD SO VIOLENT I S'POSE...DON'T BE AN OPTIMIST - GETS YA DISSAPOINTED. NO POINT IN BEING A PESSIMIST EITHER - YA WILL END UP RESTRICTING YASELF. BE A REALIST ( EXPERIENCED OPTIMIST ! )- AND TRY TO LIVE ON THIS PLANET...NOT YA NEIGHBOURHOOD, CITY OR COUNTRY...UNIVERSAL EXISTANCE !!! CHR!ZTAL!ZED * * *CHRIZ, CHRIZZZTOS@HOTMAIL.COM NO, I DON'T THINK THIS WILL BECOME THE NORM FOR US. AD WHY SHOULD IT? POSITIVITY IS ONLY POSITIVE IF ITS AFFECTS REACHES THOSE WHOSE LIVES ARE NOT SO "POSITIVE". WE MUST REMEMBER THIS IS NOT AN INDEPENDENT LIFE WE LIVE. IT CERTAINLY IS DEPENDENT ON THE LIVES OF OTHERS FOR SUBSTANCE. BUT WHAT IS THAT SUBSTANCE? AND HOW DOES ONE QUALITY IT AS SUBSTANTIAL?CYNTHIA E. MOODY, THEMOODYS@AOL.COM THIS ISNT AN OPPINION YO BUT IM GONNA MAKE A GRAFFITTI SITE AND IF ANY OF YOU ARE WRITTERS AND WANT TO SEND IN "ORIGINAL" PICS THAT YOU HAVE DONE,NOT SOMETHIN YOU SCANNED OUT A MAGIZINE THEN I WOULD BE HAPPY TO POST THEM AND SEND YOU A RETURN LINK TO VIEW YOUR ART WORK AND THE PAGE,PLEASE SEND IN YOUR PICS AND A BRIEF DISCRIPTION ABOUT YOUR SELF LIKE THE CITY YOUR FROM,YOUR GRAFF NAME AND AGE N SO FORTH AND I WILL HOOK IT UP,MAIL TO "AKAI303@AOL.COM" ELEMENTAL MINDZ CREW REPRESENT,PEACE TO ALL THE "JA JA WARRIORZ"REPRESENTING THE BLOOD OF CHRIST! WORD IS BORN IM OUT.......AKAIAKAI, AKAI303@AOL.COM I HAVE MANY OPINIONS OF THE FUTURE, ONE IN WITCH THE CORUPT GOVERNMENT IS THE END OF NOT JUST WHAT WE KNOW HUMANITY BUT THE WORLD ALSO.JACKIN S. SHALN, BOLERJACK@HOTMAIL.COM WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT IS NOT FOR US TO NEITHER ASSUME NOR SENSE ABOUT. I BELIEVE IT IS NOT WHAT WE THINK, BUT WHAT WE SHOULD DO NOW AS A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS TO PRESERVE OUR OWN INTEGRITY AS PEOPLE AMONG MODERN SOCIETY. IF WE WANT PEACE WE OUGHT TO SHOW SOME DISCERN FOR IT. THE YEAR 2000 IS NOTHING BUT ANOTHER YEAR TO ME. IF WE JUST DISCUSS ABOUT WHAT WILL GO DOWN AT THAT TIME, THAN WE HAVEN'T LEARNED ANYTHING FROM WHAT WE WENT THROUGH BEFORE! THE WORLD HASN'T CHANGED DRAMATICALLY SINCE THE CLOCK HIT THE YEAR 2G A MOMENT AGO IT WAS 1999, SO WE ALL CAN STOP ASSUMING WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT, AND JUST TRY LIVING OUT OUR DESTINY THE WAY IT'S MEANT TO BE. JUST BECAUSE IT’S A NEW CENTURY DOESN’T MEAN THAT WE SHOULD WORRY OR BE HAPPY ABOUT. WE NEED TO SET GOOD STANDARDS NOW FOR THE FUTURE AHEAD OF OUR TIME. AS A 15-YEAR-OLD STUDENT I AM NOT TRYING TO CHANGE ANYONE’S PHILOSOPHY OR ASSUMPTION ON FANATICAL DELUSIONS, AND OR PREDICTIONS ON WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT, SO PLEASE TRY AND FEEL ME. NOBODY CAN SAY WHAT WILL GO DOWN UNLESS THEY ARE EITHER INVOLVED IN WHAT IS GOING TAKE PLACE FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE! MY ASPIRATION FOR THIS WORLD AND ITS PEOPLE IS NOTHING BUT SHEER BLISS. THANKS, AND I HOPE EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS WHAT I’M TRYING TO SAY.THE "A" BOY, P_MASE@YAHOO.COM WE LIVE IN A VIOLENT WORLD. I AM UNABLE TO WATCH THE T.V. OR READ THE DAILY PAPER WITHOUT READING ABOUT A MURDER, ROBBERY OR OTHER ACTS OF VIOLENCE. AS RESIDENTS OF THIS PLANET WE NEED TO MAKE SOME MAJOR CHANGES IN THE WAY WE AS A NATION SOLVE PROBLEMS. INSTEAD OF YELLING, SCREAMING AND BOMBING OTHER COUNTRIES WE NEED TO BEGIN TO FIND WAYS TO SOLVE OUR DIFFERIENCES USING PEACEFUL MEANS. AS A PRESCHOOL TEACHER I BELIEVE THAT IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT MY CHILDREN LEARN HOW TO DEAL WITH SITUATIONS IN PEACEFUL WAYS. AS A MOTHER I WOULD FEEL MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE KNOWING THAT EVEN THOUGH MY CHILD LIVES A VIOLENT SOCIETY HE DOES NOT BE JOIN IN ON THE VIOLENCE. BY TEACHING MY CHILD HOW TO SOLVE LIFE'S PROBLEMS IN PEACEFUL WAYS PERHAPS BY THE TIME HE IS GROWN AND HAS CHILDREN OF HIS OWN OUR SOCIETY WILL BE ONE OF PEACE. FINALLY I WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR OTHER READERS THE PONDER. "IF WE AS ADULTS CAN TEACH OUR CHILDREN PEACEFUL WAYS OF WITH THE WORLD AROUND THEM. SHOULD WE NOT BE ABLE LEARN WAYS PEACE AS ADULTS.JOANN HOLMES, JOANNHOL@EXCITE.COM DURING THE YEAR 2000 SEVERAL PLANS THAT UNLISTED CORPORATE AND GOVERMENT AGENCY'S HAVE BEEN PROCESSING FOR THE PAST 100 YEARS WILL BE PUT THROUGHT THEIR FINAL STAGE'S. THE ELECTRONIC TAGGING OF INDIVIDUALS, THROUGH THE USE OF MOBILE PHONES AND DNA IDENTIFICATION CARDS AND ALSO THE INTRODUCTION OF DIGITAL TV. THIS WILL GIVE SUCH ORGANISATIONS SUCH AS FEMA AND OTHER SECRET GOVERMENTS A DETAILED DATA BASE ON ALL PEOPLE LIVING IN THE WESTERN WORLD. NOT ONLY WILL THEY HAVE THIS DETAILED DATA BASE BUT THEY WILL ALSO HAVE THE POWER AND TECHNOLOGY, SUCH AS GPS SYSTEMS, TO PIN POINT THE EXACT LOCATION OF ANY REGESTERED INDIVIDUAL. WHO KNOWS WHAT THE MOTIVES ARE BEHIND THESE ORGANISATIONS, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND OUT, IT IS ALSO IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP THEM. BUT WHAT EVER'S GOING TO HAPPEN IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN SOON, WE MIGHT NOT SEE THE EFFECTS OF IT FOR SOMETIME TO COME. BUT WITHOUT A DOUBT IN MY MIND ITS THERE.MR.JOHNSON, SYNDICATE@FSMAIL THE FIRST THING TO DO IS TALK, THEN ACT. BUT WITHOUT A PLAN NO ACTION CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED. WITHOUT ACTION NO PLAN IS WORTHWHILE. I, MEAN, YOU CAN SAY WHAT YOU LIKE BUT YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING, ANYTHING. WORDS ARE JUST A MAP OF THE ACT. THE WORD 'LIFE' IS NOT LIVING ITSELF. THE WORD 'ACTION' DOES NOT AN ACTION MAKE. "THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY". NOW MOVE YOUR ASS, BITCH.POUNCY, POUNCY@GODISDEAD.COM THIS YEAR IS A YEAR OF CHANGE BOTH FOR THE BEST AND THE WORST. PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE UNIFYING, AND GETTING TOGETHER TO HELP BRING ABOUT SOCIETAL REFORM. THEY ARE BREAKING THE BANK, DE-FUNDING THE FUND, AND TAKING ACTION. BUT, WHAT HAS BROUGHT ALL OF THESE PEOPLE OUT OF THE WOOD-WORK? TELEVISON. NEWSPAPERS. EDITED NEWS. IT MAKES ME SICK TO KNOW THAT MANY OF THESE SO-CALLED SOCIAL REFORMERS ARE ONLY DOING WHAT THEY DO AS A RESPONSE TO A GLOWING BO IN THERE COMFORTABLE LIVING ROOMS. THE CHANGE, IN AND OF, IS A GOOD ONE. BUT, I THINK THAT THESE PEOPLE NEED TO USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO NETWORK AND FIND MORE CHANGE. NOW IS THE TIME TO STOP LISTENING TO YOUR TELE, AND START LISTENING TO YOUR NEIGHBORPOUNCY, POUNCY@GODISDEAD.COM I THINK IT IS THE BEST GRAFFITTIMAD HATTER, JAYZ911404@AOL.COM WHAT IS MEANT BY THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT IS THAT LIFE AS WE KNOW IT HAS COME TO AN END, A NEW WORLD IS BEING CREATED AROUND US EVERY DAY AND THE IDEA THAT THE WORLD WOULD HAVE ENDED ON THE EVE OF 2000, IS JUST A EUPHAMISM(SP?), BESIDES, THE NEW MILLINIUM DOESN'T ACTUALLY START UNTIL NEW YEARS EVE '00 AT MIDNIGHT, ENJOY LIFE BECAUSE IT WILL NEVER BE THE SAME, IT IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING!CHRIS WILLIAMS, REDDAWG25@HOTMAIL.COM THE NEW MILLENIUM WILL BRING STYLE IN ONES OWN HEAD, NO JUDGEMENTS, BUT FREEDOM INSTEAD TO DO WHAT YOU WANT SAY WHAT YOU WANT AND ACT FROM YOUR OWN MIND--STYLE OF A CREATIVE KIND IT'S ABOUT TIME TO OPEN OUR EYES AND REALISE LAZINESS IS A WASTE OF EXISTENCE, IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO WASTE WHAT LIFE GAVE YOU. IT'S YOUR CHOICE TO BELIEVE WHAT WILL SAVE YOU TAKE WHAT'S OLD AND MAKE NEW WITH WHATEVER IT GIVES YOU. BELIEVE YOUR DREAMS--THEY'LL COME TRUE.MOUSE, XLR8R27@HOTMAIL.COM I THINK THAT YOU NEED TO SHOW MORE PICTURES OF GRIFFITI BECAUSE YOU JUST DO AND YOU ALSO SUCK BIG FAT FUCKINING DONKEY DICKHEATHER G*&%#@!$^, JSJDGU@GDUAI.COM COMRADES, WE STAND AT A CROSSROADS. THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE HOLDS TWO CHOICES ONLY: SOCIALIST RECONSTRUCTION BY CHOICE, OR FASCISM BY DEFAULT. THE CONDITIONS FOR SOCIALISM HAVE LONG BEEN RIPE, EVEN ROTTEN, BUT WHAT IS LACKING IS A REQUISITE MINIMUM OF *CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS* IN THE WORKING CLASS. SELF-INTEREST, (I.E. GREED), TOUTED AS VIRTUE BY AYN RAND AND OTHER FOUL CAPITALIST APOLOGISTS, MUST AND SHALL BE REPLACED BY *MUTUAL SELF INTEREST*, A MORE ENLIGHTENED, PROGRESSIVE FORM OF THOUGHT. IF WE DO NOT CHOOSE TO BUILD SOCIALISM ON A DEMOCRATIC-CENTRALIST, MARXIAN BASIS, FASCISM WILL INEVITABLY RESULT. THE INTERNAL CONTRADICTIONS OF CAPITALISM ARE CAUSING ITS IMMINENT SELF-DESTRUCTION. THE UNITED STATES IS BUILDING A TOTALLY UNSUSTAINABLE 'GLOBALIST ECONOMY' OF UNFETTERED EXPLOITATION AND SUFFERING. WE CAN AND MUST CHANGE THIS. YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR CHAINS.SEBASTIAN MELMOTH, SEBASTIANMELMOTH@QUENTINCRISP.COM WELL FROM READING THE FIRST TWO ENTRIES, I CAN SEE I HAVEN'T MISSED MUCH OF ANYTHING. IT SOUNDS LIKE EVERYONE WANTS SOMETHING BAD TO HAPPEN TO EVERYONE ELSE. THIS IS UNLIKE THE THOUGHTS WHICH PROVOKED PROSPERITY AND THAT ENERGY THAT MADE THINGS MOVE IN PREVIOUS YEARS. THIS KIND OF ENERGY IS REQUIRED FOR ACHIEVEMENT. NO ONE ACHIEVES ANYTHING JUST BY SITTING ON THEIR ASS OR ASSES. IS THE END OF THE WORLD SO AWSOME THAT ONE WOULD WANT TO ANTICIPATE THE WORST OR EXCELLERATE THE TIME DUE FOR REPENTANCE AND PRAYER. THE SILENCE NEEDED FOR CORROBERRATING ANYTHING IT SEEMS WOULD BE TOSSED AWAY WITH FRAGRANT DISCONCERN. NOT A GOOD MOVE FOR ANYONE. DON'T YOU THINK.TONI FRANCIS, FRANCIS3@BELLATLANTIC.NET YA'LL ALL ARE A BUNCH OF BITCHES. YA'LL DON'T KNOW WHAT THEFUCK YA'LL ARE TALKING ABOUT. STOP FROUNTING OR WE ARE GOING TO BLOW YOUR HOUSE UP.DADDY, THISDICK.ORG FOR ME POSITIVITY WAS THE Y2K BUG BRINGING DOWN BABYLON. THE Y2K BUG WAS FOR MANY OF US THE GREATEST IMMEDIATE HOPE I'M A ENVIRONMENTAL BLOCKADING, AND URBAN STREET CARNIVAL ACTIVIST AND I'VE BEEN PRAYING FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS THAT THE BUG WAS REAL AND THAT TRANSPORT , FINANCING, BANKING NETWORKS- YOU NAME IT - WOULD GO TO SHIT. WE WERE DAMN BUMMED UP HERE WHEN WE HEARD IT WAS ALL CLEAR (WITH THIRD EYE TRYBES HARD HARMONIC RHYMES WE WERE DOWN FOR ALL OF JIG) BECAUSE ALL CLEAR TO US MEANS MORE RAPE OF EARTH MOTHER. IT MEANS WE'RE MOST LIKELY GOING TO GET BEAT BY LOGGERS AGAIN THIS YEAR AND PEPPER SPRAYED BY COPS AND FURTHER CRIMINALISED IN THE 'JUSTICE' SYSTEM. AND I DO SIGN THIS 12:12 SO I DO BELIEVE AND FEEL THE HARMONIC CONVERGEANCE AND HOPE THAT Y'ALL WALK WITH PEACE AND COMPASSION. MAY YOU ALL RECOGNIZE EVERY BEING AS A BUDHA. ON TO MAYDAY2K/BELTANE AND 2012.12:12, DEAN@DIRECT.CA HEY MY PUNKER FISH DIDN'T COME OUT RIGHT BECAUSE OF THE TYPE SETTING ON THIS CONTEMPABLE SITE! OH WELL I DON'T REALLY CARE AS MUCH AS I LET ON SO DON'T CRY FOR ME BUT DO CRY FOR THE PUNKER FISH.LEVI, CHONGOFEO@NETSCAPE.NET I THINK IT'S JAN 18 2000 AND IT'S TIME FOR A NEW QUSTION TO BE ASKED. !!! (^_^*)<-PUNKER BOY OR A WIERD LOOKING FISH WHAT EVER YOU LIKE.LEVI, CHONGOFEO@NETSCAPE.NET I AGREE WITH RIVEN! STOP THE CAPTIAL LETTERS!! ALL THOSE IS AGREEMENT, VOICE YOUR CONCERN!LAMB CHOP, EATME@SCHOP.COM AAAAHHH!! MY ENTRY HAD A FEW WORDS MISSING, SO THE CONTEXT AND IMPACT OF MY WORDS WERE LOST. WHAT I MEANT TO SAY IS THAT "ALTHOUGHT THIS WEB-PAGE IS CONCEPTUALLY PRETTY COOL, WOULDN'T IT BE EVEN BETTER IF THE CONTRIBUTIONS WEREN'T POSTED UP IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS". BLAH BLAH BLAH. PROBLEM SOLVEREDRIVEN AGAIN, IT'S ME AGAIN CONCEPTUALLY THIS IS A REALLY COOL PAGE, BUT WOULDN'T IT BE EVEN BETTER IF THE WEB CONTRIBUTIONS WERE NOT POSTED UP I DONT KNOW ABOUT ANYONE ELSE, BUT READING SOMETHING WITH NO CAPITAL LETTER DISCRIMINATION IS DAMN FRUSTRATING. I WILL LIVE IN THE OPTIMISM THAT ONE DAY I CAN BE LIBERATED FROM READING THINGS WITH INCORRECT GRAMMAR. LETS ALL PRAISE THE HOLY MILLENIUM!! LET'S ALL PRAISE CORRECT CIRCUMSTANTIAL CAPITAL LETTER DISCRIMINATION!!! AHEAD WITH THE LIBERATION!RIVEN, RIVEN_33@HOTMAIL.COM THE Y2K ISSUE HAS BEEN PLANNED SINCE THE DAYS OF PRES. NIXON ,, THEY KNEW WHAT THE PROBLEMS WOULD BE ,, BUT THE DAMNED MEDIA IS MAKING PEOPLE PANIC, I BLAME THE MEDIA FOR ALOT OF THE PROBLEMS ,, COULUMBINE FOR EXAMPLE AND ALL OF THE COPYCATS THEREAFTER THEY WOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN THOSE IDEAS IF THE DAMNED MEDIA DID'NT BLOW IT UP THE WAY THEY DID IT'S SICK LET THOSE POOR KIDS REST IN PEACE, NOT DRAG IT OUT ,, WE ARE IN AN AGE IN WHICH ALL OF THE MORALS WE ONCE HAD ARE GOING DOWN THE TOILET, YES I AM OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND I BELEIVE THAT THIS COUNTRY SHOULD BE RUN ON THE GROUNDS THAT OUR FOREFATHERS SET UP FOR US!!!, I THINK THAT THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANE IN SCHOOLS SHOULD BE MANDATORY, PRAYER SHOULD BE BROUGHT BACK INTO OUR SCHOOLS, WE NEED TO STOP THE IMMIGRATION INTO OUR COUNTRY I MEAN THIS IS RIDICULOUS, ANY IMMIGRANT THAT COMMITS A VIOLEN CRIME SHOULD IMMEDIATELY BE DEPORTED, AND MOST OF ALL WE DONT NEED THE UNITED NATIONS THEY WILL EVENTUALLY DESTROY ALL COUNTRIES WITH THIER ONE WORLD ORDER, DIFFERENT COUNTRIES ARE WHAT GIVE US ALL INDIVIDUALITY,, A REVOLUTION IS NEEDED !!!!, AND OUR CONSTITUTION IS SLIPPING AWAY, OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OUR GUN RIGHTS , ETC.. AMERICA IS IN DISTRESS AND WE NEED TO FLY THE FLAG UPSIDE DOWN AS A SYMBOL OF WHAT IS HAPPENING TO US, IT WAS INTENDED THAT THE GOVT BE RUN BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE,, THIS IS NOT THE CASE THE GOVT IS RUNNED BY SICK INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS THAT WANT GLOBAL DOMINANCE.. IT MUST BE STOPPED. WE MUST FORM MILITIAS FOR THE PEOPLE, BE RELIANT AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, AND SUPPORT OUR OWN COMMUNITIES.. BECAUSE ALL WASHINGTON AND THE U.N. ARE GOING TO DO IS F**K US TO DEATH!! I HAVE BUT ONE LIFE TO GIVE AND IT IS FOR MY COUNTRY I AM WILLING TO DIE TO STOP THE TYRANTS THAT POLLUTE OUR SYSTEM !~ ANY COMMENTS PLEASE E-MAIL ME THANK YOU AND GOD BLESSCHRIS PICARD, 01@WRITEME.COM EVOLUTION IS A CONSCIOUS DECISION.JOSS GOWER, JOSS@STUNTS.DEMON.CO.UK SINCE EVERYONE EVERYWHERE IS A PRODUCT OF THE GHETTO, I TRULY BELIEVE THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO TAKE THE POSITIVE VIBE INTO THE Y2K. I BELIEVE MOST OF ALL WE WILL HAVE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO WILL CONTINUE TO GO AGAINST THE GRAIN. ONLY WHEN WE QUESTION AND TAKE A STAND FOR OURSELVES IN SOCIETY TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR DRAMA STAYS IN THE HEADLINES WILL WE EVENTUALLY STOP DOMINATING THE OBITUARIES. PEACE AND MANY BLESSINGS... SS67SOULSISTER67, SOULSISTER67@HOTMAIL.COM FOR THE YEAR 2000, WELL PEOPLE ARE ALREADY THINKING ITS THE END OF THE WORLD. CRAZY THINGS KEEP HAPPINING, LIKE PEOPLE COPY-CATTING OTHERS IN VIOLENT WAYS. LIKE THE CULUMBINE INCIDENT, AFTER THAT IN ATLANTA, THE DUDE WHO SPRAYED HIS FELLOW WORKERS. OVER WHAT? I DON'T KNOW! THAT'S THE WORD I CAN ONLY EXPRESS "I DON'T KNOW." ON ONE HAND YOU DO HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE EXTENDING THEIR HAND FOR A BETTER TODAY. I DON'T HAVE A CLUE WHAT TOMMAROW BRINGS, OR THE DAY AFTER, SO ON AND SO ON. I AM JUST TRYING TO LIVE FOR TODAY, GET THROUGH THE DAY WITH OUT HAVING TO FACE THE DUMB S#*$. PEOPLE NEED TO SLOW DOWN, STOP WORRYIN WHAT THE YEAR $2,000 WILL BRING JUST SIT BACK RELAX AND STRAP ON YOUR SEAT BELT. BECAUSE NO DOUBT ITS GOING TO BE A HELL OF A RIDE. I JUST DON'T WANT TO END UP BEING ANOTHER NUMBER IN A SCHOOL SHOTING. AND TO SPEAK THE TRUTH ABOUT GUNS. ITS NOT GUNS THAT KILL PEOPLE, STUPID PEOPLE WITH TGUNS KILL PEOPLE. THAT'S ON THE REAL. THE YEAR 2,000 MAN I AM JUST GLAD TO SAY I CAN LOOK BACK AND SEE WHAT I DID IN THE 20TH CENTURY CAUSE THE 21ST CENTURY WE ALL BE REMEBERED DOWN IN HISTORY/ WAS ONCE A LITTLE DUST/NOW BECOMES A "G"/WHO CAN I CALL WHEN WE ALL FEAL/COLLECT CALL TO MY DOGS FROM THE COUNTY JAIL/THIS DUDES SENDIN' ME MAIL. HEARD THE BLOCK IS STILL THE SAME/I TELL MY MAMA TO PRAY FOR HER ONLY SEED/BUT HOW CAN I BE BLAMED/FORGIVE ME LORD IM' INSANE/WHEN I PUMP THE 12 GAGE TO YA BRAIN. SO REMEBA' ME DOWN IN HISTORY/ CAUSE I'LL BE BACK INCARNAITED/SO YOU CAN SEE ME WHEN I SPLASH THE GATE. PECE TO ALL IN THE GHETTO, HOOD, ALLY, AND YES SHOUTOUTS TO CALI. NOW TAKE THATALEX YSQUIERDO, AYSQUIERDO@PANAM.EDU WELCOME TO THE YEAR 2000. SET OF WITH A MAJOR DOSEAGE OF DIESEASE CALLED THE "Y2K" BUG. THE LIGHTS ALL BLACKED OUT AND THE COMPUTERS WOULDN'T NOT RESPOND, THE LAW WENT OUT OF ORDER AND THE LOOTING BEGAN. MEANWHILE IN PLACES LIKE TIMES SQAURE AND THE MAJOR PARTY ZONES DRUG AND ALCHAHOL ENJOY THE BUZZ OF WHAT THEY THINK IS A "TRIPPY VIBE" THATS GOING TO TAKE THEM BACK TO A LAND OF UTOPIA. TOO THIER SURPRISE THE MUSIC TRACK OF TECHNO INDULGANCE HAS NOT CHANGED FROM THE SIRENS AND THE GUNSHOTS MIXED IN WITH THE OCCASIONAL SCREAM, SMASH AND SKID OF THE LOCAL HOONS CAR IN OVER AN HOUR, OR WAS IT MORE TIME. THE BISHOP OF THE LOCAL CHURCH IS PREACHING ARMAGEDDON IS HERE, AS HIS SON BEGS HIM FOR SOME BATTERIES FOR HIS GAMEBOY AS HIS NINTENDO64 WON'T WORK AT THE MOMENT.BUT THIER ARE NO BATTERRIES, AND THE SHOP IS SHUT. THE SON THINKS TO HIMSELF WHAT IS THIER TO DO? WHATS THE POINT? DEGENERATIONX HAS BEGUN AND CHOAS IS THE TOPIC OF THE NIGHT. ITS A FEAST FIT FOR THE DEVIL, AS THE TERMOIL DRIVES US ALL INTO HELL. HOWEVER IS THIER A HOPE FOR THE FUTURE AMONG ALL THIS DECAY, TERMOIL AND CHOAS. WELL "YES" OF COURSE THIER IS THE POSSITIVE VIBES THAT COME FROM HIPHOP AND REGGAE ANSESTRIES COUPLED WITH A QUEST THAT KNOWLEDGE RAINS SUPREME OVER NEARLY EVERYBODY MAKES US THINK "WE CAN DO IT ALL!". ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE AND WE CAN ALL PLAY APART IN REBUILDING SOCIETY, BRAKING NEW GROUNDS IN TECHNOLOGY. THINKING MAYBE ONE DAY WE WILL ALL BE FLYING AROUND IN CARS LIKE THE JETSONS AND HANGING ABOUT IN THE SKYS. WITH TIME THE POWER WILL RETURN, BOTH IN THE FORMS OF ELECTRICITY BUT ALSO POLITICALLY. IT IS THE DAWN OF NEW AGE FOR THE WORLD. MILLENIUM 2001, 2000+1 YES THATS THE WAY TO MAKE IT. POSITIVE ACTIONS AND REFORMS, CRUSHING THE NEGATIVE OPRESSION AND AGRESSION THAT EXISTS IN THE FABRIC OF OUR SOCIETY TODAY. CIRCA1999 THE 666TH YEAR OF HELL AND DECAY GROWS NEAR TO THE END, WE CAN REJOICE AS WE ARE BORN AGAIN. BUT NOT LIKE THE FAKE BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS. THIS IS NOT A GET A RELIGION AT ALL, BUT JUST THE FREEDOM TO SAY THAT RELIGION IS A CAUSE AND AN EFFECT OF THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN. MAYBE IT IS TIME FOR A GLOBAL UNITY TO OCCUR LIKE THE UNIFICATION OF EUROPE. WELL I HAVE SAID WHAT I THINK WILL GO DOWN AT THE BREAK OF THE YEAR 2000, SO IN CONCLUSION KEEP YA HEAD UP, STAY STRONG, OPTIMISM IS THE KEY TO SURVIVAL IN THE CONCRETE JUNGLE OF MODERN DAY HUMANORGANISM'S. POSITIVE VIBES ALL ACROSS THE WORLD. PECE .PAUL DAHLIN, MASCOT@MERIDIAN.NET.NZ UNFORTUNATELY ALOT OF THE WORLD IS TOO WRAPPED UP IN GETTING MORE WRAPPED UP TO NOTICE THE REST IS UNWRAPPING AND NAKEDARIA, ARIA@GATE.NET IF ANYONE WANTS TO CONTACT ME, THIS IS MY CORRECT E-MAIL ADDRESS IT'S WRONG UNDERNEATH WHAT I WROTE ABOUT THE YEAR 2000JAYNA, JAYFER@CHICKMAIL.COM THE YEAR 2000 IS GOING TO BRING CHAOS BECAUSE OF ALL THE BRAINWASHED MILITIA AND RELIGIOUS FREAKS OF THE WORLD! I THINK THINGS WILL GET MUCH WORSE BEFORE THEY GET BETTER. THIS PHONY HOLLYWOOD COUNTRY OF OURS NEEDS TO BE WOKEN UP TO THE FACT THAT MATERIALISM AND STATUS DON'T PLAY A ROLE IN PEACE OT HUMANITARIANSM. A REVOLUTION OF SOME SORT IS NECESSARY, AND PROPER EDUCATION TO THE CHILDREN, STARTING WITH OUR HISTORY AND HOW THIS CONTINENT CAME TO BE(A STOLEN LAND, RAPED AND MURDERED WOMEN AND CHILDREN, COLONIALISM,SLAVERY, ETC.) SO THEY UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH, AND REALIZE THAT THIS KIND OF SHIT CANNOT CONTINUE. WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS, WHO BLEED THE SAME COLOR BLOOD, THEREFORE THERE ISN'T MUCH THAT SEPERATES US, WHEN IT COMES TO LIFE AND DEATH. I BELIEVE IN UNIVERSAL ONENESS, AND I'M CONFIDENT IT CAN BE ACHEIVED IF ENOUGH PEOPLE WILL STAND UP TO CONCSIOUSLY, AND PEACEFULLY FIGHT FOR IT. THE YEAR 2000 COULD BE A WONDERFUL BEGINING OF A PEACEFULL WAY OF LIVING, BUT THE CHANGE STARTS INSIDE OURSELVES. WE MUST ALL BE CONCSIOUSS OF HOW WE TREAT THE COMMON MAN ON THE STREET, OR OUR FELLOW DRIVERS ON THE ROAD, OR THE RUDE PERSON IN THE STORE(WHOS PROBABLY HAVING A BAD DAY, AND CAN YOU BLAME THEM? LOOK AT THE WORLD WE ARE LIVING IN!) WE MUST ALL RESPECT THIS MOTHER EARTH WICH HOUSES ALL OUR CRAZY ASSES, AND REALIZE THAT WE ARE LUCKY TO EVEN HAVE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL PLANET TO BE LIVING ON! LIFE MUST STOP BEING TAKEN FOR GRANTED, AND THOSE OF US WHO REALIZE THIS BIGGER PICTURE HAVE A DUTY UNTO MAN TO HELP BRING ABOUT THE CHANGES THAT ARE SO POSSIBLE. POSITIVE THOUGHTS IN ONES OWN MIND STARTS POSITIVE ENERGY MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION TOWARDS CHANGE.JAYNA, JAYFER@CHICKAMIL.COM THE COMING OF THE YEAR 200 POSES MANY QUESTIONS. WILL THE LIGHTS SUDDENLY GO OUT? WILL MY COMPUTER SUDDENLY CRASH? WILL THE ENTIRE WORLD CATCH ON FIRE AND WE ALL BURN IN A FIREY INFERNO? I THINK NOT! THE YEAR 2000 IS NO DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER NEW YEAR EVER BEFORE EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT WE ARE AT THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER 1000 YEARS. WHO GIVES A SHIT? I MEAN, NONE OF US ARE GOING TO BE AROUND AT THE END OF THIS NEW 1000 YEARS SO WE REALLY HAVE NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT. AS FOR WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN; WHO KNOWS? WE ALL HAVE A GOOD IDEA. SOME COMPUTERS WILL CRASH. A FEW PEOPLE WILL REALIZE JUST HOW ANAL THEY REALLY WERE ALL ALONG AND SELL THEIR STROED CANNED GOODS AND BOTTLED WATER IN WHAT WILL BE CALLED THE WORLD'S BIGGEST YARD SALE. SCHOOL WILL STILL GO ON. PEOPLE WILL STILL HAVE TO WORK. THERE IS NO MAGIC YEAR 2000 FAIRY THAT'S GOING TO MAKE EVERYTHING ALRIGHT. THE WORLD ISN'T GOING TO SUDDENLY BECOME PEACEFULL JUST BECUASE IT IS THE YEAR 2000. WAR, CRIME, DRUGS, AND VIOLENCE ARE STILL GOING TO BE THERE. THEY'LL STILL BE GROWING JUST THE SAME AS THEY HAVE ALL THROUGH OUR SHORT LITTLE LIVES. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO CONVINCE SOMEONE THAT THE YEAR 2000 IS NOT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST BUT ONLY ANOTHER YEAR IN THE CALANDER OF THE UNIVERSE? DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWER BECAUSE I SURE DON'T AND I DOUBT YOU DO EITHER.ED WENTLING, SQUIRRLEY@USA.NET MANY PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK THAT BY ENTERING INTO A NEW MILLENNIUM WE WILL SEE THE WORLD IMPROVE AUTOMATICALLY. IT'S THE YEAR 2000, RIGHT? DOESN'T THAT MEAN WE'LL HAVE FLYING CARS AND SHIT? NOT AT ALL. THE DESIGNATION OF THIS MOMENT OF TIME IN CORRELATION TO THE BEGINNING OF THE UNIVERSE IS COMPLETELY SUBJECTIVE. SUBJECTIVE TO RELIGION, CULTURE, OR NATIONALITY. THE WEIGHT THAT IS PUT ON THE NUMBER THE WESTERN WORLD HAS LABELED THIS COMING YEAR WILL BRING NOTHING, NEITHER JESUS OR WORLD PEACE. WORLD PEACE NEEDS TO BE ATTAINED. SOCIETY IS NOT GOING TO IMPROVE AUTOMATICALLY. IF ANYTHING AMERICA IS DETERIORATING. WE HAVE NO CULTURE BUT THE COMMERCIAL CULTURE. EVERY ASPECT OF MAIN STREAM LIFE IS DICTATED TO USE BY THE FEW MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN CHARGE. SOCIETY HAS BECOME COMPLACENT. WE CAN NO LONGER WAIT FOR A FAIR, HARMONIOUS WORLD TO MATERIALIZE BY ITSELF. THE PEOPLE MUST DEMAND IT, FIGHT FOR IT, AND BECOME IT. AT THE RISK OF SOUNDING LIKE A FAILED COMMUNIST, THERE IS STRENGTH IN NUMBERS. WE, THE PEOPLE, NO LONGER WISH TO BE TREATED AS STATISTICS. WE HAVE TO TAKE POWER, NOT MY BLOODY REVOLUTION, NOR BY ROCKING THE VOTE. WE MUST BECOME THE POWER. WE WILL INHERIT THE WORLD. THE NEW GENERATIONS, THE MORE OPEN MINDED AND ENLIGHTENED YOUTH WILL HAVE TO *BECOME* THE GOVERNMENT. EVERY GENERATION THE SYSTEM CHANGES. WE BECOME THE SYSTEM. EVERYTHING IS A RESULT OF OUR ACTIONS. THE 20TH CENTURY HAS BEEN THE MOST HORRIFIC 100 YEARS IN THE HISTORY OF THIS PLANET, THANKS TO OUT FOREFATHERS. WE HAVE TO TAKE CONTROL, AND LEAD THE WORLD INTO THE 21ST CENTURY. LISTEN KIDS, WE *ARE* THE 21ST CENTURY.DOUG, DOUG@DISINFO.NET I THINK IN THE YEAR 2000, REVOLUTION FOR CONTEMPORARY ISSUES SUCH AS POLICE BRUTALITY, RESPECT FOR THE FEMALE GENDER, AND POSITIVE SELF-ACTUALIZATION THROUGH SPIRITUALITY, NOT MATERIALISM SURGE. REASONS BEING, THE PSYCHE OF THE OPPRESSED WHO HAVE A MUSTARD SEED OF FAITH, WIL BECOME SO DISCONTENTED THAT THEY CAN NOT NO LONGER CONTAIN THAT INDIGNANT RAGE IN THEIR SUBCONSCIOUS MINDS. THEY WILL RALLY NOT IN THE NAME OF RELIGION, SCHOLARLY DISCPLINE, OR EVEN POLITICAL REGIMES...BUT IN THE SPHERE OF HUMANITY. A REALIZATION THAT WILL TAKE PLACE BOTH IN THE IDEOLOGICAL AND THE MUSCULAR ACTION SENSE!!!!VINCENT ROSS, QWANZA@HOTMAIL IF PRO IS THE OPPOSITE OF CON, IS PROGRESS THE OPPOSITE OF CONGRESS? SHOULDN'T WE STAND UP TO THE ONES WHO ARE STANDING ON US? SHOULD WE RELEASE OUR MINDS AND NOT OUR BULLETS? WHEN IS ENOUGH GOING TO BE ENOUGH? OR HAVN'T WE GOTTEN ANY YET? STEREO TYPE OMEGA.ANDY -DJ STEREOTYPEOMEGA- LABRYN, SYKOTIK.PAPERBOY@GRNET.COM I THINK THAT THE YEAR 2000 WILL BE A TIME OF REALIZATION. THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, MANY OF THE SAME ISSUES HAVE JUST GOTTEN WORSE, FOR INSTANCE, MARRIAGE AND RELATIONSHIPS. I KNOW THAT EVERYONE HAS HEARD THAT DIVORCE RATES ARE RAISING EVERY YEAR, SINGLE PARENT HOUSEHOLDS ARE COMMON AMONG EVERYONE, AND MANY WOMEN CONTINUALLY SAY THAT THERE ARE NO GOOD MEN LEFT. EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE SOME, THERE AREN'T THAT MANY. PEOPLE WILL REALIZE THAT RELATIONSHIP PATTERNS AMONG MEN AND WOMEN IS LIKE GOING IN CIRCLES, AND IT'S NOT SURPRISING TO HEAR THE SAME STORY ABOUT WHY A DIVORCE CAME ABOUT. PEOPLE ALREADY REALIZE THESE THINGS BUT PUT THEMSELVES IN THE SITUATION THEY CAN'T GET OUT OF. ALL DIVORCE IS, IS A PIECE OF PAPER THAT SAYS YOU AREN'T MARRIED, AND JUST THINK HOW MUCH PAPER IT TOOK FROM YOUR POCKET TO GET THAT DECISION WRITTEN DOWN. LETS BE SURE BEFORE WE MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS! I SEE SO MANY OF MY FRIENDS GETTING PREGNANT AND HAVING BABIES, TO GETTING SECRET ABORTIONS. I SEE SO MANY ADULTS THAT JUST SET AN EXAMPLE NOT TO DO WHAT THEY DID. IT NEVER CHANGES. 2000 SHOULD BE A TIME TO FIND OURSELVES BEFORE WE TRY TO FIGURE OUT SOMEONE ELSE. IT WON'T WORK UNLESS WE KNOW OURSELVES FIRST. I CAN SPEAK TO ALL RACES BECAUSE IT HAPPENS EVERYWHERE! THERE ALSO SHOULD NOT BE ANY NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS. JUST DO WHAT YOU SAY! IT TOOK ME LONG ENOUGH TO REALIZE THIS AND I HAVEN'T EVEN GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL YET! WELL, I JUST SPOKE MY MIND ABOUT SOMETHING I FELT STRONGLY ABOUT, FOR PERSONAL REASONS AND RELATING TO WHOEVER ELSE CAN. HOLD IT DOWN IN 2000. MIUZANGELA MILLER, MIUZICAL@AOL.COM I THINK THAT TODAY'S SOCIETY IS A COMBINATION OF ALL OF THE ERA'S THAT HAVE PRECEDED US. IN THE 40'S WE HAD A SENSE OF FAMILY NATIONALISM AND POSITIVE CHANGE IN ALL INDUSTRIES OF BUSINESS AND SOCIETY THIS CONTINUED INTO THE 50'S. THE 60'S BROUGHT ABOUT ALOT OF POLITICAL REFORM AND PROTEST A FREEDOM FROM THE CONSERVATIVE AMERICA WE KNEW. AFTER AMERICA'S PEOPLE HAD SET THEMSELVES FREE WE HAD THE 70'S THE WHO CARES GENERATION .. THE 80'S TOOK BOTH ENDS OF THE RIGHT AND LEFT WING PERSPECTIVE AND MADE BOTH VERY POPULAR NOW IN THE 90'S AND INTO 2000 I THINK WE ARE GONNA SEE THAT MOST OF SOCIETY IS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE VERY POSITIVE AND OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THINGS LIKE TECHNOLOGY,SCIENCE,ECONOMICS YET VERY PESIMISTIC ABOUT THE DIRETION OF POLITICS, VIOLENCE ,VALUES , AND OUR YOUTH ESPECIALLY WITH THE RECENT EVENTS OF COLUMBINE AND SUCH THINGS. THEY CALL US SLACKERS , GENERATION X - X REFERING TO THE UNKNOWN WHO KNOWS WHERE WE WILL GO ITS OUR TURN TO HEAD CORPORATION AND SET THE PACE FOR THE FUTURE AND I PERSONALLY AM VERY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE POTENTIAL OF OUR YOUTH AS WELL AS OUR 20-30 SOMETHING WOMEN AND MEN WE ARE A CREATIVE VERY INFORMED SOCIETY WITH WONDERFUL NEW ADVANCES NONE OF OUR PARENTS OR GRANDPARENTS EVER COULD HAVE IMAGINED.I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO MY PEERS BEING THE LEADERS,TEACHERS,SCIENTISTS ETC .. OF THE NEW MILLENIUM.ERIN WHITCOMB, SWINGDOLL1@AOL.COM WELL I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THAT THE WROLD IS GOING TO END THAT'S A BUNCH OF BULL CRAP.PEPOLE TEND TO BLOW THINGS OUT OF PORPROTION FOR NOTHING.FROM MY UNDERSTANDING THE TIMES , THE DATES,THE MOUNTHS AND IN SOME CASESE THE YEAR IS DIFFRENT AROUND THE WROLD.I CAN TELL ONE THING I DO BELEIVE.I BELIEVE SOMEONE OUT THERE VERY DUM IS GOING CAUSE A PROMBLE BY TRING TO CAUSE SOME DISTRUCTION OR GO ON ONE OF THIS KILLING RANPAGE OR EVEN PLANT SOME BOMB.BUT OTHER THAT I DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING IS REALLY GOING TO HAPPEN SO KEEP ON LIVEING FOR AS LONG AS YOU AND GO ON WITH YOUR,AND IF ANYTHING TRY TO MAKE THIS WROLD INTO A BETTER PLACE.SO DON'T LET THINGS GET TO YOU WHERE YOU END UP LIVEING A BAD LIFE BECAUSE YOU ARE TO SCARED TO HAVE FUN AND LIVE RIGHT. WELL PEACE TO YA.I'M OUT WITH MUCH LOVE AND RESPRCT.....LISSETTE, PRYDE360@HOTMAIL.COM I DON'T BELIEVE THAT ANYTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY WILL BE GO'N DOWN IN THE YEAR 2G. THE MEDIA ONCE AGAIN TOOK SOMETHING SMALL AND BLEW IT OUT OF PROPORTION "O Y2K THIS, Y2K THAT" BITCH SHUT THE FUCK UP! I'M GO'N TO WAKE UP ON JANUARY 1, 2000, TAKE A DUMP, EAT MY CEREAL AND EVERYTHING IS GONNA BE THE SAME AS IT WAS THE OTHER DAY!PRENTISS, CYPHERSPAWN@HOTMAIL.COM I THINK IT ALL BOGUS. I DON'T FEEL THE WORLD IS GOING TO END JUST BECAUSE OF THE YEAR 2000. THE WORLD SURELY IS GOING TO END DUE TO WHAT THE WORD OF GOD SAYS. SIN, VIOLENCE, HUMAN DESTRUCTION, EVIL WORSHIPPERS, FORNICATORS, ADULTRY, AND LACK OF CHRISTIANITY WILL BRING EVEN MORE DEATHS THAN THE YEAR 2000. MANY SEEM TO BE PLANNING WAY AHEAD JUST FOR YR. 2000 BECAUSE OF WHAT MAN HAS SAID. BUYING AND STORING FOOD, WATER, CLOTHING, AND ETC. JESUS HAS BEEN CALLING US INTO REPENTANCE FROM THE TIME HE DIED ON THE CROSS AND ROSE TO SAVE US FROM SIN. TIME AND TIME AGAIN NO ONE SEEMS TO BE PREPARING. THIS IS VERY REAL TO ME, AND OF COURSE Y2K MATTERS, TOO. I BELIEVE AS SMART AS THE WORLD IS TODAY AND THE FAITH MOST OF ALL THAT I HAVE IN GOD Y2K WILL PASS AS DID ALL THOSE OTHER THINGS IN HISTORY. KEEP THE FAITH IN OUR LORD AND SAVIOR AND SEE THE DIFFERENCE.VERONICA LLOYD, SMARTGIRLZ_2000@YAHOO.COM THE THING I DONT GET IS THAT ALL THESE PEOPLE THINK THAT THE WORLDS GONNA END JUST CUZ THE CENTURYS CHANGING, AND I KNOW THAT THERES ALL KINDS OF SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE AND SCRIPTURES LIKE THAT THAT POINT TO SOME KIND OF WORLD END COMIN UP PRETTY SOON, AND I DO BELIEVE IN GOD AND I THINK THAT JUST BECAUSE ALL THESE PEOPLE EXPECT JESUS TO RETURN AND EVERYTHING JUST CUZ THE MILLENIUMS COMING DOESNT MEAN THAT ITS GOING TO HAPPEN AND I DONT BELIEVE THAT ITS GOING TO HAPPEN, AND AS FAR AS FOR THE Y2K BUG, THEY ALREADY HAVE SOMETHING THAT CAN PROTECT COMPUTERS FROM IT,I KNOW MINE HAS IT,AND I CANT WAIT TO SEE THE LOOK ON ALL THESE PEOPLES FACES WHEN THE YEARB 2000 HITS AND THE ONLY BAD THING THAT HAPPENS IS THE AMOUNT OF DEATHS FROM DRUNK DRIVERS AND WHAT NOT ON NEW YEARS EVE,PEACESHAUN MALONE, MUTE43@AOL.COM THE YEAR 2000 WILL BE JUST A STATE OF MIND. PHYSICALLY, IT WILL BE THE SAME AS THE YEAR BEFORE, BUT IN THE MIND OF THE MASSES IT WILL BE A SIGN OF PASSAGE, OF REFLECTION, OF DISCOVERY, AND FEAR. I AM ALL FOR THE FIRST THREE, I BELIEVE SOME PEOPLE WILL BE ALL FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OUR SOCIETY. THEY WILL TAKE GREAT STRIDES IN BRINGING PEACE WITHIN THEMSELVES AND TO THE MASSES. FOR WE ALL WE'LL BE GREATFUL THAT WE'RE HERE. BUT THE FEAR THAT WILL COME ALONG WITH THE MILLENIUM IS SOMETHING THAT I FEAR. THE FEW BEINGS THAT SEE THE MILLENIUM AS A WAY TO SPREAD THEIR HATE AND NEGATIVITY. THE RADICALS WHO WILL GO TO NOTHING TO SPREAD THEIR PROPAGANDA TO THE MASSES. ALTHOUGH I SHARE SOME OF THE FEAR, I ALSO HAVE A GLIMMER OF HOPE OF WHAT'S TO COME. AND THE OPTIMISM THAT THE WORLD WILL MERGE AS ONE AS WE DAWN ON A NEW ERA.LISHA, HKHAYGOO@HOTMAIL.COM IT'S A REALLY 'REVOLUTION' LATE BUT NOT TOO LATE..... WE THE GHETTO PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT Y2K SHIT... THIS'S NOT OUR CALENDAR, THIS'S NOT OUR PROPHECY, THIS'S NOT OUR GOD, THESE ARE NOT OUR RULES, BUT YET, THIS'S OUR TIME, THIS'S OUR WORLD, THEREFORE WE SHULD BE WORRY ABUOT OUR UNITY AND REVOLUTION TO BRING BACK WHAT HAVE BEEN STOLEN FROM OUR ROOTS, FLESH AND BLOOD, SO, GO AHEAD SPEAK YOUR MINDS PEOPLE...."PROPHETIC RELIGIONS, BOTH SACRED AND PROFANE, THAT APPEAL TO AN AUTHORITY HIGHER THAN THE ANCESTRAL OR THE CIVIL AND THAT SPEAK FOR THE GREAT MARCH OF HISTORY ARE CUSTOMARILY THOUGHT TO HAVE ORIGINATED WHITH THE STUPID PROPHETS OF THE OLD TESTAMEND.... THE PHILOSOPHERS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY RISE OF THE PEOPLE HAVE NOT BEEN BELIEVERS IN THE PEOPLE'S SENSE, AND THE PEOPLE HAVE KNOW IT, STILL, THE PEOPLE HAVE TOLERETED THIS FORM OF UNBELIEF BECOUSE WHAT THESE FAMOUS MEN DID BELIEVE, OR A LEAST TEACH, SERVE THE PEOPLE'S INTERESTS BY MAKING THEM POWERFUL...." SANTOS.JOSE SANTOS MEJIA, SANTOS77@HOTMAIL.COM I FEEL THAT THE ENTIRE Y2K IS SUCH A MARKETING PLOY BY THE CORPORATIONS TO SELL CONSUMERS CRAP (DOES YES 2 KIA RING A BELL?). IN FACT, I THINK THAT NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. THE PLANET WILL NOT GO INTO SOME FORSEEN DOOMSDAY. IT WILL STILL SPEW THE SAME HATE, THE SAME DISCRIMINATION, AND THE SAME RACISM THAT WE ALL CAN EXPECT FROM THE HUMAN RACE. UNTIL A WAKE UP CALL COMES AND WE THINK FOR OURSELVES, THIS THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN WILL BE THE SAME BORING PLACE THAT THE 20TH CENTURY HAS PRODUCED. MEANWHILE, CORPORATIONS WILL BECOME MORE POWERFUL AND DICTATE TO THE SMALL-MINDED AND WEAK WHICH GAP CLOTHES TO WEAR, WHICH LEXUS TO DRIVE, WHICH REMAX HOUSE TO LIVE IN, WHICH HEALTHY CHOICE MEAL TO EAT FOR DINNER, HOW MANY CAMEL CIGARETTES TO SMOKE AFTERWARDS, AND WHICH VICTORIA'S SECRET GIRL TO SLEEP WITH.KEN TURNER, KRTURNER@EUDORAMAIL.COM NOTHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN. WE WILL BECOME FATTER,LAZIER AND MORE PRONE TO BITCH. UNTIL PEOPLE REALIZE THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE THAN THEMSELVES AND THE ALL MIGHTY DOLLAR WE ARE DOOMED.DAVID, DAVIDDAILY@INFICAD.COM I THINK THAT THE JAIL SYSTEMS WILL FAIL IN THE EVENT THAT OUR LOCAL AREA CORRECTIONS IS STILL RUNING OFF OF A DOS FORMAT AND ALL SYSTEMS ARE RUNING NETWORKED SO DUE TO THE EVENT I HOPE THEY PLAN TO OVERRIDE SECURITY AND GO MANUAL...MELANIE NORTON, MELANIE1NORTON@YAHOO.COM Y2K. Y IS EVERYONE AFRAID OF THE NEW MILLINIUM? ARE WE AFRAID OF IT'S OUTCOME OR BETTER YET, ARE WE AFRAID OF OUR OUTCOMES? HOW CAN WE BE POSITIVE IF WE ARE NOT POSITIVE WITHIN OURSELVES? Y ARE WE SCARED OF A NEW YEAR, SPACE, TIME? Y ARE WE SCARED OF ETERNITY? IS IT THAT WE DO NOT TRUST OURSELVES WITH OUR NEW TIME OR DO WE NOT TRUST OURSELVES WITH OURSELVES? WE GLADLY CHOOSE TO ACCECPT OUR FATE AND LIVE HAPPILY BUT WOULD WE CHOOSE TO LIVE MISERABLY WITH IT AND CHOOSE TO DIE WITH IT? IT IS OUR CHOICE TO UNDERSTAND THAT Y2K IS NOT GOING TO BRING CHANGE UNLESS WE CHOOSE CHANGE. THERE IS NO MAGIC SPELL PUT ON US OR NO SECRET GARDEN HIDDEN AWAY FOR US TO FIND. Y2K IS NOT A SPECIAL FORMULA FOR PROSPERITY. BEHIND NO SPECIAL WALL LIES ALL THE ANSWERS TO Y2K. WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE WORLD IS NOT GOING TO COME TO AN END BECAUSE OUR CALENDARS, CLOCKS, WATCHES, DAYTIMERS, ORGINIZERS HAVE CHANGED. WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT WITHIN OURSELVES LIES THE ANSWERS. IN ORDER TO SEE CHANGE, WE WILL HAVE TO BE CHANGE. WE HAVE TO PULL WITHIN OURSELVES TO CLEAN UP THE WAY WE ARE THEN WE CAN CLEAN UP THE WAY WE CAN BE. WE CAN'T CONTROL THE GOVERNMENT UNLESS WE CAN CONTROL OURSELVES. WE CAN'T CONTROL GUNS UNTIL WE CAN CONTROL OURSELVES. WE CAN'T CONTROL OUR CHILDREN UNTIL WE CAN CONTROL OURSELVES. WE CAN'T CONTROL OURSELVES UNTIL WE WANT TO CHANGE OURSELVES. LOOK AT WHAT THE POWERS THAT "SEIZE" ARE DOING TO US. LOOK AT OUR WELFARE SYSTEM. LOOK AT OUR DEFENSE SYSTEM. LOOK AT OUR TAX SYSTEM. LOOK AT THE WAY WE CHOOSE OUR PRESIDENT... OUR SO CALLED "LEADER". DO YOU BELIEVE THE DEMOCRATIC VOTING SYSTEM IS ACTUALLY DEMOCRATIC? WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF DEMOCRATIC? CHANGES HAPPEN TO US BEFORE WE KNOW IT BECAUSE WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER OURSELVES. OFTEN DO WE ACCECPT WHAT IS CHOOSEN FOR US INSTEAD OF TRYING TO CHOOSE OUR OWN CHOICES. BUT HOW CAN WE CHANGE OUR CHOICES IF WE CAN'T CHOOSE TO MAKE UP OUR OWN MINDS? VOTING, TAXES, TRANSPORTATION, WORK, HOUSING, EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT, MUSIC, FOOD, FRIENDS, FAMILY, LOVE. WE HAVE LIMITLESS CHOICES, BUT WE LET OTHERS TELL US AND SET GUIDELINES AND RULES AS TO WHAT OUR CHOICES SHOULD BE. IF WE SHOULD CHOOSE DIFFERENTLY, WE ARE CHOOSING AGAINST THE NORM. WE DO NOT HAVE TO SIT BY AND LET OTHER GIVE US CHOICES. DO YOU REALLY WANT TO LIVE BY THEIR STANDARD OR NORM? I TRULY BELIEVE THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED. THERE IS NO WAY CNN OR CNBC OR MSNBC WOULD AIR SUCH CHANGE OR THE LOCAL NEWS WOULD PICK UP ON SOMETHING THAT DOES NOT INVOLVE GUNS, VIOLENCE, OR TRAGEDY. BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT THE REVOLUTION HAS ALREADY BEGUN. REVOLUTION IS IN OUR MUSIC (RAP/HIP-HOP MUSIC SELLING MORE RECORDS THAN OTHER POPULAR FORMS OF MUSIC) GUIDING US ON WHAT TO DO, WHAT NEEDS AND HOW TO CHANGE, HOW TO GUIDE OUR CHILDREN IN THE RIGHT WAY, HOW TO LOVE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF ALL COLORS AND BACKGROUND (BECAUSE WHEN WE DIE, WE ARE ALL THE SAME), HOW TO BE A OURSELVES. REVOLUTION IS ON THE INTERNET. WHERE ELSE CAN A SISTA SPEAK HER MIND WITHOUT THE EDITOR CHANGING HER WORDS AROUND TO NOT SOUND MILITANT? WHERE ELSE HAS INFORMATION BEEN SO ACCESSIBLE TO ALL NO MATTER WHAT COLOR, ETHNICITY, RACE, AGE, CREED, SIZE, OCCUPATION, WEALTH OR EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND? REVOLUTION IS IN OUR CLOTHES. Y ARE LATE 60'S EARLY 70'S STYLES SO VERY POPULAR TODAY? Y NOT 80'S OR 50'S OR 40'S OR 20'S? Y IN ONLY 2 DECADES THE STYLES OF OUR PARENTS (WHO SKETCHED THE OUTLINE FOR THE REVOLUTION BUT GAVE UP DURING REGAN-OMICS) POPULAR TODAY? (WE HAVE TO DRESS COMFORTABLY FOR THE REVOLUTION, RIGHT?) REVOLUTION IS IN OUR ART. HAVE YOU READ A BOOK LATELY BY AN UN-POPULAR WRITER OR SEEN A PORTRAIT, PHOTO, SCULPTURE, OR MURAL DONE BY A FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER, ARTIST, SCULPTOR, OR WALL ARTIST (OFTEN KNOW AS GRAFITTI ARTIST). THE REVOLUTION IS SUBLIMINAL AND UNCONSCIENCE. ONLY THE STRONG AND WELL INFORMED WILL SURVIVE. Y2K IS MORE THAN READY FOR US. BUT ARE WE READY FOR US? Y2K. I LOOK AT THIS AS MORE OF SOME QUESTIONS THAT NEEDS SOME ANSWERS. Y 2 KILL? Y 2 KIDNAP? Y 2 KEEP? Y 2 KNAP? Y 2 KICKBACK? Y 2 KNOCKOUT? Y 2 KNOW-NOTHING? Y 2 KOWTOW? Y NOT BE YOU? Y WORRY ABOUT Y2K? DO WE HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO FEAR BUT FEAR OURSELFS?VENA , VENNIEF@AOL.COM HERES WHAT I THINK WILL GO DOWN IN THE YEAR 2000: THE YEAR 2000 IN MANY WAYS IS A HIGDE YEAR; THINGS WILL EITHER SWING TO THE POSITIVE OR THE NEGATIVE. MOST LIKELY IT WILL BE THE NEGATIVE SIDE IN MANY URBAN ENIVORMENTS SUCH AS FLINT, MICHIGAN (FORMER CAR CAPITAL OF THE WORLD). THIS WILL HAPPEN UNLESS CHANGES ARE MADE IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS. FIRST IN FOR MOST THE WHOLE IDEA OF POLITICS MUST BE REVERSED. I'M NOT TALKING REVOLUTION OR TAKE OVER IN ANY PHYSICAL SORT OF WAY BUT MORE IN THE STATE OF MIND AND FOCUS THAT OUR GOVERNMENT SPENDS THERE/OUR TIME DEALING WITH. THE BEST EXAMPLE I HAVE (I HAVE MANY, MANY IDEAS THAT ARE NEVER LISTEN TO OR HEARD BECAUSE I'M 19 AND LIVE IN THE CITY)IS THE IDEA THAT IF A GOVERNMENT DOES NOT SUPPORT SOME FORM OF ILLGEAL OR UNTASTEFUL ACTION, IT WILL NOT INCREASE AND DISAPPEAR. LIKE MANY PEOPLE I ENJOY MUSIC, PARTIES, SKATING, AND GRAFFITTI. HOWEVER, THE GENRAL PUBLIC DOES NOT. SO IN RESPONSE TO THIS OUR CITY MAKES ALL OF THE FOLLOWING BASICLY (IF NOT FULLY) ILLGEAL. THE RESULT OF THIS PUBLIC BAN ON UNWANTED ACTIVITIES IS THE CREATION OF AN UNDERGROUND SCENCE IN WHICH THESE ACTIVITES ARE PRACTICED IN SECERT OR IN DISREGARD TO THE LAW. IT HAS BEEN A PROVEN FACT THAT TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS ARE BORED AND THAT THE SAME GROUP ALSO CAUSE TROUBLE. THESE ARE NOT SEPARTE FACTS BUT CAUSE AND EFFECT FACTS. WE ARE BORED, SO WE CAUSE TROUBLE. ONE SOLUTION TO THIS WOULD BE TO CREATE SAFE ENVIROMENTS FOR THESE NOT SO ILLEGAL OR HARMFUL ACTIVITES TO TAKE PLACE IN. HERES MY IDEA. TAKE ONE OR TWO EXISTING BUILDINGS THAT IS NOT IN USE, IN AN AREA OF TOWN THAT HAS MANY OTHER BUILDINGS THAT NEED STORES OR BUSSINESSES TO FILL THEM, AND IN THESE BUILDING PLACE THE FOLLOWING: A HIP-HOP/ELECTRO CLUB; A SKATE SHOP AND PARK; A LATE NIGHT COFFEE SHOP; AND MANY, MANY WALLS TO BE TAGGED, ALONG WITH A SHOP TO SELL PAINT. INCLUDE WITH THESE MUCH NEED PUBLIC PLACES: BOUNCERS, WHO WILL KEEP OUT DRUGS AND WEAPONS AS WELL AS CHARGE ADMISSON; POLICE ON PATROL TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL THESE ACTIVITES STAY INSIDE OF THE GIVEN BUSSINESSES; AND A PARENT GROUP ROOM WHERE PARENTS CAN VEIW THE ON GOING ACTIVITES, MAKE SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS AND MUST OF ALL DECIDE IF THEY WANT THERE CHILD TO HANG OUT THERE. DO THIS AND THE RESULT WILL BE (AS PROVEN IN CITIES LIKE LA AND NYC) LOWER CRIME AND DRUG USE AND AN IMPROVED ECONOMY IN THE AREA. WHATS THAT AN IMPROVED ECONOMY YOU SAY? THATS RIGHT, IT IS A PROVEN FACT THAT TEENS SPEND THE MOST MONEY, AND IF ALL THE GIVEN SHOPS AND ACTIVITY SITES LISTED ABOVE PUT TO USE THEY WILL DRAW IN THIS HIGH SPENDING GROUP. THIS WILL IN TURN BRING IN MORE BUSSINESS AND MORE JOBS TO THE AREA. BUT BE SURE TO USE POLICE AND A CLAUSE THAT STATES IF CRIME OR VANDILISM INCREASE OR GRAFFITTI INCREAES OUT SIDE THIS NEW AGE TEEN CENTER THAT THE CENTER'S ACTIVITES WILL BE CUT IF NOT DROPPED ALL TOGETHER. THIS WILL KEEP THESE ACTIVITES DOWN THROUGH PEE INTERVENTION, DUE TO THE "GOOD" KIDS WANTING TO KEEP THERE NEW FOUND FREEDOM ISLAND IN THE URBAN WASTE LAND WE CALL GOVERNMENT AND OLD PEOPLE. IF MORE PEOPLE TAKE IN TO CONSIDERATION THAT ACTIVITES SUCH AS GRAFFITTI WILL CONTIUE IF NOT ADDRESSED IN A REALISTIC AND COMPROMISING MATTER, THEN CRIME WILL INCREASE, DRUG USE WILL INCREASE AND THE LOW VOTER TURN OUT FOR THE 18-24 YEAR OLDS WILL INCREASE. THATS WHAT I THINK. BUT DO I KNOW, I'M JUST SOME WHITE KID LIVING IN URBAN CITY WHO LIKES TO TAGG. THANKS FOR HOOKING ME UP WITH A VOICE!ADAM! MOORE, AMMOORE@UMICH.EDU THE YEAR 2000 IS NO DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER YEAR, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT WE ARE ENTERING A DIFFERENT CENTURY. OPTIMISIM IS WHAT SEPARATES THE HAPPY FROM THE UNHAPPY AND THE SUCCESSFUL FROM THE FAILURES. A PERSON'S OUTLOOK ON LIFE IS THE INEVITABLE OUTCOME OF WHAT IS TO BE. WITH Y2K COMING UP, THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT VIEW IT AS A DRASTIC AND UNPRECEDENTED CHANGE TO SOCIETY, WHILE THERE ARE OTHERS WHO SEE IT AS A TIME FOR EVIL TO SPREAD OUT AMONG THE WORLD. HOWEVER, I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE SHOULD BE SERIOUSLY DOING DOUBLE-TIME IN 99 TO MAKE A BETTER LIFE FOR THEMSELVES. I HAVE LEARNED THAT THE WRONG ATTITUDE AND OUTLOOK ON LIFE WILL LEAD A PERSON NOWHERE. Y2K IS A GOOD TIME TO IMPLEMENT INTO OUR YOUTH THAT LIFE IS GOOD AND THAT IT IS WITHIN THEMSELVES THAT THEY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. WITH SO MUCH VIOLENCE ON TV, THE CHILDREN OF THE FUTURE NEED TO BE TAUGHT BY PEOPLE THAT THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN WHAT IS PORTRAYED ON TV. LIFE IS A PRECIOUS GIFT THAT SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED.MARITEL CRUZ, MARIDIMMI@EXCITE.COM THE YEAR 2000 WILL BE A CULMINATION OF EVERYTHING COMING BACK TO OUR ROOTS: WHEN WE SEE THE FACE OF GOD AND FEEL HIS POWER FOR ONE BRIEF MOMENT. IT'LL BE A TIME WHEN THE PLANETS ALIGN AND FORM THE SIGN OF THE CROSS AND WHEN EVERYTHING WILL BE IN HARMONY. Y2K WILL LITERALLY BE VERSION 2.0 OF OUR SELVES; AN UPGRADED VERSION OF WHAT WE ARE ASPIRING TO BE. UNIVERSALLY, I BELIEVE THAT WE ALL WANT TO BE HAPPY AND THAT WE ALL SHARE THAT SAME DESIRE ON A COMMON LEVEL. Y2K WILL ALLOW US TO SHED OUR FACADES AND LET OUR OUR DEEPEST FEELINGS OF LOVE AND HAPPINESS PERMEATE. THE PAINS OF THE MILLENIUM PAST WILL MAKE US LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND SAY "THERE IS AN EASIER WAY."JEREMY ESPERANTE, JEREMYISSO@CHEERFUL.COM TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO, CHRIST HAPPEND YEAR ONE. THIRTY THREE YEARS LATER HE WAS GONE . THIS IS THE EVENT THAT BRINGS US TO '2000. IF YOU TAKE AN ALL BUT NOT TOO CLOSE LOOK AT THE SAID UNITE STATES "CITIZENS" WHAT IS THEIR MOST COMMON TRAIT... GIVE UP... CHRISTENDOM. IT'S A "CHRISTIAN" SOCITY THAT HAS DONE NOTHING BUT: KILL, COVET, RAPE, DESTROY, AND DISCUST THIER FOLLOWERS. FOUR MONTHS AND COUNTING FROM NOW THIER LORD WHO THEY "WORSHIP" ON SUNDAY AN BLASPHEME ON MONDAY HAS HIS TWO THOUSANTH BIRTHDAY AND BECAUSE OF THE WRONGS THEY HAVE COMMITED AND ARE AWARE OF THEY ARE FRIGHTEND OF HIS VENGENCE AND SCEQUE SHELTER IN THEIR FEARS. LIKE DEATH THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT SO THEY BECOME AFRAID OF THE DARK AND MAKE SOMETHING UP SO THEIR CURIOSITY WILL BE QUENCHED. THERE IS YOUR MEDIA HYPE THERE IS YOUR CONTRAVERCY. ASK A TRUE REALIST: WHAT DO YOU THINK? HE OR SHE WILL TAKE A LOOK AROUND SURVEY THE OBVIOUS AND SAY "YOUR GONNA DIE. BUT FOR RIGHT NOW UNIFY SAY WHAT BELIEVE, BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAY." AS FOR THE YEAR 2000, LIFE GOES ON PEOPLE DIE PEOPLE LIVE ALL THE SAME UNIFY AND COME TO CONTIOUSNESS REALISIM. BEAUTY REGARDLESS OF SITUATION...LEVI(CHONGO FEO)ZAMORA, CHONGOFEO@NETSCAPE.NET MY OPINION FOR THE NEXT 2000 YEARS AHEAD OF US(IF ANYBODY ACTUALLY CARES TO LISTEN!)IS NOT VERY POSITIVE. I MYSELF, TRY TO RESPECT AND TREAT ALL LIFE EQUALLY AS IF IT WERE MY OWN. EVEN THOUGH I FEEL THIS WAY, DOES IT REALLY MATTER? CAN IT OUTLIVE METAL, STEEL, POWER, GREED? THE ULTAMITE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS SOUGHT THROUGH MATIRIALISTIC OBJECTS? SO MUCH CONFUSION!!!!! WE AS A WHOLE,(ONE PLANET ONE UNITY)MUST SEE PAST OUR PETTY DIFFRENCES AND LOOK UP AT THE SKY AND STARE IN AWE, AT THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD. ONCE PEOPLE LEARN TO APPRICIATE THE WORLD AROUND THEM, THEY MAY START TO GET THE IDEA.MICHAEL DLUGOSZ, GONZOIFIF7@YAHOO.COM IT'S EASY TO SAY THAT ALL HUMANS CAN NEVER, TOGETHER, UNIFY UNDER THE BANNER OF PEACE AND LOVE. IT'S HARD TO TRY AND CHANGE THAT, AND MAKE SUCH A FANTASY A REALITY. THE YEAR 2000 IS A CATALYST FOR A GENERATION - OURS. WHETHER OR NOT THE ENTIRE PLANET SUDDENLY GOES DARK AT THE STRIKE OF MIDNIGHT AND PLANES FALL OUT OF THE SKY IS A MOOT POINT. Y2K MARKS THE OPENING OF A MILLENIUM, THE BEGINNING OF A THOUSAND YEAR STRETCH. IN THAT UNFATHOMABLE AMOUNT OF TIME, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. AND WHEN THAT MILLENIUM DRAWS TO A CLOSE, WILL OUR FAMILIES IN THE FUTURE LOOK BACK A THOUSAND YEARS TO Y2K, TO SEE HOW IT ALL STARTED? IT'S UP TO US TO TRY AND CREATE A POSITIVE ATMOSPHER OF PEACE, UNITY, RESPECT, LOVE, AND FREEDOM. IT MAY SEEM NAIVE, BUT IT'S WHAT EVERYONE DEEP DOWN INSIDE WANTS - NEEDS. WE ALL LIVE IN A CELL, LOCKED INTO IT AT BIRTH BY A SOCIETY THAT IS CONSTANTLY TELLING US WHAT TO THINK, BUY, SAY, LEARN, AND WANT. WE MAY NOT REACH PEACE IN OUR LIFETIMES, OR EVEN OUR CHILDREN'S, BUT WE WILL AND SHOULD DO AS MUCH AS WE CAN TO GET THERE, IN THE SHORT TIME WE ALL HAVE ON THIS PLANET. FIGHTING FOR UNITY AND PEACE, ANYWAY YOU CAN, IN YOUR DAILY LIFE IS A HARD JOB, BUT WE SHOULDN'T BE SWAYED BY THE NAYSAYERS WHO SAY IT CAN'T BE DONE. THOSE WHO THINK MAN IS DAMNED TO HATE ARE THE NAIVE. THOSE WHO FIGHT FOR CHANGE, PEACE, AND A BETTER FUTURE FOR ALL OF US, THOSE ARE THE TRUE HUMYN BEINGS.JAEK DISSENT, JAEK521984@AOL.COM ALRIGHT I THINK I MIGHT TALK ABOUT THE Y2K PRONLEM, I THINK IT IS ALL STUPID IT MIGHT LIKE EFFECT A FEW THINGS BUT NOT ANYTHING LIKE MAJOR WERE WE WILL HAVE TO GO INTO HIDING AND STOCK UP WITH FOOD AND ALL THIS OTHER STUFF, I THINK WE ALL ARE JUST GIONG TO PARTY REALY HARD AND THE ONLY CHANGE WILL BE WHAT WE FEEL LIKE IN THE MORNING, =) BUT I THINK WE SHOULD TREAT THIS AS ANOTHER DAY THAT WE SHOULD MAYBE LOOK AT A LITTLE BETTER THAN USUAL I STEP INTO THE FUTURE AN NEW MILLINIUM, AND WELL I DIDN'T WRITE ALOT BUT WELL I GOT MY POINT THROUGH, SO I HOPE YOU GUYS GET WHAT I AM SAYING AND WELL HAVE A GOOD PARTY.JUSTIN BAMBERGER, SHORTYS1J@AOL.COM I DON'T THINK THAT THE Y2K WILL CHANGE OUR LIVES DRASTICALLY (EXCEPT MAYBE THEY WAY WE PARTY ON NEW YEAR'S EVE)!! WE SEE CHANGES EVERYDAY AND NOTHING COMES AS A SURPRISE TO US ANYMORE, SO WHY WOULD THE NEW MILLENIUM BE SUCH A BIG DEAL?! SOME PEOPLE MIGHT SEE IT AS A POSITIVE AND OPTIMISTIC BEGINNING, BUT FOR ME, IT WILL JUST BE ANOTHER YEAR IN MY LIFE. STILL, THE NEW YEAR'S PARTIES SHOULD BE A BLAST!LYNDSAY , LYNZARDO@HOTMAIL.COM THERE NEVER HAS AND NEVER WILL BE A TIME WHEN EVERYONE IS POSITIVE AND OPTIMISTIC. TO BELIEVE THAT ALL HUMANS ARE CAPABLE OF SAID GOODNESS IS NAIVE TO SAY THE LEAST. NOPE. FOR THE YEARS AHEAD I SEE BALANCE. A CANCER CURE HERE, AND A MULTIPLE HOMICIDE THERE. A PLANE CRASH HERE, AND A BABY BORN THERE. BALANCE.WILSON, TBWILSONKY@YAHOO.COM NOTHING WILL GO DOWN IN Y2K. FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. TAKE WHAT WE HAVE, WHICH IS PLENTY AND USE IT TO BETTER YOURSELF AND THOSE AROUND YOU. THE REVOLUTION TAKES PLACE ONE PERSON AT A TIME.J, JT@UNDERGROUND.NET NIEBUUR FOREVERARJEN, WESTERLEE@HOTMAIL.COM WHEN YOU WATCH MR. TV AS MUCH AS I HAVE, YOU BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THE MESSAGE THAT IS BEING SENT EVER-SO-SLIGHTLY TO THE FOLKS WHO STARE MINDLESSLY AT THE IMAGES THAT THEY ARE BEING SENT. IN THE CONCIOUSNESS OF THESE PEOPLE, AMERICA'S BUIZNESS MAN, MR. BLACK, IS TRYING TO EXPLAIN TO YOU THAT THE 'YEAR 2000' IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULDN'T BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. "THE Y2K BUG IS FIXED," HE SAYS. TRULY, AND IN THE UPMOST BELIEVED REALITY, THE GREASY WHEELS OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD AREN'T AS COOL WITH THE WHOLE ORDEAL. THE OBSESSIVE CULT-CRAZED CHILDREN OUT THERE ARE READING IN BOOKS AND IN MAGAZINES - AND WATCHING ON TELEVISION ALL OF THE DEMENTED AND 'SUPPOSED' NEAR-COMINGS OF THE NEW CENTURY. THESE POORS SOULS ARE LIKE SPONGES; THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON AROUND THEM AND THEY DON'T SEEM TO CARE. SURE, WHATEVER. BUT YOU CAN TELL THAT THE ONLY THING THAT COULD POSSIBLY "GO DOWN" IN THE YEAR 2000 WILL BE A BUNCH OF BRAINWASHED IDIOTS WHO THINK THAT THE WORLD IS FILLED WITH SIN AND THAT IT IS THEIR JOB TO CLEAN UP THE WORLD. MY ONLY CONCERN, WILL I STILL BE ABLE TO SEE AUSTIN POWERS III ON MY FLAT-SCREEN TV? PRAISE THE LORD. :P DJGREEN OUTIEDJGREEN, DJGREEN@USA.NET IN THE YEAR 2000, I DONT THINK ANYTHING WILL GO DOWN. TRUEFULLY I THINK ITS JUST ANOTHER YEAR. ALOT OF PEOPLE THINK THAT ITS A NEW MILLENIUM, SO THE WORLD IS GOIING TO END. DID PEOPLE THINK THE WORLD WAS GOING TO END I THE YEAR 1000. PROBALY NOT, BUT THERE IS NO WAY TO TELL. WE ALL JUST NEED TO TAKE EVERY DAY SERIUOSLY, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT GARUANTEED TO BE HERE TOMMOROW. SO JUST TAKE LIFE SERIUOSLY. I HOPE YOU WILL TAKE THIS TO GRANTED AND STAY TRUEBEN ALLEN, RUFFRYDER767@2PACSTATION.COM OKEY... THE YEAR 2000 IS A NEW BEGINNING TO LOTS AND LOTS OF PEOPLE. BUT I THINK THAT IT´S GOING DOWN.... I FEEL LIKE WE´RE THE LOST AND LAST CHILDREN OF A LOST GENERATION TAKING OVER WHAT OUR PARENTS BUILT.... AND OUR FUTURE IS NOT TO BRIGHT, WE´VE BEEN BRAINWASHED SINCE WE WERE BORN. IT STARTS WITH THE TV, AND THE VIOLENT MOVIES, COMPUTERS AND STUFF, CHILDREN FIGHTING ON THE STREET KILLING THERE FRIENDS IN SCHOOL WITH A SHOTGUN, RAPE,MURDER,SLAUGHTER, AND ON IT GOES.... I DON´T THINK WE´LL BE ANY HAPPIER WITH ALL THE NEW KICKASS TECHNOLOGY, NO WAY.... SOON WE´LL ALL BE ROBOTS, THE ONLY THING LEFT WILL BE THE BRAIN. I JUST WONDER WHAT WE´RE GONNA DO WHEN OUR PARENTS IS DEAD AND WE´RE STANDING THERE WITH A WHOLE WORLD IN OUR HANDS, I GUESS WE´LL BE TO STUPID THEN, TO UNDERSTAND WHAT´S HAPPENING. I FEEL SO FUCKIN RESPONSIBLE..... IT FEELS LIKE THE WHOLE WORLD IS HANGIN ON MY SHOULDERS....... NOBODY KNOWS... MAYBE THERE´LL BE RIOTS, NOBODY KNOWS FOR SURE..... WE´RE THE LOST CHILDREN OF THE LAST GENERATION, WE´VE GOT NO PLACE TO GO.NISSE, ASHKING@SPRAY.SE THE YEAR 2000 ISN'T EVEN THE START OF A NEW MILLENIUM, THE YEAR 2001 IS. WE NEVER HAD A YEAR 0. BRINGING THAT UP, WE REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT YEAR IT IS, BECAUSE WE JUST PICKED A YEAR TO START WITH. BUT I DIGRESS. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE POSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM IN THE YEAR 2000, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT IT WILL HAPPEN. WITH ALL OF THE BLACKOUTS BECAUSE OF COMPUTER PROBLEMS, VIOLENCE AND RIOTS WILL BREAK OUT. UNFORTUNATELY THERE WILL BE ALOT OF RACIAL VIOLENCE BECAUSE PEOPLE NEED TO FIND A WAY TO JUSTIFY THEIR OWN ACTIONS. IN A WAY THIS RAGE MIGHT BE A GOOD THING BECAUSE PERHAPS SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE PEOPLE WILL REALIZE THAT IT'S NOT A BLACK THING, OR A WHITE THING, OR A RED OR PURPLE THING. IT'S A GREEN THING. OUR GOVERNMENT AND LEGAL SYSTEM IS RUN BY OLD, RICH, PREJUDICED, WHITE, 'CHRISTIAN' MEN WHO DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO PUT THEM IN OFFICE. AND IT'S NOT THE WHITE THAT MAKES THEM BAD, IT'S THE MONEY. I HAPPEN TO BE WHITE, AND A 'GOTH' (ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO DRESSES IN BLACK AND WEARS MAKEUP--KIND OF VAMPIRE LOOKING) WHICH MEANS I GET PREJUDICE FROM ALL SIDES AND ALL COLORS BECAUSE OF HOW I LIVE MY LIFE. IF EVERYBODY JUST GOT PAST THEIR FEAR OF EACH OTHER'S DIFFERENCES AND LOOKED AT THE REAL PROBLEMS, MAYBE SOMETHING WOULD GET ACCOMPLISHED. BUT THAT'S NOT LIKELY. MOST PEOPLE ARE JUST TOO TIRED TRYING TO GET BY TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THEIR SITUATION, AND THAT'S HOW THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE LIKE IT. IF BLACK PEOPLE (I DON'T LIKE THE 'AFRICAN-AMERICAN THING' IF YOU'RE A CITIZEN YOU'RE AN AMERICAN LIKE EVERY OTHER CITIZEN) WERE IN POWER, YOU'D STILL HAVE THE SAME PROBLEMS. THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE A CLASS SYSTEM AND THEN THERE WILL ALWAYS BE REVOLUTION. BUT THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A REVOLUTION WITHOUT SOME SORT OF VIOLENT ACTION. CHANGE DOES NOT OCCUR UNTIL THE ONES IN POWER ARE REMOVED BY FORCE. THAT'S HOW THE HUMAN ANIMAL WORKS... JUST LIKE ANY OTHER ANIMAL EXCEPT WE HAVE INTELLIGENCE WHICH WE USE TO FEED OUR INSTINCTS IN DANGEROUS WAYS...SERAPHIMZETA, SERAPHIMZETA@HOTMAIL.COM "TO REFRAIN FROM POLITICS IS TO BE RULED BY YOUR INFERIORS" EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL ,2000 IS A NUMBER, Y2K IS NOT MUCH MORE THAN THE BIGGEST BOOM FOR CUMPUTER COMPANIES SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE PC. WE MUST UNITE IN A GLOBAL WAVE AND WASH AWAY CAPITALISM OR WE WILL BE WASHED AWAY AS INDIVIDUALS IN A SEA OF UNACOUNTABLE CORPORATE ENTITIES. WE IN THE WEST(THE PEOPLE)HAVE WHAT WE HAVE BECAUSE FOR YEARS THE REST OF THE WORLD WAS RAPED FOR OUR NATIONAL BENIFIT. NOW WITH THE END OF THE NATION WE WILL SLOWLY BEGIN TO LOSE WHAT WE HAVE AS MORE AND MORE WE WILL BE TREATED LIKE THE PEOPLE OF THE THIRD WORLD(OR THE MINORITIES AT HOME). A OPTIMISTIC MINDSET IS ESENTIAL FOR OUR SURVIVAL, BUT WE MUST BE WEARY OF BLIND OPTIMISM. WE HAVE A HARD ROAD AHEAD OF US BUT WE CAN MAKE IT THROUGH TOGEATHER IF WE GET SERIOUS ABOUT THE TASK AHEAD OF US AND ORGANIZE. SMALL POCKETS OF RESISTANCE HAVE BEGUN TO PUSH BACK AND THEY ARE GETTING LARGER EVERYDAY BUT WE CANNOT SIT BACK AND WAIT FOR OTHERS TO DO OUR WORK FOR US. WE MUST TAKE TO THE STREETS HAND IN HAND AND TAKE BACK OUR CITIES, OUR PLANET AND OUR FUTURE. PEACE LOVE AND STRENGTH!DAVID BATTISTUZZI, ISMONTREAL@HOTMAIL.COM IN THE NEW MILLINEUM, THE BLACK MAN AND WOMEN MUST ACCEPT THAT DOLLARS ARE ONLY THE VEHICLE FOR CHANGE AND START TO USE THEM IN CONCERT TO CHANGE THE MUSIC WE AS A NATION OF PEOPLE DANCE TO.RONALD LINDSEY, RLINDSEY@LEI-TECH.COM EVERYONE IS CHOKIN DOWN INFO OF THE GLOOM AND DOOM IN THE YEAR 2000. IF WE BELIEVE IN THE DISTRUCTION OF THE WORLD,BY HUMAN NATURE WE WILL MAKE SURE THIS WILL HAPPEN. THERE ARE NUMEROUS NATURAL DISASTORS THAT ARE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW:FIRES, EARTHQUAKES,FLASH FLOODS, TORNADOS,HURRICANE, WAR AND PESTILENCE. SO TELL ME SHORT OF ALL OUT NUCLEAR WAR OR METEOR EXPLODING THE EARTH. EITHER OF THESE WILL KILL OVER 90% OF THE WORLDS POPULATION INSTANTLY. DO WE REALLY HAVE TRUE VALIDATION TO FEAR WHAT THE WORLD WILL BE LIKE IN THE YEAR 2000 THAT HAS NOT ALREADY HAPPENED IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD NOW. IT SEEMS TO ME THIS FEAR OF NATURE HAS PRE OCCUPIED US SO THAT WE HAVE LOST SIGHT OF THE REAL PROBLEMS. WE NEED TO THINK OF HOW TO DEAL WITH EACH OTHER IN THE YEAR 2000. I FEAR WHAT MY NEIGHBOR IS GOING TO DO TO ME MORE THAN A TIDAL WAVE WASHING MY HOUSE AWAY. IF PEOPLE BELIEVE 2000 WILL BE THE END OF THE WORLD WHAT WILL STOP LOSING ALL INHIBITIONS JUST BECAUSE TOMORROW MIGHT NOT COME. MORE IMPORTANTLY HOW WILL THEY REACT WHEN IT DOES?COLTRAIN51, NICHOLEC@NLIC.COM WE ARE ON THE BRINK OF THE MILLENIUM, A SACRED EVENT THAT HAPPENS ONLY ONCE EVERY THOUSAND YEARS. IT PUZZLES ME THAT INDIVIDUALS ARE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THIER BANK ACCOUNTS AND COMPUTERS THAN THEY ARE WITH HOW IT IS GOING TO EFFECT THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY. I SEE THE MILLENIUM AS A FORUM FOR CHANGE. A LONG AWAITED REVOLUTION. THE YEAR 2000 REPRESENTS THE START OF A NEW ERA. IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CELEBRATE AND JUMP START THE EVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES. WORKING TOGETHER, WE NEED TO CATALYST CHANGE. WORLD FLAWS NEED TO BE ADDRESSED AND THE BLAME GAME WE PLAY NEEDS TO END. WHAT WILL REALLY GO DOWN? I AM CURIOUS TO SEE HOW THE WORLD WILL RESPOND TO THE DAWN OF THE NEW ERA. I HAVE A FEELING THAT NOT ENOUGH INDIVIDUALS WILL SEE THE TRUE POWER OF THIS EXPERIENCE. THE ANTICIPATION WILL WEAR OFF AFTER EVERYONE REALIZES THAT THE APOCOLYPSE DID NOT HAPPEN. EVERYONE WILL GO BACK TO THIER LIVES WITH OUT EMBRACING THE THE OPPORTUNITY TO REFLECT UPON MAN'S MISTAKES AND SUCCESSES. HOWEVER I HAVE HOPE THAT A WORLD CONSIOUSNESS WILL EMERGE AND CHANGE WILL BEGIN TO HAPPEN. I PLAN TO TAKE IT HIGHER AS THE WORLD SPEEDS TOWARD THE FUTURE... I AM SURROUNDING MYSELF WITH THE POSITIVE. NEGATIVITY NEVER GOT ANYONE ANYWHERE. I HAVE NO NEED FOR DISPLACED ENERGY. OUR MINDS NEED TO BE FOCUSED ON ALL POSITIVE ASCPECTS OF OUR REALITIES. EMBRACE WHAT YOU HAVE INSTEAD OF WHAT YOU DON'T. DON'T LET AMERICA'S CAPITALIST THEOLOGY DROWN YOU. LOVE AND HAPPINESS ARE FREE FOR THE TAKING. FIND IT IN YOUR COMMUNITIES AND SPREAD IT AS FAR AS IT CAN GO. IF WE ALL BECOME THE BEST PEOPLE WE CAN BE IT CAN ONLY GET BETTER.LYDIA POPOVICH, FUNKYBITCH@MAILEXCITE.COM LET WHAT MAY COME COME. MAY WE LOOK BEYOND THE 21ST CENTURY TO ISSUES OF WHO WE ARE, AND WHY WE ARE, AND WHAT IS BEYOND THIS SHORT LIFE WE LIVE. ONLY THEN CAN WE HAVE CONTENTMENT WHICH IS INDEPENDENT OF OPTIMISM OR PESSIMISM.MARK EDGINGTON, EDGIMAR@CHARLIE.IIT.EDU OPTIMISM HUH? WELL, LETS SEE: 1)CAMERAS ON OUR PUBLIC HIGHWAYS, SCHOOLS, CITY STREETS AND WORKPLACES. (BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING!) 2)INCREASED POLICE PRESENCE IN EVERY MAJOR CITY AND RURAL TOWN. (CAN YOU SAY MARSHALL LAW?) 3)FINGERPRINTING STANDARD FOR MANY BANKS,STATE DRIVERS LICENSES ETC.. (MARK OF WHAT BEAST?) 4)PUBLIC ASSEMBLY REGULATIONS. (YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT) 5)GUN CONTROL OR JUST CONTROL? TAKE OUR GUNS, TAKE OUR RIGHT TO PROTECT OURSELVES FROM OURSELVES (GOVERNMENT) 6)PEACE, LOVE, UNITY AND ECSTACY. (SOME OF US WILL BE TOO HIGH TO FIGHT.) 7)RESPONSIBLE PARENTING. (HAVE YOU SEEN MY GUIDE TO.....) 8)FARMERS BECOMING EXTINCT. (CAN YOU SAY AGRI-BIG BUSINESS?) 9)EVIAN = NAIVE. (WE'RE PAYING FOR WATER FOLKS! WON'T BE LONG BEFORE WE'LL BE BUYING RIA!) 10)CLONING OR GENETIC WARFARE. A FAMOUS MAN ONCE SAID, "TO OBTAIN ULTIMATE POWER OVER A SOCIETY, YOU MUST FIRST MAKE THE PEOPLE BELIEVE THEY ARE NOT SAFE. THROUGH FEAR, AND THE DISGUISE OF CONVENIENCE, THEY WILL GRADUALLY RELINQUISH ANY RIGHTS THEY HAVE TO GOVERN THEMSELVES." YOU CAN MAKE UP YOUR OWN LIST, I'M SURE ITS ENDLESS. I CAN ONLY BE OPTIMISTIC THAT PEOPLE WILL WAKE THE HELL UP IN THE 21ST CENTURY.SHERRIE GIBBS, BABBS3@AOL.COM TOLERANCE, TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION. WITHOUT THESE STEPS, THIS COUNTRY WILL CONTINUE TO SPIRAL TO THE GREAT ABYSS. THIS WHOLE SOCIETY CONTINUES TO REVEL IN FANTASY. TELL THE TRUTHISTORY AND PEOPLE CAN BEGIN TO FEEL VALIDATION AND WORTH. WHO WANTS TO CONTRIBUTE TO A POSITIVE CHANGE IN ANY SOCIETY IF YOUR NOT EVEN VALUED AS A HUMAN BEING!SHERRIE GIBBS, BABBS3@AOL.COM WILL ANY DATE (2000) CHANGE THE WAY PEOPLE THINK? OR WILL THEY START TO THINK THAT WE DONT HAVE MUCH TIME ON THIS PLANET? SO WHAT WILL THEY DO? 1-GREED- TRY TO GET AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE AND TRY TO IDOLIZE THEMSELVES OR 2-SEEK- AND TRY TO FIND GOD TO PUT MEANING BACK INTO THEIR LIVES. WHICH WOULD U PICK?INFECTED WIT DA MAD COW DISEASE, MEATHEAD1@HOME.COM RE EDUCATION...... WE AS A SOCIETY NEED T0 BE EDUCATED AND TRY TO GET OUT OF OUR IGNORENT STATE. MOST OF U ALL WHAT TO LIVE YOUR LIVES JUST DAY TO DAY SO THAT WE WONT HAVE TO OPEN OUR EYES AND SEE WHAT LIES AHEAD. SO U ALL DONT HAVE T0 CARE ABOUT ANYTHING. U REMAIN BLIND-FOLDED TO THE WORLD AROUND U. U DONT SEE THAT BECAUSE OF OUR IGNORANCE WE ARE MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR OTHER GENERATIONS TO LIVE BECAUSE OF POLUTION WHICH WE INSIST ON PUMPING INTO THE AIR,WATER. SO I URGE U TO JUST TAKE A FEW MINUTES AND ABSORBE WHAT U READ AND REMEMBER "KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE"INFECTED WIT DA MAD COW DISEASE, MEATHEAD1@HOME.COM I BELIEVE THAT POSITIVITY AND OPTOMISM IS A GOOD WAY TO THINK FOR THE FUTURE BUT THATS JUST HOPE YOU KNOW. I THINK THE YEAR 2000 AINT GONNA BE THAT DIFFERENT BECAUSE YOU AINT STRIVIN FOR BETTER YOUR JUST HOPIN AND PRAYIN BUT THAT CAN'T DO MUCH BECAUSE YOU GOTTA TAKE IT BACK TO THE SOURCE AND DO SOME SHIT IF YOU WANT SOMETHING TO BE BETTER OR RIGHT. CUZ THE MIND OF ANYONE IS GONNA DO THE FUTURE AND IT WILL ALWAYS BRING A LITTLE GOOD AND SOME BAD, BUT YOU GOTTA TAKE IT UP TO THE TOP STEP THOUGH.GREG PINSKI, TRICKDADDYDOL64@HOTMAIL.COM STOP EATING FLESH THIS BREEDS SAVAGE BEHAVIOR ITS THE TASTE OF BLOOD THAT YOU SAVOR YOU EAT DEAD YOU BREATH DEADJALIM, JUSTICE-ALLAH@HOTMAIL.COM I THINK BROTHERHOOD WILL BE THE ISSUE NO LONGER WILL I STRIVE FOR THE VAUGE VEIL OF COSMETIC BEAUTY THE STRONG SISTER OR LATINA WILL BE SOUGHT AFTER THE WISDOM TO HELP BUILD THE FOUNDATION WE SHALL MAKE A NEW INDEPENDENCE DECLARATION REALIZATION OF THE EXTERMINATION OF OUR STONG NUBIAN LEADERS WILL BECOME KNOWN TO THE MASSES NO LONGER COVERED UP BY BIAS HISTORY CLASSESJALIM, JUSTICE-ALLAH@HOTMAIL.COM THE QUALITY OF THE YEAR 2000, LIKE ANY OTHER YEAR WILL BE DEFINED BY EACH OF US. WHETHER OR NOT WE LIVE IN HEAVEN OR HELL IS NOTHING MORE THAN A PRODUCT OF OUR ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, IF Y2K WREAKS HAVOC, SOME WILL CALL IT "HELL" AS THEY FOCUS ON THE FEAR, PAIN AND INCONVENIENCE. SOME WILL CALL IT "HEAVEN" AS THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF UNUSUAL SITUATIONS FOR PERSONAL GROWTH, INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND CHANCES TO BREAK FREE OF OLD SYSTEMS. ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING! WHETHER YOU ARE AN OPTIMIST OR A PESSIMIST, YOU'RE RIGHT. THE QUALITY OF ANY YEAR IS DEFINED WITHIN YOUR OWN MIND.LEN MARINACCIO, LEN@GOODNET.COM PERSONALLY I FEEL THAT THE YEAR 2000 WILL OPEN ALL KINDS OF DOORS IN THE EVER SO RACIST FILLED WORLD I THINK THAT JUST MAYBE IF THIS Y2K THING HAPPENS IT WILL EITHER BRING US TOGETHER TO THE POINT THAT THERE COULD BE NO HATE FOR EACH OTHER OR TO THE POINT OF EVERYONE BEING WILLIN TO TEAR EACH OTHERS HEARTS OUT FOR A CRACKER BUT I DONT THINK IT WILL HAPPEN SO IN THE YEAR 2000 I THINK EVERYONE WILL JUST COME CLOSER TOGETHER AND THIS WORLD MIGHT BE A LITTLE BETTER OR POSSIBLY KOSOVO MIGHT ESCALATE TO A WORLD WAR III AND WE MIGHT ALL DIE BY THE YEAR 2002 AND WOULDN'T THAT BE PEACHY ALL OF US DEAD AND NO FUTURE FOR ANYOF US SO I FEEL FOR THE YEAR 2000 WE MUST COME CLOSER TOGETHER OR IF WE DONT IT WILL BRING US DOWN PEACE OUT -LUCASLUCAS, XXOP182XX@EXCITE.COM I BELIEVE THAT POSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM WILL BE OUR DRIVING FORCE FOR THE YEAR 2000. THE NEW MILLENIUM HAS BEEN GREATLY ANTICIPATED, AND FEARED AT THE SAME TIME. MANY PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO GO DOWN FOR THE YEAR 2000 AND SO FORTH. THAT UNCERTAINTY AND FEAR ALONE WILL DRIVE US ALL, AS A HUMAN RACE, TO COME TOGETHER AND HELP EACH OTHER ALONG THE NEW PATHS THAT LIE AHEAD. ALTHOUGH OUR "CYBERCULTURE" HAS VASTLY AND RAPIDLY EMERGED DURING THE '90S, WE HAVE NOT YET HAD A TASTE OF WHAT THE CYBER YEAR 2000 HAS IN STORE FOR US. NATURALLY, WE WILL STRIVE TO KEEP OUR HEADS UP, NO MATTER WHAT GOES DOWN.SAMANTHA KIM, SAMMI@AUTOBAHN.ORG I THINK THAT WE WILL NOT HAVE ANYONE GETTING ALONG,WHEN PEOPLE SAY SOMTHING SOME ONE WILL TAKE IT THE WRONG WAY AND GET IN A FIGHT WITH THEM. WE WILL NEVER HAVE PEACE LIKE WE WISH WE HAD.ROSE BECKER, DONMAR@ERINET.COM THE WORLD HAS COME TO AN END. THERE IS NOTHING OUT THERE. IT IS ALL IN YOUR MIND. YOU CREATE IT. SO, HOW IS IT GOING TO BE NOW?JIM B., JIM@EARTHBASE.COM I THINK THAT NOTHING BUT THE PEOPLE WILL GO DOWN. EVERY MILLENIUM THATS HAS COME AROUND PEOPLE HAVE GONE CRAZY THINKING THAT IT WOULD BE THE END OF THE WORLD, BUT WERE ALL STILL HERE RIGHT? NO COMPUTERS ARE GOING TO GO DOWN NO END OF THE WORLD, STAY CALM PEOPLE ITS JUST ANOTHER YEAR.NATASHA BARNES, THEBLUEFAERI@HOTMAIL.COM EVERY ONE IS RUNNING AROUND LIKE CHICKENS WITH THEIR HEADS CUT OFF BECAUSE OF THE ONSET OF THE NEW MILLENIUM. THEY RAMBLE ABOUT AIRPORTS AND SEWAGE AND BANKROLLS. BUT WHAT WORRIES ME THE MOST IS THE EFFECT OF RELIGION. FAR TOO MANY CULTURES HAVE ACCEPTED 2000 AS THE END OF THE WORLD. MORE THAN ONCE THIS PLANETS' EYES HAVE FOCUSED ON THE HUNDREDS EVEN THOUSANDS OF SUICIDES AND MURDERS IN THE NAME OF THIER GOD(S). RELIGION MEAN SALVATION FOR OUR WORLD, BUT NOT BY CLAIMING THAT ANY LIFE SHOULD BE SACRAFICED IN THE NAME OF HOLINESS OR SPIRITUALITY. MY WISH FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM IS THAT THE PEOPLE OF EARTH FIND WITHIN THEMSELVES A SPIRITUALITY THAT WILL ALLOW THEM TO FIND AND BRING PEACE TO THIS EARTH. A SPIRITUALITY THAT ENRICHES THEIR LIVES AND MOTIVATES THEM TO CONTINUE BOLDLY INTO THE NEW MILLENIUM RATHER THAN TURN AWAY IN FEAR. WITH THIS I THINK THAT WE CAN OVERCOME WHATEVER STANDS IN OUR WAY. BROKEN SEWAGE PIPES, COLLAPSED BANKING SYSTEMS, AIRPORT SHUTDOWNS, PC MELTDOWNS, AND WHATEVER ELSE LIES ON THE HORIZON.SUZY ROBINSON, AQUANFERNO I THINK IT IS TIME FOR ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TO SIT BACK AND RELAX. I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF EVERYONE ARGUING WITH EACH OTHER. THE MAJORITY OF AMERICAN CITIZENS DISCRIMINATE AGAINST OTHERS WHO HOLD OPPOSING BELIEFS AND OPINIONS.KEVIN FERRONI, KFERRONI@LEO.KINGS.EDU ...NIGHTFALL THE CLOSER WE GET TO THE OH-SO-SHOCKING YEAR 2000, THE MORE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO START FREAKING OUT. THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE FOLKS OUT THERE WHO REALLY TAKE THE MEANING OF THOSE FOUR DIGITS TO HEART WHILE THERE ARE OTHERS THAT ARE JUST GOING TO RECOGNIZE IT AS JUST ANOTHER YEAR. IT'S SORT OF CREEPY TO SEE BOTH SPECTRUMS. FOR EXAMPLE AT MY JOB, I WORK IN THE PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT AND IT'S STRANGE TO BE GETTING FILES READY FOR THE 2000 SEASON, IT'S SO BLASE, IT'S JUST ANOTHER YEAR. AND THEN, WHEN I COME HOME, I SEE ALL THESE PEOPLE FREAKING OUT ABOUT THE BIG 2000. SOME THINK IT'S GOING TO MEAN BIG CHANGE, BUT DON'T WE SAY THAT ABOUT EVERY YEAR? HOW CONSCIOUS ARE WE ABOUT THE WHOLE MILLENIUM? IS THIS GOING TO ACTUALLY MEAN ACTIVE CHANGE FOR THE NEW CENTURY OR IS IT JUST THE HYPE OF THE NEW CENTURY THAT'S MAKING PEOPLE WANT TO BELIEVE IN CHANGE? NOTHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN IF PEOPLE JUST CONTINUE TO BUY INTO THE FALSE IDEOLOGIES THAT WE ARE FED EVERYDAY FROM MEDIA HYPE AND WHAT NOT. IT WILL JUST BECOME ANOTHER PHASE AND WE WILL GET OVER IT LIKE WE GOT OVER THE SPICE GIRLS. EVEN AS WE ADVANCE IN TECHNOLOGY, EVEN IF WE PROMOTE A GREATER AWARENESS ABOUT OPPRESSION, SEXISM, CLASSISM, ETC, THERE IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE THE "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST" AT WORK. IN OTHER WORDS, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GO ON STEPPING ON OTHER PEOPLE TO REACH THE TOP (WHATEVER THAT MAY BE). THOSE THINGS ARE GOING TO REMAIN THE SAME. PEOPLE ARE THINKING THAT WE ARE MOVING TOWARDS POSITIVITY. OPTIMISM. WHILE WE ARE STILL ALL THE SAME DOING THE SAME THING IN A DIFFERENT CONTEXT. IN A DIFFERENT ERA. WHAT WILL GO DOWN? IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT I BELIEVE THINGS WILL GET WORSE. BECAUSE I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT IN THIS ERA, I STILL WITNESS THE SAME ATROCITIES THAT WENT ON DECADES AGO. HOMOPHOBIA. RACISM. SEXISM. IN THIS DAY AND SOCIETY, IGNORANCE STILL PREVAILS. THAT GIVES ME NO FAITH IN HOW FAR WE WILL GO IN OUR OPTIMISTIC HIGH. I CAN ONLY DO MY PART IN BETTERING THIS WORLD. DESPITE MY PESSIMISM, I STILL BELIEVE IN THE GOOD. I STILL BELIEVE THAT.MINI N, SSMINI@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU WHAT WE NEED TO DO AT LEAST EVERY MONTH IS BITCHSLAP AN ARROGANT BUSDRIVER AND KILL TWO BUM COPS, THAT SHOULD MAKE EVERYTHING ALRIGHT, AND ENABLE US TO CONTINUE BEING CONTENTEDLY ADRIFT IN DRUNKEN STUPOR ALRIGHT LESSDO IT.MICHAEL, SABERTOOTHMF@HOTMAIL.COM YES... AHEM... THANKYOUVERYMUCH. NO WHO'S DOWN FOR ANOTHER ROUNDA DRINKS NOW LET ME HEARYA LADIES & GENTLEMEN?JANEQUE, JOHNNYBOURBON@EXCITE.COM ONCE AGAIN, FOR KRISSAKES, YOU PIECES OF SHIT NEED TO GET YOUR SPELLING STRAIGHT, IF YOU CAN'T DO THAT, JUST STOP YAKKING ABOUT YOUR REVOLUTIONS & JUST HAVE SEX GODDAMMIT.JANEQUE, JOHNNYBOURBON@EXCITE.COM THE ENTIRE WORLD WILL NOT COME TO AN END, IN THE YEAR 2000 OR BEYOND. THE END OF THIS WORLD DOES NOT IMPLY THE TOTAL DEVASTATION OF THE EARTH. IT SUGGESTS THE END OF THE CIVILIZATION THAT CONTROLS THE MINDS OF MEN AND INFLUENCES NATIONS; THE END OF THE IMAGE OR ACCEPTABLE STANDARD OF EVIL AND A RETURN TO THE GENESIS AND THE ORIGINAL PLAN OF CREATION FOR A WORLD GOVERNED BY MEN GOVERNED BY GOD - THE END OF EVIL IMPERIALISM. THE PLANET HAS BEEN LITERALLY MADE INTO HELL ON EARTH AND NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE. DECEPTIVE EDUCATION HAS NEUTRALIZED ALL OPPOSITION.THOMAS ALEXANDER, OGMUDBONE@ROCKETMAIL.COM WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE ON JANUARY FIRST, 2000...I WILL TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND EXHALE..I WILL SPEND A MOMENT REFLECTING ON THE PAST YEAR, AND THEN I WILL REALIZE THAT NOTHING HAS CHANGED. ONE YEAR DOES NOT BRING ON NEW OUTLOOKS. TIME AND EDUCATION CAN ONLY DO THAT. WE'VE GOT A LOT LEFT TO DO..REGARDLESS OF THE YEAR..WE'VE GOT A LOT LEFTMALINA BICKFORD, FRE4KLIKME@AOL.COM THE YEAR 2000 IS A TIME WHEN MANY CHANGES MAY COME ABOUT, HOWEVER AS FOR ANY REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES I DO NOT KNOW. I BELIEVE MOST OF WHAT MANY OF US ARE ENVISIONING WILL NOT HAPPEN. WE CAN NOT DAPEND ON A CHANGE IN THE CALANDER TO BRING US A NEW WORLD MAY IT BE BETTER OR WORST, IT IS US THE PEOPLE, ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO MUST BRING UPON THE CHANGES. WE LIVE IN A TIME OF HATERED BUT IS IT WORST THEN THE PAST I DO NOT BELIEVE SO. ONE FEAR I HAVE IS THAT MANY WILL TAKE THIS NEW DATE AS AN EXCUSE TO MAKE ATTACKS UPON EACH OTHER AND USE IT AS AN EXCUSE TO KILL ONE ANOTHER WHEN IT IS MEARLY A CHANGE IN THE CALANDER. WE CANNOT FULLY DEPEND ON THE NEW DATE TO BRING US THE CHANGES. WE THE PEOPLE NEED TO WORK HAND AND HAND, WHITE, BLACK, BROWN, YELLOW, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR RACE CREED OR RELIGION IS. DO NOT LET IGNORANCE AND HATERED DESTROY US AS IT HAS BEEN THROUGHOUT TIME, WE NEED TO LEARN TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER, WORK WITH EACH OTHER, AND FORGIVE THE OTHERS. IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, LETS TRY TO PROVE THIS NOT TO BE TRUE WHEN IT COMES TO OUR HATEREDS AND IGNORANCE. STOP USING A DATE ON THE CALANDER TO PREVENT YOU THE INDIVIDUAL FROM MAKING THE CHANGESMATT TUNG, MAGIKMT@HOTMAIL.COM FOR SALE: COMPLETE BOUND COLLECTION OF THE COLLECTED THOUGHTS OF MARX AND ENGLE, IN PATENT LEATHER RED. PLUS SIGNED PHOTOS OF TZAR NICHOLAS AND A CARTOON ABOUT BORIS/NATASHIA. $2000 OR BEST OFFER!PHINEAS KIMBLE FOGG, PFOGG@81DAYS.COM I THINK THAT THE WORLD'S NOT GOING TO END. IT IS JUST THE MENTALITY OF THE PEOPLE SAYING THAT IT WILL THAT WILL TEAR OUR SOCIETY APART. IF PEOPLE DON'T LOOK MORE OPTIMISTACLY AT THE COMING OF THE MILLENIUM AS A GATEWAY TO THE FUTURE, THEN WAR WILL POSSIBLY BREAK OUT AND THERE WILL BE NO PEACE. THE WORLD WILL BE FULL OF SEGREGATION AND HATRED WORSE THAN THE RACISM OF TODAY.CAITLIN WOOD, MEEPERWOOD@NETSCAPE.NET HEY ALL I NOW IS THAT I DONT NOW NOTHIN BUT I DO NOW WHAT I LIKE AND THATS BEER,BONGS,CIGS,AND GOOD COMPANY JUST ALL THIS 2000 CRAP AND AMERICA IS BUTIFUL IS BULL@!$# WE SHOULD JUST LEGALIZE BUD AND MAKE THE WORLD A STONER PLACE. THCNOLAN WASS, SMFS@DELTANET.COM THE FUN WILL START WHEN THE WATER SYSTEMS AND SEPTIC SYSTEMS BEGIN TO FAIL!!ANDREW FRITZ, AFRITZ@FRINGEGOLF.COM THE YEAR 2000 MEANS ITS TIME FOR JUDGEMENT. STAND TOGETHER OR FALL APARTCHRIS, CDHAYES@INDIANA.EDU YO, IF EVERYONE PULLS THEIR OWN WEIGHT, I DON'T THINK THERE WOULD BE ANYTHING THAT COULD STOP US. OUR PROBLEM, AS A NATION, IS THAT THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON CONVENIENCE. FROM SLAVERY TO FAST FOOD. COLONIALS WERE TO LAZY TO PUT IN AN HONEST DAYS WORK, SO THEY FORCED OTHERS TO DO IT FOR THEM. TODAY WE CAN'T EVEN GET OUT OF OUR CARS TO GET SOMETHING TO EAT. IMAGINE IF ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE WERE NO MORE FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS, AND PEOPLE HAD TO CREATE OTHER MEANS OF SURVIVAL. WE, AS A SPECIES, WERE GIVEN THE GREATEST GIFT EVER.FREE WILL! AND BEING THAT WE HAVE FREEDOM TO EXPRESS THAT WILL WE SHOULD NOT SIT AND DWELL ON THE NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF OUR SOCIETY, BUT INSTEAD NETWORK TO CREATE POSITIVE OUTLETS FOR WORK AND WITH THAT, SUSTINENCE. THE GREATER GOOD OF A SOCIETY DEPENDS MORE ON THE CONCIOUSNESS OF IT'S CITIZENS, THAN THAT OF THEIR SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE OR MATERIAL STATUS. I PRAY THAT INI MAY REMAIN STRONG THROUGH COMING TRIALS.SHAWN MCCOURT, SOLID WVC@CS.COM MOST OF YOU CAN'T EVEN SPELL. YOU WANT A REVOLUTION? TRY SEX.GOD, IN HEAVEN@WHISKY.COM ALCOHOL IS THE KEY WORD. STAY STRONG,MICHAEL, SABERTOOTHMF@HOTMAIL.COM I SAY SOONER OR LATER ALL HELL'S GONNA BREAK LOOSE & DAMN RIGHT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. WE'RE DEALING WITH LUNATICS HERE SO WE BETTER TRAIN WITH THE MANIACS. KEEP THE FLAG UP HIGH, LOVEJANEQUE, JOHNNYBOURBON@EXCITE.COM RE JOSEPH: ****************************************** FIRE FIGHTERS.POLICE OFFICERS AND MILITARY MEMBERS PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE FOR ALL AMERICANS EVERY DAY.AND ALL YOU CAN DO IS RUN YOUR MOUTH AND BE SO UNAPPRECIATING TOWARD YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS.I THINK ITS HIGH TIME YOU START TO STAND UP AND BE PROUD OF BIEING AN AMERICAN. ****************************************** IT IS HIGH TIME YOU START TO STAND UP AND BE PROUD OF BIEING AN EARTH-ANIMAL.ARJEN NIEBUUR, WESTERLEE@HOTMAIL.COM !!!!!!!!!!!!FOR FABRIC8 ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS A FABULOUS IDEE TO LET OTHERS GIVE THEIR MOST INNER OPINIONS OF LIVE,IN WORDFORM ON THIS SITE.THIS IS ABSOLUTELY A PROGRESSIVE FORM OF THINKING.MEET NEW THOUGHTS.CAUSE IN THIS WAY PEOPLE WRITE THINGS ANONYMOUS,AND WHEN YOU ARE ANONYMOUS YOUR MIND IS OPEN.I MEAN:LESS BRAKES IN THE WAY OF THINKING.IT IS NOT THE WAY:CAN I SAY THIS OR THAT.YOU JUST SAY IT IN HERE. HAVE A NICE LIFE.ARJEN NIEBUUR, WESTERLEE@HOTMAIL.COM TO 2000,OR NOT TO 2000,THATS THE QUESTION. THATS THE QUESTION FOR FAIHTLESS PEOPLE. MABY JEZUS WILL COME BACK ALIVE. MABY NOACH WILL COME BACK ALIVE. MABY. I BELIEVE IN WHAT I SEE. I BELIEVE IN WHAT I KNOW. I BELIEVE IN WHAT I LIVE. I BELIEVE:GO WITH THE FLOW.ARJEN NIEBUUR, WESTERLEE@HOTMAIL.COM A NEW CENTURY IS ON THE HORIZON. WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO SIT AROUND AND WAIT FOR TIME TO CHANGE THE SOCIAL STEREOTYPES THAT PLAGUE OUR SOCIETY. THIS NEW CENTURY WILL ONLY BRING ABOUT THE SAME OLD RESENTMENTS AND GRUDGES IF NOTHING IS DONE NOW. THE RACIST, AND FASCIST, AND INTOLERANT WILL NOT ALL OF A SUDDEN HAVE A CHANGE OF HEART BECAUSE IT IS THE YEAR 2000. BUT THIS DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE SHOULD GIVE UP ALL HOPE OF A DECENT FUTURE. THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS THAT WE HAVE ENDURED AS A RACE, AS A PEOPLE,AND AS HUMAN BEINGS HAVE ONLY MADE US STRONGER. THE YEAR 2000 ISN'T DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER YEAR, DON'T USE IT AS AN EXCUSE TO SIT AND DO NOTHING. AS A NEW CENTURY APROACHES ON THE HORIZON, SO DOES THAT RENEWED SENSE OF HOPE AND THE BELIEF THAT WE CAN, WE HAVE, AND WE WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE. P.S. THE CENTURY BEGINS ON JANUARY 1ST, 2001!!!!BETHANY ARWA, JARWA@MEDIAONE.NET INEQUALITIES WILL GROW UP WITHIN EACH COUNTRY AND BETWEEN THEM. INSECURITY WILL GROW UP BECAUSE IT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF THESES INEQUALITIES. RICH PEOPLE ACCEPT TO LOOSE THEIR SECURITY, THEIR PEACE IN ECHANGE OF MATERIALS EQUIPMENTS. I HOPE HUMANS BEING WILL UNDERSTAND, IT WILL BE BETTER TO SHARE THAN ACTUAL SITUATION. PERHAPS EVERY THINGS WON'T BE NEVER BETTER.AND WILL SEE APPERING MORE AND MORE POLICE, LESS AND LESS FREEDOM.HAYAT, D.HAYAT@ESC-LILLE.FR THE WAY AS IT IS. THE YEAR 2000 WILL GIVE US A NEW CALLENDAR. NEW NUMBERS,SAME LIFE. NEW SLUMBERS,SAME LIFE. NEW HAPPIENESS,SAME LIFE. NEW IMPULSES,SAME LIFE. BUT. IF. YOU. WANT. TO. DO. IT. DIFFRENT. GO AHEAD. IT IS YOUR LIFE.ARJEN NIEBUUR, WESTERLEE@HOTMAIL.COM LIVE IS A GETTO ONSELVE. ONE IS TRAPPED IN ONESELVE ONESELVE IS TRAPPED IN ONE. ONE IS THE ONE. ONE IS WHO. WHO IS ONE. I AM THE ONE. ONE. ONE FOR ONE. ONE FOR ALL ONE IS HAPPY. HAPPY IS ONE. THE GETTO ONE. ONE IN THE GETTO. TO LOVE IN THE GETTO. TO LOVE OUTSIDE THE GETTO. TO LOVE OTHER FELLOWS OTHER FELLOWS GETTOPEOPLE.ARJEN NIEBUUR, WESTERLEE@HOTMAIL.COM THE SUN'S GOING TO SHINE, THE BIRDS WILL SING, THE FLOWERS WILL BLOSSUM, THE RAIN WILL FALL, THE SNOW WILL DUMP, AND PEACE, LOVE, HAPPINESS, UNITY, EQUALITY AND DREAMS WILL REIGN!KRIS B, KRISBROWNE@HOTMAIL.COM IN THE YEAR 2000, THE WORLD WILL NOT END. PEOPLE'S TOLORENCE WILL END. WHILE TRYING TO BREAK DOWN OUR WALLS WE WILL ONLY PUT 2 MORE UP. WE WILL OPEN HALF OUR MIND AND CLOSE THE OTHER. KIDS WHO TRIED TO SPEAK OUT WILL SHUT UP. EVERYONE WILL BE TOO SCARED TO SAY WHAT THEY FEEL OR THINK AND INSTEAD WILL SAY WHAT HIGHER PEOPLE TELL THEM. WE FEAR TOO MUCH, WE WILL NEED FAITH IN OURSELVE BUT WONT LOOK PAST THE BUBBLE.COURTENAY , TANKGIRL42@AOL.COM AS I SEE IT, THE FUTURE DOES'NT LOOK TO GOOD IF YOUR AFRICAN AMERICAN, LATINO, AND LIVING BELOW THE POVERTY LINE. THE RADICAL RIGHT HAD A MISSION AND THAT WAS TO DESTROY US BY ANY MEANS. THAT'S WHY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS UNDER ATTACK, POLICE ARE OUT OF CONTROL,THE THREE STRIKES LAW WAS PASSED, WELFORM REFORM WAS PASSED, MORE AND MORE YOUNG WHITE TEACHERS ARE IN OUR SCHOOLS TREATING OUR KIDS LIKE SHIT,THERE ARE MORE AND MORE RACIST GROUPS THAN EVER, AND THE JUDGES IN THIS COUNTRY ARE 95% WHITE MALES. I CAN'T COUNT THE THE FAMILYS THAT HAVE BEEN BROKEN UP BECAUSE THE PHONE DRUG WAR. IF YOUR ARE A BLACK MALE YOU ARE CURRENTLY HUNTED DOWN LIKE ANIMALS, AND IF YOU ARE AFRICAN FEMALE YOU MISS YOUR MALE CAUSE HE IS MORE LIKELY TO BE ATTRACTED TO SOME WHITE WOMAN, IT IS ONLY GETTING WORSE.ANNETTE COLEMAN, ACOLEMAN@RAVENSWOOD.K12.CA.US HERE IS HOW IT IS. IN THE YEAR 2000 OUR ASS WOULD BE ALL FUCKED UP. I'M IN THE MILITARY AND I THINK IF WE WOULD STOP BABYSITTING EVERY OTHER FUCKING COUNTRY AND TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN PROBLEMS WE WOULD BE A BETTER COUNTRY. SO IF OUR FEARLESS LEADERS WOULD TAKE THERE HEAD OUT OF THEIR ASS LONG ENOUGH TO NOTICE ALL THE FUCKED UP SHIT IN NATION THEN THEY ALL CAN SUCK MY HAIRY HAWAIIAN ASS. IF ANYONE GOT A PROBLEM WITH WHAT I AM SAYING THEY DO YOUR TIME IN THE MILITARY LIFE. WELL, AS YOU CAN SEE HOW FUCKING FAST OUR LEADERS TOOK TO GET OUR TROOPS BACK FROM KOSOVO. IF WE WOULD HAVE BEEN IN OUR OWN COUNTRY THIS SHIT WOULD HAVE HAPPEN. SO FOR THE OUT LOOK FOR 2000, IT'S ALL FUCKED UP................J.KAHALE, GEKKO21@WEBTV.NET I'VE BEEN SITTING HERE READING EVERYTHING EVERYONE HAS TO SAY. AND IT ALL SOUNDS LIKE WHINNING TO ME. FIRE FIGHTERS.POLICE OFFICERS AND MILITARY MEMBERS PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE FOR ALL AMERICANS EVERY DAY.AND ALL YOU CAN DO IS RUN YOUR MOUTH AND BE SO UNAPPRECIATING TOWARD YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS.I THINK ITS HIGH TIME YOU START TO STAND UP AND BE PROUD OF BIEING AN AMERICAN.JOSEPH AMARAL, GEKKO21@WEBTV.NET FIRST OF ALL, I THINK THAT WHEN THE YEAR 2000 ARRIVES, FEW WILL PERISH, MANY WILL BECOME RICHER, MANY WILL LOSE THEIR JOBS, AND MANY WILL GO INSANE. THE GOVERNMENT PLAYS A MAJOR ROLE IN THIS DESTRUCTION BECAUSE EVERYDAY, THEY TAKE MONEY OUT OF PEOPLE'S PAY CHECKS. FROM DAY TO DAY, CITIZENS BUST THEIR BUTTS AND WHAT DOES THE GOVERNMENT DO? TAKE LOADS OF MONEY TO USE ON SENSELESS ITEMS SUCH AS: NUCLEAR PRODUCTS, THE PREZ, AND FOR THESE POLICE OFFICERS WHO KILL INNOCENT VICTIMS EVERYDAY & THEY SIT ON THEIR FAT BOOTIES EATING JELLY DONUTS. THE WORLD IS STARTING TO BECOME REALLY MESSED UP AND LOTS OF PEOPLE WILL LOSE THAT POSITIVE SIDE AND THEY WILL BECOME OPTIMISTS. ALL I KNOW IS THAT THE MAIN ONES THAT WILL SUFFER ARE THE ONES LYING ON THE STREET CORNERS AND BEGGING FOR A QUARTER TO SPARE.BRIANNA COOK, LOVEDIVA7@YAHOO.COM I THINK THE ECONOMY OF THE WORLD TODAY SUCKS. WE GOT A FEW PEOPLE OUT THERE WITH MONEY COMING OUT THEY'RE ASS, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE NO MONEY WHATSOEVER. THERE'S PEOPLE DYING IN THE STREETS IN AMERICA EVEN, AND THAT IS NOT RIGHT. I THINK ALL THESE RICH ASSHOLES SHOULD GIVE SOME OF THEIR MONEY TO ALL THESE HOMELESS PEOPLE. EVEN IF THEY GAVE JUST A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF WHAT THEY HAVE, THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH. I THINK THAT IF THE GOVERNMENT WON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, THEN THE PEOPLE SHOULD!DAVE EVERHART, KLEPTO420@HOTMAIL.COM I LIKE WHAT YALL ARE DOING AND I WOULD DEFENITLY WANT TO GET DOWN ON SOME OF THAT REAL SHIT.ALVIN TISDALE, TISDALEALVIN@HOTMAIL.COM TODAY, THE WEALTHIEST 1% OF THE NATION HAVE MORE MONEY THAN THE BOTTOM 90%. THE TOP .5% OF THE NATION IN THE 80S TOOK IN 54% OF 5 TRILLION DOLLARS THAT WAS TAKEN IN BY THE US. THE THREE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD HAVE MORE MONEY THAN 50 DEVELOPED COUNTRIES. OBVIOUSLY, THE GAP BETWEEN THE POOR AND THE RICH IS TREMENDOUS. IN FACT, THIS TYPE OF UNEQUAL WEALTH DISTRIBUTION HASN'T BEEN SEEN SINCE THE 1920S. APPROACHING THE YEAR 2000, WE FACE THE SAME PROBLEM THAT THE US DID IN THE 1920S. MANY ARE PREDICTING A BIG STOCK MARKET CRASH BECAUSE OF THE HUGE RIFT IN WEALTH CONCENTRATION. THE TREND OF CAPITALISM TODAY IS CAUSING THAT RIFT TO WIDEN. AT THE TURN OF THEN CENTURY, NOTHING WILL HAVE CHANGED UNLESS WE MAKE IT CHANGE. THE RICH WILL CONTINUE TO GET RICHER AND THE POOR WILL CONTINUE TO BECOME POORER. SO WHAT'S THE POINT IN HAVING OPTIMISM OR POSITIVITY? MAYBE YOU, WE, THE GUY OR GIRL WHO HAS A PHAT NEW PENTIUM COMPUTER AND A 56K MODEM ARE HAPPY AND OPTIMISITC. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE KID DOWN THE BLOCK WHO EATS HIS CEREAL WITH WATER AND DOESN'T HAVE A FLUSHING TOILET? WHAT ABOUT THE THE DRUNK HOMELESS DOOD THAT YOU SEE EVERYDAY? THEY AREN'T HAPPY. MOST OF THE 4.4 BILLION PEOPOPLE WHO LIVE IN DEVELOPING COUNTIES DON'T EVEN HAVE ACCESS TO SEWERS. ONE-THIRD OF THEM CAN'T EVEN DRINK WATER WITHOUT GETTING SICK. AND WORST, 20% OF THEM DON'T HAVE ANY MODERN MEDICAL SERVICES. WHEN THESE PEOPLE GET THE MEASLES OR ANY OTHER DISEASE THAT REQUIRES ANTI-BIOTICS, THEY CAN DIE. SO HELL NO THERE SHOULDN'T BE OPTISM AND POSITIVITY IN THE YEAR 2000--UNLESS WE CREATE A BETTER WORLD WERE THAT CAN EXIST. THERE'S NO SIMPLE SOLUTION; THEY'LL ALWAYS BE LOSERS IN A SYSTEM LIKE CAPITALISM. BUT IT'S THE DEGREE THAT THE LOSER LOSE THAT BOTHERS ME. THERE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE ANYONE SANE OUT ON THE STREETS STARVING AND SCROUNGING FOR CHANGE. WE NEED SOME RADICAL CHANGES TO TAKE PLACE IF WE DO ACTUALLY GIVE A FUCK. IF YOU'RE OVER EIGHTEEN, VOTE; MAKE A DIFFERENCE THROUGH LEGISLATION. SUPPORT BILLS THAT TAX THE RICH MORE AND HELP THE POOR. IF YOU'RE RICH, ENGAGE YOURSELF IN SOME PHILANTHROPY. DON'T JUST DONATE MONEY, WE ALL NEED TO GET OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY AND HELP WITH PROGRAMS LIKE THE MANY FOOD- AND CLOTHING-HARVEST DRIVES. THE SOUP KITCHENS NEED VOLUNTEERS. THE SHELTERS NEED COUNSELORS AND SUPERVISORS FOR KIDS WHO NEVER GOT A CHANCE. ITS NOT EVEN THAT HARD TO SIGN UP IN THESE PLACES...JUST DO IT. WHETHER IT'S ONCE A MONTH OR ONCE A WEEK, IN THE WORDS OF TUPAC SHAKUR, "CHANGE!"ALEX CHAVEZ, ALEX123@BIGPLANET.COM I THINK THAT WE ARE MORE SCREWED THAN EVER. EVERY DAY, WE GET UP, FIX OUR SELVES UP, GO OUT, INTERACT, AND FUCK OVER OUR SURROUNDINGS AND DON'T GIVE ANYTHING BACK. CELEBRITIES WOULD SPEND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON CLOTHING APPARELL WHILE THERE ARE MILLIONS OF STARVING CHILDREN DYING OF DISEASE AND NEGLECT. THE WORLD IS OVER POPULATED AS IT IS, AND SCIENTIST WANT TO CLONE HUMANS. WE ARE DESTROYING OURSELVES WITH EVERY BREATH, AND MOVING FARTHER AND FARTHER FROM OUR REASON FOR BEING. THERE IS NOTHING MATERIAL THAT CAN'T BE MADE EASIER, AND A BIG PERCENTAGE OF HUMANS WISH TO BE THINNER. I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF IN THE YEAR 2000, OTHER BEINGS FROM OTHER PLACES WATCH US, AND SAY TO EACHOTHER "CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS? 2000 YEARS OF THIS SHIT! YOU HUMANS ARE STUPID!" TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION BY ALIEN LIFE FORMS. WE ARE SO PRIMITIVE IN THE WAY WE THINK. WE HAVE SO MUCH POWER TO MAKE BETTER OF WHAT WE WERE BLESSED WITH, AND YET WE HAVEN'T THE TIME BECAUSE WE HAVE TO RUN OUT AND BUY MORE STUFF TO MAKE US FEEL CONTENT FOR 2.5 SECONDS.SHELLI J, MISSTIGERLILLY@EXCITE.COM THE OPTIMISM OF Y2K IS NOT YET BEEN UDERSTOOD BY US. THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S. THERE IS SOMETHING MORE POWERFUL THAT WILL FALL RELIGIOUS BELIEFS WILL CRUMBLE UPON THIS YEAR PEOPLE SHOULD LISTEN TO THERE INTUITION THAT GOD BLESSED ALL OF US WITH AND QUIT BEING ANOTHER LOOK ALIKE. THIS YEAR UPON US LIKE A RAVEN UPON A DOOR IS JUST ANOTHER TECHNICAL SET BACK THAT WORLD WILL BREAK OUT IN ROITS AND RAVE BANKS FOR THE SYSTEM THAT WAS THE BEST BUT WILL FALL IN DO TIME. LIKE THE ROMAN'S THEY HAD A DECLINING FREEFALL TO THE GROUND AND THATS WHAT I THINK WILL HAPPEN TO OUR SOCIETY AND OUR REALITY OR IS THIS REALITY A FALSE LIKELY HOOD? THAT IS THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD ASK THEMSELFS. IS THIS LIFE REALLY REAL? OR IS IT A LIE LIKE SO MANY POLITICIANS HAVE SAID SINCE THE BEING OF TIME AND POSSILBY EVEN TO THE END KEEPING THE REALITY THATS TRUE FROM US THE PEOPLE AND SO WILL END THIS WORLD HAVING A BLOODLY GRAVE THE DAY THE TRUE REALITY IS REALIZED. IS Y2K REALLY THE END? OR IS IT ANOTHER PSEUDO IN THE MIST OF TRUTHS?ALBERTO HERRERA JR., B_PHREZH@HOTMAIL.COM CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF-THE YEAR 2000 WILL NOT BE AS DEVASTATING AS ONE MIGHT THINK. THE ILLUMINATI DOESNT CONTROL OUR FATES.AND NIETHER DO COMPUTERS.Y2K IS MINISCULE.THE ONLY COMPUTER WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IS THE FACE OF A CLOCK.THE YEAR 2000 WILL ONLY SHOW PEOPLE HOW MUCH TIME THEY HAVE WASTED.HOW LITTLE THEY HAVE DONE TO MAKE THIS WORLD BETTER. THE YEAR 2000 WILL SHOW PEOPLE HOW LITTLE THEY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED.WETHER THERE IS RIOTS OR LOOTING OR WHATEVER.IT WILL BE THE YEAR WHEN PEOPLE OPEN UP THEIR THIRD EYES.PREPARE FOR THE AGE OF AQUARIUS.NIBU ABRAHAM, SKILZ37@HOTMAIL.COM DESPITE PEOPLE'S FOCUS ON POSITIVITY IN THE YEAR 2000, I THINK BAND AND DISSAPOINTING THINGS WILL OCCURR. INDUSTRIALISTS WILL INCREASE NUMBERS OF FACTORIES AND PRODUCTION, TO CREATE A BETTER ECONOMICAL STATE FOR THEMSELVES. HOWEVER, THIS WILL DESTROY GHETTO RESIDENTS WHO WILL BE FORCED TO WORK IN THOSE PLACES FOR MINIMAL WAGES. AFTER HEAVY INDUSTRIALIZATION, EVERYTHING WILL BE OPERATED BY COMMERCE AND THE BIG DOLLAR SIGN GHETTOS WILL INCREASE IN SIZE AND CLASS DIVISION WILL BECOME GREATER. THESE UNFORTUNATE THINGS WILL HAPPEN, EVEN THOUGH 2000 IS A JUST A NUMBER, OR IS IT?RUSLAN GRIFFITHS, CORMEGA1998 THE FACT THAT SO MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT HUGE SOCIETAL AND SPIRITUAL CHANGES WILL OCCUR IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM DOESN'T MEAN THAT ANY HUGE CHANGES WILL OCCUR. IT DOES MEAN THAT MANY PEOPLE RECOGNIZE THE NEED AND THE POTENTIAL FOR SUCH CHANGES--BE THEY BAD OR GOOD. THE SAD PART IS THAT SO MANY PEOPLE EXPECT THESE CHANGES TO OCCUR ON THEIR OWN. ITS EASIER TO REMAIN PASSIVE WHEN THERES A SCAPEGOAT.JELLO, JELLOKRUNCH@HOTMAIL.COM THE ONLY REASON THE UPCOMING NEW YEAR IS BEING HYPED IS BECAUSE MAN FEELS A NEED TO MARK EVERYTHING BY NUMBERS. MAN CONSIDERS 2000 TO BE A SOMEWHAT SIGNIFICANT NUMBER IN AN OTHERWISE SHORT LIFETIME.THE COMING OF THE YEAR 2000 IS NO DIFFERENT THAN THE COMING OF 1476, 1900, OR 1984. IT ALSO CARRIES THE EXACT SAME CHANCES THAT THOSE YEARS BROUGHT: THE CHANCE FOR PERSONAL CHANGE AND ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE CHANCE TO CHANGE YOUR WORLD. GET OFF YOUR ASS AND DO SOMETHING.DREW GERBIK, DUST814@HOTMAIL.COM I THINK THAT THE YEAR 2000 IS A CLEAN SLANT FOR ALL OF US. ESPECIALLY FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE. THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY FOCUS ON LIFE IS ALL WRONG. LIFE IS NOT ABOUT SEEING HOW MANY MATES YOU CAN HAVE, HOW MUCH MONEY YOU CAN MAKE OFF OF SELLING DRUGS, OR KILLING PEOPLE. LIFE IS TO SHORT AND YOUNG PEOPLE ARE MAKING IT SHORTER. IT IS TIME IN YEAR 2000 FOR ALL OF THIS VIOLENCE TO STOP. IT IS TIME TO GET A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. GOD CREATED ALL OF US AND HE CAN REPLACE ALL OF US. WE NEED TO GET A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND WATCH HOW OUR LIVES CHANGE AND OUR WHOLE DEMEANOR CHANGE. THIS IS MY PRAYER FOR ALL THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE WORLD TODAY. WHEN I SAY YOUNG PEOPLE I AM TALKING ABOUT AGES 12 TO 30 YEARS OF AGE. GET RIGHT PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!DBOMB, DBOMB2@HOTMAIL.COM I THINK THAT THE YEAR (2000) IS JUST A NUMBER AND SO IS OUR AGE SO IF WHEN WE GET ANOTHER YEAR OLDER DO WE CHANGE OUR PERSONALITY TOTALLY TO THE BAD OR GOOD? I KNOW I DONT . SO WHY WOULD THIS NUMBER (2000) CHANGE ANYTHING! A NUMBER IS JUST WHAT WE SAY IT IS WE MADE NUMBERS AND WE USE THEM NUMBERS DONT USE US! THATS PRETTY MUCH ALL I HAVE TO SAY! JUST THINK ABOUT!JOSH, JJA7983@HOTMAIL.COM ON ONE HAND THE YEAR 2000 IS ONLY A YEAR LIKE 2000 AND MORE OTHER YEARS. BUT ON THE OTHER HAND IT IS A SYMBOL, IT IS AND IN ONE YEAR IT WAS A SYMBOL FOR THE FUTURE AND A SYMBOL THAT THE WORLD IS DIFFERENT, THAT THE WORLD WILL CHANGE. AND MABE IF THE PEOPLE SEE THAT THE WORLD HAS NOT CHANGED AT 1.1.00, THAT THEY STILL MUST STAND UP EARLY IN THE MORNING AND DO BORING WORK 8 HOURS OR MORE A DAY JUST THAT THEY CAN EAT, THAT IT IS TIME TO CHANGE THE WORLD BY OURSELF. MAYBE WE SHOULD THINK HOW WE COULD SHOW THAT PEOPLE THAT THE STORY OF A GLORY FUTURE OR THE STORY OF A DISOTIPA IS A LIE TO KEEP US SILENCE, THAT WE COULD CHANGE THE WORLD EASYLIE, WHEN WE TALK AND WORK TOGETHER, AGAINST THOSE GET RICH BECAUSE OF THE STATE OF THE ARTS AND WORK TOGETHER FOR US.HAUKE, H.LOENS@WEBBES.DE TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH, I REALLY DON'T THINK THE YEAR 2000 HAS ANY THING TO DO WITH OPTIMISM. IT DOSN'T COME WITH THE CHANGE OF A NEW YEAR OR WITH THE FEAR OF WHAT OTHER PEOPLE MIGHT SAY WILL HAPPEN AT THE MILLIMUM. YOU CAN ONLY CHANGE WHEN YOU WANT TO . SO BY SAYING THIS, IF WE THINK THAT THE WORLD NEEDS MORE POSITIVE THINKER'S OUT THERE THEN YOU AS A PERSON NEED TO CHANGE FIRST. BUT WITH REALITY SMACKING YOU ON YOUR HEAD EVERYDAY, PEOPLE COME TO REALIZE THAT NOTHING DARMATIC IS REALLY GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE HUMAN POPULATION. WE WERE ALL MADE TO BE ASSHOLES AT TIMES OR COMPLETE ANGELS. THAT'S WHAT MAKES US,US. WHEN YOU MEET A NEW PERSON(LET'S SAY AT A PARTY OR SOMETHING), YOU TEND TO BE DRAWN TO CERTIN TYPES OF PERSONALITY'S. NOW IF EVERYONE CHANGED ONE DAY AND BECME COMPLETE POSITIVE THINKER'S, IT WOULD BE PRETY DAMM BORING. THERE WOULD BE HARDLY ANY DIVERSITY LEFT, SO WHAT WOULD MAKE US WHO WE ARE IF PERSONALITY SESED TO EXIST?NOW MAYBE I AM GETTING OFF THE TOPIC, BUT I AM SICK OF HEARING THAT SOMETHING DRAMATIC IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE HUMAN POPULATION OR THAT EVERYONE WILL WAKE UP THE MORINNG AFTER NEW'S EVE AND HAVE A WHOLE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON LIFE!COME ON WERE HUMAN!NATALIE VANHOOK, NATJOL@EARTHLINK.COM "TRY TO IMAGIN HOW YOU WOULD FEEL IF YOU WOKE UP ONE MORNING TO FIND THE SUN SHINING AND ALL THE STARS AFLAME. YOU WOULD BE FRIGHTENED BECAUSE IT IS OUT OF THE ORDER OF NATURE. ANY UPHEAVEAL IN THE UNIVERSE IS TERRIFYING BECAUSE IT IS SO PROFOUNDLY ATTACKS ONE'S SENSE OF ONE'S OWN REALITY. WELL, THE BLACK MAN HAS FUNCTIONED IN THE WHITE MAN'S WORLD AS A FIXED STAR, AS AN IMMOVABLE PILLAR AND AS HE MOVES OUT OF HIS PLACE, HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE SHAKEN TO THIER FOUNDATIONS." -JAMES BALDWIN GHETTO BRUVAS AND SISTAS MOVE THE HEAVEN AND EARTH IN 2000!!!!SHERISE MARTIN, CARMEL3494@AOL.COM WHAT ITHINK IS IN THE YEAR 2000 THAT THE PEOPLE WILL SEE WHAT HEMP CAN DO FOR PEOPL.I THINK THEY WILL FINDA CURE WITH HEMP FOR ALOT OF MEDICAL PERPOSE.I SEE MORE AND MORE PEOPLE WAEING HEMP CLOTHES, AND ALOT OF OTHER THINGS.MARK , NIGHTPROWLER01@HOTMAIL.COM FIRST OF ALL TO THE PERSON WHO MADE THE COMMENT ABOUT THE PEOPLE WRITING ONLY WANTING A FREE SHIRT, AT LEAST THEY HAD TO STIMULATE THEIR MIND A BIT TO GET IT.AND IF A FREE SHIRT IS ALL IT TAKES TO DO THAT THEN IT'S ALL LOVE. FAR AS THE YEAR 2000 I THINK IT WILL BE THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT. WHICH WILL BE A GOOD THING. HOPEFULLY THIS WORLD WILL END AND THERE WILL BE ETERNAL PEACE FOR EVERYONE WITH GOD(WHATEVER YOU CALL HIM/HER). PPEOPLE SAY THEY ARE AFRAID OF OTHER HUMANS, TECHNOLOGY, OR NATURAL DESASTORS,WHEN YOU SHOULD BE AFRAID OF THE GOOD LORD. WE SHOULD THINK POSITIVE, STAY POSITIVE AND IN FAITH WITH THE LORD. MUCH LOVE... PEACE!FOLAMI A SMITH, SWEET_PEA29@HOTMAIL.COM POSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM FOR THE YEAR 2000. IN MY OWN PERSONAL BELIEFS IN THE YEAR 2000, PEOPLE WILL MAKE THE UNDERSTANDING CHANGE TO DO FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF MANKIND. MOST PEOPLE NOW ARE TIRED OF ALL THE NEGATIVITY IN THE WORLD. SO IN THIS SENSE PEOPLE WILL STOP AND THINK ABOUT WHATS WRONG WITH THINGS AND MAKE THE CHANGE. ONCE THEY REALIZE THAT UNITY AMONGST COMMON MAN IS ESSENTIAL IN HUMAN EXISTENCE, PEOPLE WILL BEHAVE WITH COMMON SENSE. YET, THE BIGGEST COMPLICATIONS FACED BY THIS NEW UPRISING OF HIGHER UNDERSTANDING IS GREED AND CORRUPTION. THE EVILS SPREAD BY THE TWO FORMENTIONED NEGATIVITIES, ARE SOCIETY KILLING AND UNITY DEFYING. SO THROUGH THE BASIC CIVILATION METHODS OF MUSIC ART AND PROPER EDUCATION, THE FUTURE OF HUMANS LAY IN GOOD HANDS BY THE PROPER PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THE CAUSE. HEY I DO MY PART, WHY DON'T YOU TOO? PEACE TO THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE POINT OF MY MESSSAGE. DRELSTAR QUEENS, NYC 1999.PETER SOBIESKI, DRELSTAR_77@YAHOO.COM THE WORD IS RE-EVOLUTION. SOCIETY WILL CONTINUE THE PROCESS OF EVOLVING NOT ONLY THOUGHT, BUT THE SPIRIT AS WELL. OPTIMISM AND POSITIVITY? THEY'LL BE IN THERE, BUT NOT AT THE FOREFRONT. THE HUMAN MONKEY FEELS A LEVEL OF FEAR AND ANXIETY AS WE CROSS THE THRESHOLD OF THE MILLENIUM. ASTROLOGICALLY WE'RE PASSING FROM THE PISCEAN ERA INTO THE AQUARIAN ERA. WE'VE BEEN IN TRANSITION SINCE 1950 AND WON'T BE FULLY AQUARIAN UNTIL 2050. IN THE MEANTIME THERE'S A LOT OF SHIT SHAKING AS WE CAST OFF THE OLD AND OPEN THE WOUNDS FOR THE TRANSFUSION OF THE NEW. THE PAST TWO THOUSAND YEARS HAVE BEEN AN ERA OF BLIND BELIEF AND THE FUTURE IS ONE OF A RENEWED SENSE OF HARMONY AND QUESTIONING. OUR RELATIONSHIP TO GOD AND HIS PROPHETS ARE CHANGING, THE WAY WE VIEW OURSELVES AND INTEGRATE THE "HISTORY" WE'VE INHERITED IS IN FLUX AND THIS MAKES US INSECURE. THIS INSECURITY WILL CREATE A LEVEL OF FEAR BUT A RENEWED SENSE OF VIGOR AND ENERGY, A SENSE THAT DESTINY IS HERE TO HELP US ECLIPSE HISTORY AND COMPLETE WHAT THE GHETTO-PROPHETS HAVE BEEN EVOLVING TOWARDS ALL ALONG: THE "REAL" -- THE "TRUTH" -- UNITY AND PEACE. LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF THE WISE. WORDS ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU THINK.CHRISTOPHER MUNIZ, CMUNIZ@ISD.USC.EDU NOW THAT THE NEW MELLINEUM IS NEARING, OUR LEADERS ARE GETTING YOUNGER NOT OLDER. IT WILL BE A TRUE TEST OF TIME. THE TRAINING ENFORCED BY OUR ELDERS WILL BE FORTHCOMING IN THE DECISIONS MADE BY CONGRESS AND THE VOTING MAJORITY. ISSUES OF WAR, PEACE, ECOMONMICS, TRAVEL, FADE, PROTALITARIAMISM AND SOCIALISM THEORIES AND PRACTICES, WILL BE ADDRESSED EITHER IN SUBTLE AND COERSIVE INCOGNITO MEANS OR BY OUTWARD PRACTICES OF REPUTE. IT WOULD DO OUR ANCESTORS PROUD TO PASS ON A GENERATION OF COLLECTIVE EFFECTIVENESS AND MATURE STRATEGIES THAT BENIFIT THIS COUNTRY FIRST AS WELL AS OTHERS. ONE GREAT BIG HURRAH!! FOR THE UNITED STATES.FRANCIS, FRANCIS3@BELLATLANTIC.NET I THINK THAT THE OPTIMISM OF 2000 MUST FOCUS ON THE FACT THAT WE ARE GIVEN A NEW MILLENIUM TO CREATE AND LEARN FROM THE MISTAKES OF OUR PARENTS. THIS MEANS CLEANING THE ENVIRONMENT AND TAKING CARE OF THE WORLD AROUND US, BUT ALSO THE STRESSES THAT INVADE OUR LIVES. THE FOCUS OF THE 1900'S WAS TO MAKE MONEY, MAYBE THE YEAR 2000 WILL BE A TIME TO MAKE PEACE AND LIVE IN A COMFORTABLE SOCIETY WHERE INDIVIDUALISM IS NOT LOOKED DOWN UPON AND THE RUSHING AND UNHEALTHY ANXIETY OF THE CURRANT GENERATION WILL BE LET GO. A TIME TO THINK ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS- NOT JUST LOVE AND MARRIAGE, BUT YOUR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP TO THE WORLD, TREES AND ALL. INSTEAD OF IMPROVING TRANSPORTATION, FOCUS ON COMMUNICATION. NOT MEDIA, BUT CONVERSE WITH THOSE AROUD YOU AND YOURSELF AND LEARN. BE AN INDIVIDUAL, BUT BE IN HARMONY TO LIFE.NICOLE I BERNSTEIN, NIB_13@HOTMAIL.COM YO FIRST OFF I WANNA SAY THE SHIRTZ YALL HAVE ARE TIGHT. THEY SEND OUT A GOOD MESSAGE TO, THAT YEAH WE ARE GROWIN UP IN BAD SOCITEY BUT WE WILL OVER COME IT. I HAVE A POSATIVE LOOK ON THE FUTURE. I BELIEVE AND HOPE THAT RACISM AND ALL THE OTHER STUFF, WILL DECLINE BUT IT IS UP TO US, TO MAKE A CHANGE. IF YOU LOOK AROUND NOW THE CHANGE HAS ALREADY BEGAIN AND WILL CONTINUE. WELL I COULD GO ON FOREVER ON THIS SUBJECT, BUT I'LL STOP NOW. LATER.CHRIS FELDMAN, MRBIG1457@AOL.COM WHAT DO I THINK? I THINK THIS WHOLE LIST IS FULL OF PEOPLE RUNNING THEIR MOUTHS JUST TRYING TO GET THE FREE CLOTHES ..... THATS WHAT I THINK --------- ITS JUST AN OPINIONJOHNNY NIPPER, JOHNNYBEERGOGGLES@BEER.COM ALL POWER TO THE PPL,MAN YEAH THERE IS SOMBODY HAS WROTEN "THE DOG IS GONA TAKE VER THA WORLD " SHIET MAN WE GOTTA FIGHT BACK U KNOW WHATTA I M SAYING. HASTALA VICTORIA SIEMPRE, NO PASARAAN!!!!!!PEACE!.....FUCK THAT WAR!!!!KAYDEE, NON JUST A LONLY SURFER IT SEEMS WE ARE ON SEVERAL DIFFERENT COURSES. TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IS ACCELERATING, WE HAVE REALIZED THE POSSIBILITY FOR GOING FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT, IF I KNOW MY PHYSICS THEN THIS SHOULD SIGNIFY A TIME PORTAL OF SORTS. A WRINKLE IN TIME. IS THERE A LINK TO DE JA VU. MAYBE WE ARE APPROACHING THE REALIZATIONS OF THE PHYSICAL WITH THE PSYCHE. TRAVELING WITHOUT MOVING, AS MORE THAN A SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING, BUT ALSO AS PHYSICAL REALITY. CLONES, WE CAN ALREADY DO IT, AND PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE. CYBERNETICS: GLORIFIED PLASTIC SURGERY, I THINK I WOULD ENJOY A FEW CYBER PARTS, MAYBE. PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY IS A SKIP AWAY. I AM LOOKING TO THE FUTURE(PAST?)/NOW AS AN EXPLORER.CALAMATA, CALAMATA@EARTHLINK.NET Y2K ISN'T A JOKE TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY...MANY CORPORATIONS AND SMALLER UTILITY COMPANIES HAVE NOT TAKEN THE NECESSARY STEPS TO RECONSTRUCT THE SYSTEMS FOR THE IMPENDING CRASH. SHIT IS REAL AND YOU MUST TAKE A MINUTE TO REALIZE EXACTLY WHAT THAT MEANS...NO ELECTRICITY, NO WATER, NO MONEY MACHINES, NOTHING. ADD THE FACT THAT THERE ARE EXTREMEIST GROUPS THROUGHOUT THIS COUNTRY WOULD SEE THE MILLENIUM AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS HOWEVER THEY DEEM NECESSARY...WHICH COULD MEAN VIOLENCE. IF THE COUNTRY BEGINS TO ENTER EVEN THE MILDEST STATE OF CHAOS DURING THE NEXT TWO YEARS (COUPLED WITH THE ONGOING NATURAL DISATERS), THE FEDS HAVE AN OPEN EXCUSE TO EMPLOY FEMA AND SUSPEND THE CONSTITUTION. THIS MAY SOUND LIKE A PLOT OF A MOVIE OR THE X- FILES...BUT REMEMBER ALL FICTION IS BASED ON FACT. THIS DOESN'T MEAN EVERYONE SHOULD RUN AROUND IN HYSTERIA, BUT JUST BE PREPARED FOR WHATEVER MAY HAPPEN.J, KULCHA202@AOL.COM I FORSEE CONTINUED RACIAL TENSION IN THE ISLANDS OF HAWAII, AS THE FIGHT FOR SOVEIRGNTY OF HAWAII GETS CLOSER TO ISN'T UNDENIABLE CONCLUSION. HAWAII RECEEDING FROM THE USA, AND ONCE AGAIN BECOMING ITS OWN NATION. IF THIS CONCLUSION DOESN'T HAPPEN BY 2000, THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUPS FOR SOVEIRGNTY WILL RISE AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OF HAWAII AND ATTEMPT TO TAKE OVER LEGISLATION OF THE ISLANDS.SOLJAH, SOL@ALOHA.NET CHECK THIS OUT! A LOT OF PEOLPE HAVE ALREADY STARTED TO LOOK TOWARD THE POSITIVE, AND HAVE SARTED TO IGNORE THE NEGATIVE. WHEN I SAY A LOT OF "PEOPLE" I MEAN EVERYDAY PEOPLE, RAPPERS, HIPHOPPERS, ETC. MORE AND MORE ARE LOOKING FORA WAY OF EXPRESSING THEMSELVES IN THE POSITIVE LIGHT. SO IF PEOPLE ARE WORKING ON POSITIVITY NOW WHAT IS STOPPING THEM FROM CONTINUING IN THE YEARS TO COME. PEOPLE ARE INFLUENCED BY WHAT GOES ON AROUND THEM. IF ONE PERSON LOOKS TOWARD THE LIGHT THEN ANOTHER MIGHT. I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT A SPIRITUAL THING HERE; JUST A CHANGE OF MIND FRAME. THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE "BAD" PEOPLE THAT WILL TRY TO BRING YOU DOWN, BUT THE WILL TO BE BETTER THAN THEM IS WHAT DRIVES PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND I. HAVE TO GO HELP MY MOM AT THE GRCERY STORE NOW , BUT I'LL BE BACK LATER TO SAY A LITTLE MORE. SO BE WATCHIN'! PEACE OUT>KNIGHT, KNIGHT@AOL *DOGS ARE GOING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD*DOPE, SWEET_CHEEBA@HOTMAIL.COM WHILE POSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM ARE TWO FACTORS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT AMD WILL, WE MUST AS SOCIETY STRIVE FOR SOMETHING GREATER AND MUCH MUCH MORE POWERFUL. SO WHAT IS THAT ALL COMSUMING POWER THAT WE NEED, IT IS THAT OF SELF-FULFILLMENT. NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK OR DO OR WANT OR TAKE ABOUT THE FUTURE STEMS FROM THE FACT THAT YOU WANT TO FULFILL SOME DESIRE, THAT IS LATENT AND HIDES INSIDE OF US FROM OUR BIRTH. TO DESIRE SOMETHING IS NOT WRONG IT ONLY MEANS THAT WE ARE HUMAN. TO WANT AND TO TAKE SOMETHING IN ANY FORM IS CAPABLE ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS REALIZE OUR TRUE POTENTIAL AND RISE ABOVE OUR SURROUNDINGS OF OPPRESSION AND DECADENCE. THIS IDEA OF SELF-FULFILLMENT IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY IDEA OF POSITIVITY AND OR OPTIMISM. AS WELL IT CAN BE PROJECTED ONTO THE WORLD AS AN TEMPLATE TO MODEL OUR LIVES AFTER FOR THE COMING CENTURY. IF WE ALL DESIRE TO SELF-FULFILL OUR LIVES THAN PRACTICALLY EVERYONES DESIRE WILL HAPPEN BECAUSE THAT WILL BE THE KIND OF SOCIETY THAT WE HAVE REBUILT FOR OURSELVES IN THE NEXT CENTURY.IAN STARK, INSTARK@MAIL.PITTSTATE.EDU HERE IS THE SOLUTION EVERYBODY. A COMET NEEDS TO RAIN DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS AND WIPE THIS MISERABLE INSIGNIFICANT HUMAN INFESTATION FROM THE ROCK WE CALL EARTH AND THEN THIS PLANET WILL BE A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE. REALIZE HOW SMALL WE ARE YOU ARROGANT BASTARDS.GEORGE SMITH, GEORGE SMITH@HOTMAIL.COM IN 1992, 1700 OF THE WORLDS LEADING SCIENTISTS IN ALL FIELDS OF RESEARCH ASSEMBLED IN RIO DE JANERIO. DURING THIS CONFERENCE, THE SCIENTISTS DRAFTED A LETTER TO THE HUMAN RACE. IN THIS LETTER THEY STATED THAT AT THE PRESENT RATE OF GROWTH AND CHANGE, THE EARTH CAN ONLY SUSTAIN LIFE FOR ANOTHER 50 YEARS. 6 YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THEN, AND I DON'T SEE ANYTHING IMPROVING. MAYBE I JUST HAVE A BAD ATTITUDE. BUT MAYBE I'D LIKE TO SEE MORE THAN 44 YEARS.GRAHAM SCALA, SKAJAZZX@AOL.COM I HAVE AIDS IN A DAY OF RAGE. MY LIFE IS SHORT AND PEOPLE SAY WAIT. I CAN'T GET HELP UNLESS I PLAY BUT I'M TOO TIRED EVEN TO SAY HEY. WHAT HAS LIFE BECOME WHEN YOU CAN'T OVERCOME PEOPLES ATTITUDES AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS. WHY DIDN'T MY PARENTS CREATE A BETTER WAY. WHY AM I SUFFERING FOR PREGENERATIONS MISTAKES. AND WHY CAN'T WE CREATE A BETTER WAY. WERE STUCK IN A HOLE SO DEEP WE CAN'T EVEN SEE THE LIGHT AND WITHOUT TOOLS TO EVEN GET OUT. I REALIZE THIS DAY THAT I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE DYING.MARTIN L. SPURGEON, MSPURG8888@YAHOO.COM I THINK THAT LITERALY ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOSE. ALL THE FREEDOM AND WORK THAT WE HAVE WORKED SO HARD FOR WONT AMOUNT TO ANYTHING. THE POSSIBLE WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE TO REACH. THE WORLD WILL DIE OFF BECAUSE WE WASTE ALL OUR PRECIOUS NATURAL RESOURCES FOR JUNK. WELL NEVER BE THE SAME. THE NEW ERA WILL TOTALY SCREW UP OUR COMPUTERS AND NOTHING WILL COMPUTE. NUCLEAR WAR WILL BREAK OUT DUE TO THE CRISSIS IN IRAQ AND MIDDLE EAST. OUR GOVERNMENT WILL FAIL LIKE ITS BEGING TO NOW.SHEENA, KMULLIHAN WHAT DO I THINK YOU ASK.... I DONT NO ABOUT THE YEAR 2 THOUSAND, WHAT I NO THAT ... I NO THAT EVERYTHING IS RIGHT NOW, AND BY SAYING EVERYTHING I MEAN EVYEYTHING. I LOOK AROUND ME, I AM TYPEING ON A PLASTIC AND METAL AND GLASS COMPUTER PERCHED ON A DESK MADE FROM CUT DOWN TREES, AND TOXIC PAINT. I SIT IN A BUILDING MADE OF WOOD AND BRICKS THAT WERE TAKEN FROM THE EARTH ON A STREET MADE OF POISONOUS ASPHALT THAT WAS LAID OVER AN ECOYSYSTEM THAT HAS THRIVED FOR HUNDRED AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS. TO MAKE SURE THA EATING 3 CANS OF OVEN CLEANER WILL MAKE YOUR SICK, OR TO MAKE SURE THAT POURING NAIL POLISH REMOVER IN YOUR EYES WILL HURT YOU, WE TORTURE MICE, RABITS DOGS EXC. WE CUT DOWN THE RAINFOREST TO DRILL OIL FOR OIL SO WE CAN DRIVE TO THE VIDEO STORE. PEOPLE STRUGGLE ALL THERE LIVES DOING WORK THAT THEY HATE JUST TO BE A FUNCTIONING MEMBER OF A SYSTEM THAT IS WASTEFULL, DESTRUCTIVE AND UNHEALTHY.DO YALL SEE WHAT I MEAN EVERYTHING IS REALLY WRONG, AND NO WHATS EVEN MORE BUGED OUT, YALL NO, YALL SO NO, BUT DO YOU REALLY CARE IS THE QUESTION, PEOPLE WAKE UP OPEN YOUR EYES, IT IS CLEAR THAT FOR THERE TO BE A SENSIBLE PRAGMATIC AND NODESTRUCTIVE APPROCH TO EXISTENCE, THERE IS GOING TO HAVE TO BE A REVOLUTION, BROTHERS AND SISTERS WE MUST UNITE, I AM CRYING, I CANT DO THIS ALONE, BROTHERS, SISTERS, I NEED YOU, I NEED YOUR HELP, WE CAN DO THIS TOGEATHER, I NEED YOU WE NEED YOU!!! AND TILL THAT DAY COMES AND WE UNITE, THEN I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I THINK ABOUT THE YEAR 2,000CHERYL, FLY2ZION@AOL.COM HI... QUI SóC?... D'ON VINC?... POTSER HI HA ALGú QUE HO SAP MILLOR QUE JO?... LA RESPOSTA éS: NO. TAMPOC Sé PERQUE ESCRIC AQUí, TAMPOC, PERQUE ESCRIC AIXò, BFFF... éS IGUAL SIMPLEMENT TENIA GANES D'ESCRIURE, éS IGUAL óN, éS IGUAL A QUí. DIC EL QUE EM BULL EN EL CERVELL. NO?... BY.JOAN CLOSA, IMAGEN@PYMES.COM "MR. HANKY THE CHRISTMAS POO, HE LOVES ME AND I LOVE YOU..."MR. HANKY, MR.HANKY@RAVEWORLD.COM SOCIAL IRRESPONSIBLITY BECOMES CORPORATE STRATEGY. GOVERNMENT SANCTIONED ACTS OF BIO-TERRORISM AGAINST THE PEOPLE. ETHNIC ERADICATION THROUGH GENETIC ENGINEERING. ONE DOLLAR, ONE VOTE. STARVATION FOR THE MASSES. NARCOTIC PROLIFERATION ACROSS THE NATION. CYBERPHRENIA ABOUNDS AND THE END NEARS. BUT THE DEAD WILL DANCE AGAIN!AIRRAIDER_X, AIRRADIER_X@USA.NET AFTER SPENDING FAR TOO MUCH TIME READING THE MANY REPLIES THAT THIS TOPIC HAS GENERATED, I HAVE TO THINK THAT THIS ONE IS THE MOST FITTING AND TOO THE POINT: UNFORTUNATELY, THE MILLENIUM WILL BE JUST ANOTHER YEAR FOR MOST OF US. ONE BIG PARTY, FOLLOWED BY FALLING BACK INTO OUR OLD WAYS. BUT LET'S BE A LITTLE POSITIVE AND HOPE THAT, FOR SOME OF US, IT WILL BE A MOMENT TO RECONSIDER OURSELVES, TO OPEN OUR EYES TO WHAT IS AROUND US, TO ACCEPT OUR HUMANITY AND TO TRY A LITTLE HARDER TO MAKE OUR WORLD A NICER PLACE TO LIVE! SPIKE, SPIKE@MANACLED.DEMON.CO.UK PARIS, FRANCE FEB 18 KUDOS SPIKE FOR STATING THE FACTS IN YOUR OPINOPN AND NOT BREAKING OUT A THESAURUS TO TRY AND WIN A STINKING T-SHIRT.BOYD DREW, BOYD.DREW@TERADYNE.COM PERSONALLY...I THINK THE WORLD IS DOOMED. THAT'S NOT VERY OPTIMISTIC, BUT WHEN I LOOK AT PEOPLE AS A WHOLE...HEADZ DONT CRAVE KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING (KNOWING U DONT HAVE TO DO THE MATH TO OBTAIN THOSE DEGREES). IN FACT WUT I DO SEE IS A CRAVING FOR DESTRUCTION, VIOLENCE AND ALL OUT GREED. WHEN I THINK OF ARMAGEDDON IT SEEMS THE MAN WILL BE MAN'S DOWN FALL THERE'S NOTHING UNORDINARY BOUT THAT. BUT....AND IT IS A BIG BUT..PEOPLE CAN MAKE THE CHANGE "IF THEY WANT IT". THERE'S GOING BE A TIME WHEN PEOPLE ARE GOING TO "HAVE TO" UNITE OR PERISH UNDER THE IRON FIST OF THE GOVERNMENT! PEACE, LOVE AND HIP HOPCONTRAST, EJ44295@GOODNET.COM I THINK WE CAN NO WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE IN ASPECS LIKE, IS THE WORLD GOING TO END? WE MUST WORRY IN ASPECTS LIKE SAVE WATER, CLEAN THE OCEAN, RECYCLE GARBAGE TO HAVE A BETTER WORLD IN THE FUTURE, AND IN OTHER THINGS LIKE POLITICS IF WE WANT CHANGE THE WORLD WE MUST CHOOSE PRESIDENTS THAT WORRY ABOUT OUR NECESSITIES, AND IF THIS PRESIDENTS DON'T DO THAT WE MUST DO A REVOLUTION, SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH (I'M MEXICAN)ADRIAN V. M., VNGAS@ROCKETMAIL.COM WHAT DO YOU THINK? DO YOU THINK ....... WHAT DO I THINK? ....... AS IN DEFINE? >>>> PERHAPS NEON AND INEXPLICABLE THINGZ. >>>>>> WHAT DO I THINK ABOUT "REVOLUTION"-REVOLVING; ROTATION; THE MEANS OF BRINGING ABOUT CHANGE ????????????????????????????? CHANGE AS IN A DIFFERENCE....IN......EVERYTHING? I AM NOT SURE HOW TO EXPLAIN OR START CHECK THIS >>>>>>> IS THE YEAR 2000 MAKING THE MASSES TENSE..[ GETTING THIER PANTIES IN A WAD ] PERHAPS !!!! OOOHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOO ..........! YEAH ANYWAY [I SOUND LIKE A COMMERCIAL] DO YOU LIKE BOOKZ; REVELATIONZ>THE LAST CHAPTER OF THE BIBLE> PREACHES ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD. IT IZ FUNNY.....I..[IN SOME WAYS] RESPECT THE BIBLE IT HAS MANY QUALITIES THAT ARE RESPECTABLE IN A BOOK LIKE A PLOT, ....... AND IS A BRAIN TEASER. BUT YOU SEE LIKE MANY PRECEDING RELIGIONS, ITZ IDEAS CAME FROM OTHER BASIC THOUGHTS LIKE BUDDHA-ISM AND SO FORTH ....... THE BIBLE DID ITZ HOMEWORK YA KNOW ....... AND TO TOP IT OFF <SCANDALISTS> IT CAME W/ THE ALMIGHTY ---- OHHHHHH .... BECAUSE; FAITH! BUT WHAT I DO PROTEST !!!! THE FACT THAT THEY CREATED THIS: A PLACE OF NO IMPURITIES SO TO SPEAK ... I MEAN A PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO FLAWS OR PAIN -- ALL MOST INFINITE LOVE KIDZ !!!!!!!! THAT THOUGHTZ ALMOST ENUF FOR ME TO BUST A NUT AND DIE .... [BUT NO SIN ???? HMMMM ..... ITS CALLED HUMAN NATURE LAST TIME I CHECKED THE BIBLE] <AND IN CASE;YOU DON'T JUMP ON> THEY CREATED HELL: ..... THE PLACE OF ALL SIN ... WHICH YOU WOULD BROIL LIKE A FUCKING TURKEY!!!!OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY !!!!!!!!! 7 DAYS A WEEK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR ....... INFINITY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ["HELL" OF AN INSURANCE PLAN .... AND THAT IS THE THING THATZ NOT FUNNY ?!!!!!!] [ENUF TO SCARE SOME INTO SUBMISSION] HELL OF A MIND GAME ...... HELL OF A BOOK ....... [TOO MANY LOOP-HOLES] [IN ORDER TO BELIEVE IN GOD: WHO'S GOD'S GOD .... AND WHO CREATED GOD'S GOD'S GOD'S YA KNOW ....] [DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME GOD CREATED HIMSELF? OR HE BIG BANGED HIMSELF? [WHAT A SIGHT...HA] THEY HAVE A RIDDLE; WHAT CAME FIRST: THE CHICKEN, OR THE EGG ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? HOW ABOUT THIS: (WU-TANG) HEAVEN IZ WHAT YOU MAKE IT *****PROPS****** AND HELL IZ WHAT YOU GO THROUGH. I GIVE PROPS TO THOSE WITH GOOD VIBES I JUS BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE CAN GET WORKED UP INTO SCANDLES AND CONSPIRACYS. FORSAKEN FUTURES YO THAT WE [!!!!] HOLD IN OUR HANDS .... AND IF THE MASSES IDIO-T-SYNCRASY ....... CREATE THIS REVELATION [WHICH IS SOME WHAT POSSIBLE] THEN WE HAVE ..... NO DEVIL TO BLAME BUT OUR-SELVES.PERIOD. KNOWLEGDE IS NOT WISDOM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> NO ONE TOLD ME ALL OF THIS. I SPENT >>>>>> YEARS ON SOME OF THESE IDEAS AND MORALS. I AM A VIRGO-AND I WAS TOLD THAT MY NATURE IS TO THINK. <TOO MUCH SOMETIMES> TIME IS A PERCEPTION >> A CLOCK IS A MEASURER OF TIME >>> EX. WE BASE TIME ON THE ROTATIONZ ON OUR AXIS AND AROUND THE SUN. WE SEE THINGZ IN DIFFERENT SPECTRUMS-WAYS- AND POINT OF VIEWS. I LIKE TO THINK THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE. SAY ... WE ALL EMIT SEVERAL TYPES OF ENERGIEZ YO VIBES, MAGNETICS, HEAT, IONZ <IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE>> IMAGINE NOT CREATING BUT TRANSFERRING ENERGIES !!!!!!!! ITZ ALL HOW YOU LOOK AT THINGZ KIDZ YA KNOW ........ INFINITE POSITIVES MUST HAVE INFINITE NEGATIVES YOU WILL NEVER BE ALONE KIDZ .... NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY. PEACE TO THOSE W POSITIVE VIBES AND POSITIVE GODZ [AND SOMEDAY THE MASSES WILL UNDERSTAND THAT AND PERHAPZ REALIZE.] REVOLUTIONZ=YOU ARE DOING A GOOD THING KIDZ CAUSE<=>EFFECT TO THE END AND AGAIN. PROPS TO: KARMA KINGZ INFINITE FLEXS HIGH LIFE KREW TO ALL THAT THINK + PEACE KIDZ: I GOT LOVE FOR ALL I HAVE REALIZED. SYMBOLIC TO A PERIOD.CAUSE = EFFECT, CAUZE@AOL.COM HOPEFULLY.....OUR HUMANITY WILL SURPASS OUR TECHNOLOGY.. AND THE ONLY SOCIAL PROBLEM LEFT WOULD BE "HUNGER" ... HUNGER FOR KNOWLEDGE .. UNITY ... AND COLLECTIVE PROGRESS ..!!!!ANUJ, RIZZER@HOTMAIL.COM THIS IS HARD CALL WE'VE ALL HEARD SO MANY THINGS ABOUT NEW WORLD ORDERS AND THE CHANGING OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT, BUT THERE'S ONE THING PEOPLE HAVE A HARD TIME DEALING WITH IN THIS WORLD AND THATS REALITY! THE REALITY IS OUR GOVERNMENT IS BREAKING THE BACKS OF IT'S CITIZENS AND CORRUPTING THE MINDS OF OUR YOUNG! HOW CAN WE CHANGE THIS IN THE NEW MILLENIUM? THE ANSWER IS REVOLUTION! REVOLUTION OF THOUGHT!!!! REVOLUTION OF THE MIND! NOT GIVING IN TO MENTAL ILLS THAT HAVE US LUSTING FOR THINGS WE CAN'T AFFORD ECONOMICALLY AND SOCIALLY! I'M NOT SAYING DON'T STACK PAPER CAUSE I KNOW NECESSITIES COST! BUT LET'S SET GOALS IN DOING SO! LET'S GET OUT OF THAT I GOT TO HAVE IT, WHATEVER IT MAY BE, AT ANY COST STATE OF MIND! THAT HAS FUCKED UP A NATION IN PURSUIT OF MATERIAL RICHES! I'M NOT SAYING DON'T PARTY IN BULLSHIT CAUSE I'M THE FIRST ONE AT THE CLUB, BUT LETS PRIORITIZE AND UTILIZE THE TIME WE'ERE GIVEN FOR POSITIVE. LET'S TAKE OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX SLOW! LET'S RESPECT OUR BODY'S AND SEXUAL UNIONS! SO THE CHILDREN THAT RESULT WILL RECEIVE THAT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE! I GUESS WHAT I TYING TO SAY IS THAT THE FUTURE DEPENDS ON YOU AND WHAT YOU DECIDE TO DO. I JUST HOPE TO GOD WE ALL KEEP OUR FUTURES IN OUR OWN HANDS, AND NOT LET IT BE DECIDED BY THE NEXT MAN! THESE WORLDLY RICHES ALL HAVE A PLACE! DON'T MAKE THEM MORE THAN THEY ARE! REMEMBER AFTER WE'RE GONE WE LEAVE THEM HERE! MATERIAL RICHES FADE AND GET OLD! MENTAL RICHES SPROUT WISDOM, AND KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO MAINTIAN IN THIS DIRTY GAME!! I KNOW WHAT I SAY FOR MANY MAY BE HARD TO SEE! AND THIS IS KNOWN BY THE POWERS THAT BE!! REMEMBER ALL CHOICES HAVE PRICES! IF OUR ACTS AS A PEOPLE CONTINUE AND SELF IS NOT FOUND THE CURRENT PROBLEMS MAY GROW EVEN MORE PROFOUND!! STRENGTHEN THE MIND AND YOUR SOUL WILL FOLLOW!LARRY JORDAN, PAYSTYLE@HOTMAIL.COM PEOPLE! STOP FRETTING. THE YEAR 2000 WILL COME AND GO JUST AS THE YEAR 1900 DID. WHY DO WE THINK OF THIS AS THE "MODERN AGE?" MOST LIKELY THERE WILL BE MANY MORE MODERN AGES TO COME. WE SCURRY AROUND LIKE FRANTIC ANTS; TERRIFIED OF OUR STORIES OF REVELATIONS AND SUCH. IF THE WORLD ENDS, SO WHAT? IF YOU BELIEVE IN HEAVEN AND HELL, THEN I CAN UNDERSTAND YOUR CONCERN. BUT MY PERSONAL OPINION IS THAT YOUR LIFE ON THIS HURTLING BALL OF CONGLOMERATE ROCKS (EARTH) IS OUR HEAVEN, OR CAN BE OUR HELL. IT'S OUR CHOICE. SO WHY NOT MAKE IT YOUR HEAVEN? PEACE LOVE UNITY RESPECT...MINX.MINX, ACIDTEST@DAZEDANDCONFUSED.COM I, HAVING HEARD AND USED THE SAYING "IT CAN ONLY GET BETTER" WOULD WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO THINK AND YET WITH ALL THE NEGATIVITY SURROUNDING EVERYDAY LIFE I FIND MY IMAGINATION SOMETIMES LEAVES ME WONDERING WHAT IS THE FUTURE GOING TO BE FILLED WITH. HAVING BEEN A PART OF THE WOODSTOCK GENERATION LEAVES STUMPED AT WHY THERE ARE EVEN FEWER "GUIDES" FOR ALL WHO WALK AROUND WITH SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS. MONEY RULES IS THE PREVALANT ATTITUDE, A TRUTH YES, BUT DOES NOT BRING PEACE OF MIND. JUST AS IT WAS WITH MY GENERATION SO ARE THE SAME NEEDS AND I FIND THAT PEOPLE TO LOOK WITHIN FOR PEACE AND NOT WITHOUT THEMSELVES. I REALLY BELIEVE ONE OF THE GENERATIONS MIGHT JUST GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEEK A HIGHER PLAN IN A BROADER SENSE AND IN THE MASSES AS OPPOSED TO SMALL CONCENTRATED GROUPS. I AM VERY POSITIVE ABOUT LIFE AND ALL THAT EXISTS FULLY AWARE THAT IS NOT THE WAY OF THE EXISTING WORLD AND A PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT. I SPENT MY LIFE IN SEARCH OF TRUTHS AND BECAME ONE WITH MYSELF, FULLY, THIS PAST YEAR AFTER ONLY 38 YEARS OF SEARCHING. EVEN THOUGH I KNOW THIS WILL SOUND CRAZY I HAVE BEEN RAISED TO A LEVEL FAR BEYOND WHAT THE MIND CAN COMPREHEND AS BEING SPIRITUAL AND PEACEFUL. I OFFER THESE TEACHINGS FREELY TO WHOMEVER CROSSES MY PATH. IT IS MY JOB. PLEASE ALL WHO READ THIS IF YOU LISTEN TO THE INNER VOICE, THE QUIET ONE, YOUR STEPS WILL GUIDE YOU PERFECTLY AND THE VOICE THAT PUSHES AND IS FORCEFULLY CRAVING WILL MAKE THE SAME PATH LONGER.ROBERT M KEMPNER, VISIONS@VOICENET.COM DRIFTIN 45 FEET ABOVE THE EARTH I ASK MYSELF 'CAN I STOP?' IS THERE MEANING? DO I KNOW TOMORROW WHEN I'M LOST IN TODAY? COATED IN A COCOON OF INVENTIONS AND QUESTIONS OF ELECTRONIC COMMODITIES. ODDITIES. AND LACTOSE INTOLERANT ECONOMIES. I'M TO YOUNG TO DIE AND TOO OLD TO WANT TO. I'VE BEEN THROUGH IT ALL. YET I'M TOLD I'VE GOT TO LEARN NEW AND IMPORTANT NOTHINGS SO I'M LOOKED UP AT BY NEUOTIC LOOSE LIPPED QUICK TO PICK SHITS WHO SUPPOSEDLY WIELD THE POWER BETTER KNOWN AS MONEY AND A COMFORTABLE LIVING.WELCOME TO THE FALL! ALL OUR THOUGHTS ARE WASTED! IN A WORLD LEFT TO ROT AND A PARADISE LOST. SECURITY AND WEALTH A COMMON DISORDER. WE'RE STILL MOVING FOWARD INTO THE FUTURE. OUR COUNTRY IS ON THE BRINK OF DISCOVERING WHERE WE'VE COME FROM. SHOOTING OUT SPACE TOASTERS WITH SIGNALS LETTING US KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOING TOMORROW WHEN WE'RE STILL LOST IN TODY. HAVE I LOST IT YOU ASK. HAVE I FLIPPED OFF THE HANDLE? NO, I'M JUST ME WITH A VIEW OF MY LIFE WARPED WITH THE TOXIC SLUDGE OF EVERYDAY MORALITY. WITH HEAD IN HANDS POUTING THE QUALITY OF LIFE HAS LESSENED WHILE MY CAR GOES 80-100 IN A PAVED DRIVEWAY THAT'S FILLED TO THE BRINK WITH CHAOTIC GOALS FORMULATED BY A MASS HYSTERIA OF UNDERGROUND FUEL PUMPED FROM A FRANTIC GOD LEFT TO GINGE ON MY EVERYDAY WISHES. CAUSE THEY'RE MAGICALLY MALICIOUS. DELETED FROM SOCIETY BY MY OWN RECKONING FORCE. AND I SIT WITH A GRIN AND BELIEVE NO ONE. CAUSE FOR TODAY. I AM THE KING OF ALL THAT MATTERS.DANIEL WATT, MRFUZZY@MICRON.NET I MISSED A COUPLE OF DISCUSSIONS SO I WOULD LIKE TO READ THE FIRST PART AND THEN VOICE MY VIEWS.NORMAJEANS_CHILD, BHAWKINS@ISD.USC.EDU WE WILL HAVE HAD ONE MORE CENTURY OF CAPITALISM STILL BREATHING, ALIVE, DOWN OUR BACKS. WHAT WILL HAPPEN ISN'T SET, BUT REGARDLESS SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN. SOMETHING, WHATEVER IT IS, WILL BE USHERED BY US, HUMANKIND. SOMETHING SO FAR HAS BEEN A BAD THING, TO QUOTE MARX "THE HISTORY OF HUMANKIND IS THE HISTORY OF CLASS STRUGGLE." HISTORY ISN'T SET, BUT WE NEED TO GEAR UP FOR THE FUTURE. WE NEED TO GEAR UP FOR INSURGENCY AGAINST THE STATE, THE CAPITALISTS, AND SADLY FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS. WE NEED TO GEAR UP FOR "BLOOD, SWEAT, TOIL, AND TEARS." ALL THAT WILL BE A SMALL COST TO PAY FOR THE FUTURE THAT WE CAN MAKE, A FUTURE OF REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM. A FUTURE OF BROTHERHOOD OF MANKIND, ONCE AND FOR ALL BRINGING DOWN ALL CORRUPT AND EVIL ESTABLISHMENTS.NATE KIESO, PROMETH182@AOL.COM RICHEOUS PEOPLE CAN FORETELL OUR DESTINY/ITS EVIDENT THAT WE'RE ALL HEADING TOWARDS CATASTROPHE/SAVED SOULS SACRAFICED AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY/WHEN WE'LL HAVE TO DIE OR BE DOWN WITH BLASPHEMY/WHO WILL BE A MARTYRE AND RISE/OPEN OUR PEOPLES THIRD EYES/SPEAK WORDS LIKE BRAILE TO THE BLIND/WHO WILL SAVE OUR LIVES/DETACH ALL GOVERNMENT TIES IF YOU WANT TO SURVIVE/REFUSE WELFARE/TAKE YOUR CHILDREN OUT OF THE STATES CARE/AND EVALUATE,MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS,WHAT YOU'LL HAVE IN THE END/IS IT REALLY ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS?DOVEONETHEPROPHET, DOVEROX@BBOY.COM I THINK WE ARE GOING TO BE ATTACKED BY ALIENS. EVERYBODY BE READY THIS IS NO BULLSHIT. THEY HAVE BEEN PLANING THIS FOR CENTURIES.G-MAN, X96SELZER@WMICH.EDU 2000 IS AN ARBITRARY NUMBER IN AN ARBITRARY CALENDAR SYSTEM. YET IT MARKS AN END AND A BEGINNING. OVER THE PAST CENTURY, HUMAN-KIND HAS TAKEN GIANT LEAPS, TECHNOLOGICALLY, AWAY FROM THE DAYS OF ROCK WIELDING NEANDRATHOLS. BUT, UNFORTUNATLY OUR COCIOUSNESSES HAVEN'T KEPT PACE. SO NOW, INSTESD OF THROWING STONES, WE THROW CHEMICAL WEAPONS, CAPABLE OF GENOCIDE. MY HOPE IS THAT IN THE NEXT 100 YRS WE CAN ADVANCE OUR COLLECTIVE CONCIOUSNESS TO A LEVEL AKIN TO THAT OF OUR TECHNOLOGY. PERHAPS THEN WE CAN BEGIN TO SEE OUR INTERDEPENDENCE AND REVERSE THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL WHICH IS TOWING OURSELVES AND THE PLANET TOWARDS OBLIVION. ON A MORE POSITIVE NOTE, MY ADVICE TO YOU IS AS FOLLOWS: TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED, WE OUR BLESSED WITH LIFE AND CONCIOUSNESS, MAKE THE MOST OF IT. DO NOT LOSE TOUCH WITH THAT WHICH SPAWNED US, COMMUNE WITH NATURE (EVEN IF IT JUST MEANS HUGGING A SHRUB). GET OFF THE DAMNED COMPUTER AND RUN AROUND A LITTLE BIT. ON A SEPERATE TANGENT, I MET A GIRL AT A PARTY WHO, UNTILL THAT NIGHT HAD ONLY SEEN ONE SHOOTING STAR. I WAS BLOWN AWAY, COULD IT BE POSSIBLE!? THERE ARE PLENTY OF SHOOTING STARS TO GO AROUND FOLKS, PLEASE DON'T BE THAT KID.DUKE OF URL, OSHAUGHNESSY@SURFNET.COM I CATCH MYSELF CHECKING CALENDARS LESS AND LESS. TIME IS A CONTRIVED WAY FOR LINEAR THINKING SENTIENTS LIKE MYSELF TO DESCRIBE A CURRENT REALITY. JUST LIKE THE WORD "TREE" IS JUST A POINTER, MEANING NOTHING WITHOUT HAVING THE ACTUAL OBJECT AVAILABLE FOR INTERACTION. NUTSHELL, TIME MEANS NOTHING, THE EXISTENCE AND PRESENCE OF THIS LOVE THAT IS THE UNIVERSE I AND I LIVE IN "EXISTS" REGARDLESS OF TIME. SEMANTICS ASIDE, IT IS INTERESTING HOW HISTORICALLY THE END OF A MILLENNIUM SPARKED SOME INCREDIBLE LEAPS IN HUMAN CIVILIZATION. WE TEND TO LOOK AT THE THINGS AROUND US ONLY AS WE PERCEIVE THEM, NOT FOR WHAT THEY ARE. I WONDER IF THE PROTONS AND ELECTRONS THAT CURRENTLY MAKE ME UP ARE LOOKING AT Y2K WITH ANY TREPIDATION. REGARDLESS OF ANY ELITIST DESIRE TO BE MORE THAN THE PARTS THAT MAKE US UP, WE ARE JUST THAT. MY SOUL EXISTS WITH YOURS, IN THE SAME REALM, AND WILL KEEP ON EXISTING ETERNALLY, REGARDLESS OF HUMANITY, THE EARTH, THE MOON OR THIS ALL SO MILKY WAY. JUST AS THE EARTH WILL CONTINUE TO EXIST. AN END IS INCONCEIVABLE IN A CYCLICALLY DYNAMIC UNIVERSE WITH SO LITTLE MAKING IT UP, UNLESS YOU CONSIDER CHANGE AN END. IF THE WORD CHANGE AND END ARE INTERCHANGEABLE IN YOUR VOCABULARY, THEN BY ALL MEANS I HOPE THAT 2000 WILL BRING AN 'END' TO THE WORLD LIKE SO MANY BELIEVE. AS THE WISE MAN SAID "UNTIL THE COLOUR OF A MANS SKIN IS OF NO MORE SIGNIFICANCE THAN THE COLOUR OF HIS EYES" WE WILL BE CAUGHT UP IN THIS TAIL CHASING THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING FOR THE LAST FEW THOUSAND YEARS. THE PROBLEM ARISES FROM THE NEED FOR US TO SEPARATE CONCEPTS AND OBJECTS FROM US TO UNDERSTAND IT. WE NEED TO GIVE THINGS NAMES AND SPACES TO EXIST IN, WE PUT THE EMPHASIS ON THE LABELS AND IDEAS THAT WE SUPER IMPOSE ON WHAT IS ACTUAL. WE'VE GOT TO REALIZE THAT THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ME AND YOU, GLUE A SHOE OR A KANGAROO. IT IS ALL THE SAME, JUST PERCEIVED DIFFERENT. THE THING THAT I'M TRYING TO GET AT (AND NOT VERY DIRECTLY APPARENTLY) IS THAT THE CONCEPT OF YEAR 2000 IS ONE OF THE INHERENT PROBLEMS PREVENTING I AND I FROM GETTING TO THE ONE LOVE PLACE THAT WE ALL PAY VERBAL RESPECTS TO. OUR CONCEPTS OF JAH ARE SEPARATE, EVEN THOUGH WE CLAIM THEM TO BE OMNIPRESENT/POTENT. OUR CONCEPTS OF REALITY ARE SEPARATE FROM US. THIS MAKES IT VERY HARD FOR US TO AFFECT A CHANGE, BECAUSE, HEY, ITS THEM NOT US CAUSING THE PROBLEM, NOT US AND US CAUSING US (I.E. THE PROBLEM). I THINK THAT THE BEST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN IN THE Y2K WOULD BE IF WE BECAME OF ONE MIND (LITERALLY). IF A KILLER COULD SIMULTANEOUSLY FEEL THE PAIN S/HE IS CAUSING HIM/HERSELF, THE VICTIM, THE VICTIMS SURROUNDING ENTOURAGE (FAMILY, FRIENDS, LOVERS, CO-EXISTERS), THERE WOULD BE A LOT LESS KILLING. IF WHEN I POUR A BUNCH OF BLEACH DOWN THE DRAIN AND IT TAKES ITS TOXIC COURSE OUT TO SEA I COULD FEEL MY OWN BODY BEING POLLUTED, I WOULD TAKE A LOT MORE CARE AS TO WHAT I PUT IN THE EARTH. BUT, MOST OF ALL I HOPE THAT IN THIS UPCOMING TRIPLE ZERO, WE CAN RAISE OUR EYES FROM OUR OWN FLOOR SPACE AND REALIZE THE ENDLESS SKY ABOVE AND THE INFINITE FLOOR AT OUR FEET AND NOT FEEL ANY NEED TO PUT BOUNDARIES ON THE LIMITLESS JUST SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND.DYLAN CAPENER, DCAPENER@LUMISYS.COM I REALLY DON'T THINK THAT ANTYHING WILL COME DOWN. WE SHOULD TAKE IT DAY BY DAY. WE GOT ONLY ONE LIFE TO LIVE. AND WE SHOULD MAKE SOMETHING OF IT, TOO!MAGGIE WORKMAN, MAGGIE_LYNN@ALLOYMAIL.COM IN THE YEAR 2000 EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE, BUT NOTHING WILL BE DIFFERENT. THERE WILL STILL BE GOOD AND EVIL, RIGHT AND WRONG, LOVE AND HATE. MANKIND WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE SAME PATH IT HAS FOLLOWED SINCE IT CAME INTO EXISTENCE, LEAPING AHEAD AND STUMBLING BACK. BUT MAYBE FOR A BRIEF MOMENT THIS TIME WHEN THE CALENDAR CHANGES PEOPLE WILL STOP AND THINK ABOUT WHAT IT REALLY MEANS TO MOVE FORWARD IN TIME BECAUSE IT ISN'T ABOUT CHANGE AS MUCH AS IT IS ABOUT MOVING FORWARD. CHANGE TAKES PLACE CONTINUALLY, AND AS THEY SAY... THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME. SO WHAT WE REALLY NEED TO CONCENTRATE ON IS MOVING FORWARD... TO GROW... TO TRANSCEND. IN MANY WAYS WE HAVE PROGRESSED IN OUR EXISTENCE AS BROTHERS AND SISTERS ON THIS PLANET, BUT IN MANY WAYS WE HAVE NOT. MY HOPE FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM IS THAT PEOPLE WILL TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO THINK ABOUT WHERE IT IS THAT WE WANT TO GO NOT JUST AS INDIVIDUALS IN A SOCIETY, STATE, OR NATION BUT AS A UNIFIED HUMANKIND. MAYBE THEN WE WILL BE ABLE TO REALIZE ONE OF THOSE RARE INSTANCES WHEN A NEW PARADIGM IS BORN AND WE CAN STRIDE FORWARD INTO THE NEW ERA MARKED BY THE NUMBERS 2 0 0 0 AND KNOW THAT OUR FOOTING IS SURE, AND THAT FOR THIS FLEETING MOMENT IN TIME WE ARE POINTED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AGAIN MOVING FORWARD USING THE INCREDIBLE RESOURCES AT OUR DISPOSAL TO BETTER NOT ONLY OUR OWN SITUATION BUT THAT OF OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEING. ALL IT TAKES IS A TINY SHIFT IN CONSCIOUSNESS... AN INSTANCE OF SELF-ENLIGHTENMENT. MAYBE THAT IS WHAT ALL THIS Y2K OBSESSING WILL BRING? I CAN ONLY HOPE. IN THE MEAN TIME... AS ALWAYS... I SAY SPREAD THE VIBE... PEACE~UNITY~ONE LOVE! ...AND MAXIMUM RESPECT TO THIS SITE FOR GIVING PEOPLE A PLACE TO VOICE OUT!DAVIDWM, DOGHEART@EARTHLINK.NET THE YEAR 2000 MARKS THE TURNING POINT IN CHRISIANITY. ONE THAT TESTS THE WORD THAT HAS CREPT INTO EVERY SINGLE MIND, BELIVER OR NON-BELIVER. WETHER OR NOT ONE SEES THIS, IT'S THERE. EVEN OUR SENATORS, AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE INTERGRATED INTO THIS, DEMANDING MORALES BE KEPT AND PRAISE TO THE ALMIGHTY. THIS IS NOTHING BUT A DEPTH CHARGE TO THE SOUL. FOR 2000 YEARS, WE'VE BEEN SUBJECTED TO THIS BELIEF, AND MAYBE IN THIS YEAR, WHERE WE ARE FATED TO LEAVE, MIGHT WE CLAIM A SOLID FOOTHOLE IN A FIGHT. 2000 IS AN INDIFFERENT YEAR, BUT MIGHT SHINE THROUGH A THICK CLOUD AND ENLIGHTEN SOME THAT THERE MIGHT BE MORE TO LIFE THAN BLIND FAITH, AND IT'S ACCOMPLISHABLE.ORGANIAC MATERIAL, IHATEHOUSE@HOTMAIL.COM I THINK THAT WITH THE DAWN OF SUCH A DIVERSE NEW TRAIN OF THOUGHT, THAT MAYBE 2000 WILL HOLD MORE THAN FANATICAL BABBLE ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD, AND HAVE IN STORE A BEAUTIFUL REVOLUTION OF DIVERSE CULTURES, NOT INHIBITED BY ANYTHING ANYMORE POSSIBLY A SOCIETY FREE OF MENTAL HANDICAPS, AND SUCH. 2000 WILL HAVE THE BENEFIT THAT ANY NEW CENTURY, OF FOR THAT MATTER, HALF A CENTURY. 2000 HAS IN STORE FOR US EXPANSION, AND CREATIVE NEW IDEAS, AS ANY NEW DECADE DOES AS WELL.CAPITAL, PHATPHUK@HOTMAIL.COM AS NEGATIVE AS THINGS HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST TWO DECADES-- ITS I THINK A SURE WIN THAT IN THE YEAR 2000 THINGS WILL START TO SHOW A BETTER WIND---ONCE THERE IS A STAGNET ERA AND THE BACKWARD TRENDS START TO TRY AND SLIP IN -- ITS MORE THAN A BET THAT NEW OR FORWARD STALWART EVENTS SHOULD AND WILL HAPPEN FOR PERMANENT INFLUENCE AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO NEW TRENDS OR THE ROUNDED HIGH END OF TRENDS TO BE ENFORCEDTONI FRANCIS, FRANCIS3@BELLATLANTIC.NET I THINK THAT THE YEAR 2000 WILL BE LIKE THE 70S ALL OVER AGAIN. TOO MUCH EXCESS OF EVERY KIND. DRUGS THAT YOU THINK ARE NONADDICTIVE AND/OR LETHAL UNTIL YOU END UP DEAD OR IN REHAB. CLOTHES THAT MAKE THE VILLAGE ELDERS SHUDDER WITH AROUSAL. BACKLASH AND THEN THE INEVITABLE NOSTALGIA. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT YOU ARE GOING TO WAKE UP ON NEW YEAR'S DAY AND THE SLUSH ON THE DEAD LAWNS AND WAREHOUSES IS GOING TO BE JUST AS DINGY AND SLIMY AS IT WAS LAST NIGHT.ALEXANDRA PHARMAKIDIS, ALIPHARMY@AOL.COM OUR SOCIETY HAS BEEN IN DIRE NEED OF A WAKE UP CALL FOR A LONG TIME. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS THAT WE PASS EACH DAY THAT WE WRITE OFF AS TOO SMALL OR INSIGNIFIGANT TO REALLY HAVE A PROFOUND EFFECT ON US, BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ALL OF THE SMALL THINGS CATCH UP TO US? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SCIENCE SURPASSES REALITY, WHEN LAZINESS PUSHES US TO THE LIMITS OF OUR INVENTIVE POWER? THERE IS NO SAYING THAT THE TURNING OF A YEAR CAN BRING ABOUT A GLOBAL TURNAROUND, A CLAIM LIKE THAT IS PURE IGNORANCE, BUT THE BALL MAY BEGIN TO ROLL. WHEN THAT CLOCK TURNS OVER, AND EVERYONE REALIZES THAT FOR ALL THE FAITH THEY HAVE IN RELIGION, IT IS ALL JUST A BUNCH OF FAIRY TALES, AND EVERYONE REALIZES THAT THERE WHOLE LIFE DEPENDED ON COMPUTERS THAT CAN'T EVEN HANDLE A SIMPLE PROBLEM LIKE A NEW YEAR. WHEN WILL IT ALL HIT? WHEN WILL IT REALLY SINK IN? WE ARE ALL TRYING SO HARD EVERYDAY, BUT FOR WHAT? IS THERE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL? WHEN 2000 TURNS WILL WE ALL DIE AS MANY FAITHFUL CHRISTIANS SEEM TO BELIEVE? WHO ARE ANY OF US TO SAY WHAT WILL HAPPEN. WHAT IF WE ALL DIE THE DAY BEFORE. AN ENTIRE PLANET OF PATIENTLY WAITING MINDS, WAITING FOR ANOTHER MOMENT HERE ON EARTH, ANOTHER MOMENT LIKE ANY OTHER, A MOMENT THAT NEVER COMES. EXPECTATIONS FAR TO HIGH, DREAMS THAT NEVER COME TRUE.MARK, PLASUK@HOTMAIL.COM IT'S FUNNY HOW HUMANS, DESPITE OUR SUPPOSED KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING, OBSESS ABOUT THE FUTURE, WHAT WILL HAPPEN? WHAT WON'T HAPPEN! WILL HILARY EVER PLEASURE BILL AGAIN, WILL SADDAM EVER STRIKE AGAIN, WILL BALLROOM DANCING EVER BECOME A REAL SPORT? TO ALL THESE QUESTONS AND MORE, I, AND YOU CANNOT ANSWER, SO WHY OBSESS ABOUT THEM? BECAUSE, IT'S FUN. IT'S NICE TO THINK THAT POSITIVITY AND FRATERNITY WILL BE FIRST ON THE AGENDA IN THE YEAR 2000, BUT LET'S FACE IT, UNTIL MONEY GOVERNS THE WESTERN WORLD...... FAT CHANCE OF GETTING PEACE AND HARMONY. WHEN DICK CLARK COUNTS DOWN WITH THE REST OF US IN NEW YORK CITY, THAT DECEMBER NIGHT, 1999, AND THE CLOCK WILL STRIKE 12:00, THEN ALL OF US WILL YELL, SCREAM, SMILE CRY, AND REALIZE THAT THE NEXT DAY WILL BE JUST THE SAME AS THE ONE BEFORE, THE FACT THAT EVERYONE WILL NOW RIGHT 2000 ON THEIR CHECKS, OR REPORTS OR WHATHAVE YOU, I WILL NOT CHANGE WORLDVIEWS AND PHYLOSOPHIES. THE YEAR 2000 WILL NOT FEED THE HUNGRY OR PROTECT CHILDREN. CHANGE, REAL CHANGE HAS TO COME FROM INSIDE. BUT NOT EVERYONE WILL CHANGE THEIR WAYS JUST BECAUSE IT SAYS 2000 ON THE CALENDER. THERE MUST BE A CATALYST, AN OUTSIDE FORCE THAT TOUCHES MOST EVERYONE IN A WEIRD AND UNIQUE WAY, STUNNING THEM AND CAPTIVATING THEM TO CHANGE THEIR WAYS, OUR WAYS. EVENTHOUGH MY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS ARE NOT WHAT THEY USED TO BE, I THINK THAT IT WILL TAKE MORE THAN A WAR, A FAMINE OR A NATURAL DISASTER TO CHANGE THE WORLD. IT'S GONNA TAKE SOMETHING BIGGER, MORE PURE, MORE REAL THAN ANYTHING THAT HAS VISITED OUR PLANET IN MORE THAN 2000 YEARS NOW. AS FREAKY AS IT MAY SEEM, MARY, THE VIRGIN MOTHER HAS WARNED US, TELLING US TO PRAY AND CONVERT, BECAUSE THINGS ARE GETTING OUT OF HAND. 10 WORLD DISASTERS WILL HAPPEN IN SEQUENCE, THE FIRST OF WHICH IS THE WAR IN THE FORMER YOUGOSLAVIA. AFTER THESE 10 EVENTS, THERE WILL BE A PERMANENT SIGN IN MEJUGORIA, THE SIGHT AT WHICH MARY HAS BEEN APPEARING, AND THERE WILL BE STILL TIME TO CONVERT. BUT TIME IS RUNNING OUT, OUR SUPPOSED CREATOR IS GETTING PISSED AT OUR BEHAVIOUR AND IS CALLING ON HIS MOMMA TO WHIP OUR ASSES. I'M NOT SURE I BELIEVE ALL OF THIS, BUT IT DOES SEEM LIKE SOME THING DON'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO ME ANYMORE, THE WORLD WE LIVE IN IS NOT FAIR, NICE GUYS DO FINISH LAST. BY THE WAY, I'M NOT THE ONE WHO INVENTED THIS, I'M FAR FROM A PREACHER OR A PROPHET. I'M NOT SAYING MARY WILL COME DOWN AND TEACH US A LESSON IN THE YEAR 2000, BUT SHE HAS WARNED US, AND SHE ASKED US TO CHANGE OUR WAYS AND PRAY FOR CONVERSION, OR SHE WILL RETALIATE, MAYBE IN 5 YEARS, MAYBE IN 20, BUT SHE WILL. SO, I SAY WE SHOULD TAKE HER APPARITIONS SERIOUSLY AND LOVE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. WHAT A CONCEPT, LOVE! IT'S UP TO YOU TO BELIEVE HER!MIKE MICKY, NIFFY99@HOTMAIL.COM WHAT WILL TRANSPIRE AT THE DAWN OF A NEW AGE? WILL WE PROSPER AS A RACE OR WE BE SWALLOWED BY OUR OWN TECHNOLOGY? IN THE YEAR 2000---THE STAIN ON MONICA LEWINSKY'S DRESS WILL BE IDENTIFIED AS MUSTARD SAUCE.---MUSTARD SAUCE FROM PRESIDENT CLINTON'S PENIS!!!!!!!!ERIK, ERIK@WWBBS.NET THE LOCUSTS ARE COMING...THE LOCUSTS ARE COMING!!!!!!!!JESUS, HEAVEN@EARTHLINK.COM CONCERNING THE LAST TOPIC (*SORRY!*) WHO WROTE THE BIBLE? MAN WROTE THE BIBLE WITH WHO KNOWS HOW MANY INTERPREATATIONS. JUST AS OUR FOLK STORIES HAVE BEEN PASSED THROUGH GENERATIONS OF HUMANS BY WORD OF MOUTH, THEN LETTER TO PAPER, NOW PIXEL LETTERS TO SCREEN. I CANNOT FAITHFULLY FOLLOW THE BIBLE AS THE ABSOLUATE TRUTH. THIS GOES FOR THE KORAN, ETC... I FEEL THAT THERE ARE MANY VALUABLE TEACHINGS IN IT THAT PERTAIN TO THE FORMATION OF A GOOD HUMAN BEING, WHICH IN TURN CONTRIBUTES TO THE CREATION OF AN IDEAL SOCIETY. AND TO WHAT DO WE BASE THE ACT OF BEING GOOD ON? BEING WRONG. SOMETHING TELLS US THAT WE MUSN'T STEAL THAT PACK OF BUBBALICIOUS FROM THE LOCAL GROCERY BECAUSE IT IS WRONG TO DO SO. NOT STEALING IS THE RIGHT ACT. THE ACT OF DOING NOTHING. AS A TEENAGER WE PUSH THE BOUNDARY. STEAL AND DON'T GET CAUGHT; THEN WHAT IS THERE TO PUNISH YOU? CERTAINLY ZEUS ISN'T LURKING BEHIND A CLOUD WITH A LIGHTENING BOLT TO ZAP YOUR ASS. AND THE GROUND DOESN'T PART, READY TO SWALLOW YOU INTO THE DEPTHS OF HELL. OH NO. THEN WHAT IS THERE TO JUDGE US? OUR GUILT. OUR MINDS DEFINE THE BOUNDARIES OF OUR WORLD. I WONDER ABOUT THE PEOPLE AROUND ME, LIVING AND BREATHING IN THIS HUMANISTIC SOCIETY. THEY ARE ALL SEPARATE SOULS IN LIVING LIFE CAPSULES (FLESH BLOOD MUSCLE NERVE) WITH THEIR MINDS TO CREATE THEIR REALITY. HOW CAN SOME JUST ACCEPT THIS AS "THE ONE REALITY"? THERE ISN'T ONE SINGLE CONSCIOUSNESS. IT IS THE COLLABORATION OF MILLIONS OF REALITIES. AND HOW DO THY FAITHFULLY ACCEPT THE MAN-MADE GODS THEY PRAY TO? HUMANS ARE THE PRODUCTS OF THEIR ENVIRONMENTS. THIS SHAPES THEIR MENTALITY, PERSONALITY, REALITY. MIND RAMBLING BY: .................MINX.MINX, MINX@ALLOYMAIL.COM IN THE YEAR 2000 THE PEOPLE HAVE USED THE CAPITALISTS TOYS AGAINST THEM. THE CAPITALISTS DO NO LONGER EXIST. THEIR MONEY ARE GIVEN TO THE WORKING CLASS. ALL THE OPRESSORS ARE GONE LIKE NAZIS,RASISTS AND CAPITALISTS THEY ARE EITHER CONVERTED OR IN JAIL. ALL PEOPLE OF WORLD FOLLOW THE TEACHINGS OF KARL MARX AND ENGELS. THIS TIME THE COMMUNISM WILL WORK AS IT SHOULD, NOT AS BEFORE. COMMUNISM IS THE FUTURE!JOHAN RENFORS, GOSEGRABBEN@HOTMAIL.COM MODERN SCIENCE IS BULLSHIT, FOUNDED ON MISCONCEPTIONS. ALGIBRAICALLY YOU NEED TWO KNOW VALUES TO TO WORK OUT ANY OTHERS, IN THE BEGINNING WE HAD NO CERTAINTIES....BULLSHIT, SCIENCE IS BULLSHIT. HOW CAN WE POSSIBLE BE 'CERTAIN' ABOUT WHAT WE 'KNOW'? THERE IS NO USE IN TALKING ABOUT THE MILLENIUM WHEN WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT WHY IT WILL COME. ANARCHY FOREVER......MR.DIOGENES, DIOGENES@WIREDWORK.PRESTEL.CO.UK I FEEL A MASS HYSTERIA WILL COMMENCE DUE TO THE HYPE SURRONDING THE BIBLICAL MILLENUIM..ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE AND EVERYOTHER RELIGION SOMETHING DONE FUCKD UP IS GONNA GO DOWN WETHER IT BE ARMEGEDDON OR NOT..I FEEL THE IMPRINT OF THIS IDEA IN ALL OF OUR MINDS WEATHER WE BE RELIGOUS OR NOT WILL BRING THE COMING OF THE 'ARMEGEDDON'.KINDA OF A MURPHY'S LAW CHAIN REACTION THING. YOU SAY SOMETHINGS NOT GONNA HAPPEN OR IS GONNA HAPPEN FOR LONG ENOUGH NO MATTER WHAT ITS GONNA HAPPEN. I HAVE LIL OR NO PERSONNEL VIEWS ON RELIGION BUT I FEAR SOME OVERPOWERED ZELOUS ASSHOLES GONNA COME INTO POWER. ALSO NOSTORDAMUS PREDICTED THE UPRISING OF THE 3RD ANTICHRIST AND THE END OF THE WORLD..EVEN THOUGH HIS DATE WAS THAT IN SEPTEMBER OF 97 ..GOOD OLE NOS CAME THRU ON SOME REALLY IMPORTANT SHIT IN PAST..I.E THE PREDICTION OF BOTH NAPOLEAN AND HITLER..HE EVEN PREDICTED NAMES HE WAS OF BY MEAR LETTERS AND A COUPLE YEARS IN BOTH CASES..SO EVEN THOUGH HIS PREDICTING DAY OF REKONING HAS PASSED I WOULDNT FORGET HIS WORD OF THE END...BUT THIS IS ALL ON THE WHOLE THREATICAL AND THEOLOGICAL ASPECT OF IT ..FOR WHAT I THINK.. I THINK WE ALL JUST GONNA GO ON WITH OUR MONDAIN LIVES AND WAIT FOR THE NEXT DATE TO GET IN A HUBBUB ABOUT.. -NIKNIK DEDOMINIC, JOHN7@FLASH.NET IN RESPONSE TO NIQ'S POST FROM JULY 14... HEY - 99% OF ALL RELIGIOUS PEOPLE (OF ANY RELIGION) NEVER THINK WHY THEY BELIEVE WHAT THEY BELIEVE … LIKE YOU WERE SAYING … THEY JUST GROW UP AND DO WHAT THEIR MOMMIES TOLD THEM TO CAUSE "THEY'RE GONNA BURN IN HELL" IF THEY DON'T OR THEY'RE GONNA REINCARNATE INTO SOMETHING REALLY SHITTY - LIKE A SNAIL OR SOMETHING … BUT, THE PROBLEM IS … PEOPLE ALL LOOK AT GOD AS A MAN OR PERSON OR WHATEVER … OBVIOUSLY, MAN "CREATED" GOD … I MEAN … MAN LEARNED TO SPEAK AND COMMUNICATE AND EXPRESS THOUGHTS, AND "GOD" BECAME THE VOCALIZED SYMBOL FOR THINGS THAT COULDN'T BE EXPLAINED, OR MIRACULOUS THINGS, OR GOODNESS … WHATEVER … YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN … BUT, SEE, THAT STATEMENT RIGHT THERE (MAN CREATED GOD) WOULD HAVE ME CONDEMNED FOR HERESY FROM EVERY RELIGIOUS GROUP IN THE WORLD … THAT'S BECAUSE ALL THOSE 99% OF THE WORLD CAN'T DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE SUBSTANTIAL AND THE NON-SUBSTANTIAL … YEAH, THE BIBLE SAYS "GOD CREATED MAN …" , WELL, "HE" DID … CAUSE "GOD" IS THE TERM SYMBOLIZING WHAT WAS BEFORE US AND THE POWER THAT MADE WHATEVER HAPPENED HAPPEN TO "CREATE" US. TECHNICALLY, GOD IS THE BIG BANG … HE'S THE UNEXPLAINABLE FORCE OF NATURE THAT MADE A SINGLE-CELLED ORGANISM EVOLVE INTO EVERYTHING WE SEE HERE… HE'S ALSO GOODNESS, YOUR CONSCIENCE … (THE BIBLE AND OTHERS ARE SIMPLY ETHICAL RIGHTS AND WRONGS THAT ANYONE SHOULD LIVE BY ON THE SIMPLISTIC LEVEL). "HE" NEVER THOUGHT … "HEY, I WANT MEN AND WOMEN SCATTERED OVER THE EARTH SO THEY CAN BOW DOWN AND CRY AND SUFFER FOR ME SO I CAN FEEL COOL …" NO. HE'S NOT A MAN… "HE" DIDN'T THINK UP ANYTHING … HE, GOD, IS JUST THE STUFF THAT'S WHAT MAKES A PERSON HAVE FAITH (A NECESSITY FOR SURVIVAL) ... IF WE DIDN'T HAVE FAITH (WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY GOD FOR MOST OF THE WORLD) WE'D HAVE NO REASON TO BE GOOD … CAUSE WHY DO ANYTHING GOOD IF YOU HAVE NO FAITH THAT SOMETHING GOOD WILL RETURN TO YOU (EVENTUALLY). SO … YOU SAID "I DON'T SEE A NEED FOR GOD" … THAT'S COOL. LOOK, DON'T THINK I WANT TO CONVERT YOU OR SOMETHING. I HATE THAT. THAT BUGS ME MORE THAN MOST THINGS. I'M NOT ANY ONE RELIGION. I'M VERY RELIGIOUS, THOUGH … I GUESS YOU COULD SAY. BUT, I JUST WANT TO ASK YOU … WHY DO YOU DO ANYTHING GOOD? DO YOU EVER FEEL GUILTY FOR SOMETHING YOU KNEW YOU "SHOULDN'T" HAVE DONE? WHAT DO YOU CHARACTERIZE THAT? A BODY PART THAT GETS TRIGGERED AND MAKES YOU FEEL BAD WHEN YOU'RE NOT DOING SOMETHING YOU BELIEVE YOU SHOULD? I KNOW YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING … YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY SMART ENOUGH TO GRASP MY POINT CAUSE YOU'RE OF THE FEW THAT EVEN TRIES TO THINK … SO, THIS IS MY MESSAGE … YOU GET INTO TOO MUCH TROUBLE SAYING "GOD DOESN'T EXIST". BULLSHIT! ARE YOU SAYING MY FAITH DOESN'T EXIST? I'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE … BUT I KNOW IT'S THERE. IF SOMEONE SAYS THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN UFO'S … AND I THROW A PAPER-PLATE INTO THE AIR … AND SOME PERSON SEES IT AND DOESN'T KNOW WHAT IT IS … THAT'S A UFO… AND THEN, IF THAT PERSON'S LIFE IS FOREVER CHANGED CAUSE HE/SHE THOUGHT HE/SHE SAW A "UFO" … WAS IT REALLY THE PAPER-PLATE THAT CHANGED THE PERSON'S LIFE? I WOULD SAY NO. CAUSE I COULD OF THROWN A DISH, MAYBE … IT WAS THE UFO. MAYBE THAT SEEMS FLAKY TO YOU … BUT, IF SOMEONE BELIEVES IN "GOD", AND BELIEVES THAT IF HE IS "RELIGIOUS" OR SIMPLY THINKS ABOUT HOW BEING GOOD WILL MAKE THE WORLD BETTER AND MAKE HIM HAPPIER … AND HE DIES HAPPY CAUSE HE 'HAD GOD IN HIS HEART'… AND HE BELIEVES THAT HEAVEN IS DYING HAPPY WITH YOURSELF … AND HE ENDS UP HAPPY WITH HIMSELF… WAS GOD REAL? TO HIM … YES … AS AN ABSTRACT THING THAT GOD IS … YES. I JUST FELT I WOULD PROVIDE MY OWN INSIGHT SINCE WORK IS SLOW TODAY … FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL ME AND DOG MY IDEAS OR WHATEVER … IT'S HEALTHY FOR EVERYONE … I JUST WISH THAT RELIGIONS WOULD QUIT PORTRAYING THE IDEA THAT 'OTHER' RELIGIONS (THE ONES THAT A PERSON DOESN'T "BELIEVE" IN) ARE WRONG. THAT'S SO IGNORANT. I WOULD BE MUSLIM IF MY PARENTS WERE MUSLIM AND WE LIVED IN SAUDI ARABIA ALL OUR LIVES … THERE'S NOT ENOUGH EDUCATION TO EVEN PROVIDE SOMEONE THERE THE ABILITY TO THINK OTHERWISE … YES, I GUESS I REVISED THE BIBLE FOR ME … BUT, YOU GOTTA REMEMBER… THE BIBLE HAS BEEN THROUGH HUNDREDS OF LANGUAGES AND HUNDREDS OF YEARS BEFORE GETTING TO US … YOU THINK THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A LITTLE BIT OF INTERPRETATION MADE ALONG THE WAY? WELL, FUCKING DUH!!! IF EBIKAHI (FAKE NAME) THOUGHT THAT ONE VERSE IN HIS BIBLE, WRITTEN IN HEBREW, WAS TRYING TO SAY SOMETHING, AND HE TRANSLATES THAT INTO SOME OTHER LANGUAGE, AND THEN SOME OTHER DUDE DOES THE SAME INTO ENGLISH, WELL, EBIKAHI BETTER HAVE BEEN FUCKING RIGHT ABOUT HIS INITIAL INTERPRETATION… YOU KNOW? ANYWAY … IT'S TOUGH. YOU EITHER FIT IN AND SHUT UP, OR GET EXCOMMUNICATED. TOO MANY DUMB PEOPLE, FRANKLY. AGAIN, LIKE YOU SAID … HEY, IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY OR A BETTER PERSON … GREAT. IF NOT, THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM AND YOU CAN'T COMPLAIN TO "GOD" AND CURSE HIM CAUSE YOUR DOG DIED … CAUSE YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY NOT THINKING DEEP ENOUGH TO QUIT TREATING THE WORD "GOD" AS SOME SORT OF MAN. OK -- THAT'S IT. SCIENCE AND RELIGION CAN CONVERGE, I PROMISE.OLIVER OF, FREEFROG@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU THE NEW MILLENIA IS COMING, BUT IT WON'T BE A TIME OF GREAT CHANGE AND IMPROVEMENT. INSTEAD, WE, AS THE UNDERGROUND, WILL ONLY BECOME MORE AND MORE OPRESSED. BECAUSE OF OUR CURRENT COMPLACENCY WE WILL HAVE NO MEANS TO FIGHT BACK. VERY FEW OF US WILL BE LEFT WHEN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND BECOMES 1984.SCOTT WILLIAMS, WHO213@AOL.COM "POSITIVITY" AND "OPTIMISM" ARE NICE CATCH PHRASES WHICH THE INTELLIGENTSIA HAVE PASSED ON TO THE PEOPLE. THEY ARE ALSO PHILOSOPHICAL TERMS WHICH MOST PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO UNDERSTAND BECAUSE OF THEIR GOOD INTENTIONS. BUT THE ROOT OF "POSITIVITY" AND "OPTIMISM" OFTEN ESCAPES THE LAY-MAN. WILL THERE BE POSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM IN THE YEAR 2000. SURE THERE WILL, BUT NOT ON AN ACTIVATED SCALE. WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS, POSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM ARE CONDITIONS OF THE HUMAN MIND. THE FACT THAT WE ARE A PEOPLE OF EXTREMES IN BELIEFS - GOOD VS. BAD, LIGHT VS. DARK, NORTH VS. SOUTH, EAST VS. WEST - MENAS THAT AT ANY ONE TIME IN OUR CURRENT SITUATION, BOTH POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY EXIST IN SOMEWHAT EQUAL PROPORTIONS. THAT'S NOT BAD, THAT JUST PROVIDES THE SPECTRUM OF MENTALITY THAT IS NECESSARY IN ORDER FOR US TO APPRECIATE POSITIVITY WHEN IT HAPPENS. OTHERWISE POSITIVITY WOULDN'T HOLD MUCH VALUE TO US. BUT SPECIFICALLY, IN TERMS OF THE NEW MILLENIUM, WHAT WILL BE THE OVER-RIDING PHILOSOPHY OF THE TIME? THAT'S HARD TO SAY. CENTURY CHANGE-OVERS ARE HARD ENOUGH FOR HUMANS TO PSYCHOLOGICALLY HANDLE. MILLENIUM CHANGE-OVERS, WITH THE ADDED IMPLICATIONS THAT THROUGHOUT RECORDED HISTORY THERE HAVE BEEN MAYBE 5, OR 7 AT THE MOST, ALWAYS SEEM TO BRING ABOUT "IMPENDING DOOM." NOT OFTEN, HOWEVER, DO THE PEOPLE-OF-THE-TIME REALIZE THAT PERCEPTION OF "TIME" IS A HUMAN CREATION. NOT THE ABSTRACT EXISTENCE OF TIME MIND YOU; BUT THE PERCEPTION THAT YEARS ARE PASSING BY, AND THAT WE HAVE SOME WAY OF ASSIGNING AN ABSOLUTE VALUE TO THOSE YEARS. EVERY 1000 YEARS MARKS ONLY THE MYTH OF THE CHRIST CHILD. WHAT WEIGHTING YOU ASSIGN TO THAT PHENOMENON, IS A MATTER OF BELIEFS, INDOCTRINATION, AND EXPERIENCE. HOPEFULLY, PEOPLE'S BELIEFS, INDOCTRINATIONS AND EXPERIENCE (THE LATTER OFTEN BEING THE CORRUPTING SOURCE,) ALLOW FOR MORE THAN ENOUGH POSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM TO MAKE THE NEXT MILLENIUM BETTER.CHRIS, CNUNES@INSWEB.COM THE TIME HAS COME WHERE ONE SHOULD FOCUS ON BENEFITTING ONESELF AND MANKIND AS A WHOLE. BY DOING WHAT WE FEEL IN OUR HEARTS, WHATEVER PUSHES US TO GO FORTH, HOPE, FAITH, OPTIMISM, THEY ARE ALL VESSELS TO UNLEASING THE POTENTIAL THAT EVERY HUMAN BEING HAS. EVERY INDIVIDUAL HAS HIS OWN CREED, MORALS, AND BELIEFS. TREAT OTHERS AS YOU WANT TO BE TREATED. WE ARE NOT HERE TO JUDGE OTHERS PEOPLES STANDARDS OF LIVING, JUST AS WE DO NOT WISH OTHERS TO JUDGE OURS. IF THE MINDSET OF THE FUTURE WERE TO REVOLVE AROUND THIS OPTIMISM, THIS UNLEASHING OF GOOD FOR MANKIND, THAN I EMBRACE IT.PAOLA, POLARIS812 THIS IS GREAT. THE MORE THAT I SEE ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THIS TRY TO OPEN MINDS THE MORE OPTIMISTIC I AM OF THE FUTURE. REVOLUTION IS IN THE AIR FOR SURE AS MORE AND MORE PEOPLE WHO COME FROM A SITUATION OF POVERTY ARE REBELING AGAINST THE GREEDY MINDS CONTROLLING THE MEDIA AND THUS WHAT PEOPLE THINK. A REVOLUTION OF THE MIND HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG TIME BUT I THINK THAT AS OF LATE THE INTENSITY OF THIS HAS BEGAN TO INCREASE EXPONENTIALLY. MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE AWAKENING THEIR MINDS TO NEW LEVELS OF CONCIOUSNESS. IT IS A WELL KNOWN FACT THAT WE ONLY USE A SMALL PORTION OF OUR BRAINS, BUT THIS IS CHANGING ON A GLOBAL SCALE. AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ONLY BELIEVE IN WHAT THEY CAN SEE WITH THEIR PHYSICAL EYES. CAN YOU SEE YOUR LOVE? CAN YOU SEE THE HATE? NO, YOU DON'T NEED TO, YOU KNOW IT IS THERE. WE ARE BODIES OF LIGHT. OPEN YOUR MIND. MEDITATE. THE ANSWERS ARE WITHIN. LEARN TO LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY. STOP THE KILLING. FIGHT WITH YOUR CONCIOUSNESS. NOT YOUR GUNS. RELIGION IS A TRAP FOR SEEKERS OF WISDOM. WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS YOUR TRUTH. YOU CAN EVOLVE WHAT YOU BELIEVE. FILL THE HOLES IN THE TRUTH THAT FEELS RIGHT TO YOU. NEVER GIVE UP.JAKE, GM@HOTMAIL.COM THE AGE OF AQUARIUS IS NEAR.BE POSTIVE. THINK CALM. CYBERIAN CITZENS OF THE WORLD YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LIKE EVERYBODY, BUT DO NOT JUGDE THEM.PETER VAN BARNEVELD, P_VAN_BRNVLD@YAHOO.COM B. S. WE ALL LIFE LONG AND HAPPY I HOPEMVD, JERRY@PS.GEN.NZ WE ALL GO OUT WITH A BIG BANG SOONMVD, JERRY@PS.GEN.NZ THERES NEVER BEEN A TIME WHERE YOU COULD HONESTLY GO OUTSIDE OR WATCH THE NEWS AND SAY THIS IS OPTIMISM MANIFESTED.LOOK AT THE SIXTIES:SO MUCH HATE EVERYWHERE,NO ATTEMPTS AT HIDING IT JUST EVIL.BUT AT THE SAME TIME THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS DROPPING MAD KNOWLEDGE ON THE IGNORANT AND TURNING A GENERATION WITH NOTHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO INTO A GENERATION OF YOUNG REVOLUTIONARIES READY TO FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS AND FULLY STRAPPED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE TO DO IT.IF THERE WAS NEVER PESSIMISM OR NEGATIVITY THEN WE WOULD NEVER GRASP THE POWER OF OPTIMISM.HOW DO YOU KNOW YOURE HAPPY IF YOUVE NEVER BEEN MAD?IF A GENERATION CAME TO BE THAT NEVER FACED ADVERSITY ,OR SEVERAL GENERATIONS IN A ROW,THEN HOW COULD THEY HAVE THE PASSION OF A BLACK MAN IN THE SIXTIES WHOS SISTER WAS JUST BEATEN AND RAPED BY POLICE OFFICERS?HOW CAN A KID FROM THE SUBURBS GO INTO A GHETTO AND UNDERSTAND LIFE?HE CANT.ITS THE BALANCE OF ADVERSITY AND POSITIVITY THAT MAKES THEM BOTH POWERFUL FORCES TO DEAL WITH.THE TWO ARE CONSTANTLY BATTLING AND THEY WILL BE IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND,THE EXTENT I DONT KNOW BUT HOPEFULLY I'LL BE THERE TO SEE IT.TRY TO HOLD ON TO OPTIMISM WITH EVERYTHING THAT YOU ARE WHILE IT IS THERE BUT DONT DENY ADVERSITY BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE TRUE PASSION AND TRUE REVOLUTIONS MANIFEST THEMSELVES. BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, EVILUTION180ADAM WHITE, EVILUTION180@HOTMAIL.COM I WANNA THROUGH OUT SOME IDEAS ABOUT RELIGION. HEAR ME OUT. I DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT?!! PEOPLE THAT I SEE EVERYDAY AROUND ME(KIDS) JUST ACCEPT RELIGION LIKE THEY ACCEPT BREATHING OR EATING. BESIDES THE FACT THAT RELIGION FOR THEM IS JUST SOMETHING THEY "HAVE TO DO" EACH WEEK BECAUSE THATS ALL THEYVE EVER BEEN TOLD THEIR ENTIRE LIVES, I WONDER IF THEY EVER THINK ABOUT THE CORE OF WHAT THEY "BELIEVE" IN?? I WONDER IF THEY EVER ASK THEMSELVES QUESTIONS LIKE "IS THERE A GOD?" AND IF SO WHY? I WAS BROUGHT UP ALONG SIDE THESE PEOPLE BUT WHEN I BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT RELIGION MEANT ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING TO ME BESIDES SOMETHING TO DO, I ASKED MYSELF THESE QUESTIONS. I ENDED UP AT THE CONCLUSION THAT I DONT THINK THERE HAS TO BE A GOD. I DONT CARE!?! IT DOESN'T AFFECT ME EITHER WAY. I DONT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING MOST ANYONE TELLS ME ABOUT GOD. ITS ALL WAY TOO ABSTRATCT AND THERES SO MUCH MORE I COULD BE DOING, NOT ONLY FOR MYSLEF BUT FOR OTHERS, RATHER THAN SITTING AND TRYING COMPRHEND SOMETHING THAT I'M TOLD IS TOO "GREAT" FOR MY WEAK HUMAN MIND TO UNDERSTAND?!! FUCK THAT!! PEOPLE ARE A HELLUVA A LOT STRONGER THAN WE GIVE OURSELVES CREDIT FOR. I LOOKED FOR GOD. I WASTED SOOO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT LOOKING FOR SOMETHING THAT HAD ALL THE ANSWERS AND THAT WOULD HELP ME OUT WHEN I NEEDED IT. AND GEUSS WHAT, WHEN I WAS IN THE GUTTER EATIN SHIT I DIDNT ASK GOD "WHY ME?",I CAN LIVE WITH WHAT LIFE GIVES AND NOT BITCH ABOUT IT, I ASKED HIM/HER/WHTEVER "WHERE ARE YOU??" AND "WHY ARENT YOU HERE?" IVE ALWAYS BEEN TOLD JESUS IS THERE WITH YOU WHEN YOU NEED HIM THE MOST, AND WHEN I NEEDED SOMEONE TO BE THERE WITH ME I ENDED UP STILL ALONE. OF COURSE EVENTUALLY SOMEONE WOULD COME ALONG TO OFFER A HAND AND THEN TRY TO TELL ME THAT THEY WERE THE HOLY SPIRIT, OR SOMETHING ABSTRACT IDEA LIKE THAT, WHICH WOULD JUST CONFUSE ME EVEN MORE!!!??? WHEN BELIEVERS ARE ASKED "WHERE IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD??" BY NON-BELIEVERS AND THEIR RESOPNSE IS "IT IS HERE AMONG US!!" I JUST DONT GET IT? I DONT SEE ANY SUPERNATURAL CREATURES OR ANYTHING AROUND ME. I SEE PEOPLE AROUND ME. PEOPLE ARE THE GOOD IN MY LIFE (AS WELL AS THE BAD), BUT THE POINT I'M TRYING TO MAKE IS THAT OTHER PEOPLE, LIKE ME, ARE THE ONES WHO ARE DOING THE GOOD. NO DIVINE ANYTHINGS!!!! THEN WHEN THE BELIEVERS TELL ME,"WELL, GOD WORKS THROUGH PEOPLE" I GET EVEN MORE BAFFELD AND WONDER IF THEY EVEN KNOW WHATTHEFUCK THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT! WHY DOES GOD HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING FOR US!!! I DONT SEE THE NEED FOR A GOD. I DONT NEED TO WORRY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO ME WHEN I DIE OR WHERE/WHEN TIME BEGAN. I DEFINITLY DONT BELIEVE IN A DIVINE AUTHORITY FIGURE WHO PICKS AND CHOOSES, BESIDES AUTHORITY AND SUPERIORITY WERE INVENTED BY MAN. THIS IN ITSELF IS REASON ENOUGH TO SUPPORT THE ATHIESTS ARGUEMENT. WHY WOULD GOD ADOPT SOMTHING INVENTED BY MAN ESPECIALLY IF WE ARE SO FLAWED AND IMPERFECT AS AUTHORITY?? AUTHORITY HAS BEEN PROVEN TIME AND TIME AGAIN TO BE AN INEFFECIVE METHOD OF DOING ANYTHING. BESIDES THAT ANOTHER THING, THIS GOD THEY LOVE SOOO MUCH, SOUNDS PRETTY SELFISH TO ME. THEY TRY TO TELL ME GOD CREATED EVERYTHING AND NOW HE WANTS SOME FORM OF PAYBACK OR CONSTANT THANKS FOR IT??? THAT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE ANOTHER CONCEPT THAT MAN INVENTED THAT ISNT PERFECT AND GODLIKE. I MEAN I DONT THINK A WOMAN WOULD WANT TO HAVE A CHILD JUST SO SHE COULD HAVE SOMEONE TO TELL HER HOW GREAT SHE IS?? ANYWAY I GEUSS MY POINT IS THAT WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT AND WE ALL LOOK AT THE WORLD IN DIFFERENT WAYS. WHATEVER KEEPS YOU HAPPY IS WHAT I WANT FOR YOU. IF GOD MAKES YOU HAPPY, GOOD FOR YOU. IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE TO ME THOUGH. I HOPE I MADE MYSLEF ATLEAST SOME WHAT CLEAR, IF NOT PLEASE MAIL ME ID LOVE TO DISCUSS THIS SO MORE WITH ANY FRESH IDEAS YOU MIGHT HAVE THANX FOR LISTENINGNIQ, SPOOGY77@HOTMAIL.COM PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN OBESSED WITH THEIR OWN MORTALITY, AND THE YEAR 2000 IS A CATALYST TO FURTHER THEIR OBESSION. EVERYBODY SEEMS TO DEEP DOWN WANT THE APOCALYPSE, WANT OUR OWN DESTRUCTION, FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN THE DELUSIONAL ROMANCE OF IT AND THE ABILITY TO SAY "I TOLD YOU SO" RIGHT BEFORE THEIR DEATH. WHAT THE PEOPLE DEMAND, IS WHAT THE PEOPLE WILL GET, AND ID HATE TO LET THEIR HOPES DOWN. WERE ALL RIDING THE WAVE OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE CREST IS SO HIGH PEOPLE ARE TO AFRAID TO DO ANYTHING BUT CRASH. WHATS GOING DOWN? ITS ALL COMING DOWN. THE SKY IS FALLING, AND WERE LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT.RYAN H., PHOTEK@HAPPY.DIGITALDUNE.NET "IN THE UNITED STATES, 90% OF THE POPULATION HAVE NO OTHER DESIRE THAN TO POSSESS WHAT OTHERS POSSESS." -JEAN BAUDRILLARDJ'SAI IKARUS, JSAIA@HOTMAIL.COM I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO AN ORGANIC PATTERN THAT WE ARE TREATING AS A LINEAR QUESTION. I MEAN, IF F(X)=(THE FUTUR.)(POSSIBILITY), THEN X IS STILL...THE FUCKING MOMENT. WHAT IS THE FUTURE? IT'S AN IDEA. ALL I KNOW IS THAT TIME IS A FEEBLE ATTEMPT AT ORDERING THIS CONSTANT HARMONIC CONVERGENCE. AND THOUGH, IT HAS HAD ITS PLACE AS A FUNCTIONAL TOOL, IT MAY NEED TO BE EVOLVED, MATH IS QUANTUM, SCIENCE IS QUANTUM, COMPUTERS ARE QUANTUM, SPACE IS QUANTUM, WE'RE QUANTUM, BUT OUR PERCEPTION IS STILL INDUSTRIAL. WE CAN'T BLAME TECHNOLOGY, OR VIOLENCE OR DISEASE OR EACH OTHER OR OURSELVES AND (AS MUCH AS I HATE TO ADMIT IT...), WE CAN'T BLAME THE MAN EVEN THOUGH "HE'S" A SERIOUS DRAG....AND THAT'S JUST IT..."HE'S" A DRAG, "HE'S" OUR GOD, HE IS THE ASSUMED REFERENCE TO ANYTHING ESPECIALLY OPPRESSIVE...AND, WELL...THAT'S BEEN VALID, BUT MAYBE WE SHOULD GIVE THE GODDESS ANOTHER CHANCE (SEE CATAL HUYUK) OR MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST STOP...FOR ONE MOMENTE...AND REALIZE THAT ENDING WAR AND HUNGER AND DISEASE AND THE FAME\APATHY JUNKIE-URGE AND EVERY OTHER CURRENT BITCH IS A MATTER OF A COUPLE THINGS.... 1. LIFE IS A VISION, NOT A NARRATIVE WITH A FIXED POINT OF VIEW. 2. DEATH AND LIFE ARE NOT TO BE FEARED. (ALL GOOD THINGS COME TO PASS) AND MOST IMPORTANT ON A POST-INDUSTRIAL "SAVE THE SOCIETY" NOTE: 3. OUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON NOT ACCEPTING THE ROLES OF VICTIM OR AGRESSOR.(TOM-AY-TO, TOM-AH-TO....) WE ARE WHAT WE ARE AND NOTHING BESIDES. IF YOU WANT CHANGE, CHANGE THE GLASS MAY BE HALF-EMPTY OR HALF-FULL OR...IT MAY JUST BE A FLUID ORGANISM THAT HAS BEEN CONTAINED TO LONG... THAT AIN'T NO EGO, JOE...THAT'S A BILLBOARD. NO BLAME NO HATE NO DOMINATION\SUBMISSSION JUST THE FLOW OF WHAT WE ARE, NOT WHAT WE'RE BEING INDIVIDUAL CHANGE IS MORPHOGENETIC CHANGE WE ARE ELECTRONS AND CONTAIN ALL THAT ELECTRIC IMPULSE INSIDE THE EYES OF A HORSE WITH BLINDERS AND THERE'S GONNA BE SOME MAJOR AGITATION.... BUT...WE CAN SEE...... WE ARE NOT VICTIMS AND AND IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT (OR ANYONE'S) NOT UNTIL WE'RE NO LONGER LYING CAN WE EVEN DISCUSS RESPONSIBILITY REGRETS ARE IN THE MIND AND SO, MAYBE SOME THINGS PISS YOU OFF AND MAYBE, YOU PISS SOME THINGS OFF, BUT, IT'S NOT A WAR (WELL, NOT REALLY...) IT'S A WAVE, A TIDE... AND...LIKE IT OR NOT, YOU ARE SOAKING IN IT. BREATHE. NAMASTE. THE SLEEP IS ENDED PULSE TO THE DREAM.... REVOLVE. PEACE- J'SAIJ'SAI IKARUS, JSAIA@HOTMAIL.COM THE PEOPLE BORN BEFORE THAT WILL GO ALL DOWN, I INCLUSIVE. ALL WE'RE TALKING NOW, OUR WORDS WILL NOT HAVE SOUND. JUST HOPE WE CAN TRANSFER THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT MEANINGS OF LIFE: LOVE & PEACE, TO OUR EMBRYOS...THAT'S WHILE THE MUSIC, SIGHTS AND FRIENDSHIP PLAY THE BIGGER ROLES IN OUR LIVES. PEOPLE WILL CHOOSE THE INTELLIGENCE, BEAUTIFUL , ETC., GENES FOR THE NEW GENERATIONS. WOULD SOMEONE MAKE SURE THAT THE LOVE & PEACE GENES NEVER WILL DISSAPEAR?CARMEN, C.MENDEZ@SINTEL.CO.UK I THINK THAT WE NEED TO REDIFINE WHAT IS MEANINGFULSILLY GRL, MGRL@PLAZA.WORLD THE YEAR 2000 WILL BE A TIME FOR CHANGE. ALL THE NEGATIVE PUBLICITY FOR 2000 IS COMING MOSTLY FROM HOLLWOOD. TERMINATOR GAVE A BLEAK LOOK AT THE FUTURE, ROBOCOP, PREDATOR 2, AND A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER MOVIES STARTED GIVING PEOPLE THE IMPRESSION THAT THE WORLD WAS GOING TO TURN INTO A SEWER. AND ALL CITIES WOULD BE LIKE A GHETTO AREA. NEW LAWS ARE BEING PASSED EVERYDAY AND THINGS WILL GET BETTER. WE JUST HAVE TO KEEP HOPE AND NOT GIVE ,UP, THE FUTURE IS WHAT WE MAKE OF IT. PLUS, WE CAN ALWAYS LEAVE THE COUNTRY.CHRIS FARRAN, KILLER@PACBELL.NET IN THE YEAR 2000 I THINK THAT EVERYTHING WE SEE NOW IT'S GOING TO GET WORSE; THE COMMUNITY, THE POLICE, AND THE MAN.APRIL HOUSTON, LAMEL@BELLSOUTH.NET BITCH, BITCH, BITCH..UP WITH PEOPLE AND DOWN WITH AMERICA. PLATITUDE BULLSHIT! EVERYONE LOOKS TO THE YEAR 2000 AS SOME DEFINING THRESHOLD FOR THE COURSE OF CIVILIZATION. WELL..WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES 12, EVERYONE WILL CHEER, KISS A BUNCH OF PEOPLE, HAVE ANOTHER DRINK, THEN GOT TO SLEEP. I SERIOUSLY DOUBT THAT THE MONOLITH IS GOING TO LAUNCH IT'S ORWELLIAN STRIKE AS MOST HOPE TO HAPPEN. OTHERWISE, WHAT WOULD THEY HAVE TO BITCH ABOUT?STEPHEN SHULTZ, ALTDOTWEB@EARTHLINK.NET IN THE YEAR 2000 SOCIETY IS GONA BE IN THE SAME MIND STATE, MOVIN TOWARDS TOTALL CORRUPTIONN BIG BUSSINESS RULINMG THE WORLD, 1984 STRAIGHT UP. WHEN YOU FOCUS ON POSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM YOU ARE HELPIN YOURSELF, BUT YOU ARTE NOT LOOKIN AT THE BIG PICTURE. TRUE REVOLUTION IN TODAYS SOCIETY MUST INVOLE VIOLENCE. GHANDI HAD HIS WAY AND DID HIS THING, BUT SO DIDI MAO SE TUNG AND SUBCOMMANDANTE MARCOS. PEOPLE GOTA OPEN THERE EYES, AND SEE THROUGH THE LIES, KRS ONE. WE ARE ALL IN A MIND STATE WHERE THE GOVERMENT AND RULING CLASS (RICH)( FEED US LIES AND WE SWALLOW THEM WHOLE. MATERIALISM, CONSUMERISM, ETC. IKNOW I PARTICIPATE IN THESE WRONGS, BUT AT LEAST I KNOW IT. GOTA GO. YOU GONA HEAR FROM ME AGAIN. STRAIGHT UP REVOLUTION!!!!! POWERE TO THE PEOPLE!!!!JAKOB SCHILLER, KATZ5050@BBOY.COM YEP. I THINK IT'S GOING TO END IN FIRE.CJ, MWR@POLARNET.COM "THEY WON'T KILL US, THIS IS THE 20TH CENTURY..." THE JEWISH FATHER TOLD HIS SON WHILE BEING SHIPPED OFF TO THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS. DOES THIS ONE DAY, DEC. 31, CLEANSE THE PAST OF ITS SIN. IS THIS NEW YEARS RESOLUTION LIKE THE PREVIOUS ONES EXCEPT INSTEAD OF GIVING UP SMOKING OR STICKING TO THAT DIET, GIVE UP GENOCIDE OR END WORLD HUNGER. NOW..I'M NOT ONE OF THOSE 'WE ARE THE WORLD' MUTHAS. I REMEMBER THE OG SHIT, BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN WHATEVER WAS WHICHEVER. 'ONE DAY' WILL FADE AND YOU'LL WAKE UP STINKING OF SMOKE WITH A CAKE IN ONE HAND AND A GUN IN THE OTHER. AND THATS CALLED TOMMOROW. IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HARMONY AND PEACE, YOU NEED TO PRACTICE IT. NOT LIKE GRASSHOPPER AND THE MASTER, BUT IN THE SENSE OF NOW AND HERE AND NOT ON A CALANDER WITH A RED MARKER RING AROUND A DAY SAYING 'TODAY I MUST CHANGE!!' I KNOW THE THOUSAND STAIRS STARTS WITH THAT FIRST STEP, SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? I ENJOY OPTIMISM, JUST AS MUCH AS I ENJOY SMOKING. ITS GONNA KILL ME SOMEDAY.OMEN, SPEED.CRYSTAL@USA.NET THE MENTALS ARE A POWERFUL TOOL... ONE THAT WE TAKE AS A MEGER TRICK. IN THIS NEW TIME THAT IS AT HAND, OUR FACE WILL BE REVEALED TO OUR MIND. THE PETTY IGNORANCE THAT INFECTS AND PLAGUES THE CAPACITY OF THE BRAIN WILL SEE AN END. YET, THERE WILL BE A GREAT STRUGLE FOR THIS JEM. A WAR OF THE CONSCIOUS AND SUBCONSCIOUS WILL APPEAR AS AN OMAN. ONLY THIS SUCH BATTLE WILL ENLIGHTEN THE SOULS OF MANY. PREPARE, MY NATIONS...SEK, SILECK@AOL.COM HOW CAN WE SIT HERE AND TALK ABOUT HOW GREAT THIS NEW MILLENIUM WILL BE, WHEN WE ALL KNOW THAT NOTING IS GOING TO HAPPEN. NOBODY REALLY WANTS CHANGE, AMERICANS ARE ALL STUCK IN THEIR LITTLE BUBBLE CALLED LIFE WITH NO WORRIES, NO NEED TO TRY AND CHANGE THE WAY THINGS ARE. PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT VIOLENCE, GANGS, GUNS, ALL THAT SHIT. ITS NOTHING. ITS ALL A LOAD OF CRAP. AS FOR A REVOLUTION, HELL YEAH IT COULD HAPPEN. BUT NOT IN 2000..... HOW DO YOU EXPECT A REVOLUTION TO TAKE PLACE WHEN AMERICANS ARE KISSING THE GOVERNMENTS ASSES???DESTROY AMERICAN IDEALS AND VALUES, AUTHORITY0@AOL.COM WELL...UMMMM...Y2K? TIME IS A CONSTRUCT OF THE HUMAN MIND. I DIDN'T SAY YOU HAD TO BELIEVE THAT, SO RELAX! AS LONG AS THERE IS TIME, BY THE CLOCK, WE'RE ALWAYS GODDAMN RUNNIN' OUT OF IT. EVER NOTICE THAT? LIKE...HOW LONG YOU GOT LEFT TO LIVE? ANOTHER WAY OF PUTTING IT: THERE IS ALWAYS Y2K, ALWAYS HAS BEEN, ALWAYS WILL BE. THE (NEW?) MILLENIUM IS ALWAYS HAPPENING, IN THIS MOMENT. TIME, CHOPPED AND DICED IN THE GREY UNIVERSE OF FUZZY-LOGIC (IE. NO BLACK AND WHITE, JUST GREY IN INFINITE SHADES) AIN'T. NOW I'LL GET ME AND MY SMART-ASSED COMMENTS BACK TO BUILDING MY WEB PAGE. CHEERS FROM DOWN UNDER...ACTUALLY THERE IS NO OVER/UNDER...AAAARRRGGG!JOHN SWEDEN, JSWEDEN@HOTMAIL.COM THE YEAR 2000. THE YEAR WHEN REVOLUTION WILL AWAKEN AND PEOPLE OF ALL RACES WILL BAND TOGETHER TO FIGHT FOR ONE COMMON CAUSE. HOW BEAUTIFUL...BULLSHIT! HOW THA HELL CAN WE JUST SIT AROUND AND WAIT FOR A YEAR WHICH REALLY STANDZ FOR NUTHING. THINK ABOUT IT. WE BASE OUR YEARS ON THE APROXIMATE DATE OF JESUS' LIFE AND DEATH. IN REALITY THESE DATEZ COULD BE AND ARE PROBABLY WAY OFF. NATURE DOESN'T CARE WHEN JESUS DIED AND I'M NOT TOO SURE IF I DO EITHER. I MEAN WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? FUCK WAITING TWO MORE YEARS. I'M READY NOW. WE AREN'T WAITING FOR THE RIGHT TIME. WE ARE SIMPLY MAKING IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO BARK AND BARK. TRY PUTTING YOUR REVOLUTION WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS. WE COULD HAVE A LOT DONE BY 2000. THE WAY IT LOOKS RIGHT NOW, WHEN THA MILLENIUM DOEZ COME WE'LL PROBABLY JUST SIT AND WAIT FOR THE NEXT. RIGHT NOW IS WHAT MATTERS. LETS DO THIS.NATHAN KREKEL, BISHOP-KREKEL@MINDSPRING.COM I BELIEVE WE AS A SOCIETY NEED TO PRIORITIZE. WHAT IS REAL? MONEY? FAME? FORTUNE? BULLSHIT!WHAT IS REAL IS THIS PUNY BLUE-GREEN SPEC THAT WE ARE CARELESSLY FLOATING ON. WE ARE KILLING IT (AND OURSELVES) FASTER THAN WE CARE TO BELIEVE.THERE WILL BE A DAY WHEN WE RAISE OUR COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS, OPEN OUR EYES AND DECIDE ENOUGH IS FUCKING ENOUGH. WE HAVE LOST TOUCH WITH REALITY SO QUICKLY THATIF SOMETHING MONUMENTAL WAS TO TAKE PLACE I HARDLY BELIEVE WE WOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES AS GENERATIONS OF ONLY 100-200 YEARS AGO COULD. PEOPLE WEARE SUCCESSFULLY ELIMINATING A MILLION YEAR OLD SPECIES IN ONLY THE CENTURY OR TWO. LET US USE OUR IMMENSE COLLECTIVE ENERGY TO WORK ON HEALING THE PLANET AND OURSELVES.WE CAN AND DON'T YOU EVER THINK YOU CAN'T. JUST TURN IT OFF!WHEW ... THAT'S BETTER.MICHAEL VANBREDERODE, MICHAELV@PASSPORT.CA PEOPLE NEED TO STOP JUST BLINDLY TAKEN WHAT IS GIVEN TO THEM OR DO WHAT IS EXPECTED OF THEM. PEOPLE FROM THE GHETTO JUST KEEP LIVING THEIR "GHETTO" LIFESTYLE, WHAT IS EXPECTED. IT THEY WANT TO LEAVE THE GHETTO, THEY NEED TO RISE ABOVE THAT AND WORK TO BECOME A BETTER PERSON. NO ONE GETS STUCK IN THE GHETTO, THEY JUST DON'T WANT TO WORK HARD ENOUGH TO GET OUT. WITH THE COMING MILENIUM, PEOPLE NEED TO EXPECT MORE THAN WHAT'S ON TV AND WHAT THEY'RE BEING FED. THEY NEED TO STIMULATE THEIR MIND AND STAND UP FOR THEIR OWN BELIEFS, NOT JUST TAKE WHAT THOUGHT AND BELIEFS ARE HANDED TO THEM ON TV OR EXPECTED OF THEM. UNTIL PEOPLE TRY TO STAND UP FOR THEIR RIGHTS AND THEIR BELIEFS, THEN THEY CAN NEVER BE FREE. THES NEEDS TO HAPPEN, AND SOON, OR SOCIETY WILL CONTINUE ON IT'S DOWNWARD SPIRAL UNTIL WE ARE ALL A BUNCH OF IDIOTS GET THEIR LIVES AND THOUGHTS FROM THE MINDLESS GARBAGE ON TV.MATT, MRT@ROCK.COM I BELIEVE THAT IN THE YEAR 2000, THAT FEEDOM WILL BE TAKEN WITH THE SIGNING OF A PIECE OF PAPER. BAR CODES WILL BE IMPLEMENTED. BIG BUSSINES WILL BE IT. NO MORE FAMILY OWNED SHOPS OR BUSSINESES.SCOTT PFEIFFER , BUZMAN420@AOL.COM THE YEAR 2000 REPRESENTS TO ME SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT THAN THE NEXT MAN. I HAVE SEEN THE DESTRUCTION CAUSED BY PEOPLE THROUGH MY STUDIES ALL THROUGH TIME. I FEEL THIS WILL CONTINUE, UNLESS WE OURSELVES STRIVE TO CHANGE THE WORLD. I GO TO COLLEG AND STUDE BUSINESS. HOPEFUL I CAN MAKE A DIFERENCE AND CHANGE THINGS. I COACH COMMUNITY BASKETBALL AND TEACH YOUNGER KIDS TO LEARN AND UNDERSTAND RIGHT AS OPPOSED TO LISTENING TO WHAT IS TOLD TO YOU.WE MUST TEACH PEOPLE OR THEY SHALL FOLLOW WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN TAUGHT..AND AS FDAR AS THEN NEXT MILLENIUM IT WILL BE LIFE AW WE MAKE OF IT..WHEN PEOPLE SAY WILL TOMORROW BE SUNNY OR RAINY...YOU ARE ALREADY LOOKING AT THE DOWNSIDE..NO SAY INSTEAD TOMORROW WILL BE SUNNY.IF NOT I WILL MAKE IT..DONT QUESTION THE FUTURE ACCEPT THE PRESENTANGEL RESTO JR, ANGELRESTOJR@MSN.COM FUNK DAT.AARON STEPHANIC, ALEPH808@AOL.COM THE NEW MILLENIUM IS NOT SO MUCH OF A NEW SET OF NUMBERS FOR A DATE, RATHER FOR A NEW TYPE OF REVOLUTION. WE HAVE HAD EVENTSSUCH AS THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, ANDEVEN THE TECHOLOGICAL REVOLUTION. WE HAVE RUN OUT NOW. THE NEXT WILLBE THE NEW WORLD REVOLUTION. SOCIETY IS ALREADY CONFORMING TO UNITARIAN EVOLUTIONS, SUCH AS THE INTERNET, WHERE YOU CAN DO JUST ABOUT ANYTHING, MORE COMMUNICATIONMEASURES (PAGERS, CELL PHONES), UNIVERSAL CREDIT CARDS. SOONSOCIETY WILL BE FUSED INTO ONE MASSIVE COMMUNITY WITH ONE ECONOMY,STARTING WITH ONE TYPE OF MONETARY EXCHANGEE. WHAT MAKES THE YEAR2000 SO IMPORTANT IS THAT THE ECONOMY IS AT THE POSSIBILITY OF CRASHING DUE TO THE YEAR 2000 COMPUTER DILEMNA THAT WILL TAKEPLACE. WHAT WOULD BE A BETTER TIME TO START THE PROCESS OF A GLOBAL ECONOMY?RENEE REYNOLDS, RLREYNOLDS@HOTMAIL.COM 2000 AND BEYOND. I SEE THAT WE ARE MOVING TOWARDS NUMBNESS. SITCOMS AND PRE PACKAGED LAUGHTER AND MUSIC AND CLOTHING AND SPEECH. WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO BUT SIT ON OUR SYNTHETIC LEATHER SOFAS AND SWALLOW WHAT IS FED. PLASTIC IS THE FUTURE. PREFAB PLASTIC AND DEVOID OF DIRT OR ORGANIC SHAPE. POSITIVIST THINKING ONLY GLORIFIES THIS. HOORAY FOR AMERICA, HOORAY FOR SUGARY POP AND SEINFELD AND MOON PANTS AND CAFFEINATED BEVERAGES, HOORAY FOR TREADMILLS.NANCY KANG, NKANG@TIGER.LSU.EDU THE MILLENIUM! IT'S POTHETIC HOW WE MAKE SUCH A BIG DEAL OUT OF A BUNCH OF NUMBERS WHICH WE THINK SYMBOLIZES SOMETHING SPECIAL. A NEW DAWN, A BRAND NEW START, RIGHT!!!WHEN ARE WE GONNA REALIZE "THE MILLENIUM" IS JUST A BUNCH OF HYPE PUT TOGETHER BY CORPORATE AMERICA TO MAKE MORE DOLLARS. MOST OF US HAVE FALLEN FOR THE IDEA THAT THE YEAR 2000 REALLY SYMBOLIZES SOMETHING. HEY!! IT DOES'NT, ITS MAN-MADE, A DECEPTION TO GIVE YOU FALSE HOPE OF THE COMING OF SOME EXTRAORDINARY EVENT. THEY TELL YOU TO BE PREPARED FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, BE PREPARED FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER, BE PREPARED FOR THE DAWNING OF THE NEW AGE. EVERYBODY HAS AN AGENDA FOR THE YEAR 2000. EVERYBODY WANTS TO GET IN ON THE BANDWAGON.LETS WAKE UP FOR ONCE AND NOT FALL PREY TO THE MONSTER WE CALL MASS MEDIA, LETS WAKE UP AND UNDERSTAND THE UNIVERSE DOES NOT RECOGNIZE "THE MILLENIUM" AS A SPECIAL DAY. ITS JUST ONE MORE SUNRISE AND SUNSET, THAT'S ALL.LETS STOP GIVING OURSELVES FALSE HOPES.LETS LIVE EACH DAY LIKE IT IS "THE MILLENIUM" THEN WE WON'T HAVE A NEED TO WAIT FOR THAT DAY IN ORDER TO CONTEMPLATE POSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM, WE CAN START RIGHT NOW, THEN MAYBE WE WON'T NEED SUCH BULL TO MAKE OUR LIVES MORE MEANNINGFULL.MAKE TODAY YOUR "MILLENIUM".RESONANCE, NOOSHMAN@HOTMAIL.COM SHOOT. AFTER READING ALL THIS STUFF ABOUT WHAT WE WILL DO,WHAT WE WILL BECOME, WHERE WE ARE HEADED I BEGIN TO THINKTHAT WE NEED TO GET A BETTER SENSE OF OURSELVES. 'NUFF OFTHE ADOLESCENT SOB-SOULED FOLLOWING OF OTHERS. FUCK WHAT WE WILL BECOME...WHAT WILL YOU BECOME? SO MUCH OF WHATI JUST READ MAKES ME THINK THAT TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE WAITINGAROUND FOR SOMETHING GREAT TO HAPPEN. IT WONT, TRUST ME,UNLESS EACH OF US GOES FOR IT. IT'S THAT SIMPLE. LOOK, NO GRAF ARTIST WAITED AROUND ON HIS BUTT TO SEE WHAT WOULD BE THE NEXT STYLE, WHAT WALL WOULD BE BOMBED, WHOWOULD HIT THE NEXT CAR...SHIT NAH...YOU GOTTA GET UP, GRABTHE POSSIBILITIES THAT WAIT AROUND THE CORNER IN 2000, ANDFRIGGIN DO SOMETHING WITH EM!!! THE NUMBER ONE RULE IS AS FOLLOWS (I HAVE GONE FAR WITHTHIS RULE. I AM NOT A CULT LEADER, A RELIGIOUS FREAK,OR ANYTHING TO BE SCARED OF. I AM JUST A GUY, LIVING.)LOVE EACH OTHER. THAT'S IT. EVERYONE HAD A MOM, AND ATE POPSICLES AND WAS THREE YEARSOLD AT ONE TIME. WE ALL STARTED OUT WITH GRAND IDEAS ANDPURE LOVE. KEEP THAT IN MIND.OKAY. THATS MY SAY.BYE.THOMAS HEFFERNAN, THEFFERN@NEWSSUN.MED.MIAMI.EDU SO DIVERSE, SO WIDE, SO EVERYTHING, HUMANITY BELIEVES HE WILL BE STRONGER, ELSE THE WORLD IS COMING TO THE END. 2000, THE DAY...THE DAY...WHAT WILL HAPPEN, YOU CAN COUNT ON FOOLISHNESS, NO MATTER HOW OPTIMISTIC ... NO MATTER HOW PESSISMISTIC, THE WORLD IS THE WAY IT IS. I AM AFRAID OF THE NEW MELLINUM, ALREDY ADVERTISERS HAVE MADE SALES AROUND IT, ALREADY THE CULTS ARE FORMED. WE'RE TOO INVOLVED TO SEE OURSELVES WITH OBJECTIVE EYES, WERE ALL IN FOR WHAT HAPPENS, WITH TIME THINGS CHANGE BUT PEOPLE ARE NOT FOCUSED ENOUGH, YES, I AGREE IT IS TIME FOR THE REVOLUTION...WHO'S IN IT? WHO'S READY FOR A STRUGGLE THAT LASTS A LIFETIME....WHO REALIZES WHAT THAT IS?CORINNE, GREEN8@IX.NETCOM.COM "WHAT DO YOU THINK?" DO YOU MEAN WHAT DO I PUT INTO WORDS? I THINK IN A COLLAGE OF IMAGES, SENSE, EMOTIONS, SOUNDBYTES FROM CHILDHOOD, FROM YESTERDAY, FROM I-WISH-IWOULD-HAVE-SAID-THAT'S, FROM DREAMED-OF TOMORROWS, AND WHERE DOES IT GET YOU? SOMEPLACE TO UNDERSTAND ME? SORRY, NOT IN THE FEW MINUTES HERE; LIFE HAS BEEN TOO DENSE, TO FULL OF ANGLES, ANGELS, ANGERS, ANGST, AND AFFIRMATIONS. SO, I PUT INTO WORDS (I'VE AUTHORED 5 BOOKS FOR ADULTS, 8 FOR CHILDREN, AND YOU WANT ME TO PUT INTO WORDS, WHAT, THE MUSIC I HEAR, THE FREEDOM I WANT TO EXHALE, THE COLORS AND SMELLS OF THE PEOPLE LIVING INSIDE ME, THE UNKNOWNS THAT SWELL UP LIKE A WIND AND BLOW THROW MY EYES?). MAYBE IF I TALK LONG ENOUGH, NO ONE WILL ASK ME THAT SILLY QUESTION AGAIN. AT ARMS LENGTH. SAFE IN CYBERLAND. FOR THE MILLENIUM I HOPE TO WATCH MY DAUGHTER GROW AND LAUGH, I HOPE TO MAKE MUSIC, I HOPE. LIKE PANDORA.TOBIN JAMES MUELLER, TOBIN@SPARKNET.NET YO THIS IS WHAT MIGHT GO DOWN-ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN. NOTHIN WILL CHANGE, HA IM WRONG CHANGE WILL OCCUR EITHER OVER AVERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME (LETS SAY 10 YEARS) OR IT WILLTAKE CENTURIES, SO LETS HOPE FOR A NICE SHORT WORLD WIDEREVOLUTION, OH YA U CANT WAIT FOR THIS THAT ISNT THE IDEAU GOT TO GO AND MAKE IT HAPPEN (PROACTIVE-HEY IT WORKS) SOY'ALL GO OUT AND MAKE THIS HAPPEN. OH YA I'LL TELL U ABOUTA LITTLE SATORI(FLASH OF ENLIGHTENMENT) I HAD FOR AN INSTANT I REALIZED WHAT THE WORLD WAS LIKE, THEN IT WAS GONE-OH YAIT WASNT A GOOD FEELING. OPTITMISM\NEGATIVITY I DONT NOW BUTI WANTED TO WRITE THE PROCEDING STUFF SO I DID.ATARI TEENAGE RIOT, NEW KINGDOM CHECK EM OUT THEIR TERRORMAD VISIONARYS DESTROY 2000 YEARS OF CULTUREANDREW LANGILLE, JEST90@HOTMAIL.COM BY THE YEAR 2000, EVEN THOUGH WE LIVE IN CONSTANT NEGATIVITYPOSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM WILL FLOW BECAUSE THE REALIZATION WILLBE MADE THAT WE ALL CONTROL OUR OWN FATE AND WE ALL HOLD THE POWERTO CHANGE ALL THIS INTO WHATEVER WE WANT. WE ALL OUR OUR OWN GODS AND WITH THAT REALIZATION WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT AND CHANGE WHATEVERWE WANT TO THE BETTER. PEACEBHUPESH PATTNI, BHUPESH@VIRGINIA.LIB.MN.US I ONLY HOPE THAT THE WATER ON THE MOON WON'T LEAD THE US GOVERNMENT: TO APPLY UNO SANCTIONS AGAINST THE ABORIGINAL POPULATION, TO SELL "FIRE-WATER" TO THE MAN IN THE MOON TO GET HIM DRUNKEN, TO BUY SOUTHAMERICANS TO WORK IN THE MINES ON THE MOON, TO BOMB THEIR OWN SPACE-CRAFTS AND SAY THAT THE MOON-INTEGRISTS HAVE DONE IT.I ONLY HOPE THAT THE MOON WILL BECOME ERVERYONES HOME AND THAT THE LOVERS OF THE WORLD WILL NOT LOOSE IT THANKS TO UNCLE SAM.I NEVER WANT TO HEAR ON THE MONN BROADCASTING:DIME CON QUIEN ANDAS Y TE DIRE GO HOME . ( TELL ME WHO YOU MIX WITH AND I ANSWER GO HOME)PABLO A. PAKULA (P.A.P), PAKULA@UA.ES WARS, WHAT IS THE CAUSE? CIVILIONS APPLAUSEFOR ENEMY LOSTS, STATE IN ALARMFASE ONE, SOLDIERS PICK UP GUNS AND SHOOT ETHNICAL MINORITIES, ATOMIC BOMBS DROPPED IN SEAS, TEST 1,2 ALL FOR THE BIG GEESSPOTS GETTIN' HOT WHEN THEY ROCK THA SHITSNEAKY ATTACKS NOW FACTS, IN THE LINE OF FIRE WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE, PACIFISTS STRUGGLE TO ABOLISH, EINSTEIN PROFESSOR IN ATOMICAL COLLEGE, LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS AND MOTHERS SLAUGHTERED IN GOD'S NAME. PRESIDENTS COMPLAININ BACK YARDS ROCKETS TO THROW ON BLAMES, FRONTPAGE FAME,BOTH SIDES IT'S ALL THE SAME, ON MENTAL LEVELS I GOT PERSPECTIVES ON NEW TACTICS, TO DEVELOP LIKE IN WARFARESEYECONTACT WHILE SHAKIN' HANDS, IF NOT MENTAL BATTLE IS PROCEDURE, PSYCHOLOGICAL BEATINGS FOR BIG MOUTHED CHEATERSTHE OVERSEENERS ANCIENT ART MASTERS, WE HAVE WARS AGAINST DISASTERSD-WAY, ANCIENT SCRIPTURESINFLUENCHAL, PEDAN@POWERSTAR.NL THE TWO-GRAND PROMISES HARRY, MASCULINE, BLIND-FOLDED, ESTROGEN-INDUCED, BALLERINA’S LEAPING FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM, KNOW NOT WHERE THEY WILL LAND (FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING). "TO EFFECTIVELY PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE ONE MUST OBJECTIVELY UNDERSTAND THE PAST."THE WAR CONTINUES. WE HAVE KNOWN THIS WAR SINCE OUR ANCESTORS WERE RUN OUT OF EGYPT BY THE ENEMY. WE HAVE KNOWN THIS WAR SINCE OUR FORE MOTHERS SWUNG PREGNANT FROM TREES (GIVING BIRTH TO THE STRUGGLE OF BRINGING THEIR FORSAKEN SOULS PEACE). TODAY, AS THE MINDS OF OUR BABIES ARE RAPED WITH NINE MM. DREAMS, A SACK OF SOULLESS JOY, AND THE VISION OF DEVILS AS ULTIMATE BEAUTY, WE SEEM TO HAVE SOME HOW FORGOTTEN THIS WAR. REALISTICALLY, AS THE WAR HAS CHANGED APPEARANCES BEFORE, IT SHALL CHANGE APPEARANCES AGAIN. AS THE EUROPEAN’S PLAN OF DOMINATION IS CONSUMMATED BY THE PRESENT DOCILITY OF THE BLACK MAN AND WOMAN, THE VISION OF THE WAR WILL CHANGE AGAIN. REARING IT’S UGLY HEAD OUT OF ASHES OF A BURNING CROSS THE FACE OF THE WAR WILL APPEAR IN ITS TRUE FORM AS THE WHITE WARRIORS WILL MAKE AN ATTEMPT (AGAIN) TO PHYSICALLY DECIMATE OUR RACE. WITH NO WAY OF BRINGING WEAPONS, FOOD, OR SUPPLIES TO OUR COMMUNITIES, WE WILL BE IN THE ULTIMATE COMPROMISING POSITION. THE YEAR 2000 WILL BE THE YEAR IN WHICH WE HAVE THE CHANCE TO AVENGE THE SOULS OF OUR PROUD ANCESTORS. THE YEAR THAT WILL PROMISE A LESSON OF FIERCE CONSEQUENCES. 2000 WILL BE THE YEAR OF FREEDOM (ONE WAY OR ANOTHER).I CANNOT APOLOGIZE FOR NOT EXPRESSING SOME CHILDISH VISION OF IDEALISM. THE FUTURE, NO MATTER HOW OPTIMISTICALLY VIEWED, HOLDS THE POTENTIAL OF COMPLETE GENOCIDE AS WELL AS TOTAL EMANCIPATION. WAR HAS NEVER BEEN PRETTY-NO MATTER WHAT YEAR IT IS FOUGHT IN. -REVOLUTION NOW!TEHUTI, SUPERBLACK@HOTMAIL.COM UNFORTUNATELY, THE MILLENIUM WILL BE JUST ANOTHER YEAR FOR MOST OF US. ONE BIG PARTY, FOLLOWED BY FALLING BACK INTO OUR OLD WAYS. BUT LET'S BE A LITTLE POSITIVE AND HOPE THAT, FOR SOME OF US, IT WILL BE A MOMENT TO RECONSIDER OURSELVES, TO OPEN OUR EYES TO WHAT IS AROUND US, TO ACCEPT OUR HUMANITY AND TO TRY A LITTLE HARDER TO MAKE OUR WORLD A NICER PLACE TO LIVE!SPIKE, SPIKE@MANACLED.DEMON.CO.UK WHOM AM I..?? WHOM WILL I BE..??IN THE NEXT MILLENIUM.. I`LL GET THE REVOLUTION IN MY MIND..WHO WILL GIVE A SHIT ABOUT POSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM?? WHO CARES..I THINK I'LL CHANGE.. BUT WHAT IS LEFT..?? NOTHING..?? OR SOMETHING WAITS FOR ME..WILL I`LL BE LOOKING UP..?? OR I`LL BE LOOKING DOWN..??THIS REALLY LOOKS LIKE A RIDDLE.. TOO MANY QUESTIONS COME AT MY MIND.. AND I CAN`T ANSWER EVEN ONE..MAYBE I SHOULD BE OPTIMIST AND WAIT FOR THE NEXT "WORLD".. FOR THE NEW CHANGES THAT COME OVER..WELL IF IT DOESN'T WORK AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO..SO I`LL STILL BE THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE THAT COMES AFTER THE NEXT MILLENIUM.. AFTER ALL THE YEARS THAT THE EARTH AND THE HUMANITY HAS LEFT..WHO KNOWS?? MAYBE IN HEAVEN OR MAYBE IN HELL I`LL STILL BE THINKING.."WHAT IS NEXT??"GALO STEVEN TUTIVéN, STEVENRAPTOR@ROCKETMAIL.COM AH, YES, "THE MILLENIUM IS APPROACHING, THE MILLENIUM IS APPROACHING!" THE FACELESS RIDER SHOUTS AS THEY RIDE A CYBERNETIC HORSE DOWN AN ELECTRONIC WALL STREET... ALL GOD'S CHILLUN ARE GOING TO WALK TALL INTO THE Y2K, BUT WHILE WE'VE GOT OUR HEADS' TO THE SKY WE'VE GOT TO WATCH JUST WHERE IT IS WE'RE STEPPING. THE POWERS-THAT-BE DO NOT WANT THE REVOLUTION TO BE TELEVISED. THE POWERS-THAT-BE DON'T CARE ABOUT THE "WATCHING THE WORLD WAKING UP TO HISTORY/RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW". AND THEY ARE DEVOID-OF-FUNK/THEY WILL NOT DANCE. AS WE GO INTO THE Y2K WE BETTER BE WATCHING OVER OUR SHOULDERS BECAUSE THEY WANT BUSINESS-AS-USUAL AND YOU KNOW THAT THIS MEANS NO POSITIVITY AND OPTIMISM UNLESS THEY CAN CONTROL IT AND DOLE IT OUT IN MEASURED SPOONFULS. THING OF IT IS, THOUGH, I THINK THEY UNDERESTIMATED JUST HOW LARGE OUR MOUTHS ARE AND HOW MANY SPOONFULS WE CAN TAKE. "THE MILLENIUM IS COMING"... YEAH, AND ALL THE RIDERS ON THIS BUS HAVE BEEN WAITING A LONG TIME TO GET THERE. I SAY WE GET THERE IN STYLE, BUT WITH OUR GAME-FACES ON. I CAME TO PLAY, COACH...FIRST DOWN!JOSEPH A., JOSEPHRA@WELLSFARGO.COM IF I SAY NO TO POSITIVITY IT IS A SELFFULLFILLING THING. IF I SAY YES I DOUBT IT THE NEXT MINUTE. SO I SAY: LET'S SEE. AND I SAY: LET'S FIND OUT. MOST OF ALL WE WILL HAVE TO FIND LOTS O' THINGS OUT TOGETHER. AND: WE WILL REPORT. PROMISED?ALBERT, KUHN@POP.AGRI.CH WHEN THE REVOLUTION COMES, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COMES THERE WILL BE A FORD EXPLORER IN EVERY DRIVEWAYAND RED SNAPPER SIZZLIN ON THE GRILL . EVERY BOY AND EVERY GIRL WILL BE DRESSED IN REVOLUTION GEAR .RACE WILL NO LONGER BE OF CONCERN FOR CONSCIOUSNESS WILL OVERRIDE IGNORANCE . NIKE WILL NO LONGERHOLD US CAPTIVE AND APPLE PIE FOR EVERYONE .P.S. I HEAR THE MASONS ARE GONNA HAVE A BIG BASH AT THE PYRAMIDS TO WELCOME THE RETURN OF OSIRIS .BEST BELIEVE I'M GONNA BE THERE TO SEE THIS ...ZUZU-HANIM, HANIM @ ZUZU.COM THE NEXT MILLINIUM WILL GET US HUMAN BEEINGS PROBABLY DEEPER IN THE SHIT. THE WORLD IS SO-CALLED "PROGRESSING", BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ENVIROMENT? POSSITIVITY IS NEEDED THOUGH. CAUSE WITHOUT THAT, WHERE WE GONNA BE?INFLUENCHAL, PEDAN@POWERSTAR.NL THE NEW MILLENIUM WILL BRING FORTH FRESH PERSPECTIVES AND VISIONS OF A 21ST CENTURY LIFESTYLE. PEOPLE WILL TAKE THE TIME TO REASSESS THEIR LIVES AND REALIZE THAT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHANGE ARE IN ORDER. WITH THIS IN MIND, LET'S SHAKE SHIT UP . . . REVOLUTION!GLORIA LELUIA, REVOLUTION@FABRIC8.COM |
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