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helen99Every so often I go back and look at the Illuminatus! Trilogy, and I find something in there that has spread like a viral meme through populations since the writing of that book - and is now accepted by a subset of those populations as fact. Take a look at the second stoned man... This was written long before "low-carb" diets were semi-popular and then ridiculed and then popular again and then fading again..
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"Five stoned men were in a courtyard when an elephant entered.
The first man was stoned on sleep, and he saw not the elephant but dreamed instead of things unreal to those awake.
The second man was stoned on nicotine, caffeine, DDT, carbohydrate excess, protein deficiency and the other chemicals in the diet which the Illuminati have enforced upon the half-awake to keep them from fully waking. “Hey”, he said, “there’s a big, smelly beast in our courtyard.”
The third stoned man was on grass, and he said, “No, dads, that’s the
Ghostly Old Party in its’ true nature, the Dark Nix on the Soul”, and he
giggled in a silly way.
The fourth stoned man was tripping on peyote, and he said, “You see
not the mystery, for the elephant is a poem written in tons instead of
words”, and his eyes danced.
The fifth stoned man was on acid, and he said nothing, merely worshipping
the elephant in silence as the Father of Buddha.
And then the Heirophant entered and drove a nail of mystery into all
their hearts, saying, “You are all elephants!”
Nobody understood him."
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"Five stoned men were in a courtyard when an elephant entered.
The first man was stoned on sleep, and he saw not the elephant but dreamed instead of things unreal to those awake.
The second man was stoned on nicotine, caffeine, DDT, carbohydrate excess, protein deficiency and the other chemicals in the diet which the Illuminati have enforced upon the half-awake to keep them from fully waking. “Hey”, he said, “there’s a big, smelly beast in our courtyard.”
The third stoned man was on grass, and he said, “No, dads, that’s the
Ghostly Old Party in its’ true nature, the Dark Nix on the Soul”, and he
giggled in a silly way.
The fourth stoned man was tripping on peyote, and he said, “You see
not the mystery, for the elephant is a poem written in tons instead of
words”, and his eyes danced.
The fifth stoned man was on acid, and he said nothing, merely worshipping
the elephant in silence as the Father of Buddha.
And then the Heirophant entered and drove a nail of mystery into all
their hearts, saying, “You are all elephants!”
Nobody understood him."
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Date: 2005-04-26 07:16 pm (UTC)Spooky Rats
Date: 2005-04-26 07:31 pm (UTC)http://crap.jinwicked.com/?j=133
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