From: vagans@inanna.eanna.net   
      
   In article <3FC5286A.301@hotmail.com>, Alienthe   wrote:   
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   >Sourcerer wrote:   
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   >> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Alienthe wrote:   
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   > From what I can remember, Eanna means something about being   
   >dedicated to Ea/Enki right? That doesn't look too dystopic   
   >either... Is your archive coming on-line soon? Seems several   
   >regulars around here are about to get their big irons on-line   
   >and so do I, broadband finally arrived around here.   
      
   I will probably not put it online, however, several have   
   requested it, and if I can find a spot to leave an 18Mb   
   tarball, they can d'load it.   
      
   I believe the E in Eanna means 'house', i.e., the house of   
   'Anna, or Inanna. The Eanna is the goddess's house in Uruk.   
   Ea's or Enki's house, the Abzu, is in Eridu.   
      
   I believe the US army believes it is in possession of them   
   these days.   
      
   We almost had a discussion about Jaynes awhile back. Have you   
   read him?   
      
      
      
   >"High desert"? That explains that bit about enjoying "desperate   
   >situations". You are lucky if you have reliable weather, anyway,   
   >thanks to sparse population here I can still enjoy starry skies.   
   >I must admit when sitting outdoors on a quiet, dark, starry night   
   >enjoying a cup of Japanese green tea (for that extra cyberpoint)   
   >life does not feel that dystopic.   
      
   We can see Arches and Canyonland national parks from our yard.   
   The weather is cold and bright. The evening star appears like   
   a laser in the cobalt blue sky...which is inspiring as hell,   
   except that the gas furnace died two weeks ago and our heat's   
   been a woodburning stove (and now christmas tree lights).   
      
   They're installing a new furnace today.   
      
      
      
   >> We also left because we don't trust the infrastructure anymore in cities   
   >> and burbs. County-sized firestorms and regional-sized blackouts are just   
   >> the beginning. We decided to not wait around for the food riots. Just   
   >> doin' that survival thang...   
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   >Well, deserts tend not to be that inflammable and with the   
   >predicted near permanent rainfall nothing much will ever   
   >catch fire. I have seen the occational overlap of interest   
   >between cyberpunk and survivalism, personally I am only   
   >considering getting a generator and an UPS.   
      
   I didn't mean to give the impression that Poly and I are   
   "survivalists". We're just careful 8-) I've lived thru a   
   period of urban decline and the present situation stirs my   
   recollection. The suburbs will deteriorate, too, this time.   
      
   Whether or not the next few years are to be experienced as   
   'dystopic' or not depends a lot on how well one deals with   
   disorienting change. We think lots of Americans are not   
   prepared to deal with that, so we have distanced ourselves   
   from the mainstream. Although we're living back in 'nature'   
   we haven't gone "back to nature" or "up the country" or   
   become Luddite. Our circumstances are very technical and   
   fwd looking.   
      
   The future to look fwd to is in the wastelands...   
      
      
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