kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan) (03/25/88)
This question arrived in the mail; it seems several people are interested in the answer, as my confused "going away" posting seemed to lead to a lot of confusion. As most of you know by now, I got some more bad news in my ongoing divorce proceedings, and committed myself to a psychiatric hospital for two weeks to get some protection from my quite suicidal feelings. Anyway, here is the question, and my best answer. Kent. >Hey, I thought you were going to save the world from itself >by running for president. What happened? Well, I'm still running, but I had to take a short time off to recommit myself to a hospital until I cooled off over more lawyer trash from my divorce. It turned out for the better, as they put me on a course of anti-depressants much better than the ones I gave up on 14 months ago because I couldn't take the fuzzyness they caused. Now I'm clear headed and much less unhappy. The two weeks was like a vacation; not like the last, three month hospitalization. I seriously doubt that I will save the world. My more modest goal is to bring to the attention of people young enough and bright enough to make use of it, the political possibilities of being networked together by this wonderful communications mechanism. We can organize ourselves into a useful political force, if we can agree on common objectives and actually take seriously the responsibility of carrying the word from the net to the rest of the nation. I have chosen to focus on a common goal of diverting the money and manufacturing capability currently spent on war and getting ready for war, to the more beneficial activities involved to establish a human heavy industrial presence in space. I am not an intellectual heavyweight with respect to economics, politics, military force, or space activities; I am merely a committed individual who believes the human race cannot long survive restricted to this one planet's worth of ever diminishing resources with our ever expanding population. I have read too many future dystopia novels to think we can endure even my own lifespan on our present course, and I have three children to whom I would like to leave a world with a chance of fruitful, productive, fulfilling, happy lives. So, help the cause, spread the word, help make the Birthright Party something more than a trace of light on 12,000 monitors. The rallying cry is "Kent for President", but the goal is to return the largest imaginable frontier to the human race, and give us again the feeling of a species limited only by our imagination. Kent, the man from xanth. Join the "KENT FOR PRESIDENT" effort in talk.bizarre!
hooker@tramp.Colorado.EDU (HOOKER DEVIN J) (03/26/88)
In article <4601@xanth.cs.odu.edu> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
!This question arrived in the mail; it seems several people are
!interested in the answer, as my confused "going away" posting seemed
!to lead to a lot of confusion. As most of you know by now, I got some
!more bad news in my ongoing divorce proceedings, and committed myself
!to a psychiatric hospital for two weeks to get some protection from my
!quite suicidal feelings. Anyway, here is the question, and my best
!answer. Kent.
!
!>Hey, I thought you were going to save the world from itself
!>by running for president. What happened?
!
!Well, I'm still running, but I had to take a short time off to
!recommit myself to a hospital until I cooled off over more lawyer
!trash from my divorce. It turned out for the better, as they put me
!on a course of anti-depressants much better than the ones I gave up on
!14 months ago because I couldn't take the fuzzyness they caused. Now
!I'm clear headed and much less unhappy. The two weeks was like a
!vacation; not like the last, three month hospitalization.
!
!I seriously doubt that I will save the world. My more modest goal is
!to bring to the attention of people young enough and bright enough to
!make use of it, the political possibilities of being networked
!together by this wonderful communications mechanism. We can organize
!ourselves into a useful political force, if we can agree on common
!objectives and actually take seriously the responsibility of carrying
!the word from the net to the rest of the nation.
!
!I have chosen to focus on a common goal of diverting the money and
!manufacturing capability currently spent on war and getting ready for
!war, to the more beneficial activities involved to establish a human
!heavy industrial presence in space. I am not an intellectual
!heavyweight with respect to economics, politics, military force, or
!space activities; I am merely a committed individual who believes the
!human race cannot long survive restricted to this one planet's worth
!of ever diminishing resources with our ever expanding population. I
!have read too many future dystopia novels to think we can endure even
!my own lifespan on our present course, and I have three children to
!whom I would like to leave a world with a chance of fruitful,
!productive, fulfilling, happy lives.
!
!So, help the cause, spread the word, help make the Birthright Party
!something more than a trace of light on 12,000 monitors. The rallying
!cry is "Kent for President", but the goal is to return the largest
!imaginable frontier to the human race, and give us again the feeling
!of a species limited only by our imagination.
!
!Kent, the man from xanth.
!
!Join the "KENT FOR PRESIDENT" effort in talk.bizarre!
Alright! That's what I like. Kent, did you ever see my railgun post? If not, I'll post it again for you:
You place an ablative sheild around the payload - this burns off when you reach high speeds instead of the payload...
Anyway, you want to make official my self-appointed post in my .sig? Or give me an equivalent post? Thanks!
-All of us
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