http://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=ifeeldizzy 2000-11-25T05:01:06Z http://everything2.org:80/user/ifeeldizzy/writeups/Buy+Nothing+Dayifeeldizzyhttp://everything2.org:80/user/ifeeldizzy2000-11-25T05:01:06Z2000-11-25T05:01:06Z Though Buy Nothing Day is observed on the day after the <a href="/title/U.S.">U.S.</a>'s Thanksgiving Day (the commencement of <a href="/title/America">America</a>'s grotesquely gluttonous 'shopping season'), it is now celebrated <a href="/title/international">international</a>ly. Yearly, <a href="/title/culture-jammer">culture-jammer</a>s all over the globe take this day to <a href="/title/subvert">subvert</a> <a href="/title/mass">mass</a> <a href="/title/consumerism">consumerism</a>. Yee Haw.<br><br> On the Adbusters website, there several '<a href="/title/uncommercial">uncommercial</a>s' for Buy Nothing Day. They'll send out a tape of their TV uncommercial to anyone who has somewhere to play it. So far, <a href="/title/CNN">CNN</a> is the only network station that'll put it on the air. This is from their radio spot:<blockquote><b> The average <a href="/title/North+American">North American</a> <a href="/title/consume">consume</a>s five times more than a <a href="/title/Mexican">Mexican</a>, ten times more than a <a href="/title/Chinese">Chinese</a> person, and thirty times more than a person from <a href="/title/India">India</a>. (Burp!) We are the most <a href="/title/voracious">voracious</a> consumers in the <a href="/title/world">world</a>... a world that could <a href="/title/die">die</a> because of the way we North Americans live. Give it a rest! November 24th is Buy Nothing Day.</b></blockquote><br>In 2001, it'll be November 23rd.<br> There are some&hellip; http://everything2.org:80/user/ifeeldizzy/writeups/4Q418ifeeldizzyhttp://everything2.org:80/user/ifeeldizzy2000-10-26T03:20:20Z2000-10-26T03:20:20Z These are fragments of wisdom text from the <a href="/title/Dead+Sea+Scrolls">Dead Sea Scrolls</a>, and part of a collection of fragments referred to as both '<a href="/title/The+Secret+of+the+Way+Things+Are">The Secret of the Way Things Are</a>' and 'A <a href="/title/Sapiental">Sapiental</a> Work.' <br><hr><br> <b>Fragment 55</b> <blockquote> ³... in <a href="/title/toil">toil</a> will we dig her paths, we shall have rest<br> ⁴... and <a href="/title/vigilance">vigilance</a> shall be in our hearts ... He will make all our paths <a href="/title/secure">secure</a> ...<br> ⁵... true <a href="/title/knowledge">knowledge</a>, but they did not <a href="/title/seek">seek</a> ... and they did not <a href="/title/choose">choose</a> ... Indeed the God of knowledge<br> ⁶...for truth to <a href="/title/establish">establish</a> all ... insight He has allotted to those who <a href="/title/inherit">inherit</a> truth<br> ⁷... vigilance in ... actions indeed peace and quiet a<br> ⁸... or have you not heard that the holy <a href="/title/angel">angel</a>s ... in heaven<br> ⁹ truth and they traced back all the causes of insight, and they were vigilant concerning<br> ¹⁰... their knowledge, and each man will have honor from his fellow, and his <a href="/title/honor">honor</a> will increase according to his <a href="/title/intelligence">intelligence</a><br> </blockquote>&hellip; http://everything2.org:80/user/ifeeldizzy/writeups/4Q417ifeeldizzyhttp://everything2.org:80/user/ifeeldizzy2000-10-26T01:35:35Z2000-10-26T01:35:35Z These are fragments of manuscript from the <a href="/title/Dead+Sea+Scrolls">Dead Sea Scrolls</a>, and part of a collection of fragments referred to as both '<a href="/title/The+Secret+of+the+Way+Things+Are">The Secret of the Way Things Are</a>' and 'A Sapiental Work.' These are instructional texts; the reader is <a href="/title/told">told</a> things on how to go about living an <a href="/title/enlightened">enlightened</a> life, but the overall message seems (seems to me anyway) to be to <b><a href="/title/Think+for+yourself">Think for yourself</a></b>, and find <a href="/title/truth">truth</a> and <a href="/title/wisdom">wisdom</a> through your own meditative and <a href="/title/intellectual">intellectual</a> means.<br><br> According to the translator of these, the "<a href="/title/Visions+of+Insight">Visions of Insight</a>" in Fragment 2 is in reference to <a href="/title/tablet">tablet</a>s on which <a href="/title/Adam">Adam</a>'s son, <a href="/title/Seth">Seth</a>, inscribed <a href="/title/revelation">revelation</a>s which only the righteous could read. <br><hr><br> <b>Fragment 1<br><br> Column 1</b><blockquote> <a href="/title/Speak+gently">Speak gently</a> to a <a href="/title/ruler">ruler</a><br> ¹at all times, lest he <a href="/title/adjure">adjure</a> you; and speak to him in accordance with his <a href="/title/mood">mood</a>, lest he ... <br>²without <a href="/title/reproach">reproach</a>. When <a href="/title/propitious">propitious</a>, go to him; but when it is forbidden <a href="/title/stay+away">stay away</a> ...<br> ³do not <a href="/title/trouble">trouble</a> his</blockquote>&hellip; http://everything2.org:80/user/ifeeldizzy/writeups/4Q416ifeeldizzyhttp://everything2.org:80/user/ifeeldizzy2000-10-24T05:35:38Z2000-10-24T05:35:38Z These are fragments of manuscript from the <a href="/title/Dead+Sea+Scrolls">Dead Sea Scrolls</a>, and part of a collection of fragments referred to as both '<a href="/title/The+Secret+of+the+Way+Things+Are">The Secret of the Way Things Are</a>' and 'A Sapiental Work.' Fragment 1 deals with a '<a href="/title/Judgement+Day">Judgement Day</a>' of sorts, while Fragment 2 gives general life instructions on issues from poverty and borrowing money to gaining true <a href="/title/knowledge">knowledge</a> to <a href="/title/marriage">marriage</a>. The verse referred to in Column 3, Line 21, is from <a href="/title/Genesis+2">Genesis 2</a>:24 "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall <a href="/title/cleave">cleave</a> unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." <br><hr><br> <b>Fragment 1</b><blockquote> ²...and to measure His <a href="/title/will">will</a> ...<br> ³<a href="/title/time">time</a> by time ...<br> ⁴according to their <a href="/title/host">host</a>, for the need ...<br> ⁵and its <a href="/title/kingdom">kingdom</a> learn well ...<br> ⁶according to the need of their host ...<br> ⁷and the host of <a href="/title/heaven">heaven</a> He has <a href="/title/establish">establish</a>ed ...<br> ⁸by their <a href="/title/symbol">symbol</a>s and signs for ...<br> ⁹One to the other and all their <a href="/title/vast">vast</a> number ... He</blockquote>&hellip; http://everything2.org:80/user/ifeeldizzy/writeups/4Q415ifeeldizzyhttp://everything2.org:80/user/ifeeldizzy2000-10-24T04:48:22Z2000-10-24T04:48:22Z Also, sometimes called <a href="/title/4QInstruction">4QInstruction</a>, these are fragments of manuscript from the <a href="/title/Dead+Sea+Scrolls">Dead Sea Scrolls</a>, and part of a collection of fragments referred to as both '<a href="/title/The+Secret+of+the+Way+Things+Are">The Secret of the Way Things Are</a>' and 'A Sapiental Work.' In Fragment 9, <a href="/title/Wisdom">Wisdom</a> is referred to as a she (<a href="/title/Sophia">Sophia</a>, anyone?) Just thought that was interesting...<br> <br><hr><br> <b>Fragment 6</b><blockquote> ¹... the <a href="/title/secret">secret</a> of men ...<br> ²You are <a href="/title/needy">needy</a>, and ...<br> ³your <a href="/title/poverty">poverty</a> in your counsel ...<br> ⁴<a href="/title/Test">Test</a> these things by the <a href="/title/secret">secret</a> of <a href="/title/the+way+things+are">the way things are</a> ...<br> ⁵from the place of <a href="/title/origin">origin</a>s and by the weight ...</blockquote> <b>Fragment 9</b><blockquote> ⁵...Do not let your <a href="/title/mind">mind</a> <a href="/title/dwell">dwell</a><br> ⁶on <a href="/title/Folly">Folly</a>, do not be like the <a href="/title/multitude">multitude</a> of the <a href="/title/wicked+">wicked </a> ... Acquire <a href="/title/Wisdom">Wisdom</a>, for<br> ⁷by it He created it, for she, Wisdom, is the measure of <a href="/title/creation">creation</a> ... She made them<br> ⁸together, the <a href="/title/dominion">dominion</a> of <a href="/title/male">male</a> with <a href="/title/female">female</a> ...<br> ⁹</blockquote>&hellip;