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cyronwode@aol.com "Cyronwode" writes:
>j_garon@pentagon.io.com ("Jesse Garon") writes:
>
>>The second person to speak is an old white guy. Whitey sez, "With all
>>the people that came to this land came congestion and pollution," and
>>the solution dawned on me. GET RID OF THE PEOPLE.
>
>>The tricky part is, do I kill you all, or start a cult that would
>>eventually convince you to commit suicide?
>
>You should talk to Bill Mollison of the Permaculture Institute. He has
>invented several novel ideas for ridding the world of excess population:
>
>1) The Ethical Death Society. This is a passive solution. Members simply
>wear bracelets that say, "LET ME DIE" so that bystanders and paramedics
>will leave them alone.
>
>2) The Fiji Islands Solution. As Bill explains it, in the Fiji Islands,
>before the white folks came, only two illnesses were recognized. The first
>was mental illness. The definition of mental illness was "he doesn't laugh
>anymore." If you had mental illness someone came along behind you and
>caved your skiull in with a rock hammer. The second form of illness was
>death. This was defined as "he can't stand up anymore." If you could not
>arise and walk under your own power, friends and relatives bound you up in
>long strips of bark, with fiber cords, and carried you away to the burial
>ground. If you protested, they didn't listen. "Dead people can't speak,"
>they said.
>
>3) The Voluntary Straw Bale Burial. Dig a grave for yourself, a little
>deeper and about the same size as a bale of straw. Go buy a bale of straw
>and prop it up over the grave at a 45 degree angle with a stick. Attach a
>string to the stick so you can pull it out and the bale will fall into the
>grave. Then go get the seed of some sort of tree that has large, vigourous
>seeds, such as a black walnut. Encase the seed in a medium such as agar.
>Lie down in the grave, place the seed on whatever part of you is closest
>to ground level and pull the string.
>
>4) The Australian Sheep Technique. In Australia they are having a drought
>and last year farmers shot 3 million sheep because they could not feed
>them. Bill says that instead of leaving the sheep carcasses out to rot,
>the farmers should have taken post hole augers, dug tubes into which the
>sheep could be lowered head first and then, with a mallet, driven a mango
>seed up each sheep's ass. The same technique could easily be adapted for
>use with human beings.
>
>Remember: that's Bill Mollison. Permaculture. You've got to love it!
>
>catherine
>
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