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From: cc100jr@gitpyr.UUCP (Joel M. Rives)
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Subject: Re: An Awsome Vision
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Date: Mon, 12-May-86 11:17:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 12 11:17:55 1986
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In article <2181@ism780c.UUCP> marty@ism780c.UUCP (Marty Smith) writes:
>In article <13678@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> lotto@brahms.UUCP (Ben Lotto) writes:
>>
>>
>>The following is reprinted in its entirety from the Letters to the
>>Editor page of The San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, May 7, 1986:
>>
>>
>>AN AWESOME VISION
>>
>>     Editor -- This morning I had an awesome vision.  In it, a multi-
>>colored unicorn in a fiber glass cowboy hat revealed something to me
>>which I must share with every person alive:  canned pineapples can save
>>the world.  The unicorn told me that if everyone on earth ate a can of
>>pineapples at the exact same time, all of the world's problems will
>>just dry up, and disappear.  I have spent the entirety of today in deep
>>meditation, seeking the true meaning of my vision.  I have been
>>enlightened that on Monday, May 26 at 8 a.m. Eastern Standard Time,
>>every single person on this earth must eat a can of pineapples.  My
>>meditation has also helped me realize what an enormous burden is on me
>>now, and how difficult it will be for me to educate all the world on
>>the wisdom of the multi-colored unicorn.  The salvation of the world
>>is at stake.
>>
>>                                        JOHN SHENON
>>                                        Menlo Park
>
>I too have had this vision, but after a great deal of meditation on the
>idea, I have come to the conclusion that it is motivated by an evil force.
>This can be seen when one realizes that in order to educate the entire
>population about eating a can of pineapples, one would have to travel
>around the whole world and talk to everybody and then come back to where
>one started.  But if you do that, you'll be making a complete circle, and
>if you make a complete circle the whole world will blow up.  This would
>defeat the original intent of the idea, which proves it is motivated by
>a dark force.  I don't know what to do.
>
>					martin smith

Not to worry.                                      

The perfection of imperfection is.

					 joel rives