Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:54:07 -0700
From: Grant Potts <apemage-AT-imap3.asu.edu>
Subject: Re: toilet plumbing


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Greetings,

Whether you mean it as jest, I would guess that many of us
would take it this way.  But I once had the opportunity to
spend a wonderful diner evening at the house of a man whose
major political issue was the flush toilet.  Of course, for
him, it was couched in fascinating ideas of purity.  The
toilet not only deprived the earth of valuable compost, but
it stood a carefully orchestrated symbolic gesture of all
that was terrible about the human race and its relation to
the earth.  "Look," he would say, "we shit in pure water and
then flush it all into the wasted void of nothingness that
is our idea of disposal."  Being a member of the Church of
All Worlds, of course, water was  of particular sacred
importance.  So we ate a fine gourmet diner and then retired
to the large hot tub in his back yard to talk politics.

Unleesh-AT-aol.com wrote:

> Toilets are a bureaucratic device.
>
> They deprive the earth of recycle.
>
> Compost your own manure.


Lots of people compost.  Less people garden.

--
*******

Grant Potts,
Dept. of Religious Studies
Arizona State University

You know, Water, sometimes when I think of you
I get that strange dehydrated feeling
I get when you're not around.


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