ash_attack - Rss Feed http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/member.php?u=28277 A social site powered by it's members en H.Atakan KOC www.sonkonu.com 60 I'm not new, but I've been absent for awhile... http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=30191 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:29:37 GMT
I've got a blog now. I'd love it if you were to check it out. I'll be on here more often now. Just haven't had time lately. Let the welcoming commence (you rowdy rascals, you).

http://vivianchaos.blogspot.com/ This be my blog.]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=30191 Introduce Yourself ash_attack> Apocolyptica... http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22220 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:18:14 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22220 Music ash_attack> Drugs found around the house... http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22173 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:24:33 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22173 Drugs General Discussion ash_attack> So, I need graffiti ideas... http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22170 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:06:11 GMT
The two I have:
War on Terror? War is Terror. (From an anarchist group)
If voting changed anything they'd make it illegal. -Emma Goldman

Any ideas?]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22170 Enlightened Individuals ash_attack> Is anyone comfortable posting pics of themselves??? http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22066 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:05:15 GMT
http://s287.photobucket.com/albums/l...fgirl/?start=0]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22066 Bullshit ash_attack> Marriage and Love by Anarcha-Feminist Emma Goldman (pt.1) http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22049 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:34:37 GMT MARRIAGE AND LOVE THE popular notion about marriage and love is that they are synonymous, that they spring from the same motives, and cover the same human needs. Like most popular notions this also rests not on actual facts, but on superstition.

Marriage and love have nothing in common; they are as far apart as the poles; are, in fact, antagonistic to each other. No doubt some marriages have been the result of love. Not, however, because love could assert itself only in marriage; much rather is it because few people can completely outgrow a convention. There are to-day large numbers of men and women to whom marriage is naught but a farce, but who submit to it for the sake of public opinion. At any rate, while it is true that some marriages are based on love, and while it is equally true that in some cases love continues in married life, I maintain that it does so regardless of marriage, and not because of it.

On the other hand, it is utterly false that love results from marriage. On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. Certainly the growing-used to each other is far away from the spontaneity, the intensity, and beauty of love, without which the intimacy of marriage must prove degrading to both the woman and the man.

Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting. Its returns are insignificantly small compared with the investments. In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, how ever, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, "until death doth part." Moreover, the marriage insurance condemns her to life-long dependency, to parasitism, to complete uselessness, individual as well as social. Man, too, pays his toll, but as his sphere is wider, marriage does not limit him as much as woman. He feels his chains more in an economic sense.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind."

That marriage is a failure none but the very stupid will deny. One has but to glance over the statistics of divorce to realize how bitter a failure marriage really is. Nor will the stereotyped Philistine argument that the laxity of divorce laws and the growing looseness of woman account for the fact that: first, every twelfth marriage ends in divorce; second, that since 1870 divorces have increased from 28 to 73 for every hundred thousand population; third, that adultery, since 1867, as ground for divorce, has increased 270.8 per cent.; fourth, that desertion increased 369.8 per cent.

Added to these startling figures is a vast amount of material, dramatic and literary, further elucidating this subject. Robert Herrick, in Together; Pinero, in Mid-Channel; Eugene Walter, in Paid in Full, and scores of other writers are discussing the barrenness, the monotony, the sordidness, the inadequacy of marriage as a factor for harmony and understanding.

The thoughtful social student will not content himself with the popular superficial excuse for this phenomenon. He will have to dig down deeper into the very life of the sexes to know why marriage proves so disastrous.

Edward Carpenter says that behind every marriage stands the life-long environment of the two sexes; an environment so different from each other that man and woman must remain strangers. Separated by an insurmountable wall of superstition, custom, and habit, marriage has not the potentiality of developing knowledge of, and respect for, each other, without which every union is doomed to failure.

Henrik Ibsen, the hater of all social shams, was probably the first to realize this great truth. Nora leaves her husband, not---as the stupid critic would have it---because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but because she has come to know that for eight years she had lived with a stranger and borne him children. Can there be any thing more humiliating, more degrading than a life long proximity between two strangers? No need for the woman to know anything of the man, save his income. As to the knowledge of the woman---what is there to know except that she has a pleasing appearance? We have not yet outgrown the theologic myth that woman has no soul, that she is a mere appendix to man, made out of his rib just for the convenience of the gentleman who was so strong that he was afraid of his own shadow.

Perchance the poor quality of the material whence woman comes is responsible for her inferiority. At any rate, woman has no soul---what is there to know about her? Besides, the less soul a woman has the greater her asset as a wife, the more readily will she absorb herself in her husband. It is this slavish acquiescence to man's superiority that has kept the marriage institution seemingly intact for so long a period. Now that woman is coming into her own, now that she is actually growing aware of herself as a being outside of the master's grace, the sacred institution of marriage is gradually being undermined, and no amount of sentimental lamentation can stay it.

From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed towards that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that. Yet, strange to say, she is allowed to know much less about her function as wife and mother than the ordinary artisan of his trade. It is indecent and filthy for a respectable girl to know anything of the marital relation. Oh, for the inconsistency of respectability, that needs the marriage vow to turn something which is filthy into the purest and most sacred arrangement that none dare question or criticize. Yet that is exactly the attitude of the average upholder of marriage. The prospective wife and mother is kept in complete ignorance of her only asset in the competitive field---sex. Thus she enters into life-long relations with a man only to find herself shocked, repelled, outraged beyond measure by the most natural and healthy instinct, sex. It is safe to say that a large percentage of the unhappiness, misery, distress, and physical suffering of matrimony is due to the criminal ignorance in sex matters that is being extolled as a great virtue. Nor is it at all an exaggeration when I say that more than one home has been broken up because of this deplorable fact.



If, however, woman is free and big enough to learn the mystery of sex without the sanction of State or Church, she will stand condemned as utterly unfit to become the wife of a "good" man, his goodness consisting of an empty head and plenty of money. Can there be anything more outrageous than the idea that a healthy, grown woman, full of life and passion, must deny nature's demand, must subdue her most intense craving, undermine her health and break her spirit, must stunt her vision, abstain from the depth and glory of sex experience until a "good" man comes along to take her unto himself as a wife? That is precisely what marriage means. How can such an arrangement end except in failure? This is one, though not the least important, factor of marriage, which differentiates it from love.

Ours is a practical age. The time when Romeo and Juliet risked the wrath of their fathers for love when Gretchen exposed herself to the gossip of her neighbors for love, is no more. If, on rare occasions young people allow themselves the luxury of romance they are taken in care by the elders, drilled and pounded until they become "sensible."

The moral lesson instilled in the girl is not whether the man has aroused her love, but rather is it, "How much?" The important and only God of practical American life: Can the man make a living? Can he support a wife? That is the only thing that justifies marriage. Gradually this saturates every thought of the girl; her dreams are not of moonlight and kisses, of laughter and tears; she dreams of shopping tours and bargain counters. This soul-poverty and sordidness are the elements inherent in the marriage institution. The State and the Church approve of no other ideal, simply because it is the one that necessitates the State and Church control of men and women.

Doubtless there are people who continue to consider love above dollars and cents. Particularly is this true of that class whom economic necessity has forced to become self-supporting. The tremendous change in woman's position, wrought by that mighty factor, is indeed phenomenal when we reflect that it is but a short time since she has entered the industrial arena. Six million women wage-earners; six million women, who have the equal right with men to be exploited, to be robbed, to go on strike; aye, to starve even. Anything more, my lord? Yes, six million age-workers in every walk of life, from the highest brain work to the most difficult menial labor in the mines and on the railroad tracks; yes, even detectives and policemen. Surely the emancipation is complete.

Yet with all that, but a very small number of the vast army of women wage-workers look upon work as a permanent issue, in the same light as does man. No matter how decrepit the latter, he has been taught to be independent, self-supporting. Oh, I know that no one is really independent in our economic tread mill; still, the poorest specimen of a man hates to be a parasite; to be known as such, at any rate.]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22049 Dating & Relationships ash_attack> ANARCHISM: Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit... http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22046 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:16:32 GMT
ANARCHISM: Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit
If one confessed to you that they were an anarchist, what would flash through your mind? It is a generalization that neo-Nazi punks sporting swastika stamped lapels, those who blast The Sex Pistols from over-sized head phones, and the violent vandalizers of paint-cracked bathroom stalls are the true anarchists. However, in the 19th century the word “anarchist” was not regarded with a cringe, but with a surge of pride and pleasure; a feeling it should be regarded with today.
What is Anarchism? Anarcha-feminist Emma Goldman provided the world a proper definition of Anarchism in her essay “Anarchy: What it Really Stands For.” She states that anarchism is “the philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful as well as unnecessary.” Furthermore, as William Godwin adds, it is a belief in which “discrimination on any grounds is intolerable.” Even with this summary of Anarchism, there are endless forms of anarchy ranging from the believable to the absurd. Despite this, however, I feel that Individualist Anarchism, along with a compilation of some anarchist views of other categories, would be fit for our modern nation.
For those who do not agree, take in to account the many famous anarchists you have unknowingly revered: Henry David Thoreau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau of the French Revolution, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Unlike modern belief, anarchy is not an action, but a philosophy encouraging direct action against oppressors in the form of religion, property, and State. Therefore the word or essence of anarchy should not be feared, for it is only the separation of the individual from man-made laws so they may graduate to a state where they are unbound by wages and worry and may indulge in doing only what they love and what is best for the individual, whether it be selfish or social. Some speculate that human nature can be inclined toward evil or that because of our natures
Anarchism would fail, ending in violence and annihilation. However, what can be said of human nature, when true human nature has not been properly observed? In our oppression, are we not more like machine than man? Without the strongholds of certain institutions, could human nature not be peaceful and inclined toward good?
As Goldman states, religion is “the dominion of the human mind… man can have all the glories of earth, but he must not become conscious of himself.” Religion is but the compressed belief that humans are undeserving, that they are nothing, and a supreme being is everything. Religion is but the self-esteem of man withered and steaming from self-torment and the quest for divine absolution. Religion is but the barrier that stands between enslavement and Shangri-la. However, Anarchism and religion can coexist; in fact, many religious movements have been founded on anarchistic beliefs. For example, Christian anarchists take into account Jesus’ words- “Kings and governors have dominion over men; let there be none like that among you.” Here we can observe Jesus’ very anarchistic views, that we should not be ruled by the State, which is viewed, as Anarchist Fact explains, as “usurping God’s authority and it is up to each individual to govern themselves and discover that the Kingdom of God is within them.” However, why is it that man must have law outside of nature? Why is it that we need a supreme being in control? Even without God, the chips fall as they may. Who needs the rapture and the fire consuming the earth, when Man can clearly destroy Earth all on his own? Our system and our technology is at fault for our crisis, our cars ripping holes in our environment, our government eating away at our economy as a fat, round worm munches absentmindedly at a green leaf till it is dead and wrought with crisp, brown edges. My final thought on the matter of religion is described best by Emma Goldman, who says, “ Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.”
I am the admitted owner of many things, as a typical American teen would in turn confess also. However, the idea of Anarchism is that property represents dominion of human needs, and thus with technology rampant as war we are bowing to our possessions, face down and so blinded by our worship we do not see these devices dictating our lives. As technology advances, human needs seem to increase! I have witnessed tears enough to supply countries plagued by drought over a snapped cell phone, a cracked I Pod. Yet these devices are but hindrances, for they demand our attention, our way of thinking, and encourage the Orwellian nightmare of a limited vocabulary therefore limited ability to revolutionize. Property is but Man’s gluttonous pursuit of more materials equals more wealth equals more power. For Americans assuming our system is fair, if all is fair, why then do people slave in factories producing materials they never see outside of work, material they never reap the benefits of? And for such poor wages that they must stress over finances at home? Why is it that life itself must be a fulltime job of acquiring and keeping property? Anarchism is but the belief that one should indulge in occupations they consider as desirable as an artist would his paints and reap the success and pride one feels after each accomplished masterpiece. Goldman’s thoughts: “Real wealth consists of things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.”
There exist few modern thinkers who consider government helpful outside protection of property and monopoly. However, many also believe government maintains social order, harmony, and the reduction of crime. When it comes to crime, I must agree wholeheartedly with Emma Goldman, who states that, “Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.” Also, when it comes to the use of the government conserving social order and harmony, Goldman argues that, “In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is nonexistent; hence social harmony is but a myth.” This nation in magazines, on silver screens, and typed officially on its mask is wealthy; but life as I have known it and life as some lonely, gray streets have remembered says all but that they feel harmonious, free, and equal. The State has divided us by creating wealth and therefore creating classes that the rich may look down upon others snobbishly, and that the poor may bow their heads in shame. The government has watched our economy crumble while doing little more than rocking back on its heels, has watched our brothers burn in foreign countries, and our citizens drown on our own land! What good is a government so slow, so cautious, that they would not pull our brothers from the flames and save our citizens form predicted nature? Direct action, we anarchists call for, we oppressed citizens call for, and yet silence is all that answers us. Anarchism is not chaos, but that call answered swiftly and efficiently.
To conclude, Anarchism should not be related to the punk-spoiled, raped form it is misinterpreted as, but the virgin and true form that is right for our society, others’ society, and the whole of the world. Without religion, there is self-worth. Without property, there is self-reliance. Without government, there is real wealth and equality. Without oppression, there is PEACE.]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22046 Politics ash_attack> My Persuassive Essay... (On Anarchism) http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22043 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:50:49 GMT
ANARCHISM: Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit
If one confessed to you that they were an anarchist, what would flash through your mind? It is a generalization that neo-Nazi punks sporting swastika stamped lapels, those who blast The Sex Pistols from over-sized head phones, and the violent vandalizers of paint-cracked bathroom stalls are the true anarchists. However, in the 19th century the word “anarchist” was not regarded with a cringe, but with a surge of pride and pleasure; a feeling it should be regarded with today.
What is Anarchism? Anarcha-feminist Emma Goldman provided the world a proper definition of Anarchism in her essay “Anarchy: What it Really Stands For.” She states that anarchism is “the philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful as well as unnecessary.” Furthermore, as William Godwin adds, it is a belief in which “discrimination on any grounds is intolerable.” Even with this summary of Anarchism, there are endless forms of anarchy ranging from the believable to the absurd. Despite this, however, I feel that Individualist Anarchism, along with a compilation of some anarchist views of other categories, would be fit for our modern nation.
For those who do not agree, take in to account the many famous anarchists you have unknowingly revered: Henry David Thoreau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau of the French Revolution, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Unlike modern belief, anarchy is not an action, but a philosophy encouraging direct action against oppressors in the form of religion, property, and State. Therefore the word or essence of anarchy should not be feared, for it is only the separation of the individual from man-made laws so they may graduate to a state where they are unbound by wages and worry and may indulge in doing only what they love and what is best for the individual, whether it be selfish or social. Some speculate that human nature can be inclined toward evil or that because of our natures
Anarchism would fail, ending in violence and annihilation. However, what can be said of human nature, when true human nature has not been properly observed? In our oppression, are we not more like machine than man? Without the strongholds of certain institutions, could human nature not be peaceful and inclined toward good?
As Goldman states, religion is “the dominion of the human mind… man can have all the glories of earth, but he must not become conscious of himself.” Religion is but the compressed belief that humans are undeserving, that they are nothing, and a supreme being is everything. Religion is but the self-esteem of man withered and steaming from self-torment and the quest for divine absolution. Religion is but the barrier that stands between enslavement and Shangri-la. However, Anarchism and religion can coexist; in fact, many religious movements have been founded on anarchistic beliefs. For example, Christian anarchists take into account Jesus’ words- “Kings and governors have dominion over men; let there be none like that among you.” Here we can observe Jesus’ very anarchistic views, that we should not be ruled by the State, which is viewed, as Anarchist Fact explains, as “usurping God’s authority and it is up to each individual to govern themselves and discover that the Kingdom of God is within them.” However, why is it that man must have law outside of nature? Why is it that we need a supreme being in control? Even without God, the chips fall as they may. Who needs the rapture and the fire consuming the earth, when Man can clearly destroy Earth all on his own? Our system and our technology is at fault for our crisis, our cars ripping holes in our environment, our government eating away at our economy as a fat, round worm munches absentmindedly at a green leaf till it is dead and wrought with crisp, brown edges. My final thought on the matter of religion is described best by Emma Goldman, who says, “ Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.”
I am the admitted owner of many things, as a typical American teen would in turn confess also. However, the idea of Anarchism is that property represents dominion of human needs, and thus with technology rampant as war we are bowing to our possessions, face down and so blinded by our worship we do not see these devices dictating our lives. As technology advances, human needs seem to increase! I have witnessed tears enough to supply countries plagued by drought over a snapped cell phone, a cracked I Pod. Yet these devices are but hindrances, for they demand our attention, our way of thinking, and encourage the Orwellian nightmare of a limited vocabulary therefore limited ability to revolutionize. Property is but Man’s gluttonous pursuit of more materials equals more wealth equals more power. For Americans assuming our system is fair, if all is fair, why then do people slave in factories producing materials they never see outside of work, material they never reap the benefits of? And for such poor wages that they must stress over finances at home? Why is it that life itself must be a fulltime job of acquiring and keeping property? Anarchism is but the belief that one should indulge in occupations they consider as desirable as an artist would his paints and reap the success and pride one feels after each accomplished masterpiece. Goldman’s thoughts: “Real wealth consists of things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.”
There exist few modern thinkers who consider government helpful outside protection of property and monopoly. However, many also believe government maintains social order, harmony, and the reduction of crime. When it comes to crime, I must agree wholeheartedly with Emma Goldman, who states that, “Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.” Also, when it comes to the use of the government conserving social order and harmony, Goldman argues that, “In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is nonexistent; hence social harmony is but a myth.” This nation in magazines, on silver screens, and typed officially on its mask is wealthy; but life as I have known it and life as some lonely, gray streets have remembered says all but that they feel harmonious, free, and equal. The State has divided us by creating wealth and therefore creating classes that the rich may look down upon others snobbishly, and that the poor may bow their heads in shame. The government has watched our economy crumble while doing little more than rocking back on its heels, has watched our brothers burn in foreign countries, and our citizens drown on our own land! What good is a government so slow, so cautious, that they would not pull our brothers from the flames and save our citizens form predicted nature? Direct action, we anarchists call for, we oppressed citizens call for, and yet silence is all that answers us. Anarchism is not chaos, but that call answered swiftly and efficiently.
To conclude, Anarchism should not be related to the punk-spoiled, raped form it is misinterpreted as, but the virgin and true form that is right for our society, others’ society, and the whole of the world. Without religion, there is self-worth. Without property, there is self-reliance. Without government, there is real wealth and equality. Without oppression, there is PEACE!]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22043 Essays ash_attack> Proud Parent... http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22006 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:23:27 GMT COBRA Style Knuckle Knife With Spiked Handguard. Skinner Style Stainless Steel Blade. Black Impact Plastic Handle. Construction. Very Sharp Steel Spikes On Handguard. Includes Leather Belt Sheath. Overall Length: 12" Blade Length: 5 1/4"

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Fuck, I can't figure out how to do attachments.
Anyway...

Show me your baby!

(Not literal baby, either. I hate kids.)]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22006 Weapons ash_attack> I am an Anarchist... http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22005 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:26:33 GMT I'm an all A student, God help us all!
Cheers...
And God Save the Queen.]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22005 Introduce Yourself ash_attack>