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EGOTORIAL

their materialto

so muchentropy.Whilstinherentlyunfairto mention partiarlar names (but let's

face it, who cares?),AOD offers best wishesto contributorMichaelAbbottfor

the successof his involvementwiththe Attitude project'. We wouldalso liketo

point out that potentialreviewers and criticsmayrestup for a while,sincePaul

Di Filippohasfilledeveryavailableposition.

Special apologiesto GrahamJoyce who alreadycontributedto AOD #7

(BloodyForeignersfsometimeago.His piece onthe Greekswill indeedappear

there.

for subjecting

Arrows of Desirepublishinghistory:

#1 November 1988 (Gen)

#2 May1989 (The Rock'n' Roll Sfonbs)

#3 November1989 (Love, Lustand Like)

H April1990 (Hate,FearandLoathing)

#5 November1990 (Death)

#5112 April1991

(Commenfs

on#5, rcsponsearticle)

November1994 (Religion)

Second qtr 1995 (Bloody Foreigners!)

in#7 -tryto guessl

for

them which,if sufficientin number,will be dealt with sympathetically.

possibility

underconsideration

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reprint. Opinions welcomed.

fanzine is edited and published by MichaelAbbott,John Dallmanand Pam

Wells. Availablefor the usual from Flat 4, 27 Tenont Road, London N15 3AA, UK

(gd@cix.compulink.co.uk).

Recommended.

ARROI/YSOF DESIRE 6: REUGION

Youmayhave noticed thatthisissue ol Anows of Desire appears three years

late. This is not a record. We thereforebreak format somewhat to offer the

following:

Apologiesare dueto this issue'scontributors

Fourth qtr 1995 (To beannounced

Backissuesare notcunentlyin print; thisdoesnot preclude requests

the Attitude

CONTENTS

2 EGOTORIAL

3 CONTENTS

4 HEARTTRANSPLANT S V O'Jay

5 DEATH,RELIGION ANDCONSOLATION KenLaKe

9 BUDDHISM

1O ROMAN CATHOLICSANONYMOUS

11 TANGLE

DavidLangford

12 ADHERENTSOFRELTGTONS

WORLD)

13 HINDUISM

14 THATOLD.TIME RELIGION

MichaelAbbott

17 GOD'S JUKEBOX

18 THERAWBRAIN

20 GODS

lan Creasey

21 CONSIDER...

NinaWatson

22 ISLAM

23 DANGER:RELIGION.AN SF CHECKLIST SteveJeffery

24 JOKE

25 CATHOLICFACTS

26 METALKINGRUBBISH

BarryJ Bayley

29 GETRELIGIONAT THEMOVIES

31 JUDAISM

32 THE TENCOMMANDMENTS

33 VIRTUALJESUS

S V O,Jay

36 GODANDME

HazBond

39 POEM

CecilNurse

40 LOCOCITATO

TheReadership

54 CONTRIBUTORS

55 ANDFINALLY...

factual pieces and "Joke" compiledby S V O'Jay;miscellaneous quotes

compiledby Steve Jefferyand S V O'Jay;And Finally...suppliedby Steve

Jeffery.

CoverArt BruceBenedickter

Interiorart: Black Flag: Cacey Goff Chile (p8), Sididis (p16), Mary Goff

Wannabe (p35)

ARROTYSAF DESIRE6: RELIGION

DFLewis

Listings,

HEARTTRANSPLANT

S V O'Jav

...felt it wasone to deal within the "usual" fashion, that is, omefta,but in the

personal sense.Nobody shouldknow.Well, not nobodyas such,in the Oxford

senseof the word,but morerealistically

in a damagelimitationway.The less

theyknow.Thebetter.Forall of us.Me.

What changed? Later for that, but l'll point out that it seemed and seems

strangethata sharedbedcouldbe so sexlessfor so long. Theyknew, really. A

lot of otherthingscouldhave taken excusestatusvery easily,especiallywhen

the cynichas it that you'retryingto dealwith a fake Scousefrom Notlob (as

Montywouldsay - or havesaid, Graham).

"Do you believein a love at first sight?";'Yes, l'm certainit happensall the

time"; "Whatdo you seewhen you tum out the light?';darkness,ac{ually.The

long ridersof the imaginationassentingto apportionsomethingother than a

physicalexplanation

to theastigmatically-enhanced

points of light behindclosed

blueeyes.We don't get fooledagain.

Are you out there, then? ls there really somethingemotional,spritual,

phvsical aboutthe acceptanceof the chalice,the wafer,the body,the blood?

Transubstantiation

of the elestricalzap pathways of axonsinto somethinglife-

enhancing,lifedirecting.lt worked. 'M/hat's it like to be the most beautiful

womanin theroom?".

skillof

othersovertookthe realneed.Bayof Pigs.Dallas.Brighton(own goal). Ready

for this, perhaps, or just anotherescapeclause.Pleasereadthe smallprinton

your lackof insurance.Thereareno guarantees,

times past whentheorganisational

thereis no altemative.

The costin friendships wouldtendto be high,especially afterso long.But,

well,fuck,if they'reso easilybroken(selfishagain)whatweretheyworth?The

rightstuffis gonna endure,right? (Actually,yes.)

I toldmyselfeverythingwastakencareof as I got on the plane. lt hadto be,

didn'tit?TheChurchof Spirithadfailedmeenoughnotto be worthmissing,the

Churchof the PoisonMindleftbehind(or so it was hoped);all sacrificedon the

altarofChurchof Self?

Adequate

flight,itgotusthere.Timewilltell,italwaysdoes.

AndinArcadia1....

ARROT/YSOFDESTRE6: REUGION

'M/hen I seeher,l'llaskher."

Symptomor result?Remembering

DEATH. RELIGION& CONSOLATION Ken Lake

Let'sstartwith a very brief commenton AOD #5, written unusually beforeI

have even read it! This summer (1990) | spent a lot of time undergoing

manipulation of my neck, only to be told that it is fallingapart.The bonesare

degenerating,already I have "the neck of an eighty-year-old",

alreadystopsmefromenjoyingsomeof them,and

penury hardlyhelps.

Do I reallywantto readwhatpeoplenot faced by the immediateandcertain

threat of death have to say about it? \A/hatdoes it meanto me? And does the

declaredthemeof AOD #6, Religion,actuallyhaveanythingto say to me or

indeedto dowithlife,death or anything elseuseful?

To me, death means simply waste: there's a helluva lot of shitstining

antagonism

to receivedideas lurkingin KenLake'smindwaitingfor timeto get

out; there'sa lot of usefulinformation,and nearlysixty years of meaningful

experience waitingto be shared.And before you can do morethan skim the

surface, thebodyandthebrainareto decayandbe lostforever.Wasteindeed!

Don't bug me with sentiment I've no room for it. Sure, I enjoy good

experiences,

I gain emotionaland aesthetic pleasure from someof them.But

whatkindof pleasurable emotiondo you expect me to radiatenoW'?

| mean,be

fair - intellect, ratiocination, philosophy even; investigation,extrapolation,

wonderment,

theseare still around,beingtriggeredall the time.l'mwilling and

readyto give andtakelove,on a one-to-onebasisanyhow,but I am too full of

anger to be capableof lovingtheworld,its people - mostof whomare so fuckin'

ignorant, bigotedandstupidthatI haveno sympathy

nations,tribes,groupsor selfdeclaredcategories

likefandom,lesbians,stamp

for them - or evenspecific

collectors or poll tax protestors.

Do people threatenedby deathtum to religion? | dunno - I'mthe OddMan

Out becausereligionhas alwaysfascinatedme an) ^ray. I'vemarchedwith the

SallyArmy,studiedwiththe Witnesses, arguedwith the Mormons (a singularly

stupidgroup),beenboredby the Bookof CommonPrayer, gloried in the poetry

of the Upanishads,

beenrepelledbytheKoran,wonderedat the Tibetan Bookof

theDead,andmanya timeandoft lostmyselfin thecelebration of the Mass,the

central "mystery" of Christianity.

For several decades l've taken the opportunityoccasionallyto attendthe

UkranianUniat liturgy - this is basicallythe RussianOrthodoxone with a

Ukranianaccent plus prayers for the Pope,morerecentlybeingcelebrated in

modern Ukranianrather than Old Slavonic,so l've had to learn another

languageto sing along. I sometimesattendthe Russian OrthodoxGathedral,

and l'ma memberof the LatinMassSociety$'trichcelebrates

the old Tridentine

riteratherthanthatboring populist modem post-Vatican

ll service.

the ArmenianChurchand,with the helpof a

liturgygiven me by AvedonCarol's parents, l'm leamingto sing in that obscure

languagethe manybeautifulchantsof this even moreobscureyet pioneering

church. So l'mspoiledfor choice,if religiousexperien@sarewfratI seek.

ARROWSOF DESIRE6: REUGION

and I am unlikely

to seethisdecadeout.Suddenly,deathlooms:l'mnevergoingto do mostof the

things I want,osteo-arthritis

Justrecentlyl'verediscovered

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