pro evo? Very funny

[Dreams End]

I don't know which of you clever Googlers got my name on the mailing list or if it was just a coincidence but I got this weird book...A german book called "Pro Evo" sent unsolicited in my mailbox. Actually it is quite unlikely that anyone here could have done that as it used my full name...and I have no web presence at all under my full name.<br><br>I haven't read it yet. Here's the website...but all is extremely vague. Gonna usher in a new age of joy, naturally. <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=de_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.proevo.ch%2fvorwort.html">babelfish.altavista.com/b...rwort.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Since they sent it free, I'm just a tad curious why the whole document has not been published on the net. The website is just an add, though it looks like you can order it for free.<br><br>It has to do with consciousness...fossil fuels...the new age of joy...all stuff we've been talking about around here. And yet, because of the use of my full name, it seems unlikely that my address was acquired from any places I visit and more likely was acquired from something I ordered. Who knows. <br><br>It was so vague and cliche when I started it that I don't know if I can choke it down...but I'll try. The author has the odd name of Tomotom. The publisher is called "Asama" according to the book, but there is no such publisher...at least not on the web. Definitely a self-publish deal, though it does have an ISBN number. Get sleuthing. I'd like a report on my desk in the morning. Who is this guy? Who's he sending to (only found two other references to people having received this unsolicited gem)? And is there anything I should read into receiving it just at this moment. I'm gonna rule out a divine message that I should sell all my worldly possessions and follow Tomotom, who evidently died....in 2001...at 90. <br><br>Badly translated bit of info here:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.religio.de/okk/haid.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3DTomotom%2BStiftung%26hl%3Den%26hs%3Daur%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:unofficial">translate.google.com/tran...unofficial</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

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Amazon says Out of Print--Limited Availability.<br><br># Unknown Binding: 143 pages<br># Publisher: Asama (January 1, 1974)<br># Language: English<br># ASIN: B0007B6R54<br># Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.<br># Amazon.com Sales Rank: None<br><br>So it's not exactly like it's a current promotional copy -- unless it just came back into print and no one told Amazon. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>On edit: No -- that one's called "Age of Joy." I thought it was the same one because you used that phrase in describing it, but now I don't know.<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=starroute>starroute</A> at: 1/23/06 10:25 pm<br></i>

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Okay, this is moderately strange:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://carfreeuniverse.org/Members/colin/tgcbp/">carfreeuniverse.org/Members/colin/tgcbp/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>You, like I, may be looking for that cathedral-building experience. That driven feeling and joy in living you see in yourself those times when you've imagined the big idea, the great project that you will never finish, and you are now about to take the first step in a life free of distractions from your focus on your project.<br><br>The Christians and TomotOm will tell you it is not your project. It is the project of G-d, of the universe, of the energy becoming aware of itself. Now you feel that joy in living because you are no longer fighting what you are supposed to be doing. That thing that if you did not do would be done anyway, eventually, and by you. That thing that you can do because you're here, now, in the place where you are, in the body that you care for.<br><br>Tomotom says that what you should be doing makes you feel joyful, and what you should not be doing saps you of energy. And that you should refuse to do anything anti-evo unless to avert something worse (e.g., tell a lie to save a life).<br><br>Both Goethe and Tomotom suggest "It would therefore be anti-evo to be satisfied with or ever cling to an existing state of affairs." [1] [2] A mantra of progress, of constant striving guided in the most life- and awareness-enhancing ways.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>And the footnotes go to:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>[1] Tomotom Stiftung, ProEvo (Chur, Switzerland: Verlag Asama AG, 2003, ISBN 3-9522519-0-9) p. 92.<br><br>[2] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, part one; translated, with an introduction by David Luke. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987, ISBN 0192816667 (pbk.) 0192510401) winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize. Faust, part two. (I will add related quotes and page numbers later, as I don't have the book here, now)<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Dreams End]

I saw that quote. I'll have a closer look at the book in a few days. <br><br>THe book says there is a "foundation" but I can't find one. <br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[marykmusic]

Pro-evo, to me, means someone who likes recent Harley-Davidsons. I prefer the older ones, myself, and don't even mention evos in my song: <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=141724&songID=966798" target="top">Real Motorcycle</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://images.soundclick.com/04/images/m/song/maryk+realmotorcycle2.gif" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <br>The chorus goes, "Flathead, knucklehead, panhead, shovelhead, gimme..."<br><br>Okay, so it's off-topic. What the heck, that's what the thread title did to me... --MaryK <p></p><i></i>

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I did also find this page:<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.moneyhouse.ch/shab/1999_133/Stiftung_Tomotom.htm">www.moneyhouse.ch/shab/19...omotom.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Which Bablefishes to:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>7. July 1999 (1854)<br>Donation Tomotom, in D o m A t/E m s, c/o Dr. Sigis Rageth, via Calundis 36, 7013 cathedral RK/Ems, Stiftung (new registration).<br>Document date: 15.06.1999.<br>Purpose: Constant spreading of the books written by the founder ' ages of the joy ' and ' ethics of the future ' and their translations. The donation has the task to regard the copyrights and the copyrights of all translations of the books written by the founder to be accomplished in order to use it as the realization of the purpose for the realization of the purpose is measures like translation in English. Chinese one, Japanese, Spanish, French and, if necessarily, even into further languages.<br>Supervisory authority: Swiss federal section of the inside, in Berne.<br>Organization: Donation advice of a member and a board of control.<br>Registered persons: Haid, Josef, Austrian citizens, in Triesenberg (flat steel bar), member, with single signature.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>Which sounds as though it's a cult-type jobbie with followers obliged to disseminate their founder's books as widely as possible. Kind of like what the Hari Krishnans used to do.<br> <p></p><i></i>