| know you've seen them advertised. Sometimes they're called lounging sacks. Other times they're referred to as body qulits. Whatever, you can't open a magazine these days without seeing a famlly sitting around the living room In plaid sleeping bags zipped up to their throats with only their eyes peeking out. According to the blurb next to them, this is what the well-dressed family wil! be wearing during the coming winter's fuel crises. Okay, forget the fact that it will take you 32 ring-a-dings to reach the telephone. Forget that no matter how hard you try, you'll still look as sexy as an unmade bed. Forget what It's golng to sound Ilke when your son answers the door and says, ‘‘Mom can't come to the door now. She has a bag on.’’ Just ask yourself, ‘Is this the answer?"’ This is not the first energy crisis 1 have lived through. When | was 10 years old and coal was 50 cents a bag, a decision was made that winter to shut off all the rooms and heat only the kitchen. That decision had an unparalleled effect on my life. Not only did it build character, It unearthed talents | never knew | possessed. I discovered In the mornings | could run the 50 yards trom my bedroom to the kitchen In an unprecedented two-and-one-half second (the record that year was five ecronids) ‘WITHOUT MY FEET TOUCHING THE Viewer’s guide to add depth to CBC’s ‘The Music of Man’ B.C.'s newly-created Open Learning Institute will publish a viewer's guide to add depth and intensity to the CBC-produced series The Music of Man which began on Oct, 24, : John Ellis, -principal of the Open Learning Institute, said the purpose of the guide is to enhunce the viewer's perception of the music and ideas presented in the eight- part series, “The Music of Man ser- ies probes the very heart of man’s awareness of sound,” he said. “It’s a unique op- portunity for British Colum- bians to grasp an. under- Standing of the nature of music — its origin, its uses and its relationship to other aspects of culture.”’ Ellis said the guide, with by the renown- When | had to practice piano in an room, | could play the Minute Waltz in 26 seconds. | could stand on a kitchen chalr (heat rises) and eat breakfast and carry on a conversation with people on the floor like a normal person. ‘could jump under the covers of my bed and emerge three minutes later fully clothed without so much as putting a wrinkle in my skirt. ‘Whenever the doorbell rang on the Siberlan side of the house, | could go into self-hypnosis and felgn deafness. To this day, | never hoar a doorbell ring. Qh, sure, we could sit around next winter like quilted mermaids, but where is the adventure of getting to the sealed-off room, the challenge of running through the darkness, dodging sofas and chairs, creating smoke when your warm breath meets the cold air and finally teaching the room with the oven on? You can't get that kind of a thrill sitting around In the sack. dl Pulpit & Pew by Minlaters in the West Kootenay/Boundary area 1K ZINNER day came and went, of course, By Seventh-day Adventists The Fallacy of Astrology on any other day. ed musician and autho: Ye- hudi Menuhin and edited by John Grayson, a faculty mem- ber of the department of music at Capilano College, elaborates upon the broad themes expressed in the ser- ies. “In one sense music.is 3 reflection of culture," he said. ‘And by taking a deep look at that reflection we gain a better understanding of our- selves,"’ A copy of the guide can be obtained by sending a cheque or money order for $1 to Continuing Education, Open Learning Institute, P.O. Box 94,000, Richmond, B.C., V6Y 2A2. 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Save 30% on 10k and 14k gold chains and bracelets Of all the social develop- ments occurring in recent , years, none reveals our spir- itual poverty more than the The astrologers had over- looked one fundamental fact: man’s destiny is not control- led by planets. Both man and current devotion to The horoscope craze is still sweeping our country like an epidemic. According to TIME mag- azine, about 40 million read- ers in North America faith- fully read the horoscope col- umn syndicated in 70 per cent of our continent’s newspa- pers. An. estimated 10,000 professional and 200,000 part- time astrofogers tell eager, anxious believers how the planets and stars control their destiny. But sre horoscope pre- dictions accurate? I have been amazed to observe how uncritically this foolish belief has been accept- ed by TV personalities, poli- ticians and millions of people. There is not a scrap of scientific evidence to support the validity of such illogical and actually atheistic notions. Are horoscopes accur- ate? In Europe one news- paper ran the same astrologi- cal forecasts each week for six weeks before one reader fi- nally recognized the repeti- tion. Are horoscopes accur- ate? You may remember when in 1960 the world’s astrologers announced the worst combination of planet- ary influences in 25,000 would occur that year. Seven of the nine planets were to appear in a line, which meant bad news * for Mother Earth. Indian soothsayers were going crazy in sheer fright, and American sky-gazers were predicting everything from the drowning of Cal- ifornia to the cataclysmic end of the world. But the fateful theh bodies are under the indisputable authority of the Almighty Gad. Astrology is nothing more than a counterfeit reli- gion against God, His Word and God's authority. We have ample evidence why astrology is neither ac- curate, nor helpful. 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