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# Polygamist Compound Perfect Place For New Church. (THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE)
For more than a decade, the four-acre estate was the former home of Rulon
Jeffs, the 89-year-old prophet of what is believed to be America's largest
polygamous church, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (FLDS). http://www.sltrib.com/1999/may/05011999/religion/102003.htm
: Would you rather build a church in a former polygamist compound, military
compound, nudist compound, industrial compound, colonial compound, dogpound?
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@ WHILE MJ12 - THE SEMI-SECRET BODY ALLEGEDLY OVERSEEING THE ALIEN 'PROBLEM'
- AND AREA 51 - THE SUPPOSED ALIEN HQ ON EARTH - ARE NOW WELL KNOWN, FEW
PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF THEIR ORIGINS IN THE LATE 1980'S. And you thought you
knew everything: http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/122/disin2.html
: Do you have inside information on US gov't dealings with aliens/UFOs/tech?
Why haven't you been killed yet? Are you one of the manipulators? Which one?
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# Cult figures - Experts ponder why people keep following the leader. (Ed-
monton Sun) Husbands prove their devotion to a small cult in Rocky Mountain
House by delivering their wives to their leader for sex. And the small town
is not the only Alberta community harbouring such a manipulative body. "I
believe there are between 300 and 500 cults operating in Alberta, some as
small as two people," said Dr. Norman Costigan, who helped organize a cult
awareness conference in Edmonton. www.canoe.com/CNEWSLife9905/02_cult.html
: Does your cult deal with sex, death, drugs, music, politics, aliens, gods?
Are you part of a network of cults? How small is your cult? Are you alone?
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@ ALTERNATIVE 3 (A3) WAS A 1978 TV DRAMA FEATURING A SCIENCE DOCUMENTARY
TEAM'S INVESTIGATION OF A CONSPIRACY BETWEEN THE SUPERPOWERS TO PLANT
COLONIES ON THE OTHER PLANETS. MANY VIEWERS TOOK IT FOR A FACTUAL DOCUMEN-
TARY. A LATER NOVEL BY LESLIE WATKINS BASED ON THE SCREENPLAY, EXTENDED THE
CONFUSION AND ENSHRINED A3 AS A MAJOR STRAND OF MODERN CONSPIRACY THEORY.
Truth behind truth: http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/121/a3.html
: Were you part of a superpower conspiracy to of extraterrestrial coloniza-
tion? Were you well rewarded? How many folks did you send off-planet? Where?
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@ John Banion's very alien and weird experience. John Banion, a tedious but
covertly sweet Washington pundit in his late 40s, is out golfing one day
when he finds himself jiggered up into a flying saucer, poked, prodded and
"stretched" in a most unsettling fashion... But when it happens again --
this time, out on the road, on the way to a speaking engagement -- the
"alien" experience sinks in. What else can Banion do but talk about it?
Banion's speeches, talk shows and syndicated columns become informed by a
wholly new subject matter: What do Congress and the administration plan to
do about these aggressive superterrestrials? All due to MJ-12 - see
http://www.herald.com/content/sat/entertainment/books/digdocs/071531.htm
: Do you talk about your abduction(s)? Does anyone believe you? Do you know
any abductees? Did you join a club? Do you party hearty? Would you go again?
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# Alzheimer's can't break a connection with God. (SALT LAKE CITY) So
many things elude her now: She can't remember the names of her nieces
and nephews, what kind of car she bought two years ago, sometimes even
where she lives. She has Alzheimer's disease, and many of her memories
are patchy, tattered or missing. But she remembers God.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,80001847,00.html
: Are you brain-damaged? How many and which deities do you remember? Do you
talk to them? Do they talk back? Does brain damage strengthen you faith?
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@ Confessions of a perpetual foreigner. I realized that I am an example of
an entirely new breed of people, a transcontinental tribe of wanderers that
is multiplying as fast as international telephone lines and frequent flier
pro-grams. We are the transit loungers, forever heading to the departure
gate. We buy our interests duty-free, we eat our food on plastic plates, we
watch the world through borrowed headphones. We pass through countries as
through revolving doors, resident aliens of the world, impermanent residents
of nowhere. Nothing is strange to us, and nowhere is foreign. We are
visitors even in our own homes. www.utne.com/lens/cs/81societypico.html
: Are you a resident alien of the world, the solar system, the galaxy, the
universe, of observable reality? How many border do you cross daily? Why?
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SansComment:
> BLASTS GO OFF NEAR TWO MOSCOW SYNAGOGUES - "This was not done by a
professional": http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9905/01/BC-RUSSIA-BLAST.reut/
> AUTHORITIES SAY COLUMBINE SHOOTERS ACTED ALONE - More then 50 unexploded
devices found: http://cnn.com/US/9905/01/school.shooting.03/index.html
> IT KEEPS GOING AND GROWING ... The U.S. economy looks like the Energizer
Bunny on steroids: http://cnnfn.com/hotstories/economy/9904/30/neweconomy/
# Falun Gong is a force, if not a cult - Growing group poses a dilemma for
China: http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Apr/27/international/CHIN27.htm
# Marilyn Manson Ends U.S. Tour - says "unfairly scapegoated" by media,
then kills chicken: http://www.cbs.com/common/flat/flat_story_148105.html
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SkeptiLinks:
# Clinton sued over Kosovo: www.house.gov/paul/press/press99/pr050199.htm
# Giant Firms Dump GM Foods: ens.lycos.com/ens/apr99/1999L-04-28-03.html
# Turning space dreams to reality: http://www.msnbc.com/news/264377.asp
@ Loving The Aliens: http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/121/aliensex.html
@ Some racist and anti-racist sites on the net:
http://www.itn.co.uk/Britain/brit19990426/042602.htm
# The hype about Y2K is beginning to ebb - contingency seminars go begging:
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/business.pat,business/30daf2cd.430,.html
@ Killing time - Two new books to help you learn to stop worrying and love
Y2K: www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/books/99/04/01/KILLING_TIME_Y2K.html
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"Dr. Gelnda Holcombe, interplanetary sex therapist, blew a strand of her
immaculately coifed platinum blond hair with a quick breath from her eyes,
and addressed Dr. Ferguson: 'This is going to be an interesting planet,
Fergie; I thought this was a rubber glove, and now you tell me it's a
Blodkinoid condom!'" --Richard Clopton
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