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# Monks commission new version of Bible - to be done by hand. (NYTimes)
An order of Benedictine monks from Collegeville, Minn., unveiled the
first page of what they call the only handwritten and illuminated Bible
to be commissioned since the advent of the printing press more than 500
years ago. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,80001840,00.html
: Does your religion demand manual labor? Would you prefer a handmade illum-
inated Book of Mormon, Science & Health, Quran, Book of Urantia, Kama Sutra?
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# Cyberfaith: Give me that online religion. (CSM) The nation's church pews
may be emptying, but the Internet is bursting with believers. Legions of
cyber-congregants are changing the very nature of worship in America. Wired
into eternity: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,80001166,00.html
: At your keyboard, would you rather pray/worship, compose music/text/art,
masturbate, rob banks, smash randomly, debate politics, tell jokes, defraud?
# Don't forget the religious overtones of the 'Star Wars' saga. Did you know
that if you buy a Star Wars ticket, you are dabbling in religion? Metaphors
and metaphysics: http://detnews.com/1999/religion/9905/01/05010024.htm
: Do you worship Darth Vader, The Force, George Lucas, Keanu Reeves, Howard
The Duck, Christine Applegate, Dolby Digital Sound, IL&M, Bill Gates, me?
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# Churches give perks to big donors - Is trend a result of competition
for charitable $$? Maybe money can't buy a ticket to heaven, but it can
buy some nice perks from religious organizations here on Earth. Giving
to greedy gods: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,80001832,00.html
: How large a bribe would you give for a divine blessing? Have you ever been
solicited? Have you ever responded? Is this just the cost of doing business?
# Man admits bilking priest out of $1.4 million. TOMS RIVER, NJ (AP) A man
with a history of preying on clergy has admitted he persuaded a priest to
give him $1.4 million in church money by promising to invest it - then lost
it all gambling. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,80001841,00.html
: If priests prey on you, is it OK to prey on them? Why does a priest have
US$1.4 mil? Would you rather give money to a church, or take it from them?
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SansComment:
# Online, both the guilty and innocent are blotto. They never unmasked the
hacker responsible for Michelangelo, a famous computer virus that pumped
high-tech fear in 1992: www.detnews.com/1999/technology/9905/01/05010018.htm
# The surveillance society. New info technology offers huge benefits: higher
productivity, better crime prevention, improved medical care, dazzling
entertainment, more convenience. But it comes at a price: less and less
privacy. www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/1-5-99/index_sf1247.html
# Home appliances seem safe from Y2K - your refrigerator & microwave likely
won't kill you: http://detnews.com/1999/technology/9905/01/04300239.htm
@ COMBINATION THERAPY - Research report that merits a trip to the library:
"Effects of high-speed drill noise and gunfire on dentists' hearing," W.D.
Ward and C.J. Holmberg, Journal of the American Dental Association, vol. 79,
no. 6, December 1969, pp. 1383-7.
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# from AANEWS #566 - http://www.atheists.org
Women throughout Africa being charged with "witchcraft" are being hunted
down and put to death, according to media accounts and reports from human
rights organizations. In Bihar, more than 400 alleged witches have been
strangled, stoned to death or dispatched with knives in the past six years.
"In every 10th or 15th house in every village, you'll find a woman who's
been branded a witch," says Ajay Kumar, an attorney with the Free Legal Aid
Committee. "No one talks to them, children are told to stay away, and
they're banned from village ceremonies and festivals." Other reports show
that victims who survive attacks were severely beaten, compelled to swallow
excrement, and forced to endure other indignities.
Few of these human rights violations ever reach the ears of authorities, let
alone end up in the impoverished court systems. But in South Africa, police
forces have recently introduced a special "witch protection program" to
assist women fleeing the hysteria. The accused are often burned to death
and dismembered for genitals, hands, the head and other limbs which then
become objects bringing "good luck" to the perpetrator of the crime. Witch
doctors -- Inkagna -- frequently offer to "sniff out" a witch in exchange
for money or material goods.
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SkeptiLinks:
@ Lisa's Video Frame Capture Library: http://lcw.simplenet.com/
@ New Riders of the Golden Age: http://www.warhorse.com/
@ Books4ourTimes: http://members.aol.com/jmontapert/dream.html
@ Laughing Buddhas or whatever: http://www.thelaughingbuddha.com/
@ UFO Community on MSN: http://communities.msn.com/ufo/default.asp
@ UFOC newsgroup: news://msnnews.msn.com/msn.forums.ufo.skynight
@ Man-Made Flying Saucers Archives:
http://personal.bna.bellsouth.net/bna/r/d/rdcook/saucers.htm
@ RI-1208i 'God, 100 billion people, KILLED BY L. RON HUBBARD - How':
http://AmbassadorForMankind.org/ri-bulletins/ri1208i.htm)
# The Electromagnetic Bomb - a Weapon of Electrical Mass Destruction:
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/kopp/apjemp.html
@ The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror:
http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt.htm
@ Dilbert gets an astrologer:
www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert99031486792.gif
@ Psychic Web site reads your mind in a seven-card trick:
http://members.tripod.com/~andybauch/trick.html
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"He had been crawling through the burned-out waste for a bleak eternity of
neverdays, or it may only have been an hour, when a sound of machinery that
could never exist again in the ruins of what was once a bustling farm lot
buzzed in his ears, or did it? and he realized it was the humming alarm on
his digital watch calling him to a lunch date he was going to miss for the
rest of his life, which meant until about two o'clock if his estimates of
his radiation dosage were correct." --Jaye Moretz
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