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# Bleak outlook for UK eclipse watchers. (BBC) Iran could be the best place
to get a good view of this summer's total solar eclipse, with people in
the UK facing the prospect of cloudy weather. Call Teheran for a visa:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/eclipse99/newsid_385000/3
85669.stm
How far would you go to see an eclipse? Do the voices in your head tell you
where? What eclipse rituals must you perform if the sun is to return? Why?
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# Where Aliens Aren't A Foreign Concept - UFO Believers Have A Close Encoun-
ter Group. The blinking red button on Tom Benson's madras shirt wishes you
a Happy 4th of July as he talks about the 3rd time he encountered aliens.
Many people misunderstand flying saucers, he says from behind his vendor's
booth at the 30th annual Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) symposium being held
this weekend. "The vehicle's not physical. It's an energy construct," exp-
lains Benson. "It's your consciousness or soul that gets taken on board."
http://washingtonpost.com:80/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-07/03/098l-070399-idx.html
: Have you encountered many aliens lately? Have you traveled on their ships
in a physical or virtual mode? Does your implant itch, tingle, buzz, drone?
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@ The end to traditional culture and values? (S.Africa) Does urbanisation
and education have to mean an end to traditional culture and values? Are
we prepared to learn, and take the best of all the different colours in
our Rainbow Nation, or do we simply condemn? Check out this week's
Rubitin: http://iafrica.com/forum/index.htm/?src_id=tmp0327
: Does your belief system embrace/reject old/new values, culture, mores? Can
/should/does your culture evolve? Was your belief system started/changed by
humans, aliens, deities, machines? Do inflexible cultures deserve to die???
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# Do aliens exist? An Islamic perspective. (DAWN) In spite of all the res-
earch, first hand experiences and beliefs about the existence of extra-
terrestrial, there is one aspect that confounds me. Why is it that the
people in the subcontinent mostly encounter jinns, the presence of which
is verified in the Holy Quran, and those living in the West mostly enc-
ounter aliens and their ships? http://dawn.com/weekly/review/review6.htm
: Does your belief system encompass ETs? Do ETs' attributes vary depending
on the belief system of the human observer? Do different aliens visit East
and West? Do they have distinct zones of occupation? Is Earth partitioned?
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# Ultra-Orthodox throw tear gas, garbage at secular drivers. JERUSALEM. Hun-
dreds of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators threw garbage & tear gas at secular
Jews driving thru their neighborhood during the Jewish Sabbath. The major
thoroughfare, straddled on both sides by an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood,
has become a symbol of the struggle between religious and secular Israelis
over the nature of the Jewish state and the role of religion in it.
http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_07_3&item=#931060209
: Does your belief system promote throwing tear gas, garbage, other stuff at
those who don't adhere to your beliefs? Is it fun? What else do you throw??
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# SEXBOTS. Engineers, programmers and futurists believe that programmable
robots that provide sexual companionship are likely to be commonplace in
the 21st century, at more or less the same time as computers become able
to process information as quickly as the human brain. If you thought the
fight over the CDA was bad, wait till Rev. Falwell and his pious cronies
discover Sexbots. http://slashdot.org/features/99/03/09/1544207.shtml
: Would you rather have sex with robots, clones, aliens, goats, trees, me?
What're the ultimate providers of Safe Sex? How much will they cost? Why??
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SkeptiLinks:
# The Darwin Awards: http://www.darwinawards.com/
# TREASURY SECRETARY KIDNAPPED - video "super classified":
http://cnnfn.com/1999/07/03/bizbuzz/wires/rubin_wg/
# POLICE: 17 CHILDREN INVOLVED IN NEIGHBORHOOD SEX RING:
http://cnn.com/US/9907/04/AM-ChildSexRing.ap/index.html
# Race hate suspect dead - white supremacist committed suicide:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_386000/386153.stm
# Israeli Jew shot in Chicago says Israel only safe place:
http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_07_4&item=#931130485
# BEYOND THE DRUM: THE RICH HERITAGE OF NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC:
http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9907/02/wb.native.american/index.html
@ Netomat: The Non-Linear Browser - Software as artwork:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/20473.html
@ V-Files - Alien/UFO info: http://www.vicissitudes.com/index2.shtml
@ Psychic advisor for all your psychic needs: http://www.madmo.com/
@ TAVISTOCK - brainwashing: http://www.nidlink.com/~bobhard/tavistok.html
@ Waco Pictorial Essay: http://www.illusions.com/opf/wacoind.htm
# Philippines volcano eruption warning - stay away from Mayon Volcano:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_386000/386100.stm
# Chinese nuclear accident revealed - "we almost lost Shanghai":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_386000/386285.stm
# Cosmic mystery lands in Austin man's back yard - meteorites in creek?
http://www.austin360.com:80/news/1metro/1999/07/03meteor.html
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