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@ Love me: http://www.randomhouse.com/features/emailthisbook/961122.gif
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# Vanishing Mars craft mystery. (Times) IS Mars the Bermuda Triangle of the
solar system? The disappearance of the £75 million Mars Climate Orbiter
has reinforced the red planet's reputation as a spacecraft gobbler. Hard-
ware worth billions bound for Mars has either lost contact with Earth,
crashed, disappeared or failed to get off the launch pad. Course, or...??
www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Saturday-Times/timnwsnws01021.html?999
: Have your people (or whatever) set up a protective field around Mars to
prevent hu-mans from inquiring too closely? What are you trying to hide??
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# Christian dieters seeking divine help - bring God, prayer into weight-loss
plan. MILWAUKEE (AP) Some overweight Christians are working on the theory
that they can slim down by upgrading their relationship with God. "If I'm
accountable to a counselor at Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers, I can blow
them off. But if I'm accountable to God, that's an en-tirely different
story." http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,115010792,00.html
: Have you lost any weight lately, or do you know exactly where it went? Did
any deities help you? Are your deities fat pigs too? Is Satan thin, svelte?
Who are your favorite sexy deities? Do they make you control yourself? How?
$ Brain <http://edgeco.com/cgi-bin/catalog/BRN-400?kmKWRdUo;;20> in a tank!
Thing <http://www.traipse.com/thing_in_a_jar/> in a jar! Weird stuff in
glass to impress your friends and make them worry about you!
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@ The Summa Theologica <http://www.newadvent.org/summa> is St. Thomas
Aquinas' <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14663b.htm> primary work,
the center of Catholic theology, and one of the most important books
in the history of Western Civilization. Questions ranging from does
God exist? <http://www.newadvent.org/summa/100203.htm> to, do angels
eat? <http://www.newadvent.org/summa/105103.htm> to, certain Viagra-
oriented questions. <http://www.newadvent.org/summa/505801.htm>
: Are questions re: deities, angels, spirits et al, objectively answerable?
What do the questions & answers tell you about the speakers/writers? Are all
questions meaningful? Are all answers rational? Is there a bug up your ass?
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# Sikh is arrested for carrying ceremonial knife. MENTOR, Ohio (AP) - When
he was baptized a Sikh in India, Gurbachan Singh Bhatia, now 69, vowed to
always wear a kirpan, a 6-inch knife symbolizing his willingness to defend
the faith. But during investigation of a minor traffic mishap, Bhatia was
arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. At the time, he was returning
home from a religious ceremony blessing the new home of a Sikh family.
"We don't want to prosecute anyone for exercising religious freedom."
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,115010786,00.html
: Does your religion require you to carry weapons? Does your faith mandate
knives, swords, shotguns, nerve gas, tactical nukes? Does religious freedom
immunize you against weapons laws? Who do you bless with your weaponry???
@ Escaping "Social" Reality - Principles of a Higher Civilization:
http://www.butterfly.net/henryflynt/escreal.html
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$ Shuttle DISTRESS for sale:
http://www.ihpva.org/incoming/1998/Ptksr98/02ShuttleDistressFront.jpg
http://www.ihpva.org/incoming/1998/Ptksr98/01ShuttleDistressRear.jpg
http://www.ihpva.org/incoming/1998/Ptksr98/05ShuttleDistressSide.jpg
http://www.ihpva.org/incoming/1998/Ptksr98/07ShuttleDistressWater.jpg
http://www.ihpva.org/incoming/1998/Ptksr98/08ShuttleMud.jpg
http://www.ihpva.org/incoming/1998/Ptksr98/08ShuttlePassenger.jpg
: Have you ever propelled a human-powered vehicle? Are you human? Would you
prefer a non-human to propel you vehicle? Do the voices in your head insist?
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# Whitley Strieber Rallies UFO Faithful, Rails Against 'Denial'. After
being honored as "UFOlogist of the Year" at this year's National UFO
Conference, horror novelist / contactee Whitley Strieber took advantage
of the spotlight to berate unbelievers and captivate an audience of UFO
faithful. http://www.space.com:80/area51/strieber_990928.html
: Are you faithful, captivated, spotlighted, returned? Do you deny the awful
reality of alien abduction/experimentation/impregnation? Are you a hybrid??
@ Objectivism explained: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~andrej/objectivism/
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# Security experts warn of massive hack attack. Covert monitoring software
sold in the US could give hackers an easy route to stealing user info &
passwords. Investigator 2.0 from WinWhatWhere is designed to allow firms
to monitor staff, recording keystrokes and password information, emailing
them back to the administrator without the user's knowledge. The software
has already caused a storm in the U.S. from rights groups angry that it
allows spying on users. But the privacy issues "pale into insignificance
next to the security implications..." See http://www.silicon.com/a32993
: Do you monitor keystrokes? Is that part of y'r job? Are you only following
orders? Do you feed keystrokes to govt agencies, foreign entities, aliens??
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@ The Collectivity After the Abolition of the Universe and Time: Escaping
from Social Science. Principles of Natural Sociography - Community and
Social Causation in Personhood Theory - Inevitable Stages? - Retroactive
Signification - Dissolution of Natural Society - Recapitulation:
http://www.butterfly.net/henryflynt/collectivafter.html
: Have you abolished the universe & time lately? If time is abolished, what
does 'lately' mean? Has your society dissolved? Have you? Is it all melty??
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"I wore an aluminum foil outfit. An aluminum foil skullcap, and, that's
right, aluminum foil for sundry other decoration. The aluminum foil
skullcap had the effect of making me look like a flapper, especially as
it appeared I had an aluminum foil flower growing out of my right temple,
because, because, the aluminum foil cap got foiled up & did some strange
things, was difficult to keep straight on my head even though my hair was
only about a quarter inch long at the time, and thus the aluminum foil
flower because because the aluminum foil kept expanding and I had to keep
scrunching it up so it would fit my head more tightly (one might want to
make a note of this, that a crinkled aluminum foil cap tends to uncrinkle
and want to fall off)." --Herea11Therea11 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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