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@ LOOK flying saucers: http://www.thule.org/looksaucer.html
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# MESSAGE FROM MARY: "JUST DO IT!" The Virgin Mary told him to build the
shrine -- and the city council has told him to take it down. But the 79-
year-old one-legged WWII veteran is appealing the ruling. Rotsa ruck:
http://www.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/lonw/pepp10291999.htm
: Have you received instructions from any divine entities lately? Do you
always/often/sometimes/never obey the voices in your head? Are you sorry?
# MESSAGE TO GOD: "SHOW ME THE GOO!" With biblical prophecy and creationist
geology as his guides, Hayseed Stevens is now only one well short of find-
ing the greatest oil field on Earth http://www.csicop.org/si/9909/oil.html
: Do divine entities guide your professional activities? Do spirits/demons/
deities lead you to wealth/happiness/orgasm? Are they trustworthy? Are you?
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# The History of Sex. Men and women may have more in common than we
ever dreamed. Scientists report that the ancestor of today's human
sex chromosomes evolved from an identical set long ago.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32156,00.html?tw=wn19991028
# Why Men Are That Way. A researcher in Texas has created a male mouse with
two X chromosomes. His findings call into question the widely accepted
belief that gender is determined by the XX or XY configuration.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32162,00.html?tw=wn19991028
: What's your favorite chromosonal structure? Did you evolve from men, women
or others? Do you have any Reptilioid genes? How many sexes do they have??
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# MEDICAL RESEARCHERS RECEIVE THREATS FROM ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS. A group
of animal rights activists have sent threatening letters laced with razor
blades to researchers at universities across the United States, demanding
an end to experimentation on animals. More than 80 researchers have been
listed on a Web page as potential victims of violence if they don't
release their laboratory animals by the autumn of 2000. Support mental
health or I'll kill you: http://cnn.com/US/9910/29/monkey.threats.01/
: Have you threatened anyone lately? Would'ya rather threaten/dissect/devour
animals, humans, aliens, robots, me? Are you a lab rat? Are you afraid? Why?
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# Pig Cells Make Great Arteries. (Reuters) Artificial blood vessels from
cows and pigs may be the next big thing in heart bypass operations.
http://www.wired.com/news/reuters/0,1349,32166,00.html?tw=wn19991028
: Does your belief system preclude you from having animal tissues implanted
in your body? Should/will you go extinct? Would you prefer Reptoid tissues?
Should animal-tissue researchers be killed? Should PETA activists die young?
@ HIV is easy to avoid. But viruses know how to find open sores and exploit
folly and the intoxicant of lust. http://www.nationaljournal.com/rauch.htm
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# STUDY FINDS MANY THINK LOTTERIES ARE TICKET TO GOLDEN YEARS. Too many
Americans are betting their future on lottery tickets instead of putting
aside a regular amount of money in savings accounts or mutual funds,
according to a new survey. More than one quarter of Americans believe
lotteries are their best chance to have enough money for retirement.
Savings rate redefined, rises: http://cnn.com/US/9910/28/savings/
# And: SAVINGS UNDERESTIMATED: http://cnnfn.com/1999/10/28/life/q_survey/
: Are lotteries an effective tax on the illiterate/innumerate? Do Believers
buy more lottery tickets than non-Believers? Do they deserve poverty? Why?
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# MARYLAND TOWN EMBRACES 'BLAIR WITCH' COMMERCE. The Blair Witch believers
are back, just in time for Halloween. This time, Burkittsville is ready.
Last summer, curiosity seekers overran the startled west Maryland hamlet
where the hit hoax horror film, "The Blair Witch Project," is set. They
snatched road and cemetery signs and vandalized tombstones, prompting a
beefed-up police presence in the quiet farming community. Burkittsville
has since wised up -- and cashed in. Townsfolk embracing wave of 'Blair
Witch virus': http://cnn.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9910/28/blairwitch.ap/
: Have you overrun any towns lately? Are you a witch, or do you just play
one on television? Have you exploited any believers lately? Do they mind?
@ World Of The Strange: http://www.jb-graphics.com/thestrange/
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# In universities of the future, the faculty will be software icons: "Click
on the professor, and let him take you to the world that he knows" :
http://www.intellectualcapital.com/issues/issue312/item6932.asp
@ Academics who denied the Gulag deserve the same scorn, says Robert
Conquest, that we heap on anti-Semites who still deny the Holocaust:
http://www.booksonline.co.uk/booksol?ac=002062480060166&rtmo=glrlSfVu&atmo=l
llllGGx&pg=/99/10/23/boref23.html
: Do you prefer real or virtual academics? Are you real or virtual? Are you
a Gulag/Holocaust denier? What genocides do you most like to downplay? Why?
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# Falun Gong maintains defiant stance. BEIJING (AP) - Nearly 30 members of
the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement spoke out Thursday at an extra-
ordinary news conference organized in secrecy, denouncing torture at the
hands of Chinese police and promising continued defiance. The group's
defiance continued Friday morning, as followers, unbowed by tighter
security, staged 2 protests at Beijing's Tiananmen square. Plainclothes
and uniformed police immediately tackled the protesters, with at least
one being dragged by his hair. China's Communist Party, meanwhile,
promised it would show no mercy to what it called "the devil cult."
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561832527-2e3
: Do you belong to a devil cult? Do you meditate satanically? Do you work
for a devil gov't? Do you like to torture cultists? Would you mind being
tortured? Do voices in your head direct your torturous activities? When?
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"Aye, and now ye scum be pirates and outlaws of the seven seas," roared
the feared Cap'n Redbeard, "and the only laws ye'll follow, and live,
are mine -- ye'll pillage, rape, and murder without mercy when'er I
tells ye, and ye'll go potty over the starb'rd rail or get ninety
tastes of me whip!" --Joseph Peter Meyers
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