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@ ORO: http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/cultronix/szembek/
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# NATIVITY NASTINESS: Jesus Statues Stolen Across The U.S. In North Jersey
alone, 7 Jesus figurines have been grabbed from Nativity scenes. Papists
say there's a disturbing national trend of thefts. "It's not just the baby
Jesus, either," says a Catholic flack. "We've seen several Marys taken,
too." One priest on the lookout for a JeezKid says: "I told the children,
'We want to pray for this person that they will be touched by God and they
will return it to us.'" http://bergenrecord.com/news/jesus199912294.htm
: Have you stolen any cult/religious artifacts lately? Do you like stealing
representations of deities? Aren't you afraid they might get pissed, strike
you down, or at least inflict you with hives/fleas/halitosis/flatulence???
@ Warning signs of a destructive cult:
http://www.factnet.org/headlines/destructive_cult_warning_signs.html
# MORE THAN 300 KILLED IN INDONESIA - religious clashes leave more dead
nearby: http://cnn.com/1999/ASIANOW/southeast/12/30/indonesia.violence/
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@ THE MUSEUM OF TALKING BOARDS. "Ouija knows all the answers. Weird and mys-
terious. Surpasses, in its unique results, mind reading, clairvoyance and
second sight... As unexplainable as Hindu magic--more intense and absorb-
ingly interesting than a mystery story... It draws the two people using
it into close companionship and weaves about them a feeling of mysterious
isolation. Unquestionably the most fascinating entertainment for modern
people and modern life." http://members.tripod.com/~Ouija_/
: Are you fascinatingly entertained by weejee boards? Have you emotionally
bonded with your weejee partners? Does weejee promote sexual activity? Eh?
# Walk with bare feet on broken glass. Dip your hand in molten lead. Lie
on a bed of nails. Not to worry: physics will protect you. Go ahead, try
it - I double-dare you: http://www.csicop.org/si/9911/willey.html
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# IRONIC ISN'T IT? (Newsweek) There's a backlash against everything else -
why not irony too? But it's hardly likely. "If irony isn't literally wired
into the human brain, it seems an inevitable response to the human condi-
tion." http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/ae/a64536-1999dec19.htm
@ Irony: a rather sound basis for national policy, in the British view. Not
taking things too seriously is a good way to avoid bloodshed and conflict:
http://www.economist.co.uk/editorial/freeforall/current/index_xm3604.html
: D'ya take things too seriously, not seriously enough, just right? Are you
ironic enough? Are aliens? Do wars/genocide/hatred/abductions result from
insufficient irony, a lack of a sense of humor, fixation on the trivial?
"Taking your work seriously is essential. Taking yourself seriously
is disastrous." --Dame Margot Fonteyn.
# RESSAM HAD INGREDIENTS FOR POWERFUL CHAIN REACTION EXPLOSIVE - 'A lot of
people would die' - http://cnn.com/1999/US/12/29/terror.wrap/index.html
# Dehumanization and low self-esteem caused by lawyer jokes are intolerable,
says an ABA spokesman. Lawyer jokes are a form of hate speech. Fuck'em.
http://ljx.com/cgi-bin/f_cat?prod/ljextra/data/texts/1999_1004_31.html
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@ Thoughts on time travel <http://iit.edu/~bosabri/time.html>, time travel
for beginners <http://geocities.com/CapitolHill/9335/timetravel.htm>, on
building <http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~ngzF92/jarrypub/works/time.html> a
time machine, and a guide <http://members.tripod.com/Xronos/Chronos.html>
to the nine-dimensional universe. Just in case you want to skip Xmas and
all the start-of-the-last-year-of-the-twentieth-century nonsense. And go
waste some time at: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Lindsay/weblog/latest.html
: Have you time-traveled lately? In which direction? Have you designed/built
/used a time travel machine lately? Is it technical, magic, alien, divine??
# Color-programmable paint and floorless elevators. Soil will be turned into
food & we'll talk with telepathy. It's the unreal world of nanotechnology.
Or is it magic? http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/1999-12-08/feature_p.html
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# ALL AROUND US: The biggest thing to happen to music this century was its
evolution into a soundtrack for living. "Before recording, nobody realized
how much empty space there was in the world, at work, at home, in the car
and bus, in the exercise room and at the neighborhood bar and restaurant,
waiting to be filled with music." Well, it's better than filling visual
space with TV: http://theglobeandmail.com/gam/Arts/19991229/TATWEN.html
: Have you filled your cranium with sensory input lately? What constitutes
the soundtrack/laughtrack/claptrack of your life? Does your alien implant
make entertaining sounds? Is Muzak a mind-control plot? Are you programmed?
@ An Ode to Castration. http://hometown.aol.com/uscccn/castration.index.html
# Airport scanner reveals flyer's private parts - "you become naked"
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyKey=24938&category=F
# Course: How to behave like a goddess - get a man for US$9600:
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Dec/30/magazine/MAN30.htm
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# Gamma-ray bursts, which kill anything within 100 light years, are a daily
event. Is that why we seem to be alone in the universe? Did everyone fry?
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/universe_savage/index.html
@ Thomas Aquinas did not have the advantage of the Hubble Space Telescope.
But on the question of creation, he could see farther than the astro-
nomers: http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9911/opinion/carroll.html
: Have you caused or witnessed the creation and/or destruction of any life-
forms, biospheres, solar systems, galaxies, universes lately? Was it real,
virtual, a perceptual glitch, a godly exercise, just the natural order??
# In 1830 railroads were said to be changing perceptions of time and space:
"What was quick is now slow; what was distant is now near." Sound familiar?
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/biztech/articles/11rail.html
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the common man. Instead, take your life in small, rancid, bite-sized
chunks that you choke down and then flush away, day by day."
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