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@ Dervish: www.3quarks.com/GIF-Animations/Figurines/Figurine10-animated.gif
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# Sounds of the Spirit World - Ancient Monuments Wrap Their Mysteries in
Eerie Sound Effects. From somewhere deep within the great stone-covered
mound come eerie noises that defy explanation and must surely come from
another realm, one steeped in the mysteries of the supernatural. Booo!!
http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0799toc/7feature2-spirit.shtml
@ Is This How Sacred Symbols Are Born? (II) http://caus.org/cz022500.htm
@ 6 Ecclesiastical Satires: www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/dean2.htm
@ Spirits In Bondage: http://www.discovery.org/lewis/bondindx.htm
: Have you listened to any spirits lately? Have they listened to you? Which
are in greater agony, stricter bondage, deeper doo-doo? D'ya sound holy??
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# LANDS OF THE FREE. In the 1990s, private security stocks grew at twice the
rate of the Dow Jones industrial average. Today in the US, more than twice
as much money is spent on private security as on law enforcement; private
firms employ nearly 3 times as many people as do public agencies. In the
UK, employees of security firms rose from 10,000 in 1950 to more than
250,000 now, outnumbering soldiers in the British army. Private security
firms are taking on functions once performed by governments. Wackenhut
Corp. runs prisons in 13 US states and four other countries. It provides
emergency response SWAT teams for nuclear weapon facilities in South
Carolina & Nevada. http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/news/0b13secu.htm
: D'ya prefer public/private/alien armies/cops/agents? Have you bought/hired
any troops/cops/agents/politicos lately? Is your corporate security service
ready to fight pitched battles with the military? Are you better-equipped?
# Europeans shocked over spy charge - warned to "watch what they say"
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564547994-d3a
# Thatcher ordered spy network to surveill dissident ministers:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000224/17/eu-spying-thatcher
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# Tumor-Like Mass Can Make You Want To Laugh. A small tumor-like mass
known as a hypothalamic hamartoma can cause patients to feel the
desire to laugh. The urge to laugh is not always followed by laughter.
It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry. Something like that.
Hahaha. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000225075951.htm
# The Genetics Of Pain And Analgesia. Is it nature or nurture? Why does one
medication give relief for one person but not for another? Is it the same
for men and women? The "it" is pain, and research is narrowing the search
for specific genes responsible for a person's response to pain. Make it
stop. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000224080023.htm
: Is incipient/actual laughter symptomatic of organic brain dysfunction? Are
comedians and/or their audiences sick? Do you laugh to keep from crying? If
you're gene-engineered to be impervious to pain, will you stop laughing???
@ Poor Richard's Almanac: http://antiquebooks.net/cgi-bin/bookfront?book=7
@ The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches:
http://marktwain.miningco.com/library/texts/bl_jf_contents.htm
@ Your brain on jumping-beans: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/abrain.gif
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# Pope calls for religious freedom - everyone should be free to convert to
Roman Catholicism, no matter what faith they think they should adhere to.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_656000/656422.stm
@ Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc: http://litrix.com/joan/joan001.htm
# Pope begins Egypt pilgrimage - levitates atop Giza pyramid, glows:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564550674-fcf
# India Christians stage protest - persecuted by Hindus, govt:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564551879-e67
@ The Rig-Veda: http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/index.htm
@ The Bhagavad-Gita: http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/gita/index.htm
: Have you changed belief-systems lately? Were you forcibly converted? Have
you shifted paradigms lately? Voluntarily or otherwise? Has all you knew
turned topsy-turvy? Are you spinning dizzily? Would sacramental wine help?
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# "Planet In A Test Tube" Provides Valuable Data On Atmospheres Of Planets
And Stars: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000223191620.htm
# Computer Simulations Reveal The Workings Of The Dynamo Behind Earth's Mag-
netic Field: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000224075833.htm
: Have you simulated any atmospheres/biospheres/planets/galaxies/realities
lately? Would you rather simulate space/time/matter/energy/dynamics/spirit?
# Y2K-afr? "Milliennium Missed" - http://www.islamtoday.com/y2k.htm
# Why We Survived Y2K: Perhaps the Fates Favor Someone Else's Calendar:
http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0799toc/7commentary1-y2k.shtml
: Today is Monday, February 21, 2000 C.E. and/or THul Qaidah 11, 1420 A.H.
Which works better for you, for Allah/Jehovah/Osiris/Rama/Garelamaisama/Pan?
# More and more physicists appear to be embracing the idea of an array
of universes, of which ours is just one member. Certain refinements
of the big-bang model make the "multiverse" an attractive option:
http://www.globeandmail.com/gam/Science/20000216/RV16MULTI.html
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# Former Pres. Bush hospitalized - Dubwa's campaign plans "tragic death"
to grab sympathy votes, steal election, run US as dynastic fiefdom:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564563877-ef3
# Texas executes convicted killer - Dubwa's "compassionate conservatism"
means: kill great-grandmothers suffering long-term spousal abuse:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564561396-c2e
# McCain: 'The Manchurian Candidate?' - don't show him that card:
http://www.worldtribune.com/Archive-2000/n02-23.html
@ The Rich Got Richer and the Poor Got Poorer: The Rise of Social Classes
in Predynastic Egypt: http://www.egyptrevealed.com/021400-classes.shtml
@ Getting Even: The Complete Book of Dirty Tricks, by George Hayduke:
http://www.bb.com/looptestlive.cfm?bookid=161&startrow=1
: What's your favorite political ploy? Is all politics meant to further em-
power the powerful/wealthy/controllers? Can the disenfranchised resist? How?
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