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@ PalmSimple: http://www.mikew.org/html/PalmSimple.html
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# YOUR PET MAY BE POSSESSED! Animals can be possessed by demons just like
humans! Hounds of Hell: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1866.html
# Man faces trial in grandmother's beating death. Stalking around the house,
wielding a 2-foot tall crucifix and photograph, he claimed he was rebuking
Satan. Right. http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_city/20000419reddix2.asp
# Rome on alert after firebomb attack on shrine. POLICE issued a warning
that an attempt to blow up one of Italy's most popular and revered shrines
to the Virgin Mary could signal a campaign by "anti-clerical militants" to
disrupt Easter celebrations being attended by millions of pilgrims this
weekend http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Times/frontpage.html?1124027
: What are your favorite spirits, shrines, pets? How do they intersect? Have
you sacrificed a pet/relative/edifice lately? Are you and/or those near you
possessed by demons/angels/reptoids/controllers/me? D'ya take precautions?
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# Occult sites 'lure' teens. (BBC) UK teachers are worried about teenagers
using websites about the occult, which 1/4 of secondary school pupils are
"very interested" in. Shazam: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9718784
# Violent film appetites (BBC) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9720059
# Christians Celebrate Godling's Death With Bizarre Behaviours And Costumes.
Images: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_722000/722051.stm
@ Hello: I'm Dead. http://wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/mustread.html?pg=7
# Crucifixion recreation leads to ambulance call - smeared with fake
blood: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_721000/721847.stm
# Earth Day: titanic celebration: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9719109
: Does your belief system lure novices with flashy colors, vivid drama, loud
music, (un)real violence, foods/drinks/drugs, software? D'ya fete violence?
Are earth/sky/sex-gods inherently violent? Is death the ultimate trip? Why?
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# Faith Healer Faces Sex Charges - "messenger of truth" has some explaining
to do. "He's part counselor, part psychic, part witch doctor. He does have
a certain amount of laying on of hands as part of his therapy." Psychic
and physical "counseling": http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0421i.htm
# AGE-OLD FOLK REMEDIES THAT DOCTORS KNOW REALLY WORK! WASHINGTON -- You can
cure everything from foot pain and hiccups to cellulite & bronchitis with
tried'n'true folk remedies that have brought blessed relief to millions of
true believers for hundreds of years! "Doctors and the big drug companies
don't want you to know it, but folk remedies really work." If you're one
of the lucky survivors: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1858.html
: Have you used any ancient healing techniques lately? Did you survive? D'ya
know what the usual human lifespan was before modern medicine & sanitation?
Is faith-healing better for healing faith or health? Is your faith sick? Eh?
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# VERY VERY OLD: Pottery found in Eastern China dating back 4,800 years has
inscriptions of Chinese characters. This predates by some 2000 years what
were previously thought to the earliest Chinese characters. 5 millennia
of writing: http://www.chinatimes.com.tw//english/eculture/89042001.htm
# Computers, Real Cheap! They'd cost a dollar & be made of paper. Computers
that can be dropped into an envelope, used once and thrown away, or jacked
in to a phone line to transmit and receive data. Welcome to a turn-it-on,
tear-it-up world: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/paper.html
# The feds may one day make it illegal for artists to use low-contrast
colors or eye-straining optical effects. For now, they're only going
after Web designers: http://www.reason.com/0005/co.wo.access.html
# Talking gorilla dies: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9711071
: D'ya prefer to communicate on paper, ceramics, silicon, monkeybrains? Have
you communicated for a long time? Do you have the cost of communications as
low as can be? Do your communications corrupt morality/perception/sanity??
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# AMATEURS REACH FOR THE STARS. (NASA) Amateur astronomers attended a unique
meeting in mid-April to learn about high-energy astrophysics and how they
can participate in it. Reptilioid mind-control implants will be available
to all attendees: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast21apr_1m.htm
# Three-Star Performance - Tomography from the ground could outdo the Hubble
and its successor: http://www.sciam.com/2000/0500issue/0500scicit4.html
# NEARer: http://space.com/science/solarsystem/near_images_000418.html
# SOMETHING IS EATING STARS -- AND IT'S HEADED TOWARD EARTH! TUCSON, Ariz.
Scientists have discovered an aggressive object in space that moves at the
speed of light and gobbles up stars and planets! We're next on the menu.
Run, run run!! http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1857.html
: Have you analyzed/understood/devoured any stars lately? Have they devoured
you? Will they soon? D'ya have good sensors to detect devouring cosmic enti-
ties? D'ya depend on amateurs to detect such entities? Are they any good??
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# 156 World Bank/IMF Protesters Released En Masse From Jail - DC Authorities
Capitulate to "Jail Solidarity" - http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos04155.html
# Last IMF protesters released: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9718629
# New, anarchic version of the New Left, so noisy in Seattle & DC, is bold,
fun, and very, very stupid: www.thenewrepublic.com/050100/foer050100.html
# China blames the West for corruption - "You made our leaders take money!"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_720000/720210.stm
# IMF may 'help' North Korea: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9715554
: Does your conspiracy totally control the world economy, or just fragments
of it? Do you need Reptilioid help to control world finances? Do you worry
that gangs of anarchists/nationalists/moralists could disrupt your control?
# Canadians have at last found something that taps the essence of national
identity & makes them swell with patriotic pride. It's a beer commercial:
http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/111/oped/What_it_means_to_be_Canadian+.shtml
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ply having the good sense to unplug Grandma's respirator when her insurance
runs out and your inheritance is at risk." -- http://www.SleazyTabloid.com
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