For those of who who haven't already been made privy to the news, here's the latest: The quest for a new home is near an end. The property was purchased many months ago (near Volcano, California in Amador County, the Sierra foothills. It was a real deal. The search for the right modular house occupied many more months, but was finally narrowed down to a single supplier. The contract for that house was signed last weekend, and it should be completed in a couple months. The relocation from Forestville to Santa Rosa (temporary home) to Volcano should be complete by the end of June 2002. At least, that's the current fantasy...
Then, a few more months of durance vile. Then, travel. Around North America at first; later, the rest of the world. Just need some more portable electronic devices for staying in contact with civilization, eh? Yup.
OK, so this hasn't been working, it's just been too labor-intensive to process those non-bulletins for posting here, so those are all going back to SkeptiNews which will be updated more regularly. SkeptiLog here will be for my more personal logs & messages. Except for pottery and jewelry sightings, which will go on SkeptiPot (awful name, but it's all I have). Prest-o change-o...
WARNINGS
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* HUMAN SPONTANEOUS INVOLUNTARY INVISIBILITY - You could just vanish without any warning, eh?
* PORN PRE-EMPTS TERROR! CIA, IDF encourage promotion of vices to divert Palestinian Youth. Ooh.
* MAGNETIC GOD HELMET PRODUCES RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE ON DEMAND - I'm getting ready to transcend, eh?
Would you rather be invisible, divine, ecstatic, stoned, adequate, diverted?
* SCIENTISTS TRANSPLANT WORKING FROG EYES - Japanese scientists believe they've developed the potential to grow new organs on living creatures.
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* WHEN UFOs LAND - At long last, scientists have their hands on the proof skeptics say doesn't exist - physical evidence of
flying saucers. Or so they say.
* Mystery
* HYDROGEN-BASED MICROBES OFFER CLUES TO LIFE ON MARS - An unusual community of microorganisms found deep below the mountains of Idaho may indeed help scientists find signs of life on Mars. Other
than architectural works, of course.
Would you rather discover/suppress proof of life on Mars, Earth, Reticula?
* Check your FBI files
* Auralize your network - Or oralize it. Zow.
* The Necronomicon, again
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* WONDER WEAPONS: We can put animals into a stupor by hitting them with these frequencies. We make chick brains dump 80% of the natural opioids. These fields are extremely weak. They are undetectable. The effects are nonlethal and reversible. We can disable a person temporarily. It's like a stun gun.
* US WARNS AGAINST BOGUS WEB SITES - Feds have turned up more than 200 Web sites making false claims about bioterrorism products such as gas masks.
Would you rather be gassed, stunned, infected, oralized, abducted, warned?
* HEALTH ADVISORY: AVOID KAVA PRODUCTS FOR NOW - Health Canada is warning consumers to stay away from herbal supplements containing kava. Bother...
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* THE MYTHIC POWER OF CAVES: Though we might be reluctant to admit it, we will be bitterly disappointed if the fatal showdown with the contemporary embodiment of evil does not take place in a cave.
* SCIENTISTS SPOT QUANTUM EFFECTS OF GRAVITY -- When objects fall due to gravity, they don't fall smoothly, but lurch, a French experiment has shown. Thud, eh?
What are your relationships with caves, gravity, evil, time, space, cash?
* SO YOU WANT TO BE AN ORTHODOCTOR? Three Big Body Revelations. A Little Heresy To Go, eh?
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"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace." --Eugene O'Neill
The Dali clock versus the Industrious clock
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* Mary, mother of god, pagan bitch-goddess, sacred prostitute, but also the lode-star in a stormy darkness, the necessary and eternal comforter.
* Was Noah's wife Joan of Ark? Was Near East history written by Florence
of Arabia? Were Hitler's thugs the Gazpacho? Did the Soviets erect the Berlin Mall?
$ Where all the bad tee-shirts go
# Memetic Scientific / Technical Encyclopedia
$ FREE MIND-CONTROL COURSES (worth every
peso)
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* Why the Big Bang, its energy and particles and laws? When stars burn out and black holes evaporate, what then? Will there be a then, then? Or what?
* There are a vast number of atoms in the universe. Might there be as many universes as atoms? See Martin Gardner on Multiverse Theory
* What do a witch (Elizabeth Blanchard Garlick), a bitch (Lizzie Grubman), and electromagnetic mind control and the manipulation of space and time (Camp Hero) have in common? They're all linked to The Hamptons, a series of affluent beachfront communities on the south shore of Long Island. Believe it or not.
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* Why bother to think for yourself when you can oh-so-easily, and automagically, generate your very own pretentious artist's statement, crossword puzzle,
Canadian irony,
numbers (perfect for cryptographic keys!), and names (for those times —- crank calls, false papers, IDing your espresso beverage at Peet's —- when your real name simply will not do). [via monkey_bite]
* Star Wars Episode 3
* Lord of the (OS) Rings
* Leonard Nimoy Should Eat More Salsa
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"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." --Richard Dawkins
* I WOULD BE
I would be a cat
Who eats, fight, screws, shits, sleeps, stares
I would be a cat (...)
* ENDLESS
Endless troubles, endless trifles, endless truffles
Pig's nose in the dirt (...)
@ Low-bandwidth cinema (watch it ALL!)
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* HOW ISLAM LOST ITS WAY (Long time passing, long time ago...)
* Have you been abducted? Perhaps you need Alien Implant Removal and Deactivation Method. Get processed.
* THE SPIDERS - online SF-oid comix about Afghanistan: (1) (2)
* 2001: A Spaced Odyssey (stories)
* 2001: The Year That Sucked
( most of the above via CamWorld )
Has your year sucked? Has your brain, religion, vision, emission sucked?
How much? Have any of y'r components been deactivated lately? Should they?
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* YOU JUST HATE TO GIVE THESE PEOPLE ANY ATTENTION, BUT... members of a New Mexico church (probably looking for attention) rallied against the Harry Potter books, claiming he was the devil. "JK Rowling's novels were burnt alongside other items considered to be the work of the devil, including horror books by Stephen King, ouija boards and AC/DC records. Eminem CDs and copies of Disney's Snow White film were thrown in a dustbin."
If those who can't distinguish between witchcraft & wizardry & Wicca really
WERE targeted by potent evildoers, wouldn't Xianity be extinct by now???
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* [ via MemePool ] What happens when you put Star Wars freaks and the Washington National Cathedral websites together? Why, Darth Vader, of course.
* Do caffeine cause obsessive-compulsiveness?
* What would Abe wanna say to us today?
Have you worshipped any deities, dictators, drugs, derangers, or diplomats
lately? Are you obsessive-compulsive about it? Is it more fun that way???
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* Kamasutra's G-spot advice 'was wrongly translated' -- A historian says the Kamasutra is littered with mistakes, including one about the G-spot. So THAT'S why she ran!
* The omnipotent God who the creationist thinks "designed" the universe was not limited by trade-offs or physical laws. So why is there evil? And why hemorrhoids?
* It was the biggest change of mind God ever had: when he told his chosen people that he was going multinational. A kind of franchise plan, eh?
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VEGETARIAN: A person who eats no animal life that can be seen without a microscope.
Worldly theme parks: Feng shui, seafood --
For luck: Bury a water buffalo's head under your foundation
ORLANDO, Fla (AP) -- When it opens in 2005, Hong Kong Disneyland may be
the Most Harmonious Place on Earth. That's because the 310-acre park will
be constructed according to the ancient principles of feng shui, the
Chinese system of arranging stuff in harmony with natural elements.
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* High Strangeness in Northern Pennsylvania -- UFOs abound!
* The South American Military and the UFO Phenomenon -- Viva ET!
* Russian UFO Research Revealed -- No secrets, no ETs, we got nada!
* Disturbance in the Force -- Doom!
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OMM SETY--LEGEND OF ABYDOS
Article from Atlantis Rising Magazine
Could a 20th century Englishwoman be the reincarnation of a Priestess
from 1000 B.C.? How could an untutored elderly woman confound archaeo-
logical experts with her recreations of the temple of Sety l and the
realities of a long-vanished religion? How does the mysterious and
adjacent Osirion fit into the puzzle?
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* Minoru Yamasaki's WTC was a Mosque to Commerce, a false idol in the raiment of Islam. Osama bin Laden had special cause to despise it...
* What was left of Nazism with Hitler buried in rubble, Mussolini dangling?
What is left of the great caliphate today? Caliph Omar, where are you?
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CONSPIRACY DOGS -- When George opened the company mailbox Friday morning, he found a curious envelope with a funky gold pyramid logo where the return address should have been. He knew immediately what it was -- another press release from the Illuminati. George opened it quickly, wearing a triumphant
grin. In this release, the Illuminati detailed its connections to international banking cabals and the Federal Reserve System. Suddenly, another piece fit into the world's largest jigsaw puzzle, which revealed a mosaic of the ancient plan of world domination.
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"Whoever wishes to foresee the future might consult the past."
--Niccolo Machiavelli
Jish sez "Leaked information from sources (O8HI) say that Danza will not only change the way we build cities, but may even allow humans to live underwater." Some sort of breathing apparatus / implant / mutation? But who would want to live underwater, except for the fun of swimming naked around Hawaii etc? May be hard on skin complection, body piercings, portable electronics, etc. Or may promote the development of spray-on skins, submersible pagers / PCs / etc, and relationships with aquatic life. May also encourage people to be a little more careful about what kinda shit they /we pump into the sea, since it'll all be inhaled. May also promote outlaw living, instant escape from land-based authority -- which will then be free to extend its reach into the pelagic regions too. Zowie.
* PAPAGO INDIANS ARE FROM INDIA! Hindu scholars have always claimed that in remotest times, their ancestors visited every part of the globe, mapping it accurately, and mining gold and copper in [the Americas and Europe]...
* KOKOPELI IS A HINDU DEITY! The Hopi Kiva and Muski lay in a larger, "mythical" region known as Sivapuni or Sivapu. Is it a coincidence that the ancient region of Northern India where God Shiva was the only religion, Uzbekistan,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir, was called Sivapuri?
* Assassins and Taliban
* What is today known as Christianity, in its myriad of forms including both Catholic and Protestant varieties, is a very degraded heresy of Gnosticism.
* The initiatic journey to Islamic soil has been a repeated theme of European esotericism, ever since the Templars settled in Jerusalem...
* The Corporate World Order
* If there were no age-specific and obligatory learning institution, “childhood” would go out of production.
"To believe in one God you have to be a cretin. That is the only word for it. And the most crass religion is Islam."
(via Kottke) — Also, weather happens in the East Pacific
(via Paul's Bay Area Weather Page) — Also, Are you a vampire? (via something or other, I forget)
For my birthday, I avoided contracting anthrax. You should too.
HOMELAND INSECURITY: Misadvised by a frustrated and panic-stricken attorney general, a president of the United States has just assumed what amounts to dictatorial power...
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