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implications Thursday, February 22, 2001 01:37 p.m.

* Agharta, The Land Of Advanced Races. The Earth is hollow, but then, aren't we all? http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/hollow-earth.html
* More secrets: http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/agartha.html

* We all do it. Sleep, that is. Yet the world of sleep is a strange and secret place, where unimagined depths remain unfathomed:
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,438887,00.html

* Devouring babies: http://vatican.rotten.com/infantiphagia/
  and talking about talking about it: http://www.gapingmaw.com/
 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/2001-02/abuse210201.shtml

Would you rather sleep, talk, devour infants, visit interior worlds, other? Have you devoured any interior worlds lately? Have sleepy babies eaten you?
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* Via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Warfare/ - Get all hot & bothered w/ military aircraft porn! http://www.globemaster.de/airextreme/jets.html

* Via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Gadgets/ - Where can ya get wholesale prices on pepper spray, tasers, slingshots, and magnetic jewelry? Why, at http://www.familydefense.com/  And don't forget the new claymore 12-pack!

* http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/ - Gorgeous, sex-crazed she-demons are after me! Is this a big problem or a adolescent fantasy? Apparently, it's both. http://www.succubushunter.com/ But beware the Liderici, eh?

Are you sexually aroused by military aircraft, weaponry, demons, dogs, me? Do you require a taser for orgasm? Is there anything better? What? Where?
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[ Via http://cybereditions.com/aldaily/ ]

* Everyone wanted to know, how does he do it? H.G. Wells wrote a book a year and seduced a woman a week. And he never had a day job.
* Sex-addict, pornographer, spanking aficionado, Victorian Henry Ashbee was a real life Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Those darn conservatives!

* An eccentric thinking man of the Elizabethan age, Simon Forman was an amateur physician, astrologer, and brewer of exotic potions. Dewd! http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,6121,435762,00.html

* With stark realism, Dante still speaks to us about love and loss, hope and injustice, in verse at once high and low. Mapping Heaven & Hell: http://www.economist.co.uk/books/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=504945

* From SHAKESPEARE & CO, PARIS, FRANCE: "Henry Miller fucked here! And the beds have not been changed!" www.corpse.org/issue_8/foreign_desk/hagen.htm
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 "By the way, kids, if you are reading this, don't do drugs. Because if you do drugs, you'll go to prison. And drugs are really expensive in prison."  --Vivienne http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/vivienne/438/cafeno.html

revocations Thursday, February 22, 2001 12:58 p.m.

* Adult Christian Sex: http://www.jesus21.com/poppydixon/pillbox/sex.html
* Christian Sex Aids: http://www.divine-interventions.com/index.html
* It's XMas Eve, let's screw like weasels tonight: [lyrics]  http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs6h.htm#xeve
 
* ALTAR OF UNHOLY BLASPHEMY: http://www.anus.com/altar/
* So You Want To Be An Evangelist! Evangelist Name Generator: http://www.jesus21.com/poppydixon/iactive/name_generator.html
 
Have you subverted/destroyed/infiltrated/exploited any religions lately? Is the sex good? Does your faith produce/destroy/require sex aids? Cheap?
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* PIRATE UTOPIA!! What does Osama Bin Laden's Web porn infiltration have to do with Napster's fight for life?  Connect the microdots: http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id=1624
* Are hidden messages in JPEGs just innocent fun, or tools for online freedom? http://www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=01/02/21/1944259
 
* History is full of women who were more manly than men. Want to raze a village? Boadicea, a can-do gal, would get the job done in a jiffy. I probably wouldn't bother: http://www.iwf.org/pubs/twq/Winter2001c.shtml
 
Would you rather be ravaged by men/women/JPEGs/terrorists/aliens/robots/me? Is Napster a tool of fundamentalists/mindcontrollers/revolutionaries/gals?
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* After years of promises, robots are ready to start serving us in our homes. Still, you'll have to wait a while for a bow-tied butlerbot. http://www.newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns22771
* THEY'RE ALIVE!! New software agents that evolve language: http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id=1626
 
* LSD has lost its edge. You now see weirder things in TV ad breaks than any love-beaded acid freak ever saw watching Fantasia. Like, wow, man. www.independent.co.uk/enjoyment/Books/Reviews/2001-02/wedbook070201.shtml
 
Would you rather have your brain eaten by LSD/TV/software/robots/gods/me?
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* Did Jesus Exist, and Does it Matter? And do you care? If so, why? Or why not? Any other choices? http://www.corpse.org/issue_8/critiques/sloan.htm
 
* Support The Christian Holocaust: http://www.blackplague.org/holocaust/
* Christian Rock: Blessing or Blasphemy? http://www.av1611.org/crock.html
* The Cult Construction Set: http://www.fadetoblack.com/cultkit/
 
* CARDINAL LEHMANN DEFENDS OPPOSITION TO VATICAN - but he's headed straight to Hell anyway: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=12421
 
Have you burnt/converted/deafened/fucked/opposed/swindled any Xians lately? Did they turn the other cheek? Did you bite that one too? Are you damned??
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Be sure to see OTHER RESOURCES at the bottom of part 3 of START YOUR OWN RELIGION FOR PHUN AND PROPHET! http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/religion3.htm

questings Thursday, February 15, 2001 07:03 a.m.

* HAIL PRIAPUS! http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/priap/priapeia.htm
* Exorcists In Demand To Purge Mexico's Demonically-Possessed - it's a growing industry: http://www.sightings.com/general8/exorcists.htm
* Welcome To StalinWorld: http://sightings.com/general8/welcomestalin.htm

* You mad scientists in training should practice building your super-weapons. http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Gadgets/ Get them right.
* ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US. This is not a test. This is real. http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=24539&pagenumber=

Are you more favorably inclined towards a godling/demon/dictator/scientist if he has a very large penis; if she has large breasts; if they practice?
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* THE ORION ZONE. How does the constellation Orion correspond to the configuration of both Anasazi ruins and Hopi villages in the American Southwest? What did they know? http://azorion.tripod.com/

* THE HEART ON MARS: CULTURAL CONSTRUCT, OR JUST A BIG PILE OF ROCKS? http://www.geocities.com/podkayne23/grok.html
* Mars Anomalies: http://www.geocities.com/podkayne23/

If you record the sounds of a glacier and speed up the recording, does it sound like a rushing river? If you record the sounds of a small dog and slow the playback, does it sound like a big dog? What transformations are needed to make an alien's voice sound human?  Is that even possible?
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* PSYCHIC STUDIES GROUP CONJURES UP FAIRIES: http://farshores.topcities.com/farshores/pfairies.htm
* WHY HUMANS DON'T LOOK LIKE SHORT, STOUT ELVES: http://unisci.com/stories/20011/0209014.htm

* PARA-SETI - ET CONTACT VIA SUBTLE ENERGIES. Have signals from intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe passed us by because our technology is not designed to detect a range of more subtle energy frequencies? http://www.nexusmagazine.com//ParaSeti.html

Do the Space Brothers ignore you because you're a dolt? Does your lack of subtlety leave you enraged? Are you running out of energy? Aren't we all?
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* Is ORANGE promoting THE MARK OF THE BEAST? Is that a good thing, or what? http://freespace.virgin.net/nick.sandberg/orange.htm
* Gene Therapy Reverses Aging Of Brains In Monkeys - immortal GM monkeys will conquer the world: http://www.sightings.com/general8/gene.htm

* Icke In Texas: http://www.immunotex.com/davidicke/icke/
* Death/Undeath in Tibet: http://www.fatemag.com/fate_articles.php3?id=94
* Skunk Ape - Vivid New Color Photos Of Florida's Bigfoot Hominid - feet slightly larger than my #18s: http://www.lorencoleman.com/myakka.html

Who/what/when/where/why is your favorite beast? Has it undergone marketing promotion, gene therapy, chakra cleansing, color processing, reincarnation?
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* THE NOSTRADAMUS CODE. A Recently Discovered Manuscript and Paintings in the Italian National Library Reveal a Previously Unsuspected Secret Code Employed by the Master Prophet. Knows all, tells all: http://www.atlantisrising.com/issue17/nostradamuscode.shtml

* NIDS Proposes Montana Cattle Mutilations Had 'National Security Implications' - drat: http://www.sightings.com/general8/secur.htm
* Bad Privacy, Chemtrails, And The Real Terrorists - not like the bogus terrorists: http://www.sightings.com/general8/ter.htm

Did Nostradamus predict chemtrail terrorists who mutilate cows for national security reasons? What about the Vatican-McDonalds-Microsoft connection??
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Note to readers: the Editor will be gone for a few days, mutilating frozen cattle near windswept Pyramid Lake whilst icy chemtrails waft overhead...

*** SkeptiChat 1.00.06.27 *** http://www.sonic.net/~ric/vsub.htm

exhalations Wednesday, February 14, 2001 02:52 p.m.

  "To the best of my knowledge, I've never been abducted." --abductee
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* Dysfunctional! Samson,the celebrated Biblical strongman,suffered from the earliest recorded case of antisocial personality disorder. US researchers say Samson exhibited six out of seven specific behaviours associated with the disorder. http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ns-sts021401.html

* Woman Says Ouija Board Made Her Kill - God spoke to her via planchette: www.channeloklahoma.com/okl/news/stories/news-45933020010213-170257.html
* Next To Godliness - The Story Behind Dr. Bronner's Soap - getting all lathered up for nirvana: http://www.thesunmagazine.org/bronner.html

Would you rather be clean, godly, strong, antisocial, channeled, sexy? Why?

* Barefoot anthropologists do more than just science; they also practice exorcism: http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/feb01/pgross.htm
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* HUMAN CLONING -  Baby, It's You! And You, And You...  http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,98998,00.html
* FRACTURED PENIS TALES - be real careful where you stick that thing: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=48223

* Man marries his TV. Melbourne, Australia - COUCH potato Mitch Hallen loves watching his television so much that he's married it. NICE BOX: http://www.megastar.co.uk/site/today/news/latest/20010214n_tv.html

* POP! THE FIRST HUMAN MALE PREGNANCY: http://www.malepregnancy.com
* Expert Tinkers With Evolution To Create Human "Built-To-Last" -- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/02/010213071023.htm

Would you rather marry a human, alien, cyborg, clone, TV, robot, rock, me?
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* 'Psychic' parrot expected to ruffle some scientific feathers: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010212/3059944s.htm
* SKEPTICS PUT PSYCHIC DOG TO TEST - but the dog saw what was coming:  http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2001-01-25/feature.html/page1.html
* ALTERNATIVE VETERINARY MEDICINE - now let's Rolf our Rottweillers: www.chicago.tribune.com/news/metro/chicago/article/0,2669,ART-49835,F%2

* The Complete Idiot's Guide To Quantum Mechanics: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ns-tmo021401.html
* Physicists Find That Extra Dimensions Must Be Smaller Than 0.2 mm.  Itsy: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/02/010213070804.htm
* Einstein In Need Of Update? Calculations Show The Speed Of Light Might Change: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/02/010212075309.htm

D'ya prefer psychics, parrots, skeptics, rotters, idiots, physicists, me?
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@ Xena Pops Out: http://www.naked-celebs.com/px14/Lawless-Lucy4.jpg

A dog ate my homework. Wednesday, February 14, 2001 10:16 a.m.

Ok, that's enough cheating on entries. For now. Things should stay in sequence for awhile. Maybe. I've just been so busy...

The latest: I just did a major redesign/cleanup of the music access portal, and previously added this year's songs there, and updated many of the Games & Guides pages. And you've seen the generic website, haven't you?

Now I've gotta take off for Reno / Carson City for the [long] weekend, go dry out on the high desert, see if the packrats have come out of hibernation yet, etc. If Pyramid Lake Pokie the Packrat comes out of his hole and sees his shadow, there will be six more weeks of extreme football, that's the legend. S'truth.


ululations Tuesday, February 13, 2001 05:23 p.m.

Static-X
@ Astronauts On Eros: http://www.robotwisdom.com/img4/eros.jpg
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* Some say cannibalism is bad for you, and they offer scientific proof. Others say that when push comes to shove, cannibalism is the only choice. Naturally, we should all be concerned about the serious problem of chicken cannibalism. In retrospect though, who among us can say that he or she hasn't dabbled in cannibalism at one point or another? http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Food/

* We declare cannibalism to be worse than murder. But we might prefer not to digest the fact that we actually have a bit of a taste for our own flesh. http://www.netspace.org/indy/issues/04-17-97/features3.html
* D'ya love the dead? Here they are: http://www.findadeath.com/

Have you devoured anyone lately? Have they devoured you? Have you devoured yourself? Are you a bit on the gamey side? Would you be better with salsa?
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* via  T I P W O R L D  -- http://www.topica.com/tipworld --
  Most people will never have the pleasure of being abducted by aliens. This sad but true fact is the basis for Alien Abductions, Inc., which specializes in reproducing alien abductions to the most exacting detail. Doctors, hypnotists, and memory implant technicians collaborate to help customize your abduction experience. View a map of the Alien Abductions Research Facility and Spa. Read through the many customer testimonials. To find out how likely an actual abduction might be, test your abduction quotient on The Abductalizer (the Ross Perot question is optional). So why wait for those rascally aliens to decide if you've been naughty or nice? Alien Abductions can do it just as well and without all the annoying probes. http://www.alienabductions.com/

Have you simulated/reproduced/faked any abductions lately? Were you paid?
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* The Complete Conspiracy:  http://www.petry.org/markp/octopus1.htm
* A HEAD OF THE PACK. IT'S ugly. It's scary. It watches you in the privacy of your home and Webcasts your every movement so others can spy on you. It even tells you what to do. "Terminator 2" skull will be THE must-have tech toy this year: http://www.nypostonline.com/entertainment/23645.htm

* LOST WORKS OF ARISTOTLE FOUND?? Hundreds of long-lost works of ancient Greek and Latin philosophy, science and literature – including works by Aristotle, Archimedes & Seneca – may be rediscovered in the most important re-emergence of classical literature and thought since the Renaissance. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Science/2001-02/latin110201.shtml

Have you conspired to reveal any info lately? Are you, your thoughts, your lost culture, spied upon by hi-tech trespassers? Are they well rewarded??
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Eros landing: http://near-mirror.boulder.swri.edu/iod/descent_image/image.jpg

ovulations Friday, February 12, 2001 04:39 a.m.

pill buddy
@ Reefer Girl: http://www.joebates.com/a8.jpg
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* Someday it'll be practical to record & play back brain functions. Everything will change: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Science/

* Imagine you had cells in your brain that could read other people's minds. Well, you do. http://www.newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns22751

Have you read/recorded/played/fucked/washed anyone's mind lately? Your own or someone else's? Do you have lots of fun with brains? Got a collection?

* Women http://edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/cwomen.html can't complain about the so-called digital divide http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/chu/digdiv/ now that the ovulation phone http://www.twomobile.com/content/117.php is here!
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* Girl Refuses to Attend School. Rebecca Bridgers has not been to school since September. She and her father say images in schoolbooks are evil. Instead, she spends her time praying that God will make her skin dark enough so that she will be able attend her church. School textbooks are filled with the evil images perpetrated by the "evil white man," or "paleface": http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/news/020701_NW_noschool.html

* A pair of white witches want paganism to be taught in British schools. Sure: http://ananova.com/news/story/sm_202890.html?menu=news.quirkies

Should faith be in/out/around schools? Should it be light, dark, neutral? Does shading indicate moral quality? When you tan are you better, worse??

* Is Timothy the Messiah? http://members.aol.com/gotimothy/&IDLink=8215
* For sale: Fear God t-shirts: http://feargod.com/T-shirts.htm&IDLink=8223
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* EXCLUSIVE: How aliens invented the Internet to analyze the human collective unconscious!! http://www.hardcorelinux.com/alien.htm

* Are you aware of the enormity of the galactic collusion between the White House, ex-KGB agents turned movie stars turned correctional officers, and various ET societies? http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Conspiracy/

* via http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Lindsay/weblog/latest.html --
  Fake Moonshot theories - whilst it would have been perfectly practical to fake the moonshots, the theories based on photo evidence have all been debunked by photographers. And the people involved weren't clever enough to have even considered the idea of faking it! http://batesmotel.8m.com/

What's your favorite human/alien conspiracy? What's your role in it? Are you smart enough to conspire/collude/betray? Who've you betrayed lately?
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* Hey baby, wanna shag? http://www.ecrush.com/shag/?

ablutions Friday, February 9, 2001 05:27 P.m.

* Destiny is in our grasp, say scientists. MANKIND will have the ability to control and alter its evolutionary destiny within 30 years using secrets unlocked by the mapping of the human genetic code. Human Genome Project pays off big-time: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-81232,00.html

* Freud's Rooms: http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id=1605
* Mind & Thinking, etc: http://www.erasmatazz.com/library/Mind/Index.html
* Bill Gates - Suicide! http://www.hellonearth.com/insanity/gates98.html

Have you thought much about destiny, life, death, thinking, screwing, eating, much lately? Who owns your destiny/genome/desktop/mind/bedroom/skeleton??

"Take the HAL 9000, mix in some Talking Moose, a little Bugs Bunny, a Stooge or three, plus a whole lot of attitude and what do you get? DeskBots, the robotic talking desktop companion!" http://www.blackmagik.com/deskbots.html
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* Gallery of Data Visualization - The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics: http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/noframes.html

* EXPERIMENT CHALLENGES LONG-STANDING PHYSICS MODEL - REALITY TREMBLES. The so-called Standard Model of particle physics, which has withstood experimental challenge for 30 years, may finally be showing some cracks. http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/02/08/physics.experiment/index.html

How much reality can you take? How closely/accurately can you look at it? Do extra dimensions make you itch/twitch/bitch? Can you visualize evil within?

* Portal Of Evil Archives - almost more than you could stand: http://www.portalofevil.com/archives/ScienceInsane.html
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Tooting My Own Horn Dept.

@ New & Updated Pages at GO! http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/go.htm include:

* How To Control Death & Life: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/death.htm#contrl
* A General Theory Of Death: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/death.htm#theory
* HELLOGRAPHY: Some New Geographies of Hell: www.sonic.net/~ric/go/hell.htm
* If Spontantaneous Human Combustion is a Game Then Here Are The Rules: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/combust.htm

* How To Wrap TinFoil Around Your Head To Keep Mind-Control Rays From Beaming In: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/tinfoil.htm
* How to Produce Perpetual Motion Without Being Assassinated: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/perpetual.htm
* Voodoo Dolls For The Cheap & Artistically Challenged: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/vdoll1.htm

@ New Songs at MyMusic.Da.Ru include:

  How It Goes (eternal television)
  Another Night (another torture)
  Tinkering (rebuilding reality)
  It's Burning (visit New Jersey)
  Inferno (a slow descent)
  (I Live On A) Server Farm
* http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs7.htm

oxidations Thursday, February 8, 2001 06:54 a.m.

* Nothing Sacred. A decade ago, Native Americans won the right to recover religious artifacts from museums. Today, those artifacts are toxic, and untouchable. http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id=1596

* The Scriptures teach that a woman should not speak in the meeting of the church. http://elkcreekgospelcenter.com/maxpages/Should_Women_Speak
* A Burning Hell: http://elkcreekgospelcenter.com/maxpages/A_Burning_Hell

What's your favorite sacred artifact/entity/idea? Is it toxic/silent/naked? Would you rather burn artifacts/women/sinners/churches/angels/aliens/me?

* You know you like sexy nude vampires. Admit it. You can't lie to us. You just can't. http://sepnet.com/rcramer/vampires.htm
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* Scratch a New Age eco-tourist, and you'll likely find a capitalist scumbag lurking just under the surface. Come on, admit that it's true. http://www.booksunlimited.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,6121,406043,00.html

* King Arthur Russian? A new book says the legendary nobleman & warrior was in fact a nomadic tribesman from the Russian Steppes who was transported to Britain by the Romans: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_198608.html

D'ya prefer to minglee with ecotourists, noblemen, nomads, aliens, scumbags, electrons? Is your heritage a Roman/NewAge/SciFi/Romantic plot? Who gains?

* Arthur C. Clarke hails from a tony neighborhood in Outer Space where even ETs have posh accents & elegant manners: http://cybereditions.com/aldaily/
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* Alcohol was a great invention of the first civilizations — a form of shared, chemical day-dreaming that tied people together. Reality is a crutch, eh? Cheers. http://www.sirc.org/publik/drinking6.html

* The tree of life is 3.5 billion years old, and has grown without a nanosecond of disruption. Except for a few giant meteorite strikes? http://staging.amnh.org/naturalhistory/features/1200_feature.html

D'ya celebrate life with exuberance, alcohol, experimentation, abuse, tears, sex, TV, song, resignation, socialization? Have ETs faked your background?

* Madcow (BSE) was caused by 1980s pesticide (organophosphate) experiment: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010201/sc/britain_causes_dc.html
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* Laws Of Cartoon Physics - Laws of Cargo Cult Science - What's The Best Way To Kill A Vampire? - 100 Things I'll Do If I Ever Become An Evil OverLord - Rules of Disinformation - more: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/go.htm#other

* How much of Blade Runner has come true? The world's climate could soon resemble the urban smog shown in the popular science fiction movie Blade Runner: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1154000/1154662.stm

Has your ecosphere deteriorated seriously? Is the damage caused by accident, by Reptilioids/Republicans, Aliens/Angels, Deities/Demons, Communists, me?

* New calculation confirms universe is 33% dark matter, 62% dark energy, 5% stars'n'planets: http://unisci.com/stories/20011/0201011.htm

some sightings Wednesday, February 7, 2001 05:59 a.m.

  "300,000 kilometers per second - it's the law!"
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  Via http://cybereditions.com/aldaily/
* You can't have a rational, fully scientific view of the world without a grasp of the basic laws of nature. But what exactly are they? And what good do they do you? http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-09/laws.html
* Eco-doomsayer Paul Ehrlich hopes we will one day stop talking about human nature. Fat chance: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/0102/bk.fukuyama.htm

  Via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Science/
* "Who cares about the Mars 'face' anymore now that we've got heart shaped craters and smiley faced craters."
* "I've been getting a lot more attention from cute chicks ever since I learned about the electron band structure in Germanium."
* "In the spirit of the Viridian Meter, you can calculate your ecological footprint using a web-based calculator from Redefining Progress."
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* VATICAN COULD NAME CYBERSPACE PATRON SAINT. Pope John Paul II is considering naming Saint Isidore of Seville the patron saint of Internet users and computer programmers, Vatican sources said Tuesday. http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/02/06/pope.internet.reut/index.html

D'ya need an invisible friend to help you with cybersex or whatever you're doing online? Do we need patron demons too? Are your invisible friends any better than mine? Are programmers all damned to eternal hellfire/brimstone?

* To his countless enemies, he is a self-hating Jew and Holocaust denier.  Norman Finkelstein takes on what he calls "hoaxers and hucksters". http://www.independent.co.uk/news/People/Profiles/2001-01/man300101.shtml
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/progs/01/taking_a_stand/30jan.ram
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  Via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Religion/
* "Why, everyone knows where Jesus was raised and buried: someplace in Japan. Personally, I'm partial to the sexually ambigious black Jesus."
* "It may not be the stock market, or even eBay, but you can finally sell and trade human souls on the internet."
* "What a disappointment! The new millennium arrived and the Apocalypse is nowhere in sight."
* "Everyone knows that Pokemon makes kids explode, but apparently it also steals their souls in the process."

Would your rather trade saviours, souls, armageddons, poke-demons? Are there thriving markets in paranormal entities/locales? How much is Limbo worth?
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Gentle readers: I'm writing a piece, a guide to NEW GEOGRAPHIES OF HELL http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/hell.htm and I came across this site:

* Revelation 13: New Age Geography - Are Countries in Shapes Related to their History? http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2360/geography.html
* Revelation 13: Patterns of Geographic Coordinates: Longitude and Lattitude
  of Locations in World History and of Religious Significance: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2360/geographic.html
* Revelation 13: Patterns of Population of Countries and the World: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2360/population.html
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"West Texas would be a nice place if it had more water." "So would Hell."



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