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refutations Tuesday, February 27, 2001 04:47 p.m.

 
* Make your own crop circles: http://www.circlemakers.org/
* Aliens make man disappear - abducted in Malaysia: http://ananova.com/news/story/sm_221393.html?menu=
* Mars meteorite may show old life - Grey Panthers rejoice: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=406259979
 
* In science, if it's never been done, and you do it once, it's a mistake. Twice, and it's a mirage. Third time, it's truth. Enter: the Z Machine: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4110977,00.html
 
Have you made any mistakes/cropcircles/mirages/lifeforms lately? Have you been abducted by aliens/scientists/machines/concepts/me? How many times?
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* Too depressed to get to the doctor to refill your Prozac? Hiroyuki Nishigaki http://hometown.aol.com/hnishigaki/ has the secret method to "GOOD-BYE Depression": http://hometown.aol.com/nishigaki3/ CONSTRICTING ANUS 100 times daily. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595094724 - Now clench tight and see more at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/
 
Are you constricted, relaxed, terrorized, purified, depressed, mortified?
Who/what is your favorite dead medium? Have you clenched any media lately?
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* Christianity at the Crossroads - Can Jesus save himself in the 21st century? http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/02.15.01/index.html
* Vatican reins in Jesuit theologian - religious pluralism objectionable, verboten. Damn. http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=406261827
 
Have you saved any (demi)deities lately? Have they saved you? Is the entire set impossible to collect? Should deities and theologies be watered-down??
 
* Buddhism is big with baby boomers, who have adopted a version that is small and self-absorbed, a soothing therapy. But is that so wrong?  http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/02/26/buddhism/print.html
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  "There was a bunch of Theosophists down at the end of the bar, raising the devil.  Had'im about six feet off the floor..." --Firesign Theatre

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

inhibitionz Tuesday, February 27, 2001 04:08 a.m.

# These and other items via Fark http://www.fark.com/
* Multiple breast art: http://www.cyberium.net/multibrst/stcat.jpg
* Creative weapons design, incl. 9mm telephone:  http://birdman.org/
* Survive: http://www.x-entertainment.com/liquor/survivor/episode1.html
* Thought process patented: www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/16541.html
 
* JESUS SEEKS LOVING WOMAN - date the Son of God: http://www.jesus.com/
* LordCo - holiest products: http://lordco.virtualave.net/product.html
* The truth about Hell: it's underground! http://www.av1611.org/hell.html
* Breakfast of Saviours: http://home.earthlink.net/~rubeldetzner/jesus.htm
 
Do you prefer multiple-breasted saviours with deadly telephones and athletic rabbits? Would you buy products from such saviours? Even vacations to Hell?
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# These and more via STA http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/
* CHILEAN GOVERNMENT TURNED OVER SECRET UFO FILES TO U.S. - got pizza franchise in return: http://www.electricwarrior.com/news/ewNews000F.htm
* CONSPIRACY THEORY: Did We Walk on the Moon? Irresistible Proof of the NASA fraud: http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/531.html
 
* A TIME TRAVELER'S WARNING ABOUT HAARP? http://p3n.org/pn022301b.shtml
* HAARP TRANSMITTER NOW RUNNING AT FULL POWER - now you know why your teeth hurt: http://geocities.com/brojongazette/frontpage/bj0201.html
* STAR WARS: A DONE DEAL? OR MIND CONTROL? Or just a way to spend lotsa surplus money? http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=6977
 
Is HAARP a mindcontrol component of the NASA fraud to make us believe that modern technology was honestly developed and not stolen from Leprechauns??
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* GENETIC CODE DOESN'T REVEAL RACE DISTINCTIONS New data confirms what scientists have long suspected: DNA of human beings is 99.9% identical: http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/front/docs/genes022001.htm
* MANKIND'S GENE DEFICIT POINTS TO INTELLIGENT DESIGN - but doesn't explain tonsils, appendix: http://farshores.topcities.com/farshores/ngenes.htm
 
* The Golem Project - screensaver that evolves robots to which you'll own the copyrights! Wow! http://golem03.cs-i.brandeis.edu/download.html
* Self-configuring/evolving bots http://bc.tensegrity.net/links/99761/goURL
 
Have you evolved much lately? Were you created? Will you be outstripped by
evolving entities that keep improving, while you're stuck in the mud? Why?
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* The finest in broadcasting - APOCALYPSO Radio - WUVT, Blacksburg VA: http://www.subgenius.com/updates/X0013_THE_APOCALYPSO_radio.html
* We don't communicate effectively - Esperanto isn't enough - try Earth Language: http://www.sfo.com/~ucathinker/earth/english/syshome.htm
 
* Anti-missile Defense Will Bring Biblical Armageddon and Rapture - and just in time too: http://www.geocities.com/ynh369&IDLink=9033
* Cthulhu/Pez: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/9938/archive/arch51.html
* Worst sys: http://techtv.com/help/hardware/story/0,23008,3312370,00.html
 
Do you demand only the finest quality in life/death/radio/video/crypto/sex?
Have you taken steps to improve yourself/others/aliens/robots/me lately??
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  "I am Lucifer of Borg. You will be incinerated. Repentance is futile."

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Should I be skeptical of this claim?  If my penis was 4 inches longer would I have trouble walking?  Would you?  If the Goddess had wanted me to have a 16 inch penis, would I have been born a zebra? Would you rather have your penis enlarged by natural or unnatural means?  Would you rather have a longer penis, a wider penis, an extra penis, a hot penis, a robotic penis, a magic penis, a Reptilioid/Republican penis, a functional penis?  Substitute 'vagina' in the last sentence and say it again.  Why don't advertisers market ways to enlarge vaginas?  Is this blatant sexism?  Shall local/state/federal prosecutors be called? Do most such prosecutors have a penis?  Does it work?  If I continue this email much longer should I retitle it THE PENIS MONOLOGUES?  Why not?  What other sexual attributes are susceptible to manipulation? Have you manipulated any sexual characteristics lately?  Was it fun?

ablutions Monday, February 26, 2001 04:46 p.m.

@ Welcome To My Groove: http://lisadoll.grooveradio.com/
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* India warriors switch to fake beaks - sun and moon gods to be simulated in fibreglass: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=406254470
* PREACHER LOSES CHURCH IN $600,000 VEGAS BET -blames demonic intervention, thwarting God's will: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2263.html
 
* OPERATION CLAMBAKE - Fighting Scientology On The Net: http://www.xenu.net
* Scientology Illustrated: http://xenu.net/archive/scientology_illustrated/
* Teen-age monk blesses Buddhists - but they're all doomed anyway. Repent or perish, toads: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=406252753
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* 'Image of Christ' in bar till: www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_220816.html
* Russian clerics seek to copyright God - want ban on alcohol and sweets named for saints and Christian holidays. Drugs named for atheists OK: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_220046.html?menu=news.quirkies
 
* Archbishop aims to 'cast out the devil' - Satan may not be cooperative: http://cofaxinq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/02/24/front_page/EXORCIST24.htm
* Pilgrims 'cured' by hot spring - except those who burnt to death, drowned or snorted novacaine: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_220090.html
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* SECRET GOVT. PLOT TO BAN HOME-SCHOOLING! Dubya's education program is total indoctrination: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2268.html
* Game helps take over the world - http://www.stardock.com takes aim at universe next: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=406256160
 
* WORLD'S BRAVEST MOM DELIVERS HER OWN BABY BY C-SECTION -- USING A PIZZA CUTTER! Gnarly, babe: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2264.html
* Scientists to clone mammoth - mammoth to clone scientists - only fair, right? http://www.discovery.com/exp/mammoth/cloned.html&IDLink=9314
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* Would you survive a nearby nuclear blast? Enter your address and find out: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/sfeature/mapablast.html&IDLink=9340
* BLACK WIDOW BRIDE MURDERED SIX HUSBANDS -- AND ATE THEM ALL! Preferred homemade jalapeno salsa: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2259.html
 
* FAT IS ONLY UGLY UNTIL YOU PUT A NIPPLE ON IT! Nipple addition surgery: http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/ads/nipple/nipple_surgery_2.html
* Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics, Edge-Emitting Lasers and VCSELS - bone up now: http://www.britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
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* 'THE PERTURBER' - SOMETHING VERY BIG AND VERY WEIRD IN THE OORT CLOUD - we're doomed: http://floridatoday.com/news/columnists/cox/022101cox.htm
Prandtl-Glauert Singularity http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010221.html
* Spaceships coming? http://farshores.topcities.com/farshores/ufosect.htm
 
* We should combine the chocolate registry and the chocolate sex typing -- we'd make a fortune. After all, chocolate and sex are words that make us want to spend our money. The combinations are endless. And slurping never hurt anyone. Much.  http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Sex/
 
 

re: [SC] molestations Monday, February 26, 2001 02:59 p.m.

> * Taliban: Statues must be destroyed. (AP) - Afghanistan's
>   hardline Taliban rulers ordered the destruction Monday
>   of all statues, including a giant 5th century Buddha ...
>   http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=406256039
 
Is anyone else as pissed off as I am about this stupendous cultural desecration?  Can/should/will the Taliban be stopped from destroying these towering artistic treasures?  If Islamic fundamentalists want to destroy non-Islamic sites, shouldn't all Islamic spiritual sites be subject to destruction also?  If Islamists can't tolerate the existence of other faiths and their shrines and artifacts, why then should Islam be tolerated?  Should Moslems be shunned by all others?

molestations Monday, February 26, 2001 02:23 p.m.

 
* Group probes UFO-quake link. Kuala Lumpur(IRNA) The Malaysian UFO Network is investigating relationships between sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in Malaysia and earthquakes which occur within a 300km radius of the peninsula: http://www.irna.com/newshtm/eng/08091757.htm
 
* ETs USED ME AS A HUMAN BABY MACHINE! Forced to give birth to 48 human-alien hybrids! Bother: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2261.html
* YOU CAN BE ABDUCTED BY SPACE ALIENS ANYTIME YOU LIKE - how about just before my next root canal? http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2265.html
 
Have aliens bothered/raped/ravaged/probed/quaked you lately? Are you rather more disturbed by aliens, robots, angels, reporters, UFOlogists, spies, me?
 
* Tinky MarsProbe... HE'S EVERYWHERE! ALWAYS! http://www.thinky.com/
* Mr. Snake is lost. Can you find him? http://www.thinky.com/pset1.htm
* Gaze at the Temple of Kukulcan: http://www.thinky.com/tkykukulcan.htm
* Explore Thinky's Curiosity Cabinet: http://www.thinky.com/curio.htm
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* Taliban: Statues must be destroyed. (AP) - Afghanistan's hardline Taliban rulers ordered the destruction Monday of all statues, including a giant 5th century Buddha said to be the world's tallest of its kind. The order came from the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, who issued an edict declaring statues, including the ancient Buddhas,as insulting to Islam. "God is one God and these statues are there to be worshipped and that is wrong. They should be destroyed so that they are not worshipped now or in the future."Afghanistan's ancient Buddhas are sited in Bamiyan, about 90 miles west of the Afghan capital of Kabul. One Buddha, measuring 175 feet, is said to be the world's tallest statue in which Buddha is standing up rather than sitting. It's not clear what prompted the latest edict from the Taliban. The religious army espouses a harsh brand of Islamic law and reviles all images as contrary to the tenets of Islam. Allah hates you: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=406256039
 
Does your faith demand that you destroy cultural treasures? Are your gods hooligan vandals? Do other deities shit on you? Do you deserve that? Why??
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* AIs know all http://www.newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns22791
* GAL WHO MARRIED COMPUTER IN 1998 WANTS DIVORCE - "I ended up with a cold, heartless machine" - http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2267.html
* Mass 'Pokemon' epileptic seizures in Japan were fake, study concludes - more lies: http://foxnews.com/fn99/foxlife/022601/pokemon.sml&IDLink=9371
 
* Indoctrinology: it is now the turn of medicine to be set upon by post-modern politics and New Age pseudo-science. Clear all your stem-cell chakras: http://www.thenewrepublic.com/021901/nuland021901_print.html
 
* LOCH NESS MONSTER CAPTURED! http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2262.html
* Earth's oceans are slowly-but-irreversibly soaking into the mantle: we're doomed http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_442000/442040.stm
* Solar sailing http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinion.jsp?id=ns22795
 
 

prestidigitations Monday, February 26, 2001 08:52 a.m.

@ Thinky MarsProbe's Girlfriend: http://www.thinky.com/page42.htm
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* Hog Riders For God: http://www.killingthebuddha.com/ride_for_god.htm
* Pre-Pubescent Messiah: http://killingthebuddha.com/prepube_messiah.htm
* Toward a Catholic Glasnost - The Church is on the brink of collapse, and that's wonderful news. http://killingthebuddha.com/catholic_glasnost.htm

* THE EGYPTIAN BIBLE. The Hebrews’ Egyptian roots left numerous literary traces in the Old Testament, in the form of ancient Egyptian myths variously disguised, warped by 1000 years of handling, or ineptly edited by the Bible’s redactors. Much of what's in the Old Testament is bull: www.nypress.com/content.cfm?content_id=3338&now=12/27/2000&content_section=1

Since Genesis starts with a description of Elohim creating stuff, and Elohim is the PLURAL of El ['God'], is Judaism actually polytheism? Does the Xian 'Trinity' also implement this polytheism? The more gods, the better, eh??
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* When Osama bin Laden hid coded messages for his global operatives on porn Web sites, he was merely practicing the ancient art of "covered writing" ... http://www.feedmag.com/templates/printer.php3?a_id=1624

* Crypto-haiku: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/decss-haiku.txt
* On the biochemistry of love, y'all: http://www.poems.com/natursew.htm
* V-day dykes: http://www.washblade.com/forum/cartoons/dykes/010216a.htm

* Holy Homophobia! Who's afraid of the gay Batman? DC Comics, that's who. And they're not about to let the caped crusader out of the closet: http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0103/insidepub_pow.html

* Chimpanzee socialism: http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/199907120006.htm
* Modeling human motivation, building virtual gorillas, controlling all:  http://gamasutra.com/features/designers_notebook/20001222/adams_pfv.htm
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(again) TOOTING MY OWN HORN DEPT. - I've revised many of the games/guides pages at GO! http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/go.htm and added a gaggle also:

* If InnerSpace Exploration is a Game, Here Are The Rules: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/inspace.htm
* If Existence is a Game, Here Are The Rules: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/exist.htm
* The Political Correctness Game (preliminary draft) http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/pcgame.htm
* Fun And Games With Gerbils, Cool-Whip and Dildos: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/gerbils.htm

For completely nonsensical reasons, I'm refraining from writing new songs for a few days, so http://mymusic.da.ru isn't bloating further. For now. And I may even put a few MP3s online in the next few weeks. Could happen...
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  "Cult de sac: a dying religion"
 

inhibitions Saturday, February 24, 2001 06:31 a.m.

Some readers found recent postings pornographic. Are you bothered? By what?
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* via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Commentary/ -- While I'm always impressed by links about taser guns, I can't help wonder if the Stunbrella will be the future of self-defense. Eat volts, aggressor!

* Machine head. TYPICAL. You program a computer, teach it everything you know about drug design, and then it beats you to the Nobel Prize. Is that gratitude? http://www.newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns22791

* Build your own galaxy, while you wait. All coupons accepted. Other offers may apply: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/uot-gfn022301.html
* Almost all the bad astronomy you can take: http://www.badastronomy.com/
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* UK targets asteroid threat. Britain will take a leading role in international efforts to defend Earth against a catastrophic asteroid strike: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1187000/1187487.stm

* Also: Asteroid 'destroyed life 250m years ago' - what a nuisance: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1184000/1184556.stm
* Close shave with asteroid - next time, I'll take a train ride: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_347000/347764.stm
* Rock's fleeting visit - and it didn't even leave any chocolates: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_906000/906208.stm
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* What if? http://secularsouth.org/show.php?column=bible_belt&story_id=7
* Find your way thru the topography of  Hell, or design a Hell of your own, now - latest updates: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/hell.htm

* via http://cybereditions.com/aldaily/ -- Vampires: universal phantoms, they still haunt every culture. No matter how often their obituary is pronounced, they keep rising from the grave. And we wouldn't have it any other way: http://www.consider.net/forum_new.php3?newTemplate=OpenObject&newTop=200102190034&newDisplayURN=200102190034
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* Having a serial killer on a cross might seem ungodly, but in his own way, Hannibal is making a religious statement: http://www.killingthebuddha.com/hannibal.htm

@ The very definition of optimism [don't try this at home, kids]: http://www.inyouremail.com/ezine_media/jokes4uezine/poorfishing.jpg
@ You know you've been drinking too much when you wake up next to this: http://www.joke-of-the-day.com/xtra/realdog.jpg

* via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Sex/ -- Psst! If kitty porn is too tame for you, try payphone porn. With the right friends, it's awfully easy to get your own booth or borrow someone else's.
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