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Friday, April 14, 2000 10:30 p.m. P.D.T. SkeptiNews 000414c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
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* Most recent bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/12_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No rampage-killers were analyzed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Purity Test: http://members.aol.com/ducttape42/vocabpurity.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Long Island Ion Collider Testing Could Be Ultimate World Disaster. Upton, N.Y. -- [AP] — When the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider begins operating in May, it will re-create conditions that have not existed since the dawn of the universe. Could that mean the end of the world? Turn all creation into deadly "strange matter." http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_icoll.htm # A POLE SHIFT IS THE LEAST OF OUR WORRIES. Since 1830, the terrestrial magnetic field has been decreasing in strength. As the field weakens, so does what many believe is the natural navigatory force for many living creatures. Lost in space: http://www.mm2000.nu/prophecye.html # GRAPHIC NEW CHEMTRAIL PHOTOS: http://www.carnicom.com/sf0408.htm : What's your favorite existential catastrophe? Can/should/will existence be terminated soon? Would you rather terminate existence over a local/global/ galactic/universal range? Just how much termination can you take? No more? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Will Mind Figure Out How Brain Works? Maybe our brains already know and they're just withholding the information until they feel we're ready to deal with it. http://time.com/time/reports/v21/science/question_brain.html @ SPECULARIUM! Hyperwarp 6D - Imaginary Time - Starship - Magical Theory - Cosmology - Theory of Everything: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/specularium # POPE SEZ CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES MUST COMBINE FAITH AND SCIENCE - but remem- ber who's in charge: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49137 # OOPS, SORRY: MY PIE CHART IS HALF-BAKED - publication before verification, see http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/research-credibility.html # Public must be told of revolutionary findings, else angry mobs will attack labs/scientists/monsters: http://canoe.ca/CNEWSScience0004/13_public.html # A HIT MOVIE IS RATED 'F' IN SCIENCE - "Erin Brockovich" strikes out. Duh. http://nytimes.com/library/national/science/041100sci-science-hollywood.html : Have you figured out how thought/reality/entertainment/manipulation works? Have you told anyone? Do voices in your head tell you to await payment? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Slow Efforts to Find ET. Mountain View, CA. -- The tantalizing dream of discovering life on other worlds seems to be receding, perhaps never to be realized. Due to NASA's recent mishaps, the first attempt to return a sample of Martian rocks and soil for analysis has been postponed. The precious package, which might contain a clear signature of life, had been expected on Earth in 2008. Now it probably will not arrive until much later. Bother. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_et15.htm @ MARS-EARTH CONNECTION SITCHIN RESEARCH SITE--The work of Zecharia Sitchin is based on clay tablets that were found in modern day Iraq (Sumeria). These are the some of oldest recorded writings known to man. Sitchin's work consists of 8 books. At this site you can listen to interviews with Sitchin, or click on each book and learn more about Sitchin's work. Or you can download his video series. http://www.mars-earth.com/sitchin.htm : Is your conspiracy actively suppressing information about Earth-Mars life linkage? If the truth were known, would humanity go mad? Are we already mad? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # RAMPAGE KILLERS/A STATISTICAL PORTRAIT. They're not drunk or high on dope. They are not racists/Satanists, or addicted to violent video games, movies or music. Most are white men, but a surprising number are women, Asians & blacks. Many have college degrees, but most are unemployed. Many are mili- tary veterans. They give lots of warning, tell people exactly what they'll do. They carry semiauto weapons they obtained easily, mostly legally. They do not try to get away. They not only want to kill, they also want to die. Nice. http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/040900rampage-killers.html # LDS Sites Bombed: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,160007092,00.html # CATHOLIC SCHOOL ATTACKED: http://ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49055 # UK Schools Ban Pokémon Cards: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9679563 # ZAPPED BY DEITIES - At least 52 were electrocuted during a Hindu religious procession in India: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49152 : Have you bombed/attacked/rampaged lately? Were your mind-control masters satisfied with your actions? Are your rampages carefully plotted, supplied, blessed? D'ya prefer to rampage alone, or in a swarm, or with some deities? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The revolution will be webcast. (BBC) Protesters against the World Bank & the IMF will use the internet to make sure the whole world is watching. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_712000/712869.stm # IMF, World Bank prepare for the storm - Washington DC to be shut down: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_713000/713079.stm # TWO RADICAL NGO DOCUMENTS MOVE TOWARD UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- 2 documents that many see as taking away national sovereignty and advancing an extreme environmental agenda. http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49146 # MAY 1, JUBILEE OF WORKERS: http://ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49132 # 'Serb hackers' on the rampage. (BBC) More than 50 websites have been hacked in a systematic campaign thought to be orchestrated by Serbs. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_712000/712211.stm # Hackers disrupt Serbian, Albanian websites - appear to be back to normal: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_713000/713958.stm : Have you subverted any (inter)national institutions lately? How close is your NWO conspiracy to total success? Can/should/will you be stopped? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Beep! British Muslims called to prayer via cell phones. Muezzins wired-up: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,160007622,00.html # Indonesia militants maintain Jihad threat - sending thousands of fighters: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_713000/713430.stm # LAS VEGAS BISHOP APPOINTED TO TROUBLED CALIFORNIA DIOCESE - casino to ease huge sex-payoff debt: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49056 # Cult still alive after '78 deaths. SPOKANE (AP) In 1978, Immanuel David, 39,a cult leader who told devotees he was God, drove a truck into a canyon in Utah & took his life by piping exhaust into the vehicle. 3 days later his family was also dead. Authorities say the mother, Rachel David, 38, took the 7 children to the 11th-floor balcony of a Salt Lake hotel & threw or coaxed them over the railing, one by one. Then she jumped. The deaths didn't stop Immanuel David's cult. A dozen-odd members of the Family of David remain: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,160006775,00.html : What's your favorite cult? Does it have (m)any survivors? Is your cult im- mortal? Is survival irrelevant? Have you bombed/gassed/shot/burnt your evil opponents yet, or just your members? Is your techno-cult like totally wired? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Ultimately, we must all police ourselves. (And depending on where you live, some of you are gonna want to become whiter and/or bulletproof.)" -- http://www.SleazyTabloid.com * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...
Friday, April 14, 2000 07:09 p.m. P.D.T. SkeptiNews 000414b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
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* Most recent bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/12_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No IMF/WB protesters were torture-interrogated to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Calculus Girl: http://www2.calculusgirls.com/images/april1002.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Fluoride, Teeth & The Atomic Bomb. Some 50 years after the US began adding fluoride to public water supplies to reduce cavities in children's teeth, declassified govt docs shed new light on the still controversial public health measure, revealing a surprising connection between fluoride and the dawning of the nuclear age. http://www.sightings.com/general/teeth.htm # DUMA RATIFIES START II, 288 TO 131. Russia or rogue states more dangerous? # MISSILE DEFENSE: COUNTERMEASURES REPORT CALLS FOR DELAY.Just doesn't work! # CREATIONISM: OKLA HOUSE CASTS VOTE FOR MONOTHEISM. http://www.aps.org/WN/ # Japan's Cabinet OKs human cloning ban - clones, cloners rise in protest, futilely: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565701779-e86 # Project Maps 3 Chromosomes: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9680254 # Genes Control Brain Growth: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9679239 # IBM device detects biological defects - helps weed-out the undesirable: : Are you more endangered by radiation, fluoridation, creationism, mutation, urbanization, spiders, loud music, me? Are you at-risk?Will you kill off all that's around you, in order to reduce your risks? Is it a rational strategy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE LINK. What if a backend universe existed which you couldn't see? A universe not unlike ours; a microcosmic reproduction of the forces shaping the larger, visible universe that is the Web. A fun house mirror held up to the Internet. Rails: http://www.k10k.net/features/thelink/index.html# # Hubble could smash distance record. (BBC) What could be by far the most distant object ever seen in the Universe may have been detected by the HST. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_713000/713572.stm # Not Local: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,35618,00.html # Also - Astronomers see further than ever - charged as "peeping toms" http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_713000/713130.stm # Hubble spies a 'glowing eye' in space - astro-ophthalmologists worried: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_703000/703771.stm # Most distant quasar in Universe found - didn't even know it was lost: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_649000/649059.stm : Have you seen the edge of the universe lately? Are other universes located out past the edge of this one? Are entities in those universes observing us? Do you feel like someone's always watching you? Are you under surveillance? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Anti-abortionist jailed for pet-killings. (AP) - A man who killed 8 of his wife's pets to punish her for having an abortion was sentenced to 7 months in jail. L. J. Kritz, 22, stabbed or cut the heads off his wife's pets - including birds, snakes & a chinchilla - to teach her about the importance of life. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565699629-d8e # Extinction-prone fish ID'd: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9682128 # Earth Could Lose Thousands Of At-Risk Species: Extinctions Are Not Random Events: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000413125329.htm # DNA banks urged to save species - promising way to save many from extinc- tion. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_712000/712009.stm # More Evolution? www.time.com/time/reports/v21/science/question_evolve.html # UK ELDERLY LEFT TO DIE: http://ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49148 @ Disturbing toys for disturbed people. http://angelfire.com/ga2/ThreeJane3 [ via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Art/ but be extra extra careful ] : Do voices in your head tell you till kill animals in order to teach humans about the importance of life? Should humans be preserved in DNA banks, then extincted so other species have time to reclaim Earth? Is that only fair?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UK a terrorist state? Executive Intelligence Review has appealed to the US Secretary of State to list Britain among states sponsoring terrorism worldwide. http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/140400/detFOR06.htm # Bin Laden funding British 'terrorists' - provides armed training camps: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/14/timfgnasi02001.html # 3rd World leaders: Ease poverty - give us more power/money/sex/drugs. Now. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565706203-32a # Rare Argentine Files Found: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9682738 # Bunnies bounce back: http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?j6586309 # World Bank protesters dump manure - cops mass outside White House: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565706324-929 # Also: D.C. cops plan protest strategies, pinpoint key agitators: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565704832-c72 : What's your favorite terrorist state/organization/individual? Are you an international terrorist? Where's your main base? Are you supported by major govt/corporate/church agencies? Is dumping manure a terrorist act? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Glitch KO'd spy satellites last summer - Malf was worse than Y2K bug that hit same system. Yow: http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cth725.htm # 1982 Wiretap Launched US Nuke Spy Case. SAN JOSE, CA (Reuters) Feds began tracking nuclear spy suspect Wen Ho Lee after picking up a 1982 phone call from him to another scientist being probed for providing secrets to China: Long term: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000413/ts/china_spying_1.html # SPY COWS. The American spy cow is the newest addition to a series of radio controlled robotic farm animals developed for the US Army's Military Farm Animal Ops Program [MFAOP] to innocently walk into enemy territory where they'd be mistaken for real harmless farm animals. The program was first used in the Gulf War when explosive chickens were used to attack people and buildings in enemy cities. MFAOP was used by the FBI to track down and chase dangerous criminals. http://www.fmp.com/rodent/spycow/index.html : Have you spied on anyone lately? Do you direct spy activities? D'ya prefer to use humans/cows/aliens/robots/fleas as spies? Who gives the most trouble? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Vatican vs Whores: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49155 # Easter visitors jam Rome - Vatican security fears terrorist attacks - mobilized: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565705630-3d0 # MILLENNIUM MASS THREAT: http://ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49151 # Rushdie in India - Angry protests against his visit - KILL THE HERETIC!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_713000/713313.stm # Polish Holocaust denier to be tried - Nazis didn't have comprehensive plan to off Jews: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565704845-2fc # RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN MONGOLIA - 13 Years in Prison for "Erroneous Religious Propaganda" http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49110 # Gore backs gun ban in churches - antagonizes NRA, Baptists, Discordians, Atheists: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565705335-9b4 : What's your favorite religious threat? Are you a religious threat? Should firearms or other weapons be mandatory in all places of worship? Would sect/ doctrinal disputes be quickly resolved? Which heretic would you kill first?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "They say 'life is not a dress rehearsal' ... but what if it IS a dress rehearsal and 'they' just want us to look stupid and unprepared when we die?" -- http://www.SleazyTabloid.com * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...
Friday, April 14, 2000 02:03 p.m. P.D.T. SkeptiNews 000414a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
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* Most recent bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/12_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No sickened editors were healed during production of this bulletin. Yuk. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Kookogami: http://www.sepulchritude.com/suffer/volumetwo/kookigami.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Large Triangle/Kite-Shaped Craft in Texas http://www.caus.org/mu041400.htm # S.O.S. - Yukon Fireball Mystery Endures: http://www.caus.org/pn041300.htm # SPIRITUAL "FORM-CHANGE" SKY PHOTO RECORD: Galaxy Is Within Consciousness: http://community-2.webtv.net/crownstar/CROWNSTARSCOLLAGEOF/index.html @ People Who Interacted With Space People: http://www.caus.org/pc041300.htm @ Current And Past Antigravity/Gravity Research. Years ago major US aircraft firms mounted research efforts to study the secret of controlling gravity. Some of the DOD contracts were classfied; after initial enthusiastic press releases, the whole subject disappeared from the news. Interest in this subject was spurred by sightings of mysterious flying discs in the 1940s and 1950s. Beam me up: http://www.sightings.com/general/antigrav2.htm : Have you developed any antigravity systems lately? Do they work? Were/are you helped by The Space People? How would you characterize your interactions with The Space People? D'ya have photographic records of your interactions? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Secret Code in Microsoft Software. NEW YORK (AP) Microsoft Corp. engineers included a secret password in Net software that can gain illegal access to hundreds of thousands of Web sites.Contained within the code is a derisive comment aimed at a Microsoft rival: "Netscape engineers are weenies!" http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000414/tc/microsoft_password_1.html # Crypto-Convict Won't Recant. Before Jim Bell went to prison, he suspected that most govt officials were corrupt. Three years behind bars later, the self-proclaimed Internet anarchist is sure of it. After Bell, a cypherpunk who the United States government dubbed a techno-terrorist, is released Friday at 10 a.m. PDT, he plans to exact revenge on the system that impri- soned him. Beware: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35620,00.html : Are you a techno-weenie? Do you have the skill/motivation/obsession needed to devastate govt/corporate/other entities? Are you a cyber-warrior, techno- terrorist, freelance formbuster, alien agent? Whom will you target for doom? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Science Not enough to allay fears.(BBC) In highly technological societies, govts can no longer rely on science alone to win consent for potentially risky new developments, especially fears whipped-up by media demagogues: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_711000/711753.stm @ DETECTING LANDMINES (or finding lost coins etc) BY DOWSING with a Pendulum or Bobber. Dowsing is an old skill, and Pendulums have been used to locate mines by a number of military authorities. The author was trained in dows- ing as an officer at the "School of Military Engineering, Chatham" and has since improved the skills. http://mypage.direct.ca/j/jliving/landmine.htm : Have you doused for landmines lately? Did you find (m)any? D'ya have any legs left? Is landmine-dousing an Out-Of-Body Experience? Would you rather use dousing to find lost mines,lost coins, lost souls, water, petroleum, me? Is dousing scientific/spiritual/other? Do scientific explanations soothe ya? @ Out-Of-Body Experiences: http://www.caus.org/cz041400.htm @ Question of faith - Should we trust scientists? Who else? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/default.stm @ Martian Domes: http://www.enterprisemission.com/domes.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Robot Helps Docs Give Girl New Ear. BERLIN (Reuters) Doctors at Berlin's Humboldt University said that a robot had helped them attach an artificial ear to a 14-year-old girl in a medical breakthrough. Next: aliens help to restore virginity: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000414/09/odd-ear # Pheromones Strong Influence On Sex Attraction; Don't underestimate power of body chemistry: www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20000412_4164.html # 'Captain Condom' works to educate teens around the world; can say 'condom' in at least 10 languages: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000413/odd-111 # PANDAS ON VIAGRA - hoped to boost their famously feeble attempts to mate: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_711000/711816.stm @ Flights of Passion - Will Sex in the Sky Be an Everyday Reality? http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/WolfFiles/wolffiles.html : D'ya prefer robots for surgery, sex, slavery, songwriting? D'ya wanna have sex with robots, pandas, doctors, captains, aliens, me? Should/can/will any robots give you new ears/brains/genitals/hopes/diseases? Why not Cyborgs?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Why didn't I think of that? (BBC) Inventors gather in Geneva to show off their latest ideas to make life easier. Or at least more interesting. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_713000/713370.stm # Also - Robofish splash down in Tokyo - next: RoboSushi. RoboFishFries. Etc. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_679000/679642.stm # MiniTec http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_657000/657790.stm # Renaissance machines are reborn - building'em just like Leonardo did: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_479000/479168.stm # Ancient mirror unearthed. One of the oldest bronze mirrors in the world has been found by a farmer moving a stone to free his tractor wheel. Under the stone, at Bryher in the Scillies, was a grave about 2,000 years old in which a sword was also found. The sword dates from 250-125BC. If the mirror was buried at the same time it would be the oldest of its kind ever found. http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,162338,00.html : Have you found/lost/created/destroyed any old/new technologies lately? Do your ideas bode well for mankind, or otherwise? Should technology ever stop? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Canadian Seeks Return of Country's 'Flying Saucer' - Avrocar 'part of our history lost to U.S.' -- Bill Zuk wants to bring Canada's flying saucer back home. started a campaign to reclaim a curious and little-known piece of the country's aviation history: a top-secret circular jet plane built in the late 1950's. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/projy_3.htm # If Rescue Failed, Apollo 13 Would Have Crashed Into Earth. Like they had another choice: http://space.com/spacehistory/apollo13_whatif_000412.html # Wormholes Our Stargate?Intergalactic travel via Stargate-style "wormholes" in space could be possible: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_worm00.htm # Skydiving For New Highs: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000413/odd-197 : What's your favorite mode of fast travel? D'ya prefer to travel fast/slow/ nowhere? Has anyone stolen your mode of travel lately? D'ya wanna just jump, see where gravity will take you? Would you like to float forever'n'ever??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Take the time to go over your taxes with a fine tooth comb... because when the IRS screws you, you're screwing everyone they've ever screwed." -- http://www.SleazyTabloid.com * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding... |