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# College Students Think Serious Illness Can Be 'Payback'. NEW YORK - A
survey of college students finds that many subscribe to the unscientific
notion that serious and fatal illness is sometimes a payback for bad
behavior. "Even adults abandon scientific reasoning under certain
circumstances" - http://foxnews.com/health/082499/payback.sml
: Do you earn your diseases? Did your karma run over my dogma? Do what goes
around, come around? Is cancer evidence of sin? Do aliens/demons punish you?
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@ THE SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK (A.Crowley) INQUIRY: What is Scepticism? The
word means looking, questioning, investigating. One must contemptuously
dismiss the Christian liar's gloss which interprets "sceptic" as "mocker";
though in a sense it is true for him, since to inquire into Christianity
is assuredly to mock at it... http://www.chesco.com/~aconry/lib_0148.html
: Do you inquire, investigate, question, mock? Does seeking breed contempt?
Do you prefer questions or answers? Are answers of any use? Is mockery fun?
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# Falung Gong head cancels UK trip. LONDON (AP) The leader of the Falun Gong
spiritual group has canceled plans to meet his British followers, ending a
diplomatic row between China and Britain. A spokeswoman for Li Hongzhi,
the New York-based leader of the group, said his decision not to make the
trip was based on his own busy schedule and not diplomatic pressures.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560855944-0e7
: Is your spiritual movement a security threat to one or more nations? Are
one or more nations threatening your spirit? Are your differences immense??
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@ MAPPA MUNDI. Gaze into your monitor; focus beyond the orderly rows of
pixels, past the circuitry, farther even than the orbiting communications
satellites. If you look far enough, can you see data-quasars and info-
nebulae? Looking into cyberspace, what do you see? http://mappa.mundi.net/
: Where do you see more: on TV, in your computer, out the window, into your
imagination/soul/fantasies, underwater? How far can you focus? What's there?
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Number of Italians that have turned to the supernatural to solve problems
of love, health and work: 10 million.
Amount of money Italians spend yearly on fortune-telling, astrology and
spiritualism: one billion lire ($547,000).
Number of Italians that believed they were victims of fraud: 1.2 million
: Do supernatural advisors/entities/forces help you solve problems of love,
health and work? Do they charge much? Do they defraud you? Are you happy??
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# Big Brother, Big Fun at Amazon. A new Amazon.com service designed to
create shopping communities worries some customers who are concerned
about potential corporate espionage and threats to individual privacy.
The feature lets anyone view books, movies, and CDs ordered by amazon.com
customers at corporations, nonprofit groups, and govt agencies. Show your
hand: http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21417.html
: Do you care if everyone knows what your read/hear/think/see? Do you have
anything to hide? Why? Are you ashamed, illegal, kinky, devious, alien? Is
privacy meaningful, attainable, chimerical? Would you prefer a group-mind?
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Fluoride-O-Rama:
# The Fight Over Fluoride Continues:
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/98/Nov/18/lifestyle/FLUO18.htm
http://www.all-natural.com/fleffect.html
@ "Scientific Facts on the Biological Effects of Fluorides":
http://www.sonic.net/~kryptox/fluoride.htm
@ Fluoride http://www.garynull.com/documents/fluoridation.htm
http://www.garynull.com/Documents/Nutrition&Mind/nutrition&mind-7.htm
@ Fluoride: http://www.fluoride-journal.com/
http://www.cadvision.com/fluoride/index.htm
http://www.holisticmed.net/add/mullenix.txt
@ Intl Society for Fluoride Research: http://www.holisticmed.com/fluoride/
# Presentation related to fluoride compounds and neurotoxicity: "Study
flags new formaldehyde risks": http://www.msnbc.com/news/231529.asp#BODY
@ Fluoride & the A-Bomb Program. During the ultra-secret Manhattan Project,
a report was commissioned to assess the effect of fluoride on humans. That
report was classified "secret" for reasons of "national security".
http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/fluoridebomb.html
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SkeptiLinks:
@ Yuckiest Site on the Internet: http://www.yucky.com/
@ Locus - Maps Over Time: http://mappa.mundi.net/locus/
@ An Internet Prayer Wheel: http://mappa.mundi.net/cartography/Wheel/
$ iButton - take data anywhere: http://www.ibutton.com/ibuttons/index.html
@ HOLLOW PLANETS. A Feasibility study of possible hollow worlds. Could the
planets Mercury, Venus and Earth be hollow? http://www.hollowplanets.com/
@ Strategic Intelligence: What you don't know... http://strategicintel.com/
# Nixon's Darkest Secret: Op.Redrock: http://strategicintel.com/redrock1.htm
# J.Springer hacked: http://cnnfn.com/news/technology/newsbytes/134249.html
# The B.Gates Myth: http://newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/st/ty0109_1.htm
# Lawmakers fear nuke secrets slipping - declassify everything again:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560859624-acc
# Okla. bomb survivors seen suffering from psychiatric illnesses:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560854594-825
# Jamaica mulls legalizing marijuana - "Everybody smokes ganja!"
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560859692-df1
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