-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991130b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No gryphons, sirenes or cyclopses were harmed to produce this bulletin. * Email recipients: My ISP claims a traffic jam. Sorry about any delays. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Centaur skeleton: http://web.utk.edu/~blyons/xcentaurfront.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Psychoanalysis dead from drugs? Has Freud been made irrelevant by pills that really treat mental illness, instead of blaming some hidden trauma? http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/pills_talk/index.html : Do you control your mental diseases with drugs? Are psychological traumas theological entities like angels, demons, deities, aliens? Does your brain need reformulating, rebuilding, washing? Is your brain replaceable? Really? @ Abuse, Memory, Science, Therapy, Ethics & Malpractice - access to peer- reviewed research & other articles: http://www.idealist.com/memories/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ SelfMindControl. The Peak Achievement Trainer(TM) plugs into a PC's serial port and allows you to view your brain activity. You find out instantly how well you are doing, and can use this information to improve your performance. It is much simpler to use than other brainwave biofeedback instruments, and far more accurate. http://neurotechno.com/whatitis.htm : Are you in control of y'r own mind? Is your mind out of control? Is a mind a terrible thing to control? Do you control any minds with devices? Where?? @ Neglected Cultures: The Aazudians: http://web.utk.edu/~blyons/aazudians.html The Apasht: http://web.utk.edu/~blyons/apasht.html The Arenot: http://web.utk.edu/~blyons/arenot.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Kazakhstan Faces Growing Locust Threat. ALMATY (Reuters) Locusts could represent a major threat to Kazakhstan's agricultural sector next year if the vast Central Asian state fails to take adequate measures to control them. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991130/06/science-kazakhstan-locusts : Are you concerned by plagues of locusts? Would you rather have a plague of boils? Is a biblical judgement being visited upon Kazakhstan? Why? By who? @ THE JAIN'S DEATH. "Nothing in the world is permanent. No one provides protection. All forms are changing...." http://www.e-sheep.com/jain/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ DIVINATION FOR FUN AND PROFIT -- WELL, OK, FOR FUN MOSTLY. Calculators for Isopsephia <http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/Isopsephia.html> (Gematria) in Greek, Roman and Hebrew alphabets, and for the related Thesis <http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/Thesis.html> system. Also available: a Generalized Isopsephia calculator, which allows you to enter <http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/Iso-gen.html> whatever numerical values you like for the Greek or Roman alphabets. See also the accompany- ing Alphabet <http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/Iso-values.html> Charts. : What's your favorite method of divination? Have you read any bird/lizard/ hamster/goat/alien/human entrails lately? Have you forecasted with a spread- sheet lately? Do you make a good living selling crystal balls, tarot cards, astrology books, tachyon generators? Is the future an open book? By whom? @ Horoscopes: http://iafrica.com/lifestyle/daily/index.htm?src_id=tmp0347 @ The Pythagorean Tarot: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/PT/PT.html @ Astro astro logy logy: http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/astrology.html # Predicting 2099: 21st century will finally meet George Jetson: http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/11/29/fp1s4-csm.shtml @ Ars Haruspicina (modernized Etruscan divination): http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/Har.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TOFU ROTS YOUR BRAIN. A Hawaii study shows a significant statistical relationship between two or more servings of tofu a week and "accel- erated brain aging" and even an association with Alzheimer's disease. Uh, tofu? Huh? http://starbulletin.com/1999/11/19/news/story4.html : Do you eat lotsa tofu? Is y'r brain shot to shit? Would it be shot to shit anyway, no matter what you eat? If "you are what you eat", what are you??? # MID-LIFE CRISIS COULD BE A MYTH - SO FORGET THE SPORTS CAR: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14695 # SURPRISING RISK FACTOR FOR SUICIDE - you could be next: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14697 # MEDICAL ERRORS KILL TENS OF THOUSANDS ANNUALLY, PANEL SAYS: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9911/29/medical.errors/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K-A-Go-Go: # Y2K - Aviation Risks Said On Ground, Not In Air: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/y2kground.htm # Y2K - Colorado Readies Underground Command Bunker: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/y2kcoloradobunker_p.htm # Y2K - FEDS RECEIVE 'ABOVE AVERAGE' GRADE ON Y2K - but they're cheating: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/29/final.y2k.grade.idg/index.html # Y2K - Clinton Set To Declare National Emergency - 50+ Crises Expected: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/19991129_xex_clinton_set_.shtmlm Kill-A-Rama: # Follow this parent's logic: "The Columbine killers were into Wicca. Harry Potter is a wizard. Wizards practice witchcraft. Wiccans practice witch- craft, therefore..." http://laweekly.com/ink/99/52/news-ehrenreich.shtml # Chuck Colson blames Littleton on postmodernism: http://www.christianityonline.com/ct/9T9/9T9080.html Prez-R-Us: # Will I.Q. woes catch up with George W. Bush? http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/sunday/news_5.html @ Hey, Warren G. Harding wasn't the brightest bulb in the lamp, either. http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/wh29.html # TRUMP WILLING TO DROP A BUNDLE ON PRESIDENTIAL RACE - $100 mln, no prob: http://www.capitolhillblue.com/Nov1999/112999/trump112999.htm # FBI PROBING MASS GRAVES IN MEXICO - may contain as many as 100 bodies - Bush denies involvement: http://cnn.com/US/9911/29/mexico.mass.graves/ @ Reagan's dark side glossed over by 'Dutch': http://www.consortiumnews.com/112599a.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Are you just dying to live forever?" * Rev. 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