-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990202a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with : are editorial comments to provoke discussion. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Armageddon Week in Review: How the Media Covered the Second Coming. New York - Tribulation expected to expand 35% in '00: The National Council of Churches (NCC) announced a downbeat forecast for the world's population, saying it expects the people of earth will increase their suffering by some 35% in the coming year, after an estimated 6.2% contraction in 1999. The recent downturn in suffering, which Mayor Rudolph Giuliani attributes to his administration's policies, is expected to bottom out when locusts are given the power to torment men for five months. NCC added that men shall seek death and shall not find it; they shall desire to die, and death will flee from them. NCC did not say how long the trend would last. See http://www.feedmag.com/feature/opres/fr165.html?alert : How tribulated do you feel? Do you expect to feel more or less suffering in the upcoming year? Why? Yours or someone else's? Who? Do you care? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > PROPOSAL SEEKS TO MOVE BACK 'OFFICIAL' NEW YEAR'S DAY. As the countdown for Jan. 1, 2000, closes in, some technology professionals may need every precious minute to ensure computer systems won't fail. They will get even more time than they thought if legislation is passed that would change the "official" New Year's Day holiday next year. Fiddling with calendars again, see http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/01/newyears.y2k.idg/index.html : Can the millennium and the ensuing armageddon be postponed and thwarted by legislative action? Can oblivion, rapture, transcendence be outlawed? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THE Y2K (REAL) SPAM SWEEPSTAKES. A contest gives away a 6-month supply of canned meat. Pick your poison: nuclear annihilation or a diet of Spam. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/culture/story/17682.html : Does all Y2K reporting and discussion constitute spam? Can you swallow it? Is Y2K a Reptilioid plot? What will happen in Area51 then? How can you tell? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > Scholars Call On Scientists To Research Dead Sea Scrolls. (CNN) Scholars may be reaching a point where they have learned just about all they can from handwriting and textual analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Scientists are now being brought into the field of scroll research to study to the 2,000-year- old scriptures. This cooperation and promotion of scientific expertise could help resolve some of the mysteries still swirling around the scrolls. See http://cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9901/31/israel.science.ap/index.html # Links: Scrolls From The Dead Sea: http://metalab.unc.edu/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html > Dead Sea scrolls alive on computer: http://cnn.com/TECH/9604/18/dead.sea.scrolls/index.html # The Essenes and the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran: http://members.aol.com/Wisdomway/deadseascrolls.htm # Orion Center For the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls: http://unixware.mscc.huji.ac.il/%7Eorion/orion.html : Was Saul/Paul a Roman agent-provocateur targeting factions of the Jewish Revolt? Do some DS Scrolls document this? Should they be added to bibles? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Israeli Tour To Feature Miracle. Retracing Jesus' footsteps on Holy Land pilgrimages is nothing new - but the tours haven't extended onto water until now. Israel authorized a private contractor to build a submerged bridge into the Sea of Galilee to allow tourists to simulate Jesus' miraculous walk on water. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558293177-65c : Was water meant to be walked on? Isn't that showing it disrespect? Really? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > UNORTHODOX PRAYERS DRAW ORTHODOX ANGER AT WAILING WALL. Under a torrent of shouts of "Nazis" and "Haters of Israel," a group of male and female Reform rabbis challenged Orthodox tradition by praying together at Judaism's holi- est site. The small congregation, mostly liberal U.S. rabbis visiting Israel to meet political figures, held a 45-minute prayer service outside Jerusa- lem's Wailing Wall, the last remnant of the ancient Second Temple of Jerusalem. http://cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9902/01/israel.divided/index.html *** Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest at wall. One ultra-Orthodox woman was so upset at the sight of men and women praying together that she began crying. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558289643-45f : Is your religion challenged by sexual integration? Do exclusionist sects have a low or high survival potential? How long can Orthodoxy tread water? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > A LAN THAT'S OUT OF THIS WORLD... LITERALLY. At first, Neil Woodbury's networking challenge doesn't seem too tough: He needs to support a seven-person remote office 250 miles away. But that's 250 miles straight up. And the office is moving at 17,000 miles an hour. Dynamic networking - see http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9902/01/space.lan.idg/index.html : How does the Reticulan mothership connect with all its shuttlecraft, operatives and slaves? Can we use their technology? Do we already? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Fried Links: @ Black Knights Paranormal Investigation Team: http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/bkpit/page/index.htm @ Face On Mars again: www.planetarymysteries.com/marsface.html @ Spying on us? http://www.thecodex.com/ @ Mind Control: http://www.liszt.com/cgi-bin/info.cgi?list=MINDCONTROL-L @ Future Cities /CultureX: http://users.uniserve.ca/~culturex/ @ Electro Warfare: http://www.liszt.com/cgi-bin/info.cgi?list=ewar-l @ Always somewhere to go: http://members.aol.com/bumperdmpr/bumper.htm @ The truth about xianity: http://www.hiddenmeanings.com @ Infected polio vaccine: http://www.chronicillnet.org/online/bensweet.html @ Education, Religion and Propaganda: http://members.xoom.com/ThePiedPiper/EducationReligionandPropoganda.htm @ Biography database, searchable: http://www.freeality.com/bio.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "'Jiminy Crickets!' exclaimed Corporal Ashley Jones at the control panel of Nuclear Response Silo #36 in the Black Hills of South Dakota, 'I guess I must've pushed the wrong button...'" --Joe Ecclesine * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.sonic.net/~ric * ICQ# 19633976 * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. 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