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# Americans turn to religion for financial advice. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI)
A nationwide survey by the Lutheran Brotherhood indicates many Americans
turn to religion for monetary guidance. The survey says six out of 10
Americans pray before making major financial decisions. Not surprisingly
though, people who attend church every week are much more likely to pray
before making those big-time financial decisions. Then they pray for sex.
http://news.excite.com/news/u/990704/23/news-religionmoney
: Do your deities or their human representatives advise you on what to do
with your money? If {JHWH} tells you to give me all your money, will you?
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# Now you don't have to be a rocket scientist - Mensa changes its brainiac
public image. Sometimes the smartest way to get what you want is to play
dumb. That appears to be the thinking these days at Mensa, the "High IQ"
society. Mensa's longtime image as a group of goggle-eyed brainiacs kept
membership at a virtual standstill for nearly 5 years. But now the group
is playing down its brain power and playing up its ordinariness. Smart
but lonely: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/990712/mensa.htm
: Are you in MENSA? Do you monitor MENSA activities for your alien masters?
Do you monitor alien ETs for MENSA? Are you aware that MENSA assassins have
crucially shaped post-WWII world history? Are you a MENSA assassin? Why not?
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# Computers To Calculate Cancer Gene Risk. LONDON (Reuters) Computers could
soon help doctors assess a patient's risk of getting hereditary cancers.
The Risk Assessment in Genetics [RAGs] program is designed to aid family
doctors calculate patients' chances of getting the disease based on family
history. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990705/00/science-health-tech
: Would you entrust a computer with your life? Do you already? Can a program
bug|virus|worm kill you as surely as anthrax? Will Bill Gates own your soul?
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# Genetics and ethics: spare us the hysteria. Warnings that cloning will
lead to dictators making armies of clones just like them are far-fetched.
It is a little more plausible to claim that the danger to society comes
not from authoritarian rule, but from a free market in genetic techniques,
which will lead to streets full of people who are clones of movie stars or
sports heroes. http://theage.com.au/daily/990630/news/specials/news3.html
# Also: What's so bad about an army of Brad Pitts?
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9907/01/text/features2.html
: Would you rather be cloned from a dictator, cinema star, sports hero, me?
Do you want a planet of your own to fill with your clones? Are you boring?
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# Abnormal births focus of scientific curiosity. (Irish Times) Teratology is
the scientific study of abnormal generation and development of the embryo
and the products resulting from it. This science has slowly developed out
of a historical preoccupation with abnormally developed newborn animal and
human infants. These "freaks of nature", such as a child born with two
heads, were widely considered to forecast coming misfortunes and to result
from interference by the gods with the natural order of the universe.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/science/1999/0705/sci1.htm
: Are you a freak of nature? Do your gods interfere with the natural order
of the universe much? Would you like to be a god so YOU can interfere with
the natural order of the universe? What universal meddling would you try??
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# Time - It's tricky, surprising -- and as we head for millennium, down-
right exciting stuff. Get to grips with the true strangeness of time.
http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/time/time.html
# Also: Keeping up with the times - resetting the world clock:
http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/time/keepingup.html
# Time's arrow - Why doesn't time flow backwards?
http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/time/timesarrow.html
# "Here comes hypertime" - play havoc with notions of past and future:
http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/time/hypertime.html
: If you were a deity/demon/alien, would you jigger with time so everything
would be different? Have you already? Is time fun to play with? Want more?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ VENICE'S WAR AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION:
http://www.radix.net/~tarpley/venwar.htm
@ 650 Years Ago: How Venice Rigged the First, and Worst, Global Financial
Crash: http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/pbgbardi.htm
@ VENETIAN CONSPIRACY - The Largest Empire In the History of the World:
http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/largest.htm
@ Crown Agents - Her Majesty's Murder, Inc.:
http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/agents.htm
# LEFT BRAIN RIGHT BRAIN. If you thought one side of your brain was cold
and logical while the other was creative and emotional, think again.
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990703/leftbrainr.html
$ Satanic Ritual Abuse and Secret Societies Conference:
http://www.ephesians5-11.org/sraconf.htm
@ Documents which expose the truth about Freemasonry:
http://www.ephesians5-11.org/document.htm
@ authentic Masonic documents - published by Grand Lodges:
http://www.ephesians5-11.org/monitors.htm
# Former Feds Take Aim at Patriots, July 12-16 in Vegas:
http://www.traincops.com/Homegrown%20Extremists%20LV.htm
# The Coming Saudi Oil War: http://www.chaostan.com/oilwar.html
# DOE supercomputer costs rising - nuke simulation doubles in price:
http://news.excite.com/news/u/990702/16/tech-science-doe-computer
# Pshrinks Pshy From Schizophrenia, Alzheimer Diagnosis - social stigma:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990705/00/science-health-schizophrenia
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"Cultural Anthropology!" he snorted sardonically, standing in the clearing
in the rain forest, a soggy Carlton between his lips, a fleet of insects
orbiting the flame of his disposable lighter, a poison dart dangling
impotently from the collar of his safari jacket, and a case of jock
itch that would have made a three-toes sloth mean. --Ed Tootill
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