-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991031a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No greedy trick-or-treaters vanished during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Goth Babe of the Week: http://www.gothic.net/~cossack/gothbabe.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Today in History: 31 Oct 1517, Martin Luther began the Protestant Reforma-tion by nailing a manifesto to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # San Diego State U. students say ghosts haunt the corridors of dorm. He was alone in the bathroom on the 4th floor of Zura Hall. At least he thought he was. He heard a man's voice rumble through the room. He looked around. No one was there. Ooooohhh: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991029/odd-172 # Stories say U. New Hampshire dorms are haunted. When Scott Sinclair first heard the story of the ghost that haunts the basement of Hetzel Hall, he didn't believe it. Then, one fateful night, he had an encounter that turned him into a believer. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991029/odd-329 : Have you been haunted lately? Have you haunted anyone lately? Is your home /school/workplace/website haunted? Does cosmic evil envelop you? Why not?? # Ghost hunters study hauntings in Ohio. Nicholas Reiter and Lori Schillig have ghosts and haunted houses on their minds, and not just because it will soon be Halloween. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991029/odd-196 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FBI REPORT SAYS THREAT OF MILLENNIUM VIOLENCE 'VERY REAL'. An FBI report prepared for the nation's law enforcement officials says the threat of violence by extremists to mark the new millennium is "very real." The bureau said in a written statement on October 20 that it was preparing the report, entitled Project Megiddo, and would share it with police chiefs at their upcoming convention. Report also cites threat of violence in Israel: http://cnn.com/US/9910/31/fbi.millennium.01.ap/index.html : Do you intend to commit violence at the millennium? Are you sure of your date? Will someone commit violence against you? Does it matter, since the world will end? Will violence help bring about Armageddon? Do you hope so? @ Why do women spend so much time with the kids, or weeping, or looking out the window? Why don't they just accept that they're responsible for evil? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/feed/a58252-1999oct29.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NewAge Leaders Call For Millennium Prayers On New Year's Eve. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Leaders of the "New Age" spiritual development movement are calling for "wave" of prayer around the world on New Year's Eve -- with prayers spoken, sung, chanted or even typed into the electronic realm of Cyberspace. The aim of the mass prayer is to do nothing less than "heal the world." http://news.excite.com/news/r/991029/20/millennium-prayer : Have you prayed lately? Have you healed any worlds lately? Are worlds hard to heal? Have you healed anything else lately? Did it work? Are you sure?? # Literature project mistaken for bomb in university building: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991026/odd-151 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ARCHAEOLOGY UNDERMINES ZIONISM - Questions Raised in Bible's Accuracy. JERUSALEM (AP) There was no exodus from Egypt, Joshua didn't bring down the walls of Jericho, and Solomon's kingdom was a small, tribal dynasty, an Israeli archaeologist says in a new article. It's all a big mistake: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991029/aponline013030_000.htm # Deconstructing the walls of Jericho. (Ha'aretz) Following 70 years of intensive excavations in the Land of Israel, archaeologists have found out: The patriarchs' acts are legendary, the Israelites did not sojourn in Egypt or make an exodus, they did not conquer the land. Neither is there any mention of the empire of David and Solomon, nor of the source of belief in the God of Israel. These facts have been known for years, but Israel is a stubborn people and nobody wants to hear about it. Judeo/ Xian/Muslim faiths bogus: http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/htmls/kat34_1.htm : What are your favorite biblical texts? Are they accurate? Is accuracy [or lack thereof] relevant to your belief system? Will one or more deities zap the infidels who raise questions about their existence? Will you be zapped? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # WE'RE WATCHING YOU. Pinhole cameras - now being sold over the Internet - can hide in the smallest cracks; satellite cameras can read the time on your watch from orbit... Van Eck devices can read what's on your computer monitor from halfway down the street. You thought you maybe had privacy? HAH!! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/29/0832246&mode=flat : D'ya have pinhole cameras in your cracks? D'ya put them in other people's cracks? D'ya read computer monitors from far away? D'yer eyes hurt yet??? @ James Bond may only be a few decades old, but spying goes back centuries. Take, for instance, information found at the site devoted to Spy Letters Of The American Revolution. http://www.clements.umich.edu/spies/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # COAST GUARD SEARCHES FOR MISSING EGYPT AIR 767. The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for an airliner that disappeared early Sunday off the coast of Massachusetts, about 60 miles south/southeast of the island of Nantucket. Around 200 people on board: http://cnn.com/US/9910/31/missing.plane.01/ # BOEING DELAYED HANDING OVER STUDY OF FUEL TANKS TO TWA 800 INVESTIGATORS. Boeing questions study: http://cnn.com/US/9910/30/boeing.report.02/ : What's the Egypt Air 990 connexion with TWA 800, JFK Jr, other crashes in the Nantucket area, and the secret research station at Montauk, Long Island? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Crypto-Gram Newsletter: http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html @ CNN millennium supersite: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/at2000 # Congressional Republicans are prepared for alien attack: http://freedom.gov/library/economics/invaders.asp # Are Martians little green men, or something more sinister? http://home.tampabay.rr.com/dapage/mars/marscats.htm # COURSE OF MARS LANDER CORRECTED FOR DECEMBER LANDING: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9910/30/mars.lander/index.html # TECHNICIANS 'INADVERTENTLY' DAMAGE SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9910/29/us.spaceshuttle.ap/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Butterworth sang bad opera while Natalie's shapely legs were taking forever to be eaten away -- 'O Freedom Mio! 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