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@ DEATH TO PIKACHU! http://www.mustbedestroyed.com/
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# New Buddhist Sect Worries Traditionalists - mass movement caters to Thai
middle class. PATHUM THANI, Thailand -- The sheer psychic power of 30,000
people meditating together can make miracles happen, say monks at the HQ
of Thailand's biggest, richest and - to the established priesthood - most
dangerous new Buddhist sect. www.seattlep-i.com:80/national/thai25.shtml
: Do you make miracles happen? Would they happen anyway? Does your belief
system threaten established authority? If you can make miracles happen, why
don't you just make the establishment accept you? Must you be persecuted?
# HOW TO PASS A DRIVING TEST: Items people have brought along to help them
pass their driving test in London? Lucky charms including red bras and
religious relics, having 'lucky' people sit in the back seat, and a rear
seat guru chanting a lucky mantra (survey by British Automobile Ass'n).
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# Dad Jailed For Contempt - Sect Buried Sons? (ATTLEBORO, MA) The father of
two missing boys was jailed for contempt of court after refusing to tell a
judge where his 10-month-old son is. Cops think Jacques Robidoux' infant
son Samuel and a newborn boy are both dead, buried in Baxter State Park by
members of their parents' religious sect. Two dozen members of the sect,
which does NOT believe in modern medical care, have visited Baxter during
the past two months. But a search in a remote area of the park where the
sect held their retreats has NOT turned up any bodies. They've gone to
live with Jesus: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991124/04/me-state-news-3
Previous story: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991122/03/me-state-news-1
: Does your sect eschew heathen medicine for members, kids, visitors? Do y'r
deities take many from among you? Are they willing sacrifices? Will you die
for your beliefs? Soon? Will others die for your beliefs? Is it divine will?
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# Children removed in raids on cult. Tokyo: Japan's police removed children
from the bizarre Life Space cult, whose members kept a mummified body at
an airport hotel and insisted it was alive. With tolerance for such groups
already sapped by the 1995 gas attack on Tokyo's subway by the Aum Supreme
Truth doomsday cult, police launched multiple raids, taking nine children
into protection. http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/9911/25/text/world8.html
: Is death just another phase of life? Is it so hard for outsiders to under-
stand that? Are you persecuted because of y'r deep understanding of reality?
@ Pioneering academic defense of Wicca (and) Moby-Dick revisionism wars:
www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Thursday-Times/timbooboo01010.html?1334425
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# Peruvians Wallow in 'Miraculous Mud' Touched by Space Aliens. CHILCA, Peru
(AP) Many ailing Peruvians visit Chilca, a dusty desert town on the Pacific
coast 40 miles SE of Lima. They come to mud-wallow in 3 small ponds said
to have healing powers. But these mud baths are different: locals claim
their miraculous powers are brought by alien space ships. "Lots of people
claim to have seen UFOs and strange lights in the night sky over Chilca.
People here believe in UFOs" sez the mayor. Visitors to Chilca are greeted
by signs proclaiming the town as "The Preferred Site for Interplanetary
Ships and Beings." http://sltrib.com:80/1999/nov/11251999/nation_w/326.htm
: Where's your favorite miracle mud, holy hotspring, sacred spa? Do aliens,
deities, spirits, robots like to empower dirt/water/mud in your vicinity? Do
you see many paranormal entities as you wallow in the mud? D'ya inhale dust?
@ IS MY PRIEST HANDING OUT HERPES WITH THE HOSTS? There have actually been
studies about how priests handle the Eucharist cup. There are germs there
- but herpes is so common, it's nearly impossible to avoid. Infectious
faith: http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14268
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@ DREAM MACHINES. Most of the machines I’d invent — the Life Compass, the
Emotion Scan, the Physique Dial, the Chutzpah Device — already exist in
less garish form; writing about how much I wish they existed ignores how
much they already do. There is one thing, however. MACHINE THAT ONCE —
only once — in your life, allowed you to send a letter to the past. One
that you were able to address to only one person: your teenage self. As
if you'd listen... http://www.msnbc.com:80/news/338846.asp?cp1=1
@ Is General Motors ready to build UFOs? -- Detroit isn't building Sky-Cars
or UFOS yet, at least not "officially"... Or maybe they are, they use them
often enough in their ads!!! Do you want to be the first to know? For the
latest Electric Car news, see: http://www.electrifyingtimes.com
@ And see the S4 Database List - http://www.anomalies.net
: What machines do you wish you had? Do you wish you were a machine? What
machine would you like to be? If you were a revolutionary machine, would the
Establishment suppress you? D'ya deserve to be suppressed? Are you already?
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# Louisiana Judge Overturns Psychic Ban. LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) A federal judge
struck down New Iberia's 1982 ban on palm reading & fortune telling, say-
ing the south Louisiana town of 31,800 went too far to protect residents
and had created a threat to their First Amendment rights. Lawyers for New
Iberia argued the ban protected against fraud and unfair trade practices.
www2.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,500061457-500101575-500432658-0,00.html
: Does your belief system promote prognostication? Do you make money at it?
Should all forms of belief-based business be legal, encouraged, mandatory?
@ ARE YOU... EXPERIENCED? Pamela Stonebrooke, singer who claims encounters
with reptilian aliens. http://laweekly.com/ink/99/52/reverb-alfvegren.shtml
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# Spacecraft zips past Jupiter moon. (AP) NASA's Galileo spacecraft plunged
thru Jupiter's dangerously intense radiation belts on course to pass just
186 miles above the surface of the fiery moon Io. Damaged but determined,
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562260212-5a2
: Do you plot a hazardous course in your journey? Is existence a risk? Have
you plunged thru dangerously intense radiation belts? Shouldn't everybody?
# NASA plans return to Mars - trial for "faster, better, cheaper" strategy:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562259131-c38
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"Bright and cold, white and gold
The boarding lights lead us on, young and old
Maybe we're just dreaming this, spinning happy lies
Don't say a word while the starships rise
Don't turn your head while the starships rise"
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