-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991211b - - - - - - - - - - - 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? * www.memepool.com has been down for a few days. This is disappointing... * No inhuman futures were plotted during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Santazilla: http://americanatheist.org/supplement/somerset99.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # David Icke's lecture: The Biggest Secret. David Icke was dressed from foot to neck in black, and for most of the lecture spoke outside any of the spotlights focused directly beyond the foot of the speaker's platform. Hidden almost in darkness. http://www.caus.org/mc121099.htm : Do you hide during public presentations? Should you? Must your Reptilioid features stay cloaked in darkness? Do your audiences fear you? Should they? @ Space Intruder Detector Alert: http://www.eisa.net.au/~ippoz/SID/SID.html @ Mystic Meanings: http://mazzaroth.com/ChapterOne/HebAlphabetNumbers.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Inhuman futures. Primatologist Sara Hrdy says we could be profoundly altering the course of our own evolution -- because of inadequate childcare. http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991211/inhumanfut.html # Symmetry makes older brothers luckier in love - bioengineering potential: www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/12/09/timnwsnws01026.html?999 @ Molecular theories: human encounters www.robotwisdom.com/ai/molecular.html : Do you want to affect the future of humanity? Is that future determined by nature, nurture, gene.mods, social/personal sloppiness, deities, aliens, me? @ "What does it mean," Sara Hrdy asks, "to be born a mammal, with an emot- ional legacy that makes me capable of caring for others, breeding with the ovaries of a primate, possessing the mind of a human being. To be a semi- continuously sexually receptive, hairless biped, filled with conflicting aspirations and struggling to maintain her balance in a rapidly changing world?" http://salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/12/09/maternal/print.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Visions of the 21st Century - Will We Grow New Brains? http://www.pathfinder.com/time/reports/v21/health/brain.html # Studies Shed Light on Brain Development Process: http://unisci.com/stories/19994/1206993.htm : Would you like to grow a new brain, or just develop the one you have a bit more? Would you like another brain spliced onto yours? Would it help much?? # CHROMOSOMES 13, 7 MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH AUTISM. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/14901.rhtml @ Delusional Circuitry - Autism and mechanism. http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/cultronix/hilary/ # Autism drug fails first trial test - Secretin bombs: http://newsindex.com/cgi-bin/process.cgi?query=autism+drug+secretin+trial _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Jeru Cops: Apocalypse Busters. Fearing a man-made Armageddon at the dawn of 2000, Israel deports several evangelical Christians & makes tough arch- itectural choices. (TIME) Jerusalem's police have bigger things to worry about than a Y2K bug � the Holy City's gendarmes fret that their precinct playing ground zero in some attempt to hasten a New Year's Eve Armageddon. http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/special/look/0,2633,33406,00.html # Doomsday Prophets Face Letdown. (DP) The Concerned Christians busted in Greece as well as dozens of other groups preparing for the apocalypse to kick off the new millennium may be in for a disappointment. If historians and Biblical scholars are right, the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Christ happened about four years ago. In terms of end-of-the-world proph- ecies, 1/1/2000 is no more ominous than April Fool's Day. Cancel the Mid- East Armageddon tour package. http://denverpost.com/news/carman1209.htm : Do you look forward to Apocalypse? Are you engineering Armageddon? Are your guns loaded, bombs planted, crosses ready? What's the best way/place to kick-off Doomsday? Suppose you're wrong - what if they gave a Judgement and nobody came? Will you be rilly, rilly bummed? Will you change calendars? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Nigerians are divided as to whether AIDS is real or not. Lagos - For those who believe in rapture, according to the Bible, it is here. Armageddon, in form of AIDS is landing at a devastating speed. Orphans/widows/widowers in triple digits are the forerunners. Or, AIDS may be a capitalist plot - see http://www.africanews.org/west/nigeria/stories/19991209/19991209_feat25.html : Is the Apocalypse already occurring in Africa? Is AIDS a divine scourge? Does The End Of The Earth come when you die, for whatever reason? Always? # As 2000 approaches, Madison Ave. driven delusion that Millenium ends this year continues to grow (Century & Millenium actually end Dec 31, 2000). www.newsindex.com/cgi-bin/process.cgi?query=millenium+century+end+year+2000 @ Return to year zero. Paris had a huge new Ferris wheel to mark 1900, an underground railway, and the greatest paintings on earth. And absinthe: www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000166941319210&pg=/et/99/12/11/bacent11.html : How do you index years, decades, centuries, millennia, aeons? What's mis-sing in Year Zero? Has your consciousness reached a timeless state yet? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ITALY GOVT, JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES MAY SIGN PEACE TREATY - Concern Over Sect that Demonizes State. ROME (ZENIT) The Italian govt is studying the possi- bility of signing an agreement with the Jehovah's Witnesses, the 3rd larg- est religious group in the country. Many Witness doctrines isolate members from society: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=44336 : Does your belief system view other belief systems [religious, economic, political, artistic, athletic] as Satan-spawn? Is yours the best Game in town? Are all other Games damned? Can you accommodate other Games? How? # Israeli government leads tours and seminars to educate workers about Christianity: http://www.freep.com/news/religion/qteach20.htm # Nigeria - Federal Polytechnic Students Expelled For Cultism: http://africanews.org/west/nigeria/stories/19991207/19991207_feat10.html # Falun Gong members march through Hong Kong - tweaking Beijing's nose: http://www.abc.net.au/news/1999/12/item19991211224238_1.htm @ Cult Checklists: http://www.religioustolerance.org/cultsign.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "A curious word, sarcophagus / the eating of dead material You and I are the food of life / eaten by the sarcophagus" http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/tpath3.htm#sarc * Rev. 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