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@ FREE! FREE! FREE! http://www.reuben.org/members/rwo/arch/991212.gif
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# Minister gives away $10,000 on orders of God. God woke Rev. Donald Alford
last Friday and told him to give away $10,000 at New Year's Eve services.
He did that -- to parishioners' disbelief. "Who's ever heard of a minister
giving money to people in the congregation?" asks one. "People usually
think of them asking for it." http://suntimes.com/output/news/chur03.html
: Have your deities commanded you to do anything lately? Did they tell you
to give money away? Did you hesitate? If my deities tell you to give me all
your money, will you hesitate? Do you doubt my deities? Will you fear them?
@ We've all seen enough of the apocalyptic nutballs looking forward to a
<http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2360/index.html> Hollywood-style
Second Coming, but the Highlights from Prophetic School is a real doozy.
<http://www.creativityplus.com/godspeak/prophetic/ps_index.html> Have a
look <http://www.creativityplus.com/godspeak/prophetic/ps_word31.html> at
their IRC sessions where the students are asked to come up with religious
visions & then describe them to the others. One female writes of a vision
of Jesus saying to her "My bride, My bride, what a sweet aroma coming from
My bride... Her desire for Me, her delight in Me..." Bible study is get-
ting hot these days, and it's not just fire and brimstone! And see more
and more at: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/
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# China UFO sightings reported. PUSALU VILLAGE, China (AP) - Poor farmers in
Beijing's barren hills saw it: an object swathed in colored light arcing
heavenward that some say must have been a UFO. They're not alone. People
in 12 other Chinese cities reported possible UFO sightings last month. And
UFO researchers were busy looking into claims of an alien abduction in
Beijing. At the beginning of the new millennium, China is astir with sigh-
tings of otherworldly visitors. Such sightings are treated with unexpected
seriousness in this country usually straight-jacketed by its communist
rulers. China has a bimonthly magazine devoted to UFO research. The con-
servative state-run media report UFO sightings. UFO buffs claim support
from eminent scientists and liaisons with the secretive military, giving
their work a scientific sheen of respectability. Sorta like acupuncture,
eh? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562998757-5c6
: Have you seen any otherworldly visitors lately? Were they polite? Do they
smell bad? D'ya pursue them? Do they pursue you? Who catches whom? Who wins?
@ Instead of abducting folks to UFOs for medical exams, as other aliens do,
these aliens collaborate with "Contact People" & perform medical research
in aliens/humans clinic on earth. My name is Adrian Dvir and I am one of
the 'contact people': http://members.tripod.com/~adriandvir/index.htm
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# SCIENTISTS PUZZLE OVER THE 'LATINO PARADOX'. Researchers are trying to
explain why Latinos, though not having as high a socieconomic profile
as Whites, have better health statistics. I credit: jalape�o peppers.
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=17969
@ When all else fails, modern medicine should simply rely on the placebo ef-
fect <http://www.epub.org.br/cm/n09/mente/placebo1_i.htm> to see patients
through darker days. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Health/
: What's your favorite medical mystery? Are placebos profitable? Should all
drugs contain jalape�o peppers, just to be safe? Are jalape�os profitable?
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# Prison inmate sews eyes, lips shut. CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A prison inmate
sewed his eyes and lips shut with dental floss because he feared the new
year, officials said. New Hampshire State Prison guards found the inmate,
who was serving time for cocaine possession, covered in baby powder and
clutching a Bible Friday night, said Mark Wefers, chief of internal inves-
tigations at the prison. "The inmate told corrections officers he was in
fear of the new year," Wefers said. The prisoner, whose name wasn't
released, used needles that guards found in his cell. It was not clear
where he got the needles. The inmate suffered some blood loss, but not
enough to warrant a trip to the hospital. He was being held at the prison
for psychological and medical evaluation. ###
: Do you face the new year with hope, fear, mania, ennui? Are you sewn up??
Should everyone be sewn up? Would the world be a better place then? Really?
Are baby powder and dental floss important sacraments in your belief system?
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Y2K-a-Rama-will-never-die:
# Y2K BUG BUSTS: The biggest-hyped bug of the century busts big. "With the
millennium�s first day playing out as the most over-hyped disaster since
the release of �Godzilla,� the world wound up focusing instead on what had
gone right." http://variety.com/extra/tv/article.asp?articleID=1117760390
: Did anything/everything go right for you? Did your prayers avert doom??
# Happy Anticlimax: http://www.sd81.k12.wa.us/y2k/more.asp
# Survivalist says coast isn't clear until July 1, 2000
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/mtc_docs/013576.htm
# Survivalist damns the dial tone on Y2K eve - overstocked now:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/2000/y2k/jan00/survive02010100.asp
: Are you ready for the next disaster? When is it scheduled to occur??
# Cuba - Capitalist plot:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/01/03/y2k.reports.roundup.01/
# Y2K price tag too high? http://cnn.com/2000/US/01/02/y2k.hyped/index.html
# MONDAY A MAJOR Y2K TEST AS U.S. RETURNS TO WORK - Small businesses seen
as wild card: http://cnn.com/2000/US/01/03/y2k.us.roundup.01/index.html
# 3 nukes crash: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562966323-ae7
: Do you have a Y2K scare business? Has it been profitable? Is it gone new?
# Was It Worth It? As the world continued to report no major Y2K problems,
experts mused if billions of dollars spent on computer fixes were worth
it. http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33391,00.html?tw=wn20000103
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Editor's note: I rang in the new year with a raging head cold that's kept me
rather immobilized the past few days. No champagne, no fireworks, no doom. I
hope your kick-off of this last year of the millennium was more pleasant. So
this is my excuse for bulletin intermittency: I feel like crap. <snorrt> Ug.
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