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@ Clerks! http://www.viewaskew.com/news/jan00/3.html
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# Theologians examine deity - 5 Christians, Jew, Muslim search for common
ground. CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — In 16th century Europe, the conversation
would likely have resulted in people being burned at the stake. But in
21st century Oregon, it was merely a polite dialogue that drew laughter
& applause. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150013915,00.html
# Religious and secular Jews clash on daylight-saving time
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150014634,00.html
@ Zero was once feared as a sign of sorcery and the devil. For
something that stands for nothing, that surely is something:
http://www.janmag.com/nonfiction/nothingthatis.html
: What are your favorite (anti-)deities? Are they associated with particular
numbers, times, places, things? Do they decree that those who disagree with
you be burnt? Should you be (sun-)burnt for disagreeing? With whom? When??
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Eros-a-Rama:
# Beautiful Eros sends scientists into orbit. (BBC) Scientists in the United
States say they have been left quite speechless by the beautiful landscape
revealed in detailed new pictures of the asteroid Eros. How could they say
that? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_647000/647151.stm
@ Links - N.E.A.R. http://near.jhuapl.edu/
@ Asteroid tracking: http://huey.jpl.nasa.gov/~spravdo/neat.html
@ Asteroid radar research: http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/
# 'Stunning' images hint asteroid broke from a planet. Poring over unprece-
dented close-up images of asteroid Eros, including the first one in color,
NASA scientists speculated that the space rock may have broken off from a
small planet eons ago. Duh. http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/02/17/eros.02/
# Photos Show Old, Cratered Asteroid. WASHINGTON (AP) Close-up photos of
Eros, the first asteroid to be orbited by a manmade satellite, show that
it is heavily cratered, sprinkled with boulders and slightly yellow in
color. Eww. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000218/03/asteroid-rendezvous
: Have you long known/suspected/guessed that the asteroids are fragments of
a broken-up planet? Who smashed the planet? What civilizations did they zap?
If humans become too advanced & threatening, will Reptoids smash Earth too?
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# UFOs & The Governments Of The USA & UK. Researchers who ask for pertinent
records from the US Air Force about UFOs are provided with a 'Fact Sheet'
which states that since the closure of Project Blue Book in 1974, the USAF
has no interest in & does not study the subject. The USAF info pack refers
inquirers to various non-governmental UFO research organizations which are
closely monitored, and, at times, directed by various US intelligence and
military agencies. http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/l32ufos.htm
# Reverse-Engineering Roswell UFO Technology:
http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/ACCandRoswell.html
# BRIGHT SKIES: Fireballs & Tesla Weapons Testing:
http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/bskies1.html
: Does your govt agency have an intimate relationship with ET aliens? Have
they taught you a great deal? Do they support your grip on temporal power?
Would you be lost without them? What do they get from you? Are you worth it?
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# PLAYSTATION2 FANS MOB SONY WEB SITE. PlayStation fever struck again Friday
when Sony Corporation was forced to briefly shut down its Web site after
receiving 100,000 hits in just a minute when sales of the new version of
the popular video game went online. Or was it really just another hacker
attack, flooding the site? http://cnnfn.com/2000/02/18/asia/wires/sony_wg/
@ Last week's DoS attack that disabled Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, E*Trade & other
popular Web sites has already produced some solid results: helpless hand-
wringing, <http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/is/20000209/bs/20000209042.html>
pompous declarations <www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34240,00.html>
and <http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000210/pl/hacker_government_3.html>
amusingly ineffectual government conferences, to name a few. What it ain't
produced is a perpetrator. http://www.suck.com/daily/2000/02/15/
: Is site-hacking ultimately a culture/fashion statement, performance art,
provo politics, mind-fucking? Has anyone hacked your mind lately? Was it
aesthetically pleasing, socially significant, ideologically grounded? Whose
mind-control rays direct your hacking efforts? D'ya prefer rilly dumb hacks?
@ From http://www.camworld.com/ - I find it ironic that the RSA site was
<http://www.2600.com/hacked_pages/2000/02/www.rsa.com/> hacked. I'm not
<http://e-softinc.com/cgi-bin/probe/probe?URL=www.rsa.com> surprised, tho.
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# Archaeologist Unearths Noah In Stars - Picture Story Of Flood, Ark In
Ancient Constellations. (DN) The ancient story of a great flood — first
recorded in writing around 1700 B.C. — may actually have originated around
5,000 B.C. because it appears as a "picture story" in the stars, according
to new evidence pieced together by an astronomer-archaeologist. Known to
Christians & Jews as the story of Noah and the ark, the story of a deluge
so complete that it wiped out all life except for those aboard a boat that
was built under direction from God, is recorded in 11 ancient texts. Utah
archaeologist John McHugh says though there is "no archaeological, paleon-
tological or geological evidence" for such a catastrophic flood, "ancient
cosmologists verified it" by "viewing it as a picture story in the const-
ellations." The notion of "proving" such a story to be true thru astronomy
seems "crazy to us, because we use science and history" to explain modern
events. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150013340,00.html
: Do the great events chronicled by your belief system need to have occurred
within what we may call "observable reality?" Are cosmic events the best of
all events? Are cosmic prophesies the best prophesies? How do you verify y'r
history, prophesy, ideology? Is your reality beyond verification? Really??
@ The Creature From The Lagoon Nebula (M8): http://www.caus.org/mc021800.htm
@ Night of the Red Sky -- The Prophetic Vision of 'Grandfather.' In the
1920s, an Apache wise man had a Vision of four prophecies that foretold
death and destruction for mankind, unless we incorporate Spirit in our
daily lives. Two of these prophecies may already have come true. Or
maybe they haven't: http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/RedSkies.html
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"When Olive was an embryo, she curled her thumbs
into the "o," stretched herself into an obelisk,
tall as a coconut palm, stately as a saguaro." --DD/MS
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR24.6/duhamel.html
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