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@ VROOM! http://www.spaceweather.com/comets/Ikeya-Zhang/Schrantz1.jpg
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* Evidence For Religion-Health Link Is Bogus. Popular claims that religious

  activity provides health benefits have virtually no grounding in medical

  literature.  This sharply contradicts assertions that a large body of

  evidence indicates that religious people enjoy better physical & mental

  health. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/03/020314080021.htm

* Researchers Demonstrate Direct, Real-Time Brain Control Of Computer
  Cursor: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/03/020314080832.htm
* US town offers home to frozen French couple - cryogenic expatriates:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1872000/1872334.stm

 

Do you pray for health, wealth, happiness, control, immortality, sex, food?

Are your prayers answered? Positively or negatively or indifferently? When?
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* UFOs remain active in Central America. ETs really enjoy the tropical

  climate and conflicts: http://100megsfree4.com/farshores/uforo711.htm

* In Italy: Humanoids, flaps, USO, landings etc. That hot Latin temper

  draws Reptilioids: http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/ufoital4.htm

@ Ruins on Mars Northern Plain? Secret Cave in the Grand Canyon? Crashed
  spacecraft, Stonehenge, goldmine on Mars? Tetrahedral Structure at
  Cydonia? Island City Discovered on Mars! http://anomalous-images.com/
@ There were Giants then: http://millennium-ark.net/steve.quayle/index.html

 

Have many UFOs been active in your neighborhood lately? Have they avoided

you? Have you avoided them? Have they taken you to Mars, to Heaven, to bed?
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* Technophobes May Be Right After All - tech doesn't always help:
  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/03/020315071654.htm
* When a shell is more than a shell - photo "looks like a vagina" -
  yum: http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2002-03-14/news.asp

* BUBBLE FUSION: IT'S NOTHING LIKE THE COLD FUSION FIASCO. But

  it's getting there. http://www.aps.org/WN/WN02/wn031502.html#2
* Nuclear Posture Review - nuke'em all, with smaller/better nukes:
  http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/policy/dod/npr.htm

 

Has hi-tech helped you lately? Do technologies bring sensations, energies,

destructions that don't really exist? Are you bothered by the deception??
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 "Last summer I went on a camping trip down to Mexico and I got this bad

  fever. I prob'ly would'a died, but this nice lady came and took care of

  me at my campsite. She fed me fruit and sang me these weird songs the

  whole time. I thought she must be an angel, except she kept stabbin'

  me whenever I tried to get up for some water. The more I think about

  it now... I'm pretty sure that lady was a cactus." --Max Cannon

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@ God Kills Kittens: http://members.aol.com/johnk0/godkills.jpg
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* IMPLANT UPDATE - uChips Under Your Skin - Not everyone wants to become
  a human bar code: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/2828025.htm
* Canadian Crop Circles, eh? http://www.geocities.com/cropcirclecanada

* 'BLUE JETS' -- Pilots, stargazers and scientists have talked about the
  phenomenon known as "blue jets" for nearly a century. Now some new images
  are helping shed light on these upper atmospheric flashes. UFOs are quite
  visible: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/03/13/blue.jet/index.html

Have you seen any cropcircles/bluejets/barcodes lately? Which is scariest?
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* Overclocked Jesus Performs Miracles Faster. Chicago, IL - A group of
  bored students in Chicago have overclocked Jesus so that He now performs
  miracles nearly twice as fast as before. Goran Radovich and Trey Gafney
  managed to overclock Jesus and keep Him stable at a record 3.69 GHz.
  More power: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2002/03/ocjesus.html

* Two Jewish groups back therapeutic cloning - only way to outnumber Xians,
  Muslims: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17263-2002Mar12.html
* Holy: http://www.nandotimes.com/entertainment/story/303471p-2643780c.html

How powerful/fast/effective are your deities/doctrines/doctors? Hot enough?

* GOD NAMES NEXT "CHOSEN PEOPLE"; IT'S JEWS AGAIN -- "Oh Shit,"
  Say Jews  http://www.satirewire.com/news/march02/chosen.shtml
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* KILLER COMPUTERS - COMPUTERS CAN KILL! We all know about the rogue
  mainframes that have tried to start World War III (don't we?). Psycho-
  pathic software: http://www.mjwilson.demon.co.uk/crash/56/monitor.htm

* DEPLETED URANIUM MAY HAVE CAUSED KIDNEY DAMAGE -- Depleted uranium shells
  have contaminated soil and may have left some soldiers with kidney damage,
  a British study has found. Yow. http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/03/12/du020312

Would you rather be killed by computers, humans, disease, demons, gods, me?

* Pulsed-Strobe "Less Than Lethal" Weapon at The Ritz - attacking royals
  in public: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steveseymour/diana/diana2.htm
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* Reclassify cannabis, says official report. A UK government-commissioned
  report recommends that cannabis be downgraded to a Class C drug. Toke up:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/uk/newsid_1872000/1872524.stm
* Drug War goes Boom In Colombia: http://www.narconews.com/boom.html

* NICOTINE PERFECTLY BUILT FOR ADDICTION -- Nicotine doesn't just stimulate
  the brain's "reward" centre, it also shuts down the system that limits how
  long those rewards last: http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/03/13/nicotine020313
* All the ancient art you can stand: http://anthroarcheart.org/ancient.htm

Why bother to smoke anything that doesn't get you high? Are opiates best??
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  "Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
   I'm mad but not ill." --Robert Anton Wilson

@ Dubya-girls: http://georgewgirls.com/
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* With each global cataclysm, species split into sub-species, which re-join
  in the long term. Current humans are a mix of neanderthals,angels, giants,
  watchers, Atlanteans, gods, nephilim and whatever other nicknames our
  earlier sub-species had. http://2012.antville.org/topics/Evolution/21515/

* Evolution challenged in US schools. (BBC) Religious campaigners in the
  United States want a new theory added to school science curriculums as
  an alternative to evolution. But who designed the Designer? When & why?
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1866000/1866476.stm

Has your evolutionary history been fragmented, interrupted, mixmastered,
mislaid, redesigned? What's your favorite evolutionary cataclysm? Why??

* Today the Red Planet is dry and barren, but what about tomorrow?  New
  data suggest that the long story of water on Mars isn't over yet. Hubba!
  http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/12mar_waterplanet.htm?list111399
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* Declassified top-secret files show that renowned Oz microbiologist and
  Nobel laureate Sir Macfarlane Burnet urged the Aussie govt to develop
  bioweapons to depopulate Asia, in case the swarthy nogooders decided to
  invade. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/03/09/1015365752044.html
  [ via http://dev.null.org/ ]

* Which Tarot card are you really? http://www.zenhex.com/tests/tarot/
* And which critter? http://mysite.freeserve.com/Intereo_Liberi/test3.htm
* What's become of bin Laden?? http://www.bressler.org/response.asp?mid=452
* And is RaiseTheFist.Com still online? Where? http://www.raisethefist.com

Have you planned any genocidal/transspecific/anarchic/terroristic actions
lately? Do you have a chance/certainty/foreboding of success? Who benefits?

* Accidental genius: http://wired.com/wired/archive/10.01/accidental.html
* Uncertainty has been abused & twisted: http://slate.msn.com/?id=2062844
* What Anglo pride? http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/20/feb02/msteyn.htm
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  [ via http://wisdom.pitas.com/ ]
* The international skeptics network http://www.csicop.org/groups/ came
  to me when a friend suggested that I contribute my psychic powers to
  the hunt for osama. http://www.csicop.org/groups/wheres-osama.html

  [ via http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Lindsay/weblog/latest.html ]
* 66 things to do as preparation for life as a mermaid:
  http://members.fortunecity.com/fancyfonts/prepmer.htm
* 66 things the pentecostal can't find in the word of God:
  http://www.kenneth-copeland.com/66_things.com
* 66 things you need to know in order to know everything:
  http://www.expage.com/hippthingstoknow

Have you devoured any skeptics/mermaids/pentecostals/deities lately? Have
they devoured you? Who had more fun? Have you found osama lately? Why not?
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  "Anyone who creates his or her own cryptographic primitive is either
   a genius or a fool. Given the genius/fool ratio for our species, the
   odds aren't very good." --Bruce Schneier

  "We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less
   exasperating than this one, have we?"  --Noel Coward
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# PKD Religious Experience: http://www.philipkdick.com/weirdo/weirdo1.htm
# I Shot JFK! http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/1brennan.htm (No, *I* did it!)
# Propaganda Matrix: http://www.propagandamatrix.com/ (No shit, Sherlock!)

# In a 1631 edition of the King James Bible, in Exodus 20:14, a very small
  word was forgotten by the printers: "not". This omission changed the 7th
  commandment to say "Thou shalt commit adultery" and caused this version
  to become known as "The Wicked Bible". Church officials were not amused,
  and the printers were fined 300 pounds (a year's wages in those days).
  Most of the copies were recalled immediately and as few as ten still
  exist. Go get yours today.  http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Religion/
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via: World Of The Strange ( http://www.worldofthestrange.com )

# Missouri Mystery Mound -- The beginning of my search for an ancient
  mound in the backwoods of Middle America began quite innocently several
  years ago while listening to the late night talk show with Art Bell.
  Since that time, I wondered if my quest was going to lead me to ancient
  caves & troves of lost artifacts. http://missourimysterymound.tripod.com

# Different Child  -- "He wondered if he were 'crazy,' he wondered if he
  was just making it all up, he wondered if his fascination with UFOs had
  influenced his thinking, and he wondered if he would ever find peace,"
  writes Patricia McCormack Kerr, M.A., a licensed professional counselor
  in the Foreword for Different Child. http://www.differentchild.com
  And see the review at http://www.alienjigsaw.com (if you dare...)

# New Web Site Sheds Light on "Indian" UFOs - Most reports explain UFO
  objects as disc-shaped flying saucers. Ufoindia.org is the first Indian
  Web site to bring India's UFO sightings to the world. Think: ET Curry!
  Vindaloo: http://www.hindustantimes.com/neweconomy/internet050302b.shtml

# A Tone From The Deep - Once again, members of the Project Phoenix team
  have returned to the big antenna on the small island of Puerto Rico,
  continuing their search for radio whispers from distant civilizations.
  Shhhh... http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_diary1_020307.html

# Let's Do The Time Warp Again -- The science and the fiction of time
  travel are weird. But the science is weirder. Also the practitioners.
  http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,211042,00.html

# Study: Left-handers Have Different Brains - People who grow up left-handed
  have a different, more flexible brain structure than those born to take
  life by the right hand, say researchers who used twins to study heredity.
  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/healthscience/134415110_lefty05.html
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  "I don't know what London's coming to.  The higher the buildings,
   the lower the morals." --Noel Coward

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