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1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask...
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2 ************************* INSTALLED: 2 APR 86 *************************
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3 Welcome to BWMS (BackWater Message System) Mike Day System operator
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4 ************************************************************
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5 GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION
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6 PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM.
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7 BWMS was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS is a privately owned
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8 and operated system which is currently open for use by the general public.
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9 No restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the system is
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10 privately owned, I retain the right to remove any and all messages which
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11 I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the system, it will be
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12 periodically purged of messages. (only 629 lines of data can be saved)
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13 To leave a message, type 'ENTER' and use ctrl/C or break to get out of the
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14 ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering the
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15 message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to replace
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16 the line. To exit from the system, type 'OFF' then hang up.
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17 Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system.
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18 *****************************************************************
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19
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20 *_)!@#*%!_)*%@#_)^&*#$)_&*@_&*+)_#&*_)#*^&@#$_%&*$_)&*#)_^*#$_&^*$_%*&_$%*&_)#$%&*)_%&*$#&_*_)&*&)_*&_)*&_)&*$_)%*&_)&*$_&
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21 Mikey: Do I tell you I'm at the top? Seriously, I packed up all the U.S. Digital demonstration material along with all the
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22 pamphlets for the computer show. I hope this generates some business. I made ten more copies of the adventureware disks
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23 too. I have the VT100 emulation tests on a disk that I can bring by when I get back. I plan on bringing back as much
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24 literature as I can fit on the train. See you then!
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25 Miss Nomer: If I am lucky I might get a glimpse of Dagney Taggart, Hank Reardon, and John Galt taking a quick peek at the
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26 outside world. In order for them to know I know, I'll be humming the 5th concerto.
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27 Delphi: I may have sold the monitor again. I'll know for sure when I return. As for the spot meter, what is the degree,
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28 what is its EVA range, how old is it, and what's the
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29 asking price?
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30 Guardian: Don't worry, we'll get the rest of those disks done. I hope you took my comments about money in the proper light
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31 the other day. Also, I think the new computer really is a good buy because *you* will use it to its fullest extent.
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32 Voyeur: Please begin archive....now: Thanks.
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33 &*%(@#)_&*%@()&@#_)(&@_^&@_)&^_)!&^%@#)_^&#^ L'homme sans Parity *%_@#*%_@#&^%_)@#)!@+#_&^@_)^&@_#^&@_&^_@)%^_@#&^_@#&^@
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34 ***************************************************************************
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35 I could jump on this "religious" debate, but Nah....
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36 Steve: Ok, I get it.
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37 ********************************************kathyD************************
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38 :::::=====:::::
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39 Lurkin' Legamorph. *sigh*
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40 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::==Zephyr::== ===:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====
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41 ==
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42 ==
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43 ======
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44 ==
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45 ==
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46 TAKE THAT, KEEPER OF SOULS!
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47 310753926103040000 watts per second, given 10 percent conversion rate.
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48 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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49 "Uh, Milchar?"
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50 "Yes?"
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51 "I think you need a nother spell... chlorine is rather corrosive in
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52 the presence of water. Almost as bad as aqua regia. And it'll bleach the
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53 ink on your cards....."
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54 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BARD~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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55 ps if anyone is *really* desperate, I have 5 rescue "balls" left. Basicly
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56 a reinforced plastic bag with air tank... Forget trying to move around in
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57 them unless you liking rolling around on the ground.
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58 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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59
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60 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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61 Emu, if you don't like tall white dogs, I could be a stereotypical
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62 fantasy elf, a less stereotypical falcon, or hey, how about a large,
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63 flightless, three-toed Australian bird, like an ostrich but smaller.
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64 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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65
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66 What is the name of this BBS. Is there a file section>
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67
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68
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69
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70
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71
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72 Please let me Know if I can use this sBBS.Thanks Paul Knesal.
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73
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74
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75
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76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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77
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78 To whoever left that baneful looking symbol for the Keeper of SOuls...Are
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79 satanists mortally afraid of addition, or something?
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80
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81 Wondering, wondering, always wondering..
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82 Rivania
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83
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84 *-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-*
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85 I think I shall stay out of the Satanist - Evil debate until it
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86 involves at least ten people. If it grows that large, how could
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87 one resist getting in on the fun?
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88 *-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-Tarquin Overshoe-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-*
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89 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
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90 Hello, bwms'ers....
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91 My name is TWID. I am now the proud
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92 owner of the mystical, magical modulatordemodulator, and as such, I plan
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93 on spending time getting to know all the
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94 characters at the inn. Being new at this,
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95 I beg your indulgence if I happen to mess
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96 up now and then. But being the nice(?)
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97 people you are, I'm sure you'll keep me
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98 in line.
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99
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100 Chow for now....... TWID
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101 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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102 end
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103 (oops, how do i get out of this infernal trap?)
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104 / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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105 I wonder why people ask how they can get out of enter mode. Do they just hang
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106 up, or do they desperately try to get out of it fisrst? Does anyone read
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107 directions? Does anyone realize what the ASCII code for ETX (End of Text) is?
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108 For more of these (HAHA) fasinating
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109 (HOHUM) questions, stick around...
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110 Doughnut man----Some of your arguments are very weak. 1 SMALL example:
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111 The Aztecs were made Christian. They were conquered, so Christianity did
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112 not help them.
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113 Look, I don't know if you realize it or not, but their conquerers were
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114 also Christian, and they got rich. Now, I am not saying that Christians should
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115 go out and conquer people, but I have
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116 blocked that argument and it must fall.
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117 I think---Yes, I will, take your message and tell you what I find in it later.
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118 .
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119 TO: Whomever wrote that message of the 'LIGHT' or something like that.
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120 (Drat! I always forget longer names from one disk to another....)
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121 Yes, those that wait around and leach may be harmful to society, but those
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122 that are the 'Movers and Shakers' may not realize the full impact of what they
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123 have done--it takes someone else to do that.
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124 As for calling you a commy (It was even spelled wrong!) I would discourage
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125 it. I don't see how that message was linked to Communism. And besides, so
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126 what if someone is a commie? That is OK as long as they don't try to change our
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127 economic system.
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128 Want to get into a discussion of Communism with me, whomever wrote against
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129 that 'LIGHT' message? I think the religious stuff is enough for now, but I am
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130 willing to wait til later. Now just a final side note: NICARAGUA (obviously
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131 soviet inspired (HA)).
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132 When a young Sandinista was asked what Marxest authors he had read, he
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133 (Time up.....) (ch/Marxest/Marxist)
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134 *** STARPATH ***
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135 / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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136 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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137 Staying out of this theology discussion for now. Going into lurk mode.
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138 ........PENDRAGON........
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139
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140 REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST PARTY REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST PARTY REVOLUTIONARY
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141
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142 The RCP wishes to get in on the fun, or so I want you to
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143 think. Our party doctrine does not mention leaches. Parasites
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144 neither, but fear not!
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145 Our glorious founder, Larry Kasselbaum of Tualitan and
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146 Corvallis made himself clear. In a society dedicated to bettering
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147 itself there can be no lowlife, gold-bricking scum! He liked
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148 to speak as if he was still in the war. He further said, if
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149 capaitalism did not foster a stagnant class of elite, he might
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150 have been a raving capitalist swine. In stead of that, he
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151 founded the RCP as a tax shelter.
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152 Taking his words as the word of God (Though our doctrine
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153 makes us Godless heathens, in the eyes of capitalist evangelists.)
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154 We have no choice but to suggest euthanasia for the unemployed.
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155 Either that, or they can jointhe RCP and sell newspapers for our
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156 founder, Larry!
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157
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158 REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST PARTY REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST PARTY REVOLUTIONARY
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159
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160 DOUGHNUT.DOUGHNUT.DOUGHNUT.DOUGHNUT.DOUGHNUT.DOUGHNUT.DOUGHNUT.DOUGHNUT.
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161 ME AGAIN,
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162 well, all i can say about christianity and the need of its followers
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163 to "subdue and convert" is that one need only look at the record.
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164 look at the "Holy Inquisition". real good, the slaughter of over 1 million
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165 people for basically no reason. look at the witchhunts. look at the
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166 dark ages. look anywhere that christianity shows its ugly face.
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167 (ooh, will i get critisism for that!). i really dont know why, but
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168 christianity is the only religion ive encountered that seeks to
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169 convert others and impose w.a.s.p.-christian rules and laws on
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170 others. i dont want the story of creation taught to me at school.
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171 the day it is done, i will get up and leave. "in god we trust" on
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172 my money is bad enough, lets see a little seperation of church and
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173 state for once in this country. quite impossible realistically, but
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174 im a dreamer. oh yes, to clarify, i am not sure that you could call
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175 this the "satanists vs. christians" debate, as i am dubious as to this
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176 keeper of souls being a true satanist, i wonder about his sanity in
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177 fact. i work in an asylum (woodvillage "nursing" manor) and you, keeper,
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178 show definte paranoid schizophrenic behavior processes and delusions.
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179 perhaps you should seek help if you think a demon is really talking to
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180 you. i say this not because it is impossible, although it is extremely
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181 unprobable since i doubt the existance of demons in such a form, but
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182 nontheless, you should definately get a full mental-workover test.
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183 if anyone is wondering just what i do believe as a satanist, it is
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184 basically covered in the 9 satanic statements.....here are some (or all...)
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185 9 satanic statements:
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186 1) satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence.
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187 2) satan represents vital exsitence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams!
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188 3) satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit.
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189 4) satan represents kindness to those who deserve it, instead of
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190 love wasted on ingrates.
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191 5) satan represents vengeance, instead of turning the other cheek.
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192 6) satan represents responsibility to the responsible, instead of
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193 concern for psychic vampires!
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194 7) statn represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more
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195 often worse than those that walk on all fours,who, because of
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196 his "divine spiritual and intellectual development" has become the
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197 most vicious animal of all!
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198 8) satan reps all of the so-called sins, for they all lead to physical,
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199 mental or emotional gratification!
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200 9) satanis the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept
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201 it in business all these years!
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202
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203 read them. think about them. dispute or reject them if you wish. i
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204 ACCEPT them. they are the TRUTH and tht is that. well, i shall now
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205 catch ludwig van's glorious ninth (fourth and 2nd movements, 4th is best!)
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206 no doughnutlurk for awhile i guess...
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207 dughnut.doughnut.doughnut.doughnut.doughnut.doughnut.doughnut.doughnut...
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208 .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.
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209 FROM DISK B "CATHOLIC"?"PRELITORIAT"???
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210 TO:PENDRAGON WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS WEEK FOR "FOR FUN"OR SHOULD I
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211 SAY WHO ARE YOU DOING?
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212 TO:KEEPER UP LOAD ON NO-NAME
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213 .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-
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214 PRINCE DRAGON
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215 .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-
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216 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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217 AFTER APRIL 6TH IT IS ALL IRRELEVANT ANYWAY.
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218
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219 YOU WILL SEE! IT IS THE LORDS BIRTHDAY AND THE SCRIPTURES TELL US HE WILL
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220 RETURN AGAIN ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH AND IT WILL BE ON A SUNDAY!
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221 THIS SUNDAY IS ALSO A PERFECT MATCH TO THE 52 YEAR CYCLE THAT CORTEZ
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222 APPEARED IN. THE SCRIPTURES ALSO SAY THAT TO MANY HIS ARRIVAL WILL
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223 APPEAR AS A COMET... ISN,T THIS WEEKEND THE BEST WEEKEND FOR VIEWING
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224 HALLEY'S COMET???
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225
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226 THERE SURE HAS BEEN ALOT OF EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANOES, AND OTHER NATURAL
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227 DISASTERS LATELY!
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228
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229 TO THE WICKED HE WILL COME LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, BUT, THE RIGHTEOUS
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230 WILL READY AND WATCHING FOR HIM. AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE WE WILL BE
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231 WATCHING!O
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232
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233 NOT TO MENTION THE COLINEATION OF THE PLANETS......???????
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234
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235 REPENT... THERE MAY NOT BE MUCH TIME!
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236
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237 I would like to speak to all of you about something that needs to be said. This concerns a lot of people
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238 according to my research- one out of four. What I am speaking to you all about is eating boogers. Yes, the
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239 practice of, well:
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240 "Everyone's doin' it, doin' it
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241 Pickin' their noses and chewin' it, chewin' it.
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242 Now: before you get uppity-let me ask you- can you honestly say you never did it?
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243 Lets say you are getting a cold. You sniffle, like everyone else, but when you feel REALLY phlegmatic, you
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244 snort really hard, and as you swallow it, you find a semi-hard 'chewy' bit, and you unconsciousnessly munch-
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245 I mean- we've ALL done it...If you have ever experienced this, then you are a latent booger eater.
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246 Lets say that you have been at work for three hours without a break. Your nose is congested, and you can't
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247 wait to go to the bathroom to blow your nose. But before you make it, you sneeze. You take out your hand-
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248 kerchief, but it's too late. You stifle the sneeze, but you feel something hard sliding back and forth in
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249 your nose as you breathe. You can't wait to get rid of it...You tend to breathe hard, in and out, trying
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250 to figure out what you will do with it...It keeps moving back and forth inside your nose... Finally, in
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251 desperation, you look around-no one is watching- an you give one helluva snort- and there it is, in your
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252 throat. You don't want to swallow it, so you scrunge it up, and now it's in your mouth.
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253 It sits there for a while, while you try to decide what to do with it...Pretty soon, you realize that it
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254 really doesn't taste *THAT* bad. So-you chew it for a while, and then swallow it. Congratulations. You have
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255 just joined the human race!
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256 PPPPPPPPPPI've just quit the human race!PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
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257 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::==Zephyr::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====
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258 ...and the tall man with the smiley-face shirt sadly and quietly slipped out
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259 of the Inn. I could sense his inner turmoil as he left, not even bothering to
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260 close the oaken door as he disappeared... leaving me wondering and with many
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261 unanswered questions. The combination of both, as well as my frustration at not
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262 being able to tell this man that I was the one he sought compelled me to
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263 follow. I jumped off my table and out the still open door, which, thanks to one
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264 of the kind patrons of the Inn, closed behind me. As I passed through the door,
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265 my ears were assaulted by a bang that made the ground tremble. Outside I saw...
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266 nothing. And that was the strange part. Not a trace of the man anywhere. I
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267 looked off in all directions. Nothing. Surely if he had left I could at least
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268 see something of him in the distance... but he just wasn't there.
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269 Then the idea hit me. Why hadn't I thought of it before? He must have gone
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270 out and around to the BACK of the Inn. I quickly hopped towards where he must
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271 have been... thinking about what I would say... but mostly how I would say
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272 it... that was the major problem. Why did I have to lose my temper and bite his
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273 hand? Not only was it unsociable, but it complicated things considerably.
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274 Berating myself for my own stupidity, I wasn't paying attention to the path
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275 ahead of me. As a result, I didn't see the large, shining black object that
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276 suddenly blocked my path until I ran into it headfirst. Rubbing my sore nose, I
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277 backed away until I saw that it was a boot, nearly as large as myself. Rising
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278 from the boot and its mate nearby was an immensely tall man dressed in a grey
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279 business suit and wearing a grey suede hat. He glared down at me, and another
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280 man standing next to him that I hadn't noticed before handed him something. It
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281 was a long, black pistol with a scope mounted on top. But the description of
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282 the gun wasn't important at the moment. What was important that he was aiming
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283 it straight at my heart...
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284 (continued...)
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285 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::==Zephyr::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====
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286 (<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)(<>)
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287 -__-___- -__- ___---- ___-__---_ ___--__---__--______---___---_
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288 '``'`''''```'''`''''`'``'''```''`'`'`'```'''`'`'`'``'`'`'`'```'`'``'`''''
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289 THAT IN CODE SO GO TO IT -NET?-
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290 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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291 Hmm... Our adventure seems to have stagnated. I'm feeling low on creativity
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292 right now, and not able to come up with a twist. Anybody care to jump in?
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293 "Religious" debators -- ever consider that "statanism" is a knee-jerk
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294 reaction to christianity? They both presuppose a large foundation of common
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295 beliefs -- one accepts mindlessly, the other opposes mindlessly while
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296 neither questions the concepts that underlie both beliefs. Oh, well, I
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297 guess that makes my position clear..
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298 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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299 -------- I guess not. There's constitutional provision for the separation of
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300 religion and state(nism)-----------------------------------------------
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301
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302 ***********************************
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303 to: DOUGHNUT man
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304 Id also like to make a commint about that qote.
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305 "GOD DOESNT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT EARTH" unqote
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306 Well I think your might be right about
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307 him not caring about the planet, but he
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308 definitly does care about the souls on it.
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309 becouse if you look at it this way.
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310 When Lucifer was casted out of Heaven their
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311 was only 1/3rd
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312 ..................................................................
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313 Zeph: looks good.
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314 I'm lurking today.
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315 ...............................Entropy............................
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316
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317 ***************************************************************
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318 not the end...
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319 *******************kathyD********************
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320 / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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321 Well, I think that it is true that both religions tend to be similar in the fact that they give
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322 spiritual assistance to those who need it. Is anything more needed? I mean, really, you can talk
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323 about how the other side is damned forever, but what good does that do for you? The only that does
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324 good is the uplift that your religion does for you. Perhaps your eternal soul will be saved---but
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325 doesn't it sound kind of selfish to join a religion just because you don't want to be forever
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326 damned?
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327 As for this to happen on the sixth-I doubt it. Of course, if you prove me wrong, then a least
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328 you won't be able to gloat about it. I don't think that trying to pressure people to join your
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329 religious views just before the end of the world is very pious, either.
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330 In 1982, the planets lined up in a way that they had not done so for quite a few years. (I
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331 can't remember whether it was thousands or millions....) Anyway, the gravitational pull was supposed
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332 to kill us. It didn't. (At least I don't think so....)
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333 As for doughnut man and his rampages, let us remember that not all Christians are not the
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334 old-style Catholics and would not go and force our religion anyone---but that a 'satanist' started
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335 this whole thing by trying to alter our thinking...
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336 *** STARPATH ***
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337 / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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338 ?ever notice the anagram? ever notice the anagram? ever notice the anagram?
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339 It will work," he said aloud, first tentatively
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340 then emphatically, "all I had to do was move the primary digit to the
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341 other side!" His startled mind raced toward the now obvious conclusion
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342 with all the enthusiasim of a two-foot toddler making a screaming mad
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343 dash at a three-foot beach ball. "Damn", he thought, "I still haven't
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344 solved that intractable illumination problem... if only I hadn't spent
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345 all that grant money on the woodshop I wouldn't be in this mess."
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346
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347 Releived, however, that one of the project's few remaining fundamental
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348 problems was essentially solved (after all, it was only April and he had
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349 many months ahead of him to spend perfecting the technique to clevery
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350 reveiled by his unfolding of this evening's equations), he tossed down his
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351 slipstick and left his study to go amuse himself in the woodshop.
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352 ?ever notice the anagram? ever notice the anagram? ever notice the anagram?
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353
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355
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356
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357
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358 POO! HOW 'BOUT LETTING ME CORRECT MY MISTAKES? "ENTA"
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359 ______________________________JD 2446524.5612______________________________
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360 )|(-----------------------------------------------------------)|(
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361 Nathan handed over the copy of the Times without
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362 thinking, and went back to his ginger ale. A few sips
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363 later, it dawned on him that someone was asking him
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364 questions. Nathan looked up to see the hiker who called
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365 himself Emu.
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366 " You know where New York is? God, somebody else in
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367 the place comes from civilization? "
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368 Nathan paused, realizing his manners. He took of his
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369 reading glasses, and outstrected his small hand to the
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370 Emu.
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371 " I'm Nathan Critchfield, at present a terribly lost
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372 confused poet. A poet with writer's block if I may add.
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373 I've suffered from writer's block all my life, but I
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374 know I'll get over it soon."
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375 Nathan took a deep breath and asked the question
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376 which had bothering him as he had been sipping his
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377 ginger ale.
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378 " If this is my bedroom, is it my ex-wife who invited
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379 all of you in here? If it isn't my bedroom, would you
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380 be kind enough to tell me about where I am?
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381 )|(------------------------------Nathan-------------------)|(
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382 Note : change " to the Emu " to " to Emu ", and anything
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383 else I missed.
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384 )|(-------------------------------------------------------)|(
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385
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387 hello all.
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388 new and shiny faces. that's what i get for being away for so long.
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389 but it seems like the last time i was on(6mos or more)the main point
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390 of discussion was religion. guess what boys and girls!!! it still is
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391 doesn't anything change in this world?
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392 lemme see forst there was adam and eve then came the snake and ruined it
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393 all and it was blamed on the woman and they were supressed for almost
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394 2000 years. then the big guy wasn't happy with things and told noah
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395 to build the pacific princess and then the all powerful one made this
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396 great blue marble the biggest swimming pool known in the universe.
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397 then mary and joseph didn't go through a travel agency and had to look
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398 forever for a hotel and en up spending the night in a barn. then
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399 the big daddyo sent his laddyo down to fix the world. well personally
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400 i think it's time for a return engagement.
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401 all you communists. communism has to be aquired not forced. the struggle
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402 turns into a dictatorship controling the people and making sure they are
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403 all good little commies.look at the totalitarian state that happened in
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404 good ol' russia. no laddies and germs. lets try it the right way. if it
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405 happens it does if it doesn't it won't. as for the revolutionary spray
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406 paint by my dads office stop it!!!!!!!!
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407 have a nice day
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408 alan kennedy
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409 the grizzly
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410 king silicon
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411 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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412 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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413 So much for lurk. Priss (or is t prince?) dragon you might wish to explain
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414 your comment, unless I'm correct that you are as preverted as you try to
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415 be.
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416 Rivania, haven't heard from you. What's shaking in your neck of the woods?
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417 ........PENDRAGON........
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418 ||||]
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419 things have changed
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420 i got on the first time
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421 |||||
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422 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
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423 "Uh, Nathan, I don't know how to tell you this. This is not New York
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424 City. We're not anywhere near New York, at least in the physical sence."
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425 Nathan didn't bat an eyelash at Emu's words. He was confused enough
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426 already, and Emu saw that the straight unadorned truth wouldn't make it
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427 for an explanation. He decided to try another tact.
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428 "Nathan, you say that you're a poet?"
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429 "Yes, though like I said, I've had a writer's block for a long time."
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430 "Well, I know what that's like. I started a story once about a little
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431 girl, but it kind of trailed off."
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432 Nathan was beginning to look a little more relaxed, but still was
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433 obviously confused. Emu continued.
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434 "You know, Nathan, I've had a theory about writer's block, and you
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435 just might be able to help me prove it."
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436 "What do you mean?" Nathan asked.
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437 "Well, I think that there is a tremendous epic in you mind, just trying
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438 to fight it's way out. Now I think that idea has finally taken you over
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439 and put you into another reality, where it can play itself out."
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440 "Does that mean that I am really in my bedroom, and that you're not
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441 real? I'm hallucinating?"
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442 "No, no, this is all very real. I don't think I can explain it to you,
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443 but I think the idea of all this is for you to write down all that happens
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444 to yourself in a verse form. You do need to find your way home, and the
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445 adventures that you enter are the epic poem that you are supposed to write."
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446 "I'm still confused on how you got into my bedroom, but I think I under-
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447 stand what you mean about writing the epic. I can be a modern day Homer!"
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448 "Well, I don't know about Homer, but that's the idea. All you have to
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449 do is find your way home, if you want to go home. Now, how is the Dow
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450 Jones report?"
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451 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.Emu
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452 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~666~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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453 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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454 ------------------------|- 4*4*86
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455 ------------------------+---------
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456 In the Seventh Month of the Year
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457 One-thousand nine-hundred and
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458 Ninty-nine, Twenty-fourth day;
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459 A god of fire and veangeance shall
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460 descend from the skies."-Nostradame,
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461 Black Prophecy Circa 1586
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462 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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463 "When the lightning so harmful
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464 to the rod,
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465 Is taken from thrown to the sea than shall the
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466 reign of Seth and Satanas begin.
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467 and all of you frail-minded spiritually weak fools shall die.
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468 Under Hell`s pressure you all shall
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469 fold,
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470 Eternal centuries, Eons of Mould.
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471 ----------------------------------
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472 Death, destruction
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473 Armageddon Arriveth---------Martis
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474 |
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475 +
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476 -----------------------------------
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477 1999
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478 1888
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479 1966
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480 1555
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481 7
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482
|
||
483 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppplurkingppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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484 HA! CLEVER!
|
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485 Starpath (?) The planets are ALWAYS in some kind of configuration that is *different*. Any given pattern will not
|
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486 repeat for one great Sidereal year, which is one nutation cycle or about 25,000 years. Nothing special happened in
|
||
487 in 1982. All the planets were in one quadrant of the Zodiac, but with Neptune and Pluto in a basic sextile
|
||
488 aspect for the last umpteen years, and will remain so for a lot more years, it's not anything special...
|
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489 And with long retrograde periods for both Pluto andNeptune, we'll have another basic conjunction now ad then. Uranu will
|
||
490 take about 28 years to move thru one fourth of the Zodiac, during which time Saturn will have made one complete orbit
|
||
491 through the Zodiac. So it's no big deal-except for those doom merchants who forecasted the end of the world because of "
|
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492 all that mass" pulling on one side of the Earth... As near as I can tell, the world did not end in 1982. Reeks of Veliko
|
||
493 vsky's comet Venus... DV
|
||
494 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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||
495 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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496 Though I shaketh the heavens with poor spelling and my grammar be
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497 beyond the pale, verily I say unto you Arise! Yea, though I walk in the
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498 hideous shadow of our most terrible god Malaprop, know ye that mere facts
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499 and truth will not stay my vision, nor prevent me from spreading the Word
|
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500 of my most precious and beloved absurdities. Know ye that such things as
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501 logic and critical thinking are no match for the powers of the great and
|
||
502 powerful God of Superstitious Nonsense! For his in his right hand is the
|
||
503 awesome bow of ignorance, and in his left is the hammer of uninformed
|
||
504 opinion. Against these none may stand. Beware! For this is the dawning
|
||
505 of the age of the Foolmass, and all shall be crushed under the weight of
|
||
506 our numbers and lost in the yawning chasm of our hebetude!
|
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507 Your friend,
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508 Reverend Arthur Deco
|
||
509 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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||
510 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
511 I am not Milchar and I do not want anyone to think I am. But he left a
|
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512 border up. Far be it from me to waste a border. Simply had to use it,
|
||
513 you know how that is? Don't you?
|
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514
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515 Good.
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516
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517 )|(---------------------------------------------------------------)|(
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518 Emu - give me a system where I can send you mail. I wish to
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519 confer about the direstion of our dialog ( get one or two minor
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520 points straightened out ).
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||
521 )|(--------------------------------Nathan-------------------------)|(
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522 ______________________________JD 2446525.6123______________________________
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523 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
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524 Nathan: I really don't inhabit any BBS's other than BW, altho I s'pose
|
||
525 you could leave a note addressed to Emu on Blue Parrot, 253-xxxx. Why
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526 not just go with what ever you come up with? I'll follow...
|
||
527 Rev. Art Deco: Can I quote that?
|
||
528 All religious debaters: Don't let labels fool you, what ever side you might
|
||
529 be on: just because someone says they're a Christian doesn't mean they
|
||
530 really are, and that goes for any label one might take. In other words,
|
||
531 don't confuse the 'Church', in any form, Catholic, Protestant, whatever,
|
||
532 with true Christianity. Their *are* many people in those institutions
|
||
533 that are true Christians, but there are also many who aren't, whether
|
||
534 they will admit it or not. Please don't blame Christianity for the evils
|
||
535 that the estabolished church wreaked upon humanity in the so called
|
||
536 dark ages. Being a Christian and being 'religious' are two amazingly
|
||
537 different ideas.
|
||
538 Also, please remember that this can be extended to many labels that
|
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539 men and women may take on. Humans in general have a nasty tendency to
|
||
540 speak in 'forked tongue' if they think it will benefit them.
|
||
541 End of speach.
|
||
542 (uh, 'scuse me, that should be 'End of speech')
|
||
543 Prometheous: (excuse the spelling) Just because I call myself an emu doesn't
|
||
544 make me an emu... :-)
|
||
545 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.Emu
|
||
546 )|(-----Emu, call the Blue Parrot - Nathan-------------------------)|(
|
||
547 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
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548 TWID here......
|
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549
|
||
550 Starpath: As far as your comment as to does anybody read directions,
|
||
551 a person can only deal with so many new things at once.
|
||
552 After a few shots at this, (and the directions dumped to
|
||
553 my print buffer), I should be a pro at this.
|
||
554
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||
555 Emu: Even though I haven't been in on the religious "assault"
|
||
556 from the beginning, and I don't know where the discussions
|
||
557 have gone, I have a feeling that your last statement may
|
||
558 have been one of the only true statements that I have seen
|
||
559 and can agree with.
|
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560
|
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561 Everybody Else: It's going to take a looooong time to get to know
|
||
562 what's who and where in this land.
|
||
563
|
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564 Chow for now......
|
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565 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
|
||
566 :::::=====:::::
|
||
567 Lurkin' Legamorph.
|
||
568 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::9===Zephyr::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::===
|
||
569 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||
570 Above person: Surprise, I haven't been on since the 1st. Not my border, I
|
||
571 always leave something stranded amidst all those plus signs.
|
||
572 All else: To-day another birthday, and the close of my second year on BW.
|
||
573 Nearly half of it's existence, if Mikey's usage chart begins when BW started.
|
||
574 Boy, do I feel old. Until tomorrow.
|
||
575 Also: I'm moving into Portland this weekend (for a month at least; perhaps
|
||
576 two or three) and may not have access to a phone line. Hmmm, maybe I could
|
||
577 plead with Emu to relay my words as he is in my EE lecture. (listening, Emu?)
|
||
578 ++++++++++
|
||
579 "Don't worry about that, Bard... I'm covered with a nearly undetectabele layer
|
||
580 of magic filter, except near my head where it it plainly visible." I showed
|
||
581 him one of my 3x5 cards. "These aren't paper and ink, either. Enchanted
|
||
582 vellum, instead. I had to replace all of my old ones the last time I returned
|
||
583 home to Celene and did it right."
|
||
584 Bard nodded with approval, a bit of relief on his face.
|
||
585 TBard began surveying the damage of his transport, and I began looking for
|
||
586 that interference. That plant... where? I examined it more closely.
|
||
587 Transparent razor-sharp leaves, unyielding.
|
||
588 And then I recognized it, and saw a bit of pattern. If the alien ate this
|
||
589 stuff, then it would explain much...
|
||
590 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milchar ++++ 11:57pm 04 Apr 86 +++++++++++
|
||
591 .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=
|
||
592 PENDRAGON:MOI?
|
||
593 I SAY :FUN:WHEN I SAY THAT IT IS NOT "SEX" OK SO WHAT DO YOU DO FOR FUN?
|
||
594 .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.
|
||
595 !@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@@!!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@@!@!!@!@!@!@!@
|
||
596 i gave up the god myth, and i'm glad i did. no more guilt, no more self
|
||
597 inflicted pain. ah ... "and does thy life destroy."
|
||
598 !@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@invisible worm @!@
|
||
599
|
||
600 YES it is DESTROYED
|
||
601 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
|
||
602 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
|
||
603 LIFE IS A BITCH
|
||
604 AND THEN YOU DIE
|
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605 HAVE A NICE DAY!
|
||
606 :-)
|
||
607 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
|
||
608 No, it goes like this:
|
||
609 LIFE IS A BITCH
|
||
610 AND THEN YOU DIE
|
||
611 AND IN BETWEEN YOU PAY TAXES!!!
|
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612 :)
|
||
613 ****************************************************
|
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614 Repent! The end is near! <ahem>
|
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|
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|
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624 I GET THE FEELING NOBODY LIKES ME!!!!
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