### Apollo BBS Archive - July 11, 1987

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    Message: 1528
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Last....
    Subject: Jim Lippard
    Date: 07/11/87  Time: 15:04:02

    ... and James White are on KHEP (1280 AM) right now... until 1600 hours.

    Alan: I heard a little of the Wiccan discussion while I was trying to go to
    sleep... somebody brought up D&D wrt Satan worship... sheesh.

    Rev. Beau

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    Message: 45036
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: In search of
    Subject: Life
    Date: 07/11/87  Time: 12:07:48

    ...
      There is already talk of a breakthrough in the prevention
    and treatment of human disease.  According to proponents,
    when the technology is perfected and extended it will surely
    lead to new possibilities for therapy.  If a rat can be
    trained to dilate the blood vessels of one of his ears more
    than those of the other, as has been reported, what rich
    experiences in self-control and self-operation may lie just
    ahead for man?  There are already cryptic advertisements in
    the Personal columns of literary magazines, urging the
    purchase of electronic headsets for the training and
    regulation of one's own brain waves, according to one's
    taste.
      You can have it.
      Not to downgrade it.  It is extremely important, I know,
    and one ought to feel elated by the prospect af taking
    personal charge, calling the shots, running one's cells
    around like toy trains.  Now that we know that viscera can
    be taught, the thought comes naturally that we've been
    neglecting them all these years, and by judicious
    application of human intelligence, these primitive
    structures can be trained to whatever standards of behavior
    we wish to set for them.

    Message: 45037
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: In search of
    Subject: Life
    Date: 07/11/87  Time: 12:19:23

      My trouble, to be quite candid, is a lack of confidence in
    myself.  If I were informed tomorrow that I was in direct
    communication with my liver, and could now take over, I
    would become deeply depressed.  I'd sooner be told, forty
    thousand feet over Denver, that the 747 jet in which I had a
    coach seat was now mine to operate as I pleased; at least I
    would have the hope of bailing out, if I could find a
    parachute and discover quickly how to open a door.  Nothing
    would save me and my liver, if I were in charge.  For I am,
    to face the facts squarely, considerably less intelligent
    than my liver.  I am, moreover, constitutionally unable to
    make hepatic decisions, and I prefer not to be obliged to,
    ever.  I would not be able to think of the first thing to
    do.
      I have the same feeling about the rest of my working
    parts.  They are all better off without my intervention, in
    whatever they do.  It might be something of a temptation to
    take over my brain, on paper, but I cannot imagine doing so
    in real life.  I would lose track, get things mixed up, turn
    on wrong cells at wrong times, drop things.  I doubt if I
    would ever be able to think up my own thoughts.  My cells
    were born, or differentiated anyway, knowing how to do this
    kind of thing together.  If I moved in to organize them they
    would resent it, perhaps become frightened, perhaps swarm

    Message: 45038
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: In search of
    Subject: Life
    Date: 07/11/87  Time: 12:25:37

    out into my ventricles like bees.
      Although it is, as I say, a temptation.  I have never
    really been satisfied with the operation of my brain, and it
    might be fun to try running it myself, just once.  There are
    several things I would change, given the opportunity:
    certain memories that tend to slip away unrecorded, others
    I've had enough of and would prefer to delete, certain
    notions I'd just as soon didn't keep popping in, trains of
    thought that go round and round without getting anywhere,
    rather like this one.  I've always suspected that some of
    the cells in there are fluffing off much of the time, and
    I'd like to see a little more attention and real work.
    Also, while I'm about it, I could do with a bit more
    respect.

    Message: 45039
    Author: $ Traci Sibel
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: last
    Date: 07/11/87  Time: 14:26:16

    scary....

    Message: 45040
    Author: $ James White
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Jim Lippard
    Date: 07/11/87  Time: 16:46:05

    I'd like to publicly thank Jim Lippard for being on our radio program today,
    I do hope that you now know that theists can be rational, too, and need not
    shove the Bible down people's throats to prove their points.  You were a
    gracious guest, and thanks again.  I'd also like to invite you back on the
    15th of August to discuss specific problems (as I see them) with the
    information and conclusions in your book.  How about it?  Let me know.
         Next week Dennis McKinsey of "Biblical Errancy" will be my guest, and I
    can guarantee you that the going will be faster and hotter then!  Hope you
    all will listen in.  I also plan on posting specific problems with Jim's
    book here on Apollo in the next few days.

    Message: 45041
    Author: Hugo Olliphant
    Category: Politics
    Subject: VARIOUS
    Date: 07/11/87  Time: 18:10:02

    Hey, if you ask me, which you didn't, the sky is blue, Hitler was
    a socialist perverted psychotic jerk, Ollie was right and seems to be a
    pretty cool guy, the head of the Senate committee is a real jerk-- I mean
    the way he always- ALWAYS- sides with the counsel, and the birth of
    Karl Marx was depressing.  I'm not saying that Karl Marx wasn't a
    communist socialist pig-headed lunatic, just that if I had known him
    personally, I might have liked the guy.  anyway Ev IS going to be
    recalled- $5 on that to anyone.  Final words:  Confucious say: he, who
    laughs last, didn't get the joke.

                            Hugo (NOT like the car, PLEASE)

    Message: 45042
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Rod/God Stats
    Date: 07/11/87  Time: 18:24:09

    Yeah. I believe that about statistics, but James won't!!

    Message: 45043
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Nick/Debit Cards
    Date: 07/11/87  Time: 19:20:14

    But Nick, you left out one very important point, a point that wastes your
    whole argument.   That point is:   SATAN
    Come on, Nick, Wake up and smell the pot before it's too late.
    ANd Jesus is a Mexican name.

      Rod (the devil made me say it) Williams

    Message: 45044
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Magic
    Date: 07/11/87  Time: 19:28:52

    Magic Mushrooms fill the air,
    where they are I know.
    Which way to Eden?
    Bombs and Guns?
    Communes and Free Land
    A communist plot?
    Ginsburg was gross but he made his point
    Lenny Bruce went to jail many times
    The flower children of the sixties
    got stiffled by the rules of the establishment
    but they are still around.
    The new Summer of Love
    how about Seattle next year?  No, this year, no, now.
    The establishment buy and sells you, futures of PIG,
    Daryl Westfall made me write this.
    and now I die, I lay me down to sleep,
    Don't pray no lard my sole to keep, FISH!
    Did you know that a scientific study was done on prayer?
    Preachers live not as long as Doctors, Church Building don't
    get a discount on insurance because there building are subject to
    the same hazards as everything else, yet prayer is within them.
    Prayer is a ever-loving crock of dinosaur dung, it does nothing
    except wastes your mind.  The holy ghost died last night.
    Bye bye             (a poem written on the spur)    -Rod

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