### Apollo BBS Archive - December 10, 1988

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    Message: 4897
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: last
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 17:17:05

    Wrong Dog Breath!

    Message: 4898
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: B. Dog
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 19:16:26

            I assume the FAA wants to identify that bloody mass of flesh
    that hit the ground .......

            Do you have to register or something as well everytime you take
    a jump?

            I would be shocked and stunned if someone fell through my roof.
    I would quickly get over it though and would have something to tell my
    grand-kids. What with the Government and all protecting the citizens of
    these United States, there is not much excitement to be had anymore.
    Feel free to drop in anytime .........

    Message: 4899
    Author: $ Chris Neal
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: RGB SIG
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 21:09:23

    Does anyone have access to it?  I don't.

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    Message: 4900
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Last
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 03:46:33

    I do.

    Message: 4901
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: SIGS
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 04:48:36

    What's an RGB? I wonder if as many people care as cared about a Christian
    SIG. Seems as though a jewel has been traded off for a piece of glass.

    Message: 4902
    Author: $ James Taranto
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Cliff
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 08:50:09

    What the hell happened to the Apple SIG?

    Message: 4903
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: JT/Apple
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 13:11:59

            All of the computer SIGs have been put into one.  I think it is
    neat!  A good idea.
                                    Arf, arf.

    Message: 4904
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: JT/Apple
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 13:41:32

            Eve ate it.

    Message: 4905
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: BEHOLD! .....
    Subject: RGB
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 13:41:58

            I belong to the RGB Sig.

    Message: 4906
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Paul
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 13:44:00

            I hated to see the CHRistian Sig go as well.
    Cliff was in one of those moods .......

    Just remember, Paul, prayer changes things (hint, hint)

    Message: 4907
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Fire'arms
    Subject: practice
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 20:28:20

            Sandy and I went to that "Shootout GT" spot and got in some practice
    today.  I tried some 158 grain SWC with 2.9 grains of Bullseye....with some
    pretty good groupings.  Now if I stick with that, maybe I can perfect my
    pattern.  Then maybe, someday we can have another FUN GT.
            Yes, Sandy beat me again.  She keeps getting better an better....

    *=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

    Message: 4908
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: RGB
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 21:34:48

            Aren't we lucky?
    (SANDY)
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    Message: 1999
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Rod?
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 09:51:36

    I don't know - which poem are you refering to? The one about death was about
    fear, hatred and the unknown .. I guess! Ha - some poet I am! -=*) ANN (*=-

    The outer COSmos Bulletin Board command:$C

    Message: 2420
    Author: $ Todd Reese
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: last
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 01:34:11

    "Access granted to Rod Williams"

    Message: 2421
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Answer !
    Subject: Last
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 03:47:17

    "And Todd Reese"

    Message: 2422
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: Todd/WBN
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 13:14:04

            But I was a member of that SIG.

    Message: 2423
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: Apollo changes
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 14:39:41

    Poor Cliffy is having strong hormonal imbalances, causing violent mood
    swings. "It's only a phase," says $andy.

    I think he needs a job so he won't have all of this spare time to mess
    around with Apollo.
    Bulletin Board command:$C

    Message: 55946
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Chomsky
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 20:12:36

      From January 1945, military and civilian officials of the
    War and Navy departments argued for an extensive system of
    US bases, curtailment of all foreign military aid and
    military sales, training of Latin American military officers
    and supply of arms to Latin America by the US under a
    comprehensive military assistance program.  While laying
    these plans for "our little region over here which has never
    bothered anybody," the US was in no mood to allow others
    similar rights elsewhere, certainly not the USSR.  Secretary
    of State Byrnes in fact objected to these plans for Latin
    America because it might prejudice US initiatives elsewhere
    that he regarded as more important, in particular, in Greece
    and Turkey, which "are our outposts" - on the borders of the
    USSR, which had far more security concerns than the US.  The
    "outposts" were also intended to buttress US ambitions in the
    crucial Middle East region with its incomparable energy
    reserves, then passing into American hands.
      Commenting on an array of material of this sort laying out
    US plans, much of it classified and recently released,
    Leffler notes that these moves were made while US officials
    were "paying lip service to the United Nations and worrying
    about the impact of regional agreements in the Western
    Hemisphere on Soviet actions and American influence in
    Europe."  The problem was the one that concerned Stimson:
    how to extend our own regional systems while dismantling all
    others, particularly those of Britain and the USSR.  The
    same problems were arising in Europe, where the USSR observed
    the unilateral US and British takeover in Italy, Belgium and
    elsewhere with equanimity, later using this as a model for
    its brutal takeover of Eastern Europe, to much outrage the
    West - justified, but not lacking in hypocrisy.  In chapter
    4, we return to the more general concept of postwar "national
    security" in which the plans just sketched for Latin America
    were a small element.

    Message: 55948
    Author: Mickey Mouse
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Ho ho
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 01:36:52

    Hey boys and girls!

    Message: 55949
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Cliff
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 04:43:37

    And again I say, what was "not working" with the CHR SIG? True, there was
    not an overabundance of input, but what there was was good quality stuff,
    and I for one appreciated the place of shelter, where we could share the
    good things of God without rancor or criticism or scorn from without the
    camp, so to speak. Once more, I request that the Christian SIG be
    reinstated, as is, without further delay.
    How about the rest of the Christians on Apollo speaking up on this? All it
    takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. I'm not saying for
    one minute that Cliff is evil. I know better than that. I am saying that the
    reasoning behind the arbitrary closing of our SIG was from a source other
    than Godly. I think it's time for those of us who appreciated the CHR SIG to
    unite in protesting it's loss and requesting it's restoration. It's
    existence was a large factor in my recent renewal of my $tatus. Now I am
    wondering if my money was less than well spent. Please Cliff!

    Message: 55950
    Author: $ James Taranto
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Worst prose contest
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 08:23:44

    I am in search of the worst pieces of prose ever published.   I am
    interested in two categories in particular:  single sentences, and essays
    (of approximately 500-1,500 words).  I have a strong nominee in each
    category:  a sentence in a policy guidebook just published by a prestigeous
    and respected Washington think-tank, and an essay that was published in my
    old college paper.  Among the qualities that make bad prose are overuse of
    jargon, convoluted sentence structure, awkward metaphors, incoherence,
    inconsistency, logical leaps, and redundancy.

    The essay will begin in the next message; here is the sentence:

         "In reality, an approach that pursues all issues in reality pursues
    none." -- from "Mandate for Leadership III: Policy Strategies for the
    1990s," published by The Heritage Foundation, p. 498.

    Message: 55951
    Author: $ James Taranto
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Worst prose
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 08:29:10

    The Ludicrous Absurdity of Space Exploration
    By Jim Badham

         The seven astronauts who were fragmented in a space shuttle explosion
    10 miles above Earth Tuesday were not the first and will not be the last to
    lose their lives at the hands of the big boys' expensive toys.  The dream
    goes on, even if nightmarish visions intrude on the fun every so often.
         Like others before them, the unfortunate astronauts were caught in the
    wrong place at the wrong time and will be turned into heroes.  And after an
    appropriate period of national mourning, they will be called upon to serve
    as the emotional launching pad for future flights.
         Americans will be told to feel proud of the astronauts because they
    died doing their duty.  We will be told that they died for this great
    nation and that in the spirit of America, they gave their all.  It will be
    made to appear that they would have climbed into that shuttle even knowing
    the consequences to come.  And somehow, this twisted vision of falling
    debris will be co-opted by our president to become part of the intravenous
    drip of pompous patriotism coursing through the gullible veins of American
    dreamers.
         I am sure that those astronauts gave their all and that they were all
    good and decent men and women.  But why were they up there in the first
    place?
         The space program is touted as the key to unlocking the secrets of the
    universe.  We act as if the answers to the generally deteriorating
    situation here on earth is written in the stars.  We search the solar system
    for signs of live.  We know that the moon is a high-jumper's haven, that
    Saturn is extremely photogenic, and that Uranus has been bombarded by
    asteroids and planets and may have been volcanic at one time [sic].
         We are looking for live on other planets when we so often fail to
    contact the life we have here on earth.  People walk around afraid of
    contacting their neighbors.  Families fall apart.  The dispossessed kill
    themselves and others.  The rivers are poisoned, the jails are full, and
    even the rain doesn't wash us clean.
         Meanwhile, a perilously balanced doctrine of mutually assured nuclear
    destruction keeps the peace as President Reagan reaassures [sic] us that
    technology will lead the way from the woods.
         We are risk-takers, I am told.  We are curious.  We need to know.  We
    are human.  Yet we are very selective in what we determine is worth knowing.
         We want to know what is "out there."  We delineate everything with our
    reductive, deductive obsession with facts.  We are fanatics about measuring
    and then and [sic] keeping track of our measurements.
         I submit that we are using technology and the power over our
    environment that it seems lend [sic] as a hedge against a very real fear the
    fear [sic] that we are absolutely out of control of our own destinies.
         How free are any of us to truly shape our own future?  The honest
    answer to that question is extremely frightening.  But we know that reality
    viscerally if not consciously, rides along with us through every day, urging
    us to take solace and comfort in events such as space shuttle launches.
    We  get the thrill, the illusion that we are moving forward into the future,
    that we have the ferocious beasts of impotence and doubt firmly by the
    horns.
         But what are we going to do when we move to space or contact
    extraterrestial [sic] life?  We will probably try to usurp their resources
    and change their language and customs.  If they look like E.T. we will sell
    them some facial cream.
         If they refuse to buy or fail to see the need to change their
    appearance, we will deprive them of whatever good we might do for them.  We
    will not love them, unless it is on our conditions.
         We are scared to death here on our own little planet.  Will we find
    security by taking custody of the universe?  Why, I wonder, are we so busy
    running around space in pursuit of our answers?  What is it that we hope to
    find "out there?"
         The Earth is a perfect world.  We have everything we need right here to
    live wonderful lives.  The rains fall, watering jungles and farms.  Animals
    are arranged in a very sensible hierarchy [sic], naturally in balance of
    numbers and in harmony with their environment.  And we have a mind that is
    capable of revealing to us secrets far more interesting than which screw
    caused the space shuttle to fall or what type of rock is embedded in
    Uranus's newly discovered craters [sic].
         People say that man is naturally curious.  But in the modern, western
    world, his fascination is solely with those things external to himself.
    It is easier to pretend to control a universe [sic] than to deal with
    the demons swirling in human beings.  So we close the internal file and set
    about discovering things.
         We are fascinated by the stars; therefore, we must conquer them.  We
    are astounded by Mt. Everest, and we must climb it.  Western man is not
    satisfied with anything until he has conquered it.
         When Tibetan Buddhists travel to Mount Kailash, which lies west of
    Everest in the Himalayan range and is the center of the universe in their
    particular version of things, they do not climb it.  Rather, they bow down
    and pray.  The big goal is to circumnavigate the mountain and to apprreciate
    it but not to conquer it.
         The network news showed us endles [sic] details Tuesday of the launch
    and ensuing explosion, assuring us that they would get to the bottom of
    things.  With charts and models and 10 different newscasters, we were taken
    through the technological hocus-pocus in the interest of "knowing what
    happened."  The way we're headed, we'll never know.

         Jim Badham is the Daily Sundial focus [!] editor.

    -- From the Daily Sundial, California State University, Northridge, January
    29, 1986, p. 3.

    Message: 55955
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Cliff
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 09:45:01

    Cliff - will you put me in the RGB sig? -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 55956
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Cliff
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 10:01:40

    I looked over the list of sigs and noticed the 'ZONE' wasn't listed. Does
    that mean we arent' gonna be thrown in to it anymore? What are you going to
    do now if someone brakes the rules?
    Are you going to let me join the RGB sig? I will have full status if you do.
    -=*) ANN (*=-

    Message: 55957
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Paul
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 10:59:07

            Okay.... I put the CHRistian SIG up.  I was hopeing to do it
    differantly to get new members and make it more interesting.  It was not
    intended to disappear from Apollo's manifest for very long...but here, you
    have your request. As for the request of you other Christian users for
    ideas...Cancel that!

    P.S. Paul... The RGB SIG was not a replacement for the Christian SIG in no
    way, shape or form.

    P.P.S. Since the old CHRistian SIG can NOT be restored as was... I may have
    forgotten a few Categories or to add back on some members...  Sending me a
    FRIENDLY letter in mail to remind me would be nice.

    *=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

    Message: 55958
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: The SYSOP Speaks
    Subject: Ann! step forward.
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 11:08:04

            You have requested membership on the RGB.  Your request is noted,
    but you need 4 members of that SIG to vouch for you.  Do you have this list?

            So, you noticed the ntom Zone is missing....  How clever and
    observant of you!   It has been missing for more than two months dear!  But
    don't you tread on me or you will find yourself in it! Ha Ha Ha Ha  Ha    Ha

    *=* The "Most Mighty and Powerful" Apollo SYSOP *=*

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    Message: 55960
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: JT/prose
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 13:56:36

            I could have sworn Rod was the author ......
                            UNTIL
            I came upon the sentence stating the world is a
                            wonderful place.

    Message: 55961
    Author: $ Chris Neal
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: RGB SIG
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 14:12:49

    So far, we know that Sandy is on that sig.  We will assume that Cliff is on
    it, because he is the boss....

    So if we need four people to vouch for us, who are 2 more....

     I think I see a problem here!
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    Message: 55962
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Last
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 14:18:19

    I take bribes.

    Message: 55963
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Chomsky
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 17:04:30

      The geopolitical conception that underlies Kennan's
    nutshell presentation of US foreign policy had been
    elaborated during the war by the War and Peace Studies
    project of the Council on Foreign Relations, whose thoughts
    on the suppression of war aims and on "elbow room" were cited
    earlier.  These high-level sessions took place from
    1939-1945, producing extensive plans for the postwar period.
    Their concern was to elaborate the requirements of the
    United States "in a world in which it proposes to hold
    unquestioned power."  It was clear by the early 1940s that
    the US would emerge from the war in a position of
    unparalleled dominance, initiating a period in which it would
    be the "hegemonic power in a sytem of world order," in the
    words of an elite group 30 years later.  The group developed
    the concept of the "Grand Area," understood to be a region
    subordinated to the needs of the US economy.  As one
    participant put it, the Grand Area was a region
    "strategically necessary for world control."  A geopolitical
    analysis concluded that the Grand Area must include the
    Western Hemisphere, the Far East, and the former British
    empire, then being dismantled and opened to US penetration
    and control - an exercise referred to as "anti-imperialism"
    in much of the literature.
      As the war proceeded, it became clear that Western Europe
    would join the Grand Area as well as the oil-producing
    regions of the Middle East, where US control expanded at the
    expense of its major rivals, France and Britain, a process
    continued in the postwar period.  Specific plans were
    outlined for particular regions, and institutional structures
    were proposed for the Grand Area, which was regarded as a
    nucleus or model that could be extended, optimally to a
    global system.  It is in this context that Kennan's proposals
    should be understood.

    Message: 55965
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Chris/Vouch
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 18:16:44

            I need 4 people other than SYSOP's to Vouch new members to the RGB
    SIG.  But I don't think you people really want on that SIG since you do not
    even know what it is.  The RGB SIG is ""Cough"", "Gag",  "Cough"....
    Err, what was I saying?  Oh well, I sure it was not important.

    *=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

    Message: 55966
    Author: Michael Kielsky
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: ...
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 21:23:33

    Same-ol' Same-ol'

    Message: 55967
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: News Today
    Subject: Libertarian Meeting
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 21:38:50

            The December meeting of the Libertarians will be at the China Doll
    Restr. 3336 N. 7th Av., Phx.  Dinner at 5:30 P.M., meeting starts promptly
    at 7 P.M.

    Message: 55968
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Question?
    Subject: RGB
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 21:39:25

            Are there four $tatus users of that SIG?
    *=* Rod, God & Bob Bulletin Board entered *=*

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    Hawley, James
    Ianuzzi, Nick
    Williams, Rod

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    Message: 7
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: GOD's Word!
    Subject: Genesis
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 17:24:13

    And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the
    darkness.  And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
    And the evening and the morning were the first day.

    *=* In God you will learn to Trust *=*

    Message: 8
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: GOD's Word!
    Subject: Genesis
    Date: 12/09/88  Time: 19:48:05

            And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,
    and let it divide the waters from the waters.
            And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under
    the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
            And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning
    were the second day.
                    Amen

    Message: 9
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Last
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 03:48:23

    Some people will buy any line that's written in some old book.

    Message: 10
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Rod's thoughts
    Subject: A POEM.
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 13:22:52

          Having a human body is just fucking great, eh!  There is the
    entire Universe to play around in and humans are stuck here.  Well,
    why infect the rest of the cosmos, I say.  Let them have this lowly
    shit hole.
          Humans eat pigs, cows, birds and plants but stay the hell away
    from smelling the flower tops because you may dream the dream of
    eternity and the universe.  You may want to drop that which we call
    flesh and wander among the stars.  Oh yea.   FUCK!
          The human asshole is a remarkable device, it manages to get rid
    of more than half of what we stuff into ourselves.  YEA ASSHOLE!
          Thank you Rod for making us!

          I think all Catholic Priests who are caught child molesting
    should be butt fucked until dead.  More than a few would probably die
    with smiles on their faces.  YEA ROD!
          If a mechanic is caught child molesting he should be butt fucked
    with a 3/4 inch rachet until dead.
          If a diety existed, it would most probably be an atheist.
          I look at my short stay on this planet as a big joke.  When I
    leave it, I never ever want to come back.  What a gross place.
    Ignorance is king.   MORE

    Message: 11
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Shit-Chat
    Subject: POEM II
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 13:23:38

          Okay, I'll give you a break.  In my reality, the human animal is
    in its baby stage.  We do not really know what reality is in our
    current stage of development.  We think we know but what we do know
    can be written on the head of a pin.  What we do not know could fill
    the Library of Congress and then some.
          Humans think they are above all other animals.  This is a
    natural condition when you consider that an ignorant animal thinks
    such thoughts.  Humans can be duped into ANYTHING.
          Humans easily become slaves when government paper money is at
    stake.  Humans give their health and their lives for green paper.
          Humans made their biggest mistake when they started covering
    their bodies with dead animal hides.  Now we are like turtles without
    shells.  Humans are the weakest species on this planet and would be
    the first to die if a natural disaster happened.  Our species would
    look something like a polar bear with all its natural insulation
    against the cold and heat but we were paranoid.  Now we must pay.
                                    Rod

    Message: 12
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Rod's thoughts
    Subject: GOD
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 13:27:14

            I am curious about something.  Sixty million years ago lived
    dinosaurs and they were here approximately 200 million years.  Well, my
    question is, what was God doing all this while?  Huh?  Where was man and why
    did God make man so damn dorky and stupid?
            Damn, I wish that Cliff and Sandy were born in Tibet and there they
    word worship the Dalhi Llama.  Right now they would be telling some
    Christian visitor, "Our God is best."  Oh well.

            Hey, James, how's tricks?

                                    Rod

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    Subject:ME

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     1:        I CAN WHIP GOD'S BUTT WITH ONE HAND TIED BEHIND MY BACK!!!!
     2:PRAISE BOB!!!!!
     3:        BOB IS A ASSHOLE BUT A LIKABLE ASSHOLE!
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    Message: 14
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: GOD's Word!
    Subject: Sin
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 14:04:34

            "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit
    of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because
    they are spiritually discerned."
                    I Corinthians 2:14

    Message: 15
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Shit-Chat
    Subject: Rod
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 14:20:48

    Hey, I'm selling cockroach farms for that novel chrismas present.  I'm
    giving your whole family a big one.  And I'm giving Cliff and Sandy an even
    bigger one.  (Well that's one way to get rid of my pets.)

    Message: 16
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Christian SIG
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 14:21:14

    Is this the Satan SIG?

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    Subject:AIDS

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     1:        NEWS FLASH!!!!   It was orignially believed that the AIDS virus came
     2:from monkeys in Africa.  It has now been learned that due to a
     3:typographical error the virus actually came from gay monks in that
     4:country.
     5:                                Rod
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    Message: 18
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Rod's thoughts
    Subject: Holy Bible
    Date: 12/10/88  Time: 21:53:49

            The story of Jesus in the New Testament of the Holy Bible is
    somewhat confusing to say the least.  When I decided to check out this
    countries religion and the questions, why am I here and who am I, I stole a
    Bible.  It was a great big one with a white cover.
            In my room, I had no bed, just a big white, fake bear skin rug.  I
    used candles for light and had a stand at the head of my sleeping area and I
    kept my candles there.
            In the evening, the year being 1967, winter season, I took my big
    bible into my room and prepared myself for some long reading and study.  I
    was young and like most people, did not really know much of anything, nor
    had I previously thought of anything much.  I opened up the book and
    logically I started from the first page......I read and read and I must
    admit, I had to skip some of the begats because it was getting to the point
    of being ridiculous.  I soon started getting into some meat with the tribes
    of our elders.  I must point out that I was young and sensitive so when I
    got a bit further into the old testament, I began freaking out on the
    situations described.  In fact as anyone who has taken LSD can tell you, the
    sensitivites one feels are magnified 1000 fold.  Well, to shorten this, I
    felt really bad from the evil I found myself reading.
            I said, to hell with that so I opened the book to the New Testament
    and started reading from there.  On the first page I found peace and love.
    In fact I became overwhelmed with those feelings.  Meanings started hitting
    the old gulliver and sinking in.  I thought, I've found it, I've found it.
    (TO BE CONTINUED)