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From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
Subject: Re: INVASION!!!
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 16:49:29 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

There was a letter very similar to this one that circulated in UFOlogy
circles about a dozen years ago. The author - I don't remember his
name - lived in New York City, and wrote a long and extremely
literate letter about how he was under surveillance by aliens. They
were watching him on the streets of New York, in the subways, and
disturbing his life in various ways. He was claiming that evidence
of this alien onslaught was all around us, but we failed to
recognize it. What was remarkable about this author
was his undeniable literary ability. One proof he gave of this     
supposed alien conspiracy against us concerned the aliens' supposed
scheming to undermine the manhood of earth males. This was recently
after the assassination in San Francisco of Harvey Milk, the first
openly homosexual member of the City Council there, and the author
of the letter pointed triumphantly to the letters printed on
every carton of milk: "HOMO MILK". He argued that the aliens
were behind this, and I don't doubt that he believed it.
  
This letter went out to all of the major UFO groups such as APRO,
CUFOS, MUFON, etc., and to a number of well-known individual
researchers including Allan Hendry and Philip J. Klass. The year
must have been 1979, or possibly early 1980. I thought I retained
a copy of this letter, but I am unable to locate it. If anyone 
has seen this letter, or has a copy of it, please contact me.
  
-- 
  
        Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
  
 Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!

     "In the 1970's the world will undergo famines - hundreds of millions
     of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs 
     embarked upon now ... in 1985, when it is calculated [under the most
     optimistic scenario] that the major die-back will be over, ..."
       
                       Dr. Paul Ehrlich, "The Population Bomb," 1968

Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.pagan,alt.paranormal,talk.religion.newage
From: jmb5b@newton.acc.Virginia.EDU (John M. Bozeman)
Subject: New Age/Christian Survey -Help! 
Organization: University of Virginia
Ireallyam: jmb5b
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1992 03:47:08 GMT

I am about to give a guest lecture to a sociology class at the
University of Virginia.  The Topic:  "Christianity and the New Age
Look at Each Other."  When Writing about such subjects, I like to
talk to the people who actually practice the faith.  So I would
like to ask anyone who would care to answer...

1.  What makes a person a Christian?

2.  What makes a person a follower of the New Age?

3.  What do you think of evangelical-fundamentalist-charismatic--
pentecostal Christians?

4.  What do you think of mainline Protestant Christianity (i.e.,
Methodists, Lutherans, Presbyterians, etc.)

5.  What do you think of Catholics?

6.  What do you think of channeling?  meditation?  pyramids?  Tarot
cards?  astrology?  crystals?  UFO's?

7.  Who or what is God?  Who is/was Jesus?  Who or what is the Holy
Spirit?  Do you think the literal Resurrection of Jesus literally
took place?  What do you think is the meaning of the resurrection?

8.  Do you think Jesus will come again?  What do you think of the
Bible?

9.  Why do you consider yourself a follower of the New Age?  What
do you think is (are) the central tenets of your beliefs?  How did
you come to hold these beliefs?  Are you a member of any formal
religious group(s)?  Which ones?

10. What is your age?  sex?  Occupation?  [Optional, for
statistical use only:  are you single-married-divorced-widowed-
living with someone-under a vow of celibacy?  hetero-homo-bisexual? 
What race do you describe yourself as?]

11. [More optional questions:  What happens to us when we die? 
What makes an individual good or bad?  Do you think that there is
an absolute standard of right and wrong?  What do you think are the
central problems of American and World society?  How does your
faith address these problems, if at all?  Do you think that your
faith is the only way to salvation or self-fulfillment?  Is it the
best way?

------------------

Thank you for your time.  I may wish to quote from this material in
class and/or (maybe) in a later scholarly work; quotation will be
anonymous if requested.  As I mentioned above, sensitive material
is for statistical use only.  
              
               John Bozeman (jmb5b@virginia.edu)
                            (jmb5b@virginia.edu.bitnet)
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Wednesday, 15 Apr 1992 13:40:22 EDT
From: The Xanadian <IO10081@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: ELECTRONIC IMPLANTS MADE BY HUMANS

<A guy talks about these implants>

Now something has just occurred to me... and it may belong in talk.religion.
misc, but here goes:

I read in a book about the Antichrist a looong time ago <I think the title
was 'The Late Great Planet Earth'> about how the Antichrist would have each
human being tagged with this '666' number.

Could it *be*, that this microelectronic tracking device is the predecessor
to the 'number'?  The way 'Samurai_Writer' put it, it would seem, to me,
that it, in fact, *is*.

OK, enough palaver for now.  *grin*
Xref: sparky alt.alien.visitors:2417 talk.religion.newage:2531 alt.paranormal:1216
From: radzy@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Tim Omelan Radzykewycz)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,talk.religion.newage,alt.paranormal
Subject: Re: On cooperation
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:37:50 GMT
Organization: Institute of Cognitive Studies, U.C. Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: cogsci.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Apr3.162655.4002@verifone.com> ed_l1@verifone.com writes:
> Cooperation doesn't mean giving up something that someone else wants,
> it means helping each other find suitable goals to solve problems.
> Compromise is each side giving up a little, cooperation is both sides
> getting what they want.  This will not create stagnation, but growth.

Not only will cooperation create growth instead of creating stagnation,
lack of cooperation will create the stagnation!

Using the same example (owl v.s. logger):

If the loggers and environmentalists cooperate, then things will
change somewhat, because they adopt new policies or new technologies
or SOMETHING, to enable them to achieve both goals.

If the loggers and environmentalists do NOT cooperate, then things
may remain the same: the loggers will continue to clear-cut, and the
environmentalists will continue to protest.  (Disclaimer: it is
still possible for things to change through some other mechanism,
such as legislation.)

In any case, cooperation does not create stagnation, and will probably
increase growth, possibly after a small initial cost.

------------------------------------------------------------
					|
	-- radzy			|
					|  An it harm none,
	Tim Omelan Radzykewycz     	|  do as ye will.
	The Incredible Radical Cabbage	|
					|
	radzy@cogsci.berkeley.edu	|
					|
------------------------------------------------------------
> Hi! I am a .signature virus. Copy me into your .signature to join in!
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
From: angus@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Andrew Michael Vebber)
Subject: Re: Abducted while driving?
Keywords: drugs
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 03:34:09 GMT

In article <1992Mar28.070941.1574@sdf.lonestar.org> hideo@sdf.lonestar.org (David Carter) writes:
>I was abducted while skiing, and when I "came to" I was inexpilcably
>soaking in a hot tub back at the lodge with my underwear on my head.
>Eerie.
>
>David Carter           : URANUS: not truly a place
>aka Hideo Gump         : where the Sun don't shine,
>Dallas, Texas USA      : but certainly a place where
>hideo@sdf.lonestar.org : the Sun shines dimly!
>
>

Dude, get real.

- AY
-- 

|  angus@csd4.csd.uwm.edu    | University of Wisconsin Milwaukee      |      
|----------------------------|----------------------------------------|
| "If the answer is Jerry Brown, then it is a awfully silly question. |  
From: Sasquatch@p4.f851.n102.z1.fidonet.org (Sasquatch)
Sender: NewsMeister@mcws.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Pt 1/2: The Pleiadians: Awakening
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 17:10:34 -0700

How is it that you come to use our term for your section of the
universe?i.e. the Pleiades.

 * Origin: -=<*The Centre o' the Universe*>=- Glendale, CA - Earth
(1:102/851.4)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
Subject: Re: INVASION!!!
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 16:52:17 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

There was a letter very similar to this one that circulated in UFOlogy
circles about a dozen years ago. The author - I don't remember his
name - lived in New York City, and wrote a long and extremely
literate letter about how he was under surveillance by aliens. They
were watching him on the streets of New York, in the subways, and
disturbing his life in various ways. He was claiming that evidence
of this alien onslaught was all around us, but we failed to
recognize it. What was remarkable about this author
was his undeniable literary ability. One proof he gave of this     
supposed alien conspiracy against us concerned the aliens' supposed
scheming to undermine the manhood of earth males. This was recently
after the assassination in San Francisco of Harvey Milk, the first
openly homosexual member of the City Council there, and the author
of the letter pointed triumphantly to the letters printed on
every carton of milk: "HOMO MILK". He argued that the aliens
were behind this, and I don't doubt that he believed it.
  
This letter went out to all of the major UFO groups such as APRO,
CUFOS, MUFON, etc., and to a number of well-known individual
researchers including Allan Hendry and Philip J. Klass. The year
must have been 1979, or possibly early 1980. I thought I retained
a copy of this letter, but I am unable to locate it. If anyone 
has seen this letter, or has a copy of it, please contact me.
  
-- 
  
        Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
  
 Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!

     "In the 1970's the world will undergo famines - hundreds of millions
     of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs 
     embarked upon now ... in 1985, when it is calculated [under the most
     optimistic scenario] that the major die-back will be over, ..."
       
                       Dr. Paul Ehrlich, "The Population Bomb," 1968

Xref: sparky alt.alien.visitors:2519 alt.slack:1472 alt.stupidity:1575 alt.exploding.kibo:184
From: stimpsn@bbs.orion.bison.mb.ca (Gary Stimpson)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: UFO Magazine.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 13:58:46 GMT
Organization: The Orion Unix System [A/UX 2.0.1], Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Can I get the address for UFO Magazine?  I had it awhile back, but it's been 
misplaced somewhere.  Also, can someone type out the table of contents for a 
recent UFO Magazine?  I want to see what types of articles are in it.
 
Thanks,
Gary

--
stimpsn@bbs.orion.bison.mb.ca (Gary Stimpson)
The Orion Unix System [A/UX 2.0.1], Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
From: ccasm@cc.newcastle.edu.au
Subject: Re: Me
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 04:01:48 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.172913.21985@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, pullen@cs.washington.edu (Walter D. Pullen) writes:
> In article <1992Apr10.140520.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au> ccasm@cc.newcastle.edu.au writes:
>>In article <92094.112608IO00198@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, 
>>>IO00198@MAINE.MAINE.EDU writes:
>>> The number is 42, but it's not God, it's the answer to the meaning of the
>>> universe.  But what the hell's the question ?!!?
>>
>>For all those who haven't seen Douglas Adams' HITCHIKERS GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE
>>trilogy: after millions of years of calculation by the most powerful computer
>>the answer was indeed 42. The question had been forgotten by then, but was 
>>assumed to be "the meaning of life". To find out the question they travelled
>>back in time to observe it being written in the dust by primitive man:
>>
>>       6       x         8       =           ?
> 
> Shouldn't the question be 6 x *7* = ?                         
>
> ...crap deleted....
>
> hence the answer is 42!!!
> 
> (Of course, this is just my interpretation. :)
> 

Cheez! Some people are so serious they never see the irony !!!!
Perhaps you could also have posted that the answer was wrong, = 48, not 42 :-)
This point in Douglas Adam's (fictional) book was the futility of it all and
the meaningless need to ask such pointless questions, like the one you just
asked.  0 0
         U
        \_/
From: stollman@comet.enet.pit.com (Gary Stollman)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: INVASION!!!
Date: 17 Apr 92 13:48:19 GMT
Organization: Pacific Institute of Technology


In article <1992Apr17.061759.20032@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, bt479@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gary Stollman) writes...

Come on!!!  Give me a break!!!  The shrinnk I was seeing in 
Tallahassee last year before I dropped him told me about this
nonsense...Listen, you better get something and get it good;
I am NOT insane, and this is ALL true, and by next week you
may wish you had a one-way ticket to Mars!!  If you don't believe
me, check out where this is coming from, then check out my new
signature...Nice, ain't it??

	Gary
-- 
Gary Stollman       GEnie:G.STOLLMAN
                    Internet:garys@bluemoon.rn.com
Don't think I'm crazy cause I know twenty computer languages and
have stolen more time on computers for free than you know about!!
From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Ufo Magazine.
Date: 13 Apr 92 05:27:00 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:104/428.0 - <ParaNet(sm) , Arvada CO


 > Can I get the address for UFO Magazine?  I had it awhile back, but it's
 > been
 > misplaced somewhere.  Also, can someone type out the table of contents
 > for a
 > recent UFO Magazine?  I want to see what types of articles are in it.

The address is:

UFO Magazine
P.O. Box 1053
Sunland, CA  91041-1053

I will place something here about the upcoming issue.

Also, Don Ecker, the Research Director for UFO Magazine is a participant in 
this conference.

Mike

--  
Michael Corbin - via ParaNet node 1:104/422
UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name
INTERNET: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.conspiracy,talk.religion.newage,alt.paranormal
From: briansp@css.itd.umich.edu (Brian Spolarich)
Subject: Re: INVASION!!!
Organization: University of Michigan, ITD Consulting and Support Services
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 19:48:26 GMT

In article <u9eNiB1w164w@bluemoon.rn.com> garys@bluemoon.rn.com (Gary Stollman) writes:
>WELL, it has been a strange three months here in LA...God is continuing to 
>wipe out the demons that have tried to destroy my family, and I have great 
>hope for my future now...It looks like we just might win!!  But the impact 
>on my psyche is irreversible, I'm afraid...I just don't know what these 
>aliens will come up with next...They have the phones tapped to the gills, 
>and the CIA has most of the nodes (bbses) I call bugged and also the 
>people on GEnie that are on the boards I frequent, but me thinks they 
>might be getting tired somewhat...They know now that I didn't pull that 
>toy gun on David Horowitz for nothing...But I don't think they know 
>exactly WHY I did it...They will find out soon enough, I think...
>
>        Gary
>
> This is from
>     garys@bluemoon.rn.com
>who doesn't have their own obnoxious signature yet


    Are we a little paranoid?  Time for some Prozac, I think.
From: beyo@beyonet.UUCP (Steve Urich)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: More Packet messages (fwd)
Date: 5 Apr 92 06:28:30 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Beyonet Network

MSG # TR  SIZE TO     FROM   @BBS   DATE    TITLE
 4574 B$  3325 DEBATE KA1ULT ALLUS  920404 UFOs: But seriously, folks...
Forwarding path: WB3EUF KA3FMO NO8M WA8BXN WB8LVP W3IXR KA3OEM NM3G 
KA3SFC VE3SNP VE3OY VE3FJB VE3KYT VE3NAV VE2FKB VE2CEV VE2CRL VE2CSC 
WA2SPL K1RQG WA1WOK WB1DSW K1UGM WA1PHY 

Okay, so I made my wisecrack about there always being objects in the sky that I
can't identify.  Now my real opinion on aliens and stuff like that: I BELIEVE!
I think Mark, N1FJD, explained my reasons better than I can here.  If I
remember right, I think that the great Gene Roddenberry himself once figured
that if you take all the planets in the galaxy and call most of them
uninhabitable, or having no intelligent life, or having intelligent life that
destroyed itself already, etc. etc. etc. there are still well over 3 MILLION
planets out there that could support civilized, intelligent life.  That's as
xxx a lot of possibilities!  And with that many, I can't imagine that we're
alone.  I suppose that maybe they have their own "Prime Directive," which is to
not interfere with lesser developed cultures, such as ours.  Maybe when mankind
matures enough they will make contact.  Or maybe Douglas Adams's vision will
come true - the dolphins will leave just before the Earth is destroyed to make
way for a hyperspatial bypass five minutes before the ultimate question of
Life, the Universe, and Everything is determined!  (The answer has already
been established as 42...)  I don't buy a lot of these stories about how
aliens come down and tell people to be excellent to each other, but I do
believe that somewhere out there someone is watching us - maybe listening to
our radio transmissions - maybe receiving this very debate right now!  Yet
another reason to compose packet messages well - aliens are watching! :-)
That's my view - let's hear yours!
73 - Justin, KA1ULT @ WA1PHY.#EMA.MA.USA.NA.EARTH.UNFDPL.MLKYWY

*** END OF MSG # 4574 from KA1ULT @ WA1PHY.#EMA.MA.USA.NA

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Xref: sparky alt.alien.visitors:2421 alt.slack:1308 alt.stupidity:1383 alt.exploding.kibo:101 alt.religion.kibology:1490
From: tamm@cs.uwp.edu (Ernst Tamm)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.slack,alt.stupidity,alt.exploding.kibo,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: The cascade from Hell rides once again...
Date: 6 Apr 92 17:11:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: uwm.1992Apr6.171146.5558
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside

>>>>>>>>'Kibo' Parry) writes:
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >> [Intervening drivel removed]
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >> >>He rode the May Day WASPS.
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >> >She ate the Payday wrapper.
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >> >GEE, THIS IS A WASTE OF BANDWIDTH.  I WISH YOU PEOPLE WOULD STOP IT.
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >> >YOU'RE RUINING THE NET FOR *EVERYONE*.
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >> Very interesting. So you want everyone else to stop, but only after you
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >> added your ten cents?  A thousand-degree flame on you!
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >> (homey don't play dat!)
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >> btw, what the hell _is_ bandwitdth?
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >while snoopy ate a sandwich
>>>>>>>>> >>>> Charlie Brown's fat head width.
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >> And why is this a waste of it?
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >because he made a paste of it
>>>>>>>>> >>>> Schroeder played a tune of it.
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >> Russ "gremlins" Taylor
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >he never was a sailor
>>>>>>>>> >>>> the Cleavers met Norm Mailer.
>>>>>>>>> >>>> WON'T YOU PLEASE HELP THIS CASCADE NOT CONTINUE?  PLEASE EXERCISE
>>>>>>>>> >>>> SELF-RESTRAINT AND *DO NOT* FOLLOWUP TO IT.
>>>>>>>>> >>>Okay.
>>>>>>>>> >>	Come on guys, I think he means it.  Don't follow up to this.
>>>>>>>>> >No, both Kibo & Kevin are never serious.
>>>>>>>>> >Go ahead and follow up.
>>>>>>>>> >Or kill me.
>>>>>>>>> >Or kill Kibo, who started this whole mess.
>>>>>>>>Shhhh!
>>>>>>>>What is going on here? Can someone fill me in on this discussion?  I  
>>>>>>>>missed the earlier parts.
>>>>>>There.  No more wasted "Bandwidth"
>>>>>Huh?
>>>>Duh!
>>>NOT!
>>Got.
>Gott.
>>Gott-a have the last word, dontcha ??
From: dtiberio@csws17.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: I2
Date: 5 Apr 92 09:55:19 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook

In article <9204032024.AA01410@sunny.ssc.gov> borg@cy.fre.au writes:
>am an alien.


	I am a UFO.





-- 
      //   David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3662  AMIGA  DDD-MEN   
     //  Not the llama! Come here Earl; I want to tell you something...
   \X/		Liverpool, New York	    Yes, I like 3D.
From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Ufo Magazine Vol.7 #3
Date: 13 Apr 92 05:32:00 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:104/428.0 - <ParaNet(sm) , Arvada CO


 * Forwarded from "Ask UFO Magazine"
 * Originally from Don Ecker
 * Originally dated 04-06-92 22:50

The new issue of UFO Magazine was just sent to press this date. Vol. 7 #3
promises to be a very big and very controversial issue.

The Whistleblowers: The Mel Noel Story. That guy featured in Tim Good's book 
"Above Top Secret" and on the Fox TV UFO Sightings: Part I. What is the real 
story? Well gang, here it is.

New News from the Commonwealth of Nations; the old USSR. Paul Stonehill brings 
us news from Russia and UFOs that are interested in Russian Nuclear Sites.

Puerto Rico is still a "UFO" Hotbed. Greg Bishop brings news from Puerto Rico 
on its ongoing UFO "flap", close encounters, etc.

The Forum; Vicki Cooper answers critics on her stance on the Gulf Breeze 
photos.

CONSPIRACY: Part I The opening of a special two part section: an intro to the 
vast array of conspiracy theories currently surrounding the UFO field.

JFK Reappraised; The assassination conspiracy in Stones movie may be closer to 
the truth than many would believe, and more akin to the UFO mystery than you 
might believe. See what Col. Fletcher Prouty has to say.

New SDI Stuff; What did the Pentagon have to say to UFO about Star Wars?

Plus Dave Jacobs new book, reviews on new videos, and a WHOLE LOT MORE.......

see ya there.....

Best;

Don

--  
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UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name
INTERNET: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG
From: stimpsn@bbs.orion.bison.mb.ca (Gary Stimpson)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: ELECTRONIC IMPLANTS MADE BY HUMANS
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:35:28 GMT
Organization: The Orion Unix System [A/UX 2.0.1], Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

The Xanadian <IO10081@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:

> <A guy talks about these implants>
> 
> Now something has just occurred to me... and it may belong in talk.religion.
> misc, but here goes:
> 
> I read in a book about the Antichrist a looong time ago <I think the title
> was 'The Late Great Planet Earth'> about how the Antichrist would have each
> human being tagged with this '666' number.
> 
> Could it *be*, that this microelectronic tracking device is the predecessor
> to the 'number'?  The way 'Samurai_Writer' put it, it would seem, to me,
> that it, in fact, *is*.
 
I've read 'The Late Great Planet Earth Too'.  Not a bad book, although the 
author thinks we (Christians) will be raptured BEFORE the tribulation.  I 
don't believe that, I think we will go through it.  Anyways, the mark of the 
beast will be either on the wrist or the forehead.  You can understand that 
this would be the most convienent way for say a scanner.  I think the mark 
will be put on by some type of laser.  It will be visible ONLY by a scanner 
type device.
 
What I'm interested in now, is if these UFOs have anything to do with the 
end-time events.  Interesting..
 
Gary

--
stimpsn@bbs.orion.bison.mb.ca (Gary Stimpson)
The Orion Unix System [A/UX 2.0.1], Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada