HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: klein@kira.egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein)
Subject: Words of Wisdom
Organization: Michigan State University College of Stunt Piloting
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 00:46:37 GMT


 "More powerful than all poetry,
  more pervasive than all science,
  more profound than all philosophy
  are the letters of the alphabet,
  twenty six pillars of strength
  upon which our culture rests."


-- 
Jeff Klein             | "Ever been to West Lansing, Pat?"
Browsing Boy of the LNH| "I thought so once, but I woke up and it was 
klein@kira.egr.msu.edu |  all a bad dream." - MATHNET
Xref: sparky alt.religion.kibology:3259 alt.folklore.urban:20013
From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Foo")
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Penalties for drunk driving
Date: 29 Jul 92 12:37:31 GMT
	<1992Jul16.055447.19286@athena.mit.edu>
Followup-To: alt.religion.kibology
Organization: Eaters of Wisdom
In-reply-to: sramming@athena.mit.edu's message of 16 Jul 92 05:54:47 GMT

In article <1992Jul16.055447.19286@athena.mit.edu> sramming@athena.mit.edu (Scott '~ibo' Ramming) writes:
   ~ibo's currently staying in his summer house in Edhiopia (dh = the letter
   edh, which is too old to be on computer keyboards) 

I label my bags of coffee beans so that I know what kind of beans are in
each bag.  I always label the bag of Ethiopian beans with an edh.

--

                And for to see, and eke for to be seye
Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			    mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu 
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: cc670@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Christopher M. J. Cohen)
Subject: Re: a question...
Reply-To: cc670@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Christopher M. J. Cohen)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 15:50:47 GMT


In a previous article, sramming@athena.mit.edu (Scott '~ibo' Ramming) says:

>Being the true bozo I am, I follow-up my own article 
><1992Jul22.041143.10149@athena.mit.edu>:
>
>>I think the pocket T sounds neat, so people could see your picture 
>>while they stare at my ass. (Why do they always do that when I'm on
>>the T?!?) Besides, don't pocketless T's cost more?
>
>Quiz time:
>
>The ``T'' in the above paragraph refers to:
>
>a) T-shirts (and a bozo who likes to stand in his own laundry basket in
>    public)
>b) a brown beverage made from noxious infusion of the leaves from an 
>    Indian plant
>c) Boston's public transit system
>d) the 20th letter in the alphabet, which had escaped from the set of
>    Sesame Street
>e) a street which ends at the intersection of a larger cross street
>f) all of the above
>
>~ibo
>--
>the nonibo -ibo
>M. Scott Ramming  
>305 Memorial Dr, Room 615A, Cambridge MA 02139
>(617) 225-9887 [home]  266-0500 [office] 253-7942 [other office]
>

g) None of the above.

It's a symbol of the crucifix that Kibo will use to reinstate the death
penalty for 'I AM a bozo' bozo's!  When he becomes president, of
course.

C Squared

--
I wanna be, I wanna be, Like KIBO!!!
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: Kibonia vs. Bozonia
Keywords: Kibonia vs. Bozonia -- the Eternal Struggle!
Organization: Between a rock and a type specimen sheet, Boston.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 04:41:04 GMT

In article <2227@itexjct.jct.ac.il> warren@itexjct.jct.ac.il (Warren Burstein) writes:
>
>Can they do prenatal testing for bozos yet?

Actually, they can test for it before the child is even conceived, if
you've decided on a name.  (Giving the child a different name will cause
it to grow up to a different person, of course.)  Basically, you e-mail
the name to Dave Polewka (professional anagrammarian) and he derives
anagrams from the name.

Other skilled analyses of the name can yield results.  For instance, if
Mike Bur were to marry Albert Einstein and give birth to someone named
Burstein, the offspring would have to be watched for the dreaded
Hanna-Barbera Disease.  The symptoms include five o'clock shadow
outlined in black, join immobility, repetetive actions, being duped by
sheriffs taking advantage of convenient local legends, and xylophonic feet.

						-- K.
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: jan_b@lysator.liu.se (Jan Besehanic)
Subject: Bozo? Why not Homey the Clown?
Summary: nope
Keywords: Bozo, Kibo, Ronald McDonald, Pee-Wee Herman, George Herbert Waalker Bu
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Club, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 10:32:58 GMT


I would like to take this opportunity to say that.....

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I'm schitzophrenic
and so am I

--
Jan Besehanic
email: jan_b@lysator.liu.se
New, improved .sig-file under construction.

Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: ccohen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Cohen)
Subject: Re: Me
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 17:35:46 GMT

In article <Bs6uE0.9A1@world.std.com> kibo@world.std.com writes:
>[]
>
>
>
>
>
>			I AM THE BRADY BUNCH!
>
>
>
>			    HEAR ME ROAR!
>
>
>
>
>
>							-- K.
>

meow
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Me
Reply-To: kibo@world.std.com
Organization: Between a rock and a type specimen sheet, Boston.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 06:08:23 GMT

[]





			I AM THE BRADY BUNCH!



			    HEAR ME ROAR!





							-- K.

Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Quote of the Day (QOTD)
Organization: Between a rock and a type specimen sheet, Boston.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 07:17:20 GMT

Lifted without attribution from clari.feature.kinsey, because a proper
note explaining that it's quoted from clari.feature.kinsey would be
longer than the sentence below.

>               I did go to a clinic and they gave me sex pills like
>Testred, which helped. 

Alt.religion.kibology readers are now stampeding to the drugstore for
Sex Pills.  (The posting was on the subject of 'erectile dysfunction', you
know, what Bush calls 'the limp factor'.)

							-- K.
Xref: sparky alt.religion.kibology:3126 alt.slack:2128
From: spl@alex.uucp (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology,alt.slack
Subject: Re: How to talk about Kibo behind his back
Followup-To: alt.religion.kibology,alt.slack,alt.test,misc.test
Date: 21 Jul 1992 18:32:02 GMT
Organization: University of Calif., San Diego/Microscopy and Imaging Resource
NNTP-Posting-Host: alex.ucsd.edu

In article <Br4yv9.9Eu@cs.psu.edu> ward@math.psu.edu (Brian Ward) writes:
>by the way, Kibo is your overlord.
by the way, Kibo eats your underwear.

							spl

-- 
Steve Lamont, SciViGuy -- (619) 534-7968 -- spl@dim.ucsd.edu
UCSD Microscopy and Imaging Resource/UCSD Med School/La Jolla, CA 92093-0608
"Out of the ash/I rise with my red hair/And I eat men like air."
                        - Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus"
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: Calling Young-earth Creationists
Organization: Between a rock and a type specimen sheet, Boston.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:28:29 GMT

In article <mcirvin.712268729@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:
>
>When Kibo comes out with his revised, simplified Theory of
>Relativity, free of hoity-toity mathematics and words over

My Theory Of Theories Of Relativity is coming out soon.  Also, my
General Speculation On The Nature Of Einstein's Hair is in paperback and
tachyon forms.

>two syllables, and illustrated in large nonthreatening cartoons
>of gently exploding heads, this will become so much clearer.

Drawn by Elwood Smith, who has the best line for gently exploding heads.

>I am afraid the Book of Chad contains a certain amount of
>obfuscation which needs to be cleared up.  The bit about the
>Juiceman's role in the formation of galaxies needs to be
>expanded and clarified.

Hey, Matt, the Nature Food Centre (eck) on Newbury Street has a huge
poster of the grinningly evil Juiceman in he window, with a tagline akin
to "WE HAVE THE JUICEMAN... *AND* HIS BOOK!"

I think the Universe was created by Sy Sperling, in an exclusive Cosmic
Stand-By-Strand Process(TM).  I hear he has a new service for gluing
feathers to bald parrots, BTW.  It's PollyFuse(TM).
							-- K.
From: cwagner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Christian Wagner)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: Something I'd like to see...
Keywords: Why a duck?
Date: 27 Jul 92 01:55:49 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <1992Jul25.002307.24494@math.ucla.edu> sherman@wilshire.math.ucla.edu (The Ahkond of Swat) writes:
>In article <76494@ut-emx.uucp> cwagner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Christian Wagner) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul22.201041.1591@gozer.mv.com> klm@gozer.mv.com (Kevin L. McBride) writes:
>>>Hail Leader Kibo!  Hail the Hell out of him!
>>I have this sudden mental image of the Marx brothers, standing with their hands
>>over their hearts, singing "Hail, Hail, Kibonia".......
>Perhaps your sudden mental image was subliminally triggered by my 
>sudden mental image of Margaret Dumont, which I mentioned as soon as
>Leader Kibo revealed unto us the glory of Kibonia.

Damn. I'm reading these groups too fast; things are coming back from my 
subconcious that I don't remember normally....... 

Hmmmm..... Interesting idea...... alt.subliminal.kibo?

>PS: How does Harpo sound to you?

This is what happens when one posts at 2 AM in the morning. Even your 
subconcious starts screwing up.......

-- 
It is better to be     |      Christian Wagner      | I may make you feel,    
quotable than honest.  | UT - Austin, CS Dept. (UG) | but I can't make you
  - Tom Stoppard       | cwagner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | think. - JT, "Taab"

Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: sramming@athena.mit.edu (Scott '~ibo' Ramming)
Subject: Re: DAVE NOELLE QUOTES
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 04:53:39 GMT

In article <mcirvin.711323273@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu writes:
>sramming@athena.mit.edu (Scott '~ibo' Ramming) writes:
>
>[about a place that is really Emack and Bolio's]
>
>>[about where to find it]
>
>Why is there a Baskin-Robbins in the Square?

I decided that Baskin-Robbins were irrelevant when I noticed that
there's one right next to the Ted Drewes' on Chippewa in St Louis.

>By the way, I really like the title of this thread.
>Who's DAVE NOELLE?  (Doubtless he is either (a) a net
>personality of some sort, in which case I have revealed which
>groups I don't read, or (b) a famous athlete, which is usually
>the case when I don't know who somebody famous is.)

Is he the Reebok Dave?

~ibo


--
the nonibo -ibo
M. Scott Ramming  
305 Memorial Dr, Room 615A, Cambridge MA 02139
(617) 225-9887 [home]  266-0500 [office] 253-7942 [other office]
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: K*bo
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 06:02:57 GMT
Reply-To: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
 <1992Jul21.070509.919@acme.gen.nz> <BrpMun.FGs@world.std.com>
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand

kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:

> kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
>
> >PS Does world.std.com get the nz heirarchy?
> 
> Yeah, although nz.kibo hasn't arrived yet.

I humbly admit that I'm too meek to send out a newgrp. Perhaps if I sent
one with "Distribution: world" and then apologized later by saying "IM SORREE,
I THOUGHT THAT THAT DISTRIBUSHUN WOULD ONLY CREATE THE NEWSGROUP ON
WORLD.STD.COM, WHICH IS WHERE LEADER KIBO LIVES. ISNT THAT HOW DISTRIBUTIONS
WORK????!?!"

>                                            I don't know if we get *all*
> the nz.* articles or just those that 'escape' through the buggy
> distributions; we get all of aus.*, though.  Even aus.culture.ultimo.
> I suspect from the numbers the groups had when I unsubscribed from them,
> that we're just getting minor leakage for nz.*.
> 
> kibo@world /usr/spool/news/nz 30 Semprini> egrep nz ~/.newsrc
> nz.archives! 1-414
> nz.arts! 1-3
> nz.comp! 1-281
> nz.general! 1-1252,1277,1313
> nz.molbio! 1-5
> nz.netstatus! 1-222
> nz.rec! 1-25
> nz.soc! 1-5
> nz.soc.green! 1-19
> nz.wanted! 1-133     

Nope, that looks like a full nz.* feed. It's not exactly a high-volume
heirarchy (and won't be, unless we teach sheep to read Usenet).

						- k
-- 
Craig Harding            kilroy@acme.gen.nz             ACME BBS +64 63 3551342
"Jub'f Xvob?"
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology,alt.exploding.kibo
From: kwp@wag.caltech.edu (Kevin W. Plaxco)
Subject: Re: Dr. bronner's medical advice and love poetry
Organization: 12th Essene Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:22:03 GMT

In article <BrK45o.I1n@world.std.com> kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:

>I wrote him a fan letter once.  His secretary sent back two free labels
>from the big bottles.  (I hope she read the letter to him--I didn't have
>a Braille typewriter.)
>
>							-- K.

Will there be an alt.Dr.bronner on happy net?   OK!  Dilute! Dilute!

-Kevin

Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: Kibonia vs. Bozonia
Keywords: Kibonia vs. Bozonia -- the Eternal Struggle!
Organization: Between a rock and a type specimen sheet, Boston.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 04:40:14 GMT

In article <mcirvin.712421324@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:
>kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:
>
>>Other skilled analyses of the name can yield results.  For instance, if
>>Mike Bur were to marry Albert Einstein and give birth to someone named
>>Burstein, the offspring would have to be watched for the dreaded
>>Hanna-Barbera Disease.  The symptoms include five o'clock shadow
>>outlined in black, join immobility, repetetive actions, being duped by
>>sheriffs taking advantage of convenient local legends, and xylophonic feet.
>
>Albert Brooks was born with the name Albert Einstein.  It's true!

Bob "Super Dave" Einstein and Dr. Bronner are both nephews of the real
Herr Dr. Albert Einstein.  Dr. Bronner shows it.  This is why he shows
up in my Einstein short stories more often than the guy who performs
SLAPSTICK.

>Jane!  Stop this crazy thing!

That's what George said when he tried Judy's nuclear-powered vibrator.

					-- K.
From: ted ooyevaar <tooyevaa@angus.mi.org>
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers
Subject: FOR SALE: EVERYTHING!?!  
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 00:15:46 EDT
X-Maildoor: WaflineMail 1.00r

Ok, I'm trying to clear out some stuff here, so here's my list of
Hardware I have for sale:

1 Cornerstone 19" Dualpage monitor, 1600x1280 res.  Has 2 bitplane
  card, software, manuals, supports windows, acad, and over 30
  other applications.  If interested mail me, and I'll reply
  back,  dealer price $1400, my price $500.  Only 6 months old.

2 Turbosport 386's left, 40 meg HD, 2 megs ram, 2400 hayes,
  1 serial, 1 parallel, Doubletwist Backlit CGA, 1.44 Floppy,
  386-16DX MHZ, $725.

1 Zenith minisport (XT) 80c88, 8 mhz, backlit, 2 meg ram(Disk)
  2" floppy drive, 2400 modem, 2 batteries, charger, serial,
  parallel, and floppy hookup.  5LB, tiny, 12X9X1.25", First
  $285 takes it.  Great/good machine for notes/telecommunications,
  Super quiet keyboard, good for classroom notes etc.

 If interested in any of the above, reply here, or call me
 at 616-455-6247 evenings, or 616-640-8624 anytime and leave a
 message to me, and I'll call you back.
    -Ted
---
 * MegaMail 2.10 #0:
From: posegga@margaux.ira.uka.de (Joachim Posegga)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers
Subject: Anyone heard of the GIER Digital Computer?
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:42:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: margaux.POSEGGA.92Jul21104256
Distribution: alt
Organization: Karlsruhe University, Dept of Comp Science, FRG
NNTP-Posting-Host: i12s3.ira.uka.de


I am sorry if this does not belong into this newsgroup, but I am not
aware of a better place to post.

I came across a paper mentioning a machine called the "GIER digital
computer"; it must have been in use in the mid-60's at the Polish
Academie of Science. Does anyone know details of this machine?

Please answer by email, News is currently a bit unreliable here in
Karlsruhe.

	Joachim.
From: schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers
Subject: Re: System Administrator Nightmare
Date: 22 Jul 92 23:21:50 GMT
Organization: University of Central Florida

mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] The Crown of Thorn") writes:

>In article <6TgBoB34w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
>>   I'm almost tempted to buy them a Mac just so I'll never hear from
>>   them again.

>You brute.  If you want them to disinherit you, why don't you just burn
>down their house or something a little more humane?

Careful, you're stirring up a hornet's nest there.

My ass still hurts from the time I referred to the proper plural of
MacIntosh as being "pieces of shit".

Mark "I like WIMP interfaces -- really!" Schnitzius
From: WENGERB@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU (Brian Wenger, Asst Dir, Info Systems, CCSU)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: Psychiatry
Date: 28 Jul 92 03:26:43 GMT

In article <Bs0DFB.Jq2@ssr.com> sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne) writes:
>In article <920723094730.22e43d36@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU> 
>WENGERB@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU (Brian Wenger, Asst Dir, Info Systems, CCSU)
>writes:
>   But I would guess that in the vast number of cases, "Pernicious Cat-
>   atonia" occurs *after* drug-therapy failed to work. What was this
>   individual like before the drug-therapy and before the restraints?
>   I argue that if a drug approach were the very *last* resort,
>   instead of the very *first*, when it comes to treating the mind,
>   many resultant mental illnesses might be avoided.

>I'll guess that you guess wrong, how about that?  Donald Lindsays
>description said exactly what the patient was like before the disease
>onset.

I was talking about the over-all institutional history of a patient,
not just the few weeks prior to the onset of a particular mental ill-
ness.

>   If a heart surgeon carefully cut open a human body, carefully put
>   on a blind-fold, and in a completely sterile and orderly fashion,
>   slashed around with a scalpel hoping to unclog an artery, we would
>   not stand for it. Analogously, electro-convulsive therapy and even
>   psycho-active drugs do the same thing, on a different order of magni-
>   tude.

>ECT is unspecific, but recent drugs have a very specific effect -
>Prozac works by affecting serotonin levels, hardly the same thing as
>randomly slashing around with a scalpel.

Few people (if any) understand the relationship of "decision", "memory"
and "un/happiness" to serotonin levels (or other biochemical factors)
in the brain. Because of this, using Prozac and other psycho-active drugs
is not specific as a treatment for depression.

>   I recognize and empathize with the desperation and frustration that
>   psychiatrists feel. But treating the human mind as though it were
>   an object will never solve the affected individual's problem, and
>   quite frankly, will never solve society's problem.

>And patients with severe disorders would be better off turning to the
>unproven procedures of Scientology? I don't think so.

Patients would be better off keeping their memory intact, and their
senses unclouded. If a person is dangerous to others, that's one thing.
But if Uncle Joe has been fighting severe depression, then I don't
think treating Uncle Joe as though he were a lab animal by giving him
psycho-active drugs is going to do the trick for him. It might dull or
change his senses enough so that the world doesn't come across so
vividly, but it's not going to address the real problem: Joe's depression.

-----
Brian Wenger   (wengerb@ccsua.ctstateu.edu)    Scientologist since 1981
Asst. Dir. Info. Systems
Central Connecticut State Univ.
From: WENGERB@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU (Brian Wenger, Asst Dir, Info Systems, CCSU)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: ECT References (BW's)
Date: 29 Jul 92 14:00:17 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.023817.2353@random.ccs.northeastern.edu>
rogue@ccs.northeastern.edu (Rogue Agent) writes:
>In article <920727213915.22e4627a@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU> 
>WENGERB@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU (Brian Wenger, Asst Dir, Info Systems, CCSU)
>writes:
>>
>>Safety? Yes. Efficacy? Not really. Although the CoS in general
>>thinks that current psychiatric and psychological methods could stand
>>some improvement, you'll rarely see the Church *publicly* criticizing
>>non-physical psychiatric/psychological methods.
>	Would this include the Scientologist I met tonight outside the Fenway,
>handing out flyers espousing the Purif?  He seemed to think all psychiatrists
>are involved in a massive conspiracy to destroy Scientology.  He's no newcomer,
>been involved over 5 years.
>	Now I already know what the response is gonna be - the Church cannot
>be responsible for the opinions of its members, he's misinformed (no shit!),
>etc.  That's the problem - whenever somebody says something unfavorable,
>or has information putting scn in a bad light, it's 'just an isolated incident,
>I've never heard anyone say that, and it's not policy'.  But it happens so 
>often, that it might as well be policy.
>	Responses?

That's an excellent point! It is also why I have mainly recommended LRH's
books, and have recommended trying the stuff out in your own life. Untrue
information can come from both non-Scientologists _and_ Scientologists!
That is why the principle of "It's only true if it's true for you" is so
important.

But the subject of Scientology was developed by L. Ron Hubbard. You are
going to get as many views on Scientology as there are people. And that's
great, since the subject *itself* is about individuality and freedom of
thought and expression. But to learn about this subject, go to the guy
who put it all together - LRH. If you don't agree with him, then that's
okay. He's just a guy with a view. It took me a few months to muddle a-
round with it, and see where the guy was coming from. I did the same with
Carl Sagan's COSMOS series.

Many of the books are in the library. My favorites are _Dianetics_55!_
(LRH, 1955) and _The_Phoenix_Lectures_ (LRH, 1954), but if you haven't
touched on some of the more basic ones like _Dianetics_ (LRH, 1950) and
_Fundamentals_of_Thought_ (LRH, 1960-something, I believe), then it might
be a good idea to read those first.

-----
Brian Wenger   (wengerb@ccsua.ctstateu.edu)    Scientologist since 1981
Asst. Dir. Info. Systems
Central Connecticut State Univ.
From: rogue@ccs.northeastern.edu (Rogue Agent)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Money Poll
Summary: $$$ ?
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:46:09 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Comp. Sci. @ NU


	One impression I have of Scientology is that it's expensive.  From
what I understand, it starts off cheap but as you get further involved, the
cost goes up, until astronimical figures are involved.  Now, all of my 
information comes from what I guess you'd call 'hostile' sources.  So what
I'd like to do is take an informal poll of people who've been involved in
scn.  Here are some questions:

1.  How much money have you spent, over how much time?
2.  Do you feel this amount was well spent?
3.  Do you work for scn in exchange for services/money?
    a.  How much time/week do you work?
    b.  What do you receive in return?
4.  Are you currently in debt to scn?  How much?

	I guess this should do as a starting-point for discussion.  If 
you feel uncomfortable posting publicly, you may mail me privately, and
I will summarize.

	RA