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From: moon!cyberden!verge@well.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
Subject: The New Motor
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 20:05:03 PDT
Organization: Indescribable Creations

(Extending greetings to the ranks of the unusually interested): 
    Hello,
     Please allow me to introduce myself--
    --I'm a man of wealth (relative) and taste (subjective)--
    --who is a insatiable mail-writer, interested in exchanging "E" with 
folks into the High Weird. You know who you are, and you know it when you 
see it.
    Example:
    Sometime in the 1890's, one celebrated spiritualist by the handle of 
John Murray Spear was contacted by a band of roving spirits called "The 
Guild of Electrosizers" who commissioned him to build a divine engine: 
The New Motor. 
    Built by Mr.Spear, it and he soon developed quite a following--one 
female member of which went into labor/orgasm and thus fired up the 
"Mechaical Savior of Our Age". The Motor toured the east for sometime, 
eventually winding up in Rockport, NY, where the outraged Christian 
citizenry assaulted the mobile cult, and burned the New Motor.
    Spark anything? Anything more to the story, or something like it? The 
Old Brewery, The Borsal Guns, The Great Omi, "Bob", ice battleships, 
suicide bat commandos, etc.
    --send "E" to me, and we'll discuss how life really IS interesting . 
. . .  

__________________________________________________________________________
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   | H E   \ Y B E R |/ E N       [ moon!cyberden!verge@well.sf.ca.us ]
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
From: newt@ais.org (Heather Darling)
Subject: Re: Halloween
Organization: UMCC
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 21:45:15 GMT

In respones to question #6... a professor told me last halloween that teh
majority of "razor in apple type of reportings cam from hysterical
parents.In the last 10 years there have supposedly only been something like
three real poisenings of Halloween candy by a stranger. Apparently these
people areinsecure parents and so will amper with candy and then take it to
the police station. Suppoesedly the idea is that the will recieve praise for
making sure their children are protected from ... whatever, bad people, I
suppose. Weird, eh? I don't know if it's TRUE but that's what I hear...

Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
From: rens@lorax.shearson.com (Rens Troost)
Subject: Re: Mindless Flame (Was: Re: Matrix III Review)
Reply-To: rens@shearson.com (Rens Troost)
Organization: Lehman Brothers
	<1992Sep27.021017.12897@news.uiowa.edu>
	<RENS.92Sep28145934@lorax.shearson.com>
	<1992Sep29.183102.28340@news.uiowa.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 21:36:30 GMT


In article <1992Sep29.183102.28340@news.uiowa.edu> acarstea@icaen.uiowa.edu (Alin-Andrei Carsteanu) writes:
   Sorry, I just happen to very much dislike people who set rules for
   others and then even manage to somehow make them apologize for not
   obeying those rules. I guess, yes, it's the only thing that makes
   me feel like eating hot lead.

I think it is you that would impose rules on us, the smiley-users. Or
did you not intend to demean the users of good netiquette?

Also, you failed the test in my last posting -- because I did not
include smileys, you failed to realize that what I was writing was
sarcasm. No matter - just learn what it's for.

A more comprehensive flame has been forwarded to you via mail.

-Rens

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From: mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu (Robert McGrath)
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
Subject: Re: UFO - area 51...
Date: 5 Oct 92 17:50:37 GMT
Reply-To: mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Computer Science

In article <1992Oct5.065027.11710@omrongw.wg.omron.co.jp>, tnishi@kansas.Berkeley.EDU (NISHIYAMA Tetsuto) writes in part:
|> ------------------ report of t.v. show I saw --------------------------
|> 	Have any of you heard of stuff like this?  
Have I heard this stuff?  Endlessly.

|> reports or rumors that
|> the military is working with aliens ?  
Endlessly.

|> have any of you heard of the
|> "Majestic 12"?
Yes.  It's definitely a hoax.

This program was a re-hash of old stuff, most of which is total fantasy.
It's hard to give ditailed commetnary on these points, as there was not
enough info in the post to refute.

-- 
  Robert E. McGrath
  Urbana Illinois
  mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu
From: Rick.Moen@f207.n914.z8.rbbs-net.ORG (Rick Moen)
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
Subject: Re: Does any have a contac
Date: 1 Oct 92 05:48:04 GMT

> Message-ID: <NsamRB1w165w@cyberden.uucp>
 
> Looking for a contact # for Christopher Chacon. Paranormal researcher
> who apparently works in the L.A. area and had captured actual video
> tape evidence (alleged) of an entity in a Van Nuys house. (The video
> was displayed on some TV show last night, Sep. 23rd, about Ghosts).
 
Call John F. Kennedy University in Orinda (number is available from 
area code 510 directory assistance), and ask how to reach Loyd Auerbach,
who I believe still teaches there.  My recollection is that Loyd and 
Christopher have worked together.
 
I do actually have Loyd's telephone numbers, but don't know if he'd want 
me to give them out.
 
Cheers,
Rick M.
(Best reached at Rick_Moen@blyth.com)

 * Origin: The Skeptic's Board in San Mateo - Bay Area Skeptics (8:914/207)
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From: acarstea@icaen.uiowa.edu (Alin-Andrei Carsteanu)
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal,alt.conspiracy,alt.alien.visitors,alt.mindcontrol,alt.flame,soc.women
Subject: Re: Mindless Flame (Was: Re: Matrix III Review)
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:31:02 GMT
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa

In article <RENS.92Sep28145934@lorax.shearson.com> rens@shearson.com (Rens Troost) writes:
>
>In article <1992Sep27.021017.12897@news.uiowa.edu> acarstea@icaen.uiowa.edu (Alin-Andrei Carsteanu) writes:
>
>   You don't need to apologize to people for upper cases. No one can shout 
>   in writing. Now, that people sometimes create their own realities... and
>   hear you shouting... that you have to accept! :-)
>   The oh-so-touchy and oh-so-polite and oh-so-etc. people on the internet
>   have created things like _word-to-be-emphasized_ in order to prevent
>   their oh-so-sensitive eyes being stressed by contiguous upper cases.
>   But: there is no such thing as underscoring a blank in English, it only
>   comes from computer languages, so nobody should try to enforce it, in
>   my opinion. And: I would ask _those_ oh-so-culture-loving guys on the net,
>   how the heck have English-language writers managed to create very ex-
>   pressive works without facilities like empty underscores, "smilies" (like
>   the one I've used at the end of the above paragraph...) to make sure the  
>   readers know where they should smile and where they shouldn't...?
>
>Gee. You have used a simile. You seem to have trouble with the concept
>of paragraph, though - I give you a B- and send you  back to 4th grade
>english.
>
>Please follow up to the newly created group
>alt.puling.infant.eat.hot.lead
>
>
>
>PS-
>
>I have not used any smileys, similes,  or underlines in this message -
>now you tell me whether I was being sarcastic or not.
>
>-Rens
>
Sorry, I just happen to very much dislike people who set rules for
others and then even manage to somehow make them apologize for not
obeying those rules. I guess, yes, it's the only thing that makes
me feel like eating hot lead.
As for my 4th grade English, I didn't have any English in my 4th
grade. So I really don't care.

	Alin

P.S. I still don't know what you mean by simile. A similitude? Or what!?
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal,alt.conspiracy,alt.alien.visitors,alt.mindcontrol,alt.flame,soc.women
From: rens@lorax.shearson.com (Rens Troost)
Subject: Mindless Flame (Was: Re: Matrix III Review)
Reply-To: rens@shearson.com (Rens Troost)
Organization: Lehman Brothers
	<1992Sep15.193852.21152@random.ccs.northeastern.edu>
	<1992Sep16.024109.15620@ecst.csuchico.edu>
	<1992Sep27.021017.12897@news.uiowa.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:59:34 GMT


In article <1992Sep27.021017.12897@news.uiowa.edu> acarstea@icaen.uiowa.edu (Alin-Andrei Carsteanu) writes:

   You don't need to apologize to people for upper cases. No one can shout 
   in writing. Now, that people sometimes create their own realities... and
   hear you shouting... that you have to accept! :-)
   The oh-so-touchy and oh-so-polite and oh-so-etc. people on the internet
   have created things like _word-to-be-emphasized_ in order to prevent
   their oh-so-sensitive eyes being stressed by contiguous upper cases.
   But: there is no such thing as underscoring a blank in English, it only
   comes from computer languages, so nobody should try to enforce it, in
   my opinion. And: I would ask _those_ oh-so-culture-loving guys on the net,
   how the heck have English-language writers managed to create very ex-
   pressive works without facilities like empty underscores, "smilies" (like
   the one I've used at the end of the above paragraph...) to make sure the  
   readers know where they should smile and where they shouldn't...?

Gee. You have used a simile. You seem to have trouble with the concept
of paragraph, though - I give you a B- and send you  back to 4th grade
english.

Please follow up to the newly created group
alt.puling.infant.eat.hot.lead



PS-

I have not used any smileys, similes,  or underlines in this message -
now you tell me whether I was being sarcastic or not.

-Rens


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From: jlavi@cs.joensuu.fi (Jarkko Lavinen)
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
Subject: Re: Info on Kirlian equipment needed.
Keywords: Kirlian photography
Date: 6 Oct 92 07:47:52 GMT
Organization: University of Joensuu

music@moravian.edu (Steve Heller) writes:

>I'm new here and don't know if this is the proper place to post this,
>but I'm interested in obtaining equipment for Kirlian photography and
>don't know where to look. Does anyone here have any suggestions?
I started years ago to build one but haven't completed it. There seems
to be a lot of troubles involved to make it *SAFE* and mains powered.

Basically it is just a combination of oscillator, amplifier and high
voltage (read: ignition coil) coil.

I have seen a an article in british hobby magazine, practical
electronics or something in may 89, I think. The author was from
Aldon research and represented his circuit with banner he not taking
any responsibility at all...

>Email appreciated at music@moravian.edu
	Jarkko Lavinen
From: music@moravian.edu (Steve Heller)
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
Subject: Info on Kirlian equipment needed.
Keywords: Kirlian photography
Date: 3 Oct 92 16:16:02 GMT

I'm new here and don't know if this is the proper place to post this,
but I'm interested in obtaining equipment for Kirlian photography and
don't know where to look. Does anyone here have any suggestions?
Email appreciated at music@moravian.edu
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From: U61618@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
Subject: Re: Halloween
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:54:17 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

Halloween in the Philippines is Nov.1 and it is a celebration of the dead (
relatives).  People eat in cemeteries and stuff like that.
Halloween, if I remember correctly, originated in Ireland.During an eclipse
people panicked back then and decided to light-up the towns by burning hays
and wearing customs to fool "things that go bump in the night" for they be-
lieved that this was the day that the dead comes back to life to avenge their
death if they die unnaturally.
                 -hope I answered some of your questions.
From: mdouglas@cad067.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Maria Douglas ~)
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
Subject: Re: Halloween
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:39:01 GMT
Organization: Intel Corp.


-- 
I'd like to answer a little of question #7, since I have a pretty extensive religious background.
The church (which I will define as those who believe in orthodox Christianity) recognizes that the
holiday is essentially celtic in origin.  My understanding is that they don't as much simply
condemn the holiday as they do the focus, which is that of the supernatural and satanic.  The
churches that I have attended over the last ten years (Protestant) recognize that this holiday is
very thoroughly woven into our cultural fabric and that children suffer a great deal of peer
pressure to participate in the festivities.  Many orthodox Christian churches will have celebrations
parallel to Halloween for the children so that they don't miss out on the candy and social activities
that they would if their parents denied their participation in "trick or treating".  Children are
simply too young to understand why they can't do what the other children are doing, so this alleviates
the problem somewhat.

Many churches hold extensive prayer vigils on Halloween, praying for, among other things, people's
safety and for their overall spiritual welfare.  Also, many churches perceive this time as an open
door for spiritual warfare, since so many people are focussed on the occult.  Mike Warnke, a 
popular Christian comedian and minister, is a former high-priest of a Satanic Coven in Southern
California; he and other Christian speakers and writers primarily recognize Halloween as a Satanic
event, advising other Christian's against celebrating this day.

I personally do not celebrate Halloween because it is not a "holy" day for me.
I would no more celebrate Halloween than I would, say, a Buddhist or Jewish holiday, because I
recognize that it is a "holy" day for other religions, even though it is also celebrated by
secular folk.  

Hope this helps!
--
Maria E. Douglas	(408) 765-4728		    
Intel Corporation	mdouglas@cadev6.intel.com  

"Stop readin' me the Riot Act,
 While my brains are still intact."	S.R.

Standard disclaimer applies...
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
From: ueh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Eric Hausgaard)
Subject: Re: Why is it....
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 07:32:10 GMT

In article <1992Sep24.010642.10055@mprgate.mpr.ca> spani@mprgate.mpr.ca (Leonard Spani) writes:
>In article <1992Sep23.055916.5720@pool.info.sunyit.edu>, ueh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Eric Hausgaard) writes:
>|> Why is it that everytime I read this newsgroup, I get watery-eyed and 
>|> the hairs on the back of my neck raise up. and I get goosepimples too???
>|> 
>
>
>I have no proof... yet, but I think Robert McGrath is somehow slipping
>subliminal messages in his posts. The messages have something to do with 
>Ernest Borgnine naked.
>
>
ROTFLMMOL!!!!<???><!!!>
Good one!!>
>
>
>;^)
8-O  --* 
>
-- 
 "Seize the moment, Mirabor...Seize the moment" -- Picard 
   "The closer to the solution, The more problems occur"   
              Even *I* don't want my opinions
    All Flames/E-mail to ueh@sunyit.edu until I graduate.... 
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
From: dp70@mc4adm.UWaterloo.ca (Fred Widall)
Subject: Re: Fairy Pix
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 12:36:23 GMT

I believe the book you're referring to is called "The Coming Of The Fairies"
by A.C.Doyle.

Hope this helps.
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From: rogue@ccs.northeastern.edu (Free Radical)
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal,alt.conspiracy,alt.alien.visitors,alt.mindcontrol
Subject: Re: Matrix III Review
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:47:06 GMT
Followup-To: alt.flame.grammar
Organization: Comp. Sci. @ NU

In article <1992Sep27.021017.12897@news.uiowa.edu>
acarstea@icaen.uiowa.edu (Alin-Andrei Carsteanu) writes: 
[a diatribe against the use of smileys]

I was gonna write a defense of smileys, in fact I even started it.
But it's just not worth it.  Does alt.flame.grammar exist?  Guess I'll
find out.

	RA

rogue@ccs.northeastern.edu
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of advanced mathematics. If you'd like a circular describing these new
research opportunities, just pick up your phone, call your mother, and
ask for one.
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
From: acarstea@icaen.uiowa.edu (Alin-Andrei Carsteanu)
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal,alt.conspiracy,alt.alien.visitors,alt.mindcontrol,alt.flame,soc.women
Subject: Re: Mindless Flame (Was: Re: Matrix III Review)
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:43:42 GMT
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa

In article <RENS.92Sep29173630@lorax.shearson.com> rens@shearson.com (Rens Troost) writes:
>
>In article <1992Sep29.183102.28340@news.uiowa.edu> acarstea@icaen.uiowa.edu (Alin-Andrei Carsteanu) writes:
>   Sorry, I just happen to very much dislike people who set rules for
>   others and then even manage to somehow make them apologize for not
>   obeying those rules. I guess, yes, it's the only thing that makes
>   me feel like eating hot lead.
>
>I think it is you that would impose rules on us, the smiley-users. Or
>did you not intend to demean the users of good netiquette?

I wasn't trying to impose anything at all, just because I don't care
for any etiquette, "n" or other.

>
>Also, you failed the test in my last posting -- because I did not
>include smileys, you failed to realize that what I was writing was
>sarcasm. No matter - just learn what it's for.
>
>A more comprehensive flame has been forwarded to you via mail.

Accordingly, you've got a more comprehensive answer.

Btw, I guess this kind of flame should anyway (if ever) be the object of
only private e-mail. Sorry I've started it here.

	Alin

P.S. So what, if you were sarcastic...?
     Do I have to react as such?
From: zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (John Grabowski)
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
Subject: Fairy Pix
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:18:54 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5


Back in the early days of this century, two young girls, I believe in England,
took pictures of what they claimed were fairies dancing about.  One later
confessed the whole thing was a prank, but that is not the point.  They are
quite beautiful and eerie photos, and I would like to own copies of them.

I saw them once or twice on TV...does anyone know of any books they've been
published in?  Occasionally a reproduction of one shows up, but I am after
all the pictures that they took.

Any help would be appreciated.

Sincerely,


John Grabowski
zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
From: ankh@bass.bu.edu (Robert Suyemoto)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
Subject: seeking cyberspace references
Date: 7 Oct 92 03:11:18 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boston University

An acquaintance of mine is interested in cyberspace.  I really don't
know much about it, but if anyone knows of some good references on the
subject, and would mail them to me (ankh@bass.bu.edu), it would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Rob
ankh@bass.bu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
From: martink@NeoSoft.com (Martin Koistinen)
Subject: Re: Liberating Tech: Cybernomads
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 04:07:51 GMT
Summary: I would be lining up...



>
> What I'm curious about is whether anyone would be lining up to
> volunteer for the kind of invasive neurosurgery Gibson talks about.
> We may not be too far away from the technology for some of that stuff.
>
> Jeff Carroll
> carroll@lemon.cray.com
>
 
     I *would* be.  Not necessarily for the 'cyber-ness' of it
though.  With that kind of technology, certain kinds of medical
problems could be 'cured' with electronics.  I particular, I have a
hearing loss that is related to the nerve endings in the Cochlea in
my inner ear.  I have heard that it is incurable.  With some of
Gibson's neuro-mechanical visions, I could have bionic ears.  It is
my personal prediction that nerve splicing will begin in about 5
years.  This will be followed almost immediately with bionic ears,
then later, visual aids.  (It may be a while still before bionic
eyes since the eye is so under-understood but seems to have a lot to
do with image pre-processing)
 
     I believe however that this kind of technology will have to
incorporate some sort of biological liason between the electronics
and the 'meat.' This should serve at least two primary functions:
one, when the electronics are initially installed, the bio-liason
will grow-seeking out nerve-endings to adhere too, and two, after
the appropriate connections have been made, the bio-liason will
serve as a surge suppressor so that neither the electronics nor the
host will overload - this should be adaptive.
 
*** Martin Koistinen - martink@neosoft.com ***
-- 
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
Subject: Re: Is the Television a cyberspace?
Originator: jcarroll@ferris
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 5 Oct 92 23:00:52 CDT


In article <1992Oct5.004217.14861@cis.ohio-state.edu>, mdm@stegosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Michael Moore) writes:
> In article <1992Oct3.181445.12662@walter.cray.com> jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll) writes:
> >
> >
> >You probably already have access to multiple cyberspaces in your home. The telephone itself is a cyberspace port, and you can use it to access others
> >(usenet, fidonet, prodigy...). Your TV set is another interface to another 
> >cyberspace (whether broadcast or cable). A ham radio rig is yet another.
> >
> 
> 	Does not cyberspace imply a form of interaction between the
> user and the environment represented?  The only form of interaction
> available on the TV set is changing channels.  You cannot exchange
> information with the tv, you can only recieve information from a
> finite set of sources.  On the telephone, you can both send and
> recieve information, as well as on the internet and on a ham radio.
> Does this, then, exclude the television from being termed a 
> cyberspace?  
> 
> 	-Michael
> 

Interactive television was prototyped and demonstrated in Columbus
in the 70s. Cable TV is interactive in that supervisory data is transmitted
over a reverse channel from the user back to the headend, at least in all
installations capable of pay-per-view operation. The French have a nationwide
(actually worldwide) teletex system of which home installation has been
heavily subsidized.

The only thing keeping interactive television out of the American home is
the recalcitrance of Big Cable; whether it would succeed commercially I
leave as an exercise to the reader :^).

Jeff Carroll
carroll@lemon.cray.com
"The dice of God are always loaded." - Emerson
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace