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News Briefs 31-12-2004

It’s a busy time of the year for all of us, but we wanted one last post for 2004. Happy New Year.

  • Archaeologists have traced the development of religion in one location over a 7,000-year period defining the ancient roots of elitism.
  • A tech wizard tries to describe what makes us smart. Yeah…..smart, that’s us. ;o)
  • Men prefer subordinate women to equals.
  • Scientists have determined that fur and head hair not the same thing.
  • On a related note, The Literal Creation of Mankind at the Hands of You-Know-What by Lloyd Pye.
  • So far, psychics are batting .000 in 2004.
  • A Russian lawyer privatizes Earth’s clouds.
  • A major climate change occurred 5,200-years ago. Evidence suggests that history could repeat itself.
  • ‘Clusters’ of earthquakes yield an ominous scenario.
  • If you’re in the Australian outback you have too many camels. But you knew that.
  • The recent tsunami in south Asia is stirring up lots of relief efforts — and it could also be splashing all sorts of unknown sea creatures onto the shoreline.
  • Attempts to redirect lightning with lasers have been no match for Mother Nature.
  • Early sleep marks the end of adolescence.
  • A lawsuit brought by a Satan worshipper, a Wiccan witch, a white supremacist, and an adherent of an ancient Viking religion will test religious liberty.
  • Reanimators try to grasp the afterlife mystery.
  • A Russian scientist believes that UFOs are clearly alien visitors.
  • Russia and Iran have agreed to jointly study the UFO phenomenon.
  • The Iranian government has announced that it has ordered its air force to attack UFOs which are being seen near Iranian nuclear facilities.
  • The Cassini spacecraft is set to make a close pass of Saturn’s moon Iapetus, a striking world of two halves. The Huygens probe course ‘looks good’.
  • Less water than expected in Jupiter’s atmosphere has inspired a new model for the planet.
  • A giant telescope will allow direct observations of planets orbiting stars in solar systems beyond ours.

Wind at your back, Bryan. (Leaving for India.)

Quote of the Day:

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving Hell with them as usual.

Mark Twain

  1. quote
    Love the quote Bill,that Mark Twain sure knew human nature!!!
    Thanks for all the hard work over the year bringing news to us here on the DG.
    I appreciate it very much, and I know others do too.
    Y’all have a happy Noo Year y’hear?
    Keep safe and I am looking forward to an exciting new year on TDG.
    Kind regards,

    shadows.
    (Ask Cernig to get you a lucky haggis tail, he is getting one for me).

    1. New Year

      Hi Shadows,

      As he grew older and after he lost his daughter, MT became rather cynical, but he did know human nature. Have you read Letters from Earth?

      My wife has an objection to animal parts used as wall decorations in the home so I don’t need a haggis tail. On the other hand, she doesn’t know what a haggis is so I might get away with it. On the third hand, I don’t know what a haggis is either. ;o)

      Bill

        1. Hunting Haggii
          I had the priviledge of dispatching a haggis many years ago in the highlands above Loch Ness under the supervision of a local from Inverness. The local was probably a distant relative of my wife’s so I think it was all on the up and up;-) We had to eat it fast before it congealed.

          X_O

  2. Religious Liberty?
    Sounds like an oxymoron. What don’t these numbnuts understand about the fact that when you are convicted of a crime and sent to prison, one of the things you give up is LIBERTY? Sit down, shut up, and spend your time figuring out how to do a better job of living when you rejoin society. If you’ve done the bad thing that gets you life without parole, sorry cuz, you’re wasted. Nobody’s fault but your own. If a jailed Wiccan was really serious about their belief, they wouldn’t be anywhere near a prison in the first place. I’d suggest Scott Cunningham’s book for solitary Wiccans as a start for reclamation. Like my old pal Baretta used to say “If you can’t do da time, don’t do da crime.” (Wait a minute – isn’t he under indictment now? Sheesh! Can’t trust anybody these days.) Besides, the American penal system is a total joke, and the ACLU should be collectively lobotomized (oops! too late).

    Happy New Year All – keep the lobsters off your piano, and the crabs off your organ.

    Regards,
    khefre

  3. Lloyd Pye and the ascent of Man
    I came to the conclusion that Earth is (or rather, was) a penal colony used by ‘aliens’ in the far past. This for me explains so many of the queries noted by Pye and many others: a crackpot idea I know, but one that keeps me happy, especially as I am not an expert in the many fields required to sort out our history.

    One point not mentioned is Bio-rhythms: mine is out of sync with this planet, as are most of the rest of humanity, so is there a planet with a 25.5 hour day/night cycle somewhere nearby?

    Have a good New Year one and all.

    Regards

    Nostra

    1. Lloyd Pye and the ascent of Man
      Hi Nostra,

      I like Pye’s anomalies although I don’t necessarily agree with his conclusions.

      I recall that the Germans did a study several years ago where the cut several hundred people off in a closed area. The subjects had no exposure to day or night, sunshine or daylight, or any reference to time for several months. The idea was to see what sort of sleep/wake pattern the subjects would develop. After several months, 98% of the subjects had independently developed a 26-hour day. Go figure.

      Some have suggested that we are an experiment in progress. Perhaps someday we shall meet the owner of the laboratory.

      Bill

      1. Laboratory
        The Earth is an experimental planet.

        That does not only explain the anomalies but the diversity as well. It also explains why the human mind is so directed and not directive.

    2. biorhythms
      “One point not mentioned is Bio-rhythms: mine is out of sync with this planet, as are most of the rest of humanity, so is there a planet with a 25.5 hour day/night cycle somewhere nearby?”

      Many years ago I knew someone who had a 25-hour sleep cycle. It was serious because it prevented him from getting work. He cured it through acupuncture.

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