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Apollo BBS Archive - July 11, 1987


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Message: 1528
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Last....
Subject: Jim Lippard
Date: 07/11/87  Time: 15:04:02

... and James White are on KHEP (1280 AM) right now... until 1600 hours.

Alan: I heard a little of the Wiccan discussion while I was trying to go to
sleep... somebody brought up D&D wrt Satan worship... sheesh.
 
Rev. Beau

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Message: 45036
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: In search of
Subject: Life
Date: 07/11/87  Time: 12:07:48

...
  There is already talk of a breakthrough in the prevention
and treatment of human disease.  According to proponents,
when the technology is perfected and extended it will surely
lead to new possibilities for therapy.  If a rat can be 
trained to dilate the blood vessels of one of his ears more
than those of the other, as has been reported, what rich
experiences in self-control and self-operation may lie just
ahead for man?  There are already cryptic advertisements in
the Personal columns of literary magazines, urging the 
purchase of electronic headsets for the training and 
regulation of one's own brain waves, according to one's 
taste.
  You can have it.
  Not to downgrade it.  It is extremely important, I know,
and one ought to feel elated by the prospect af taking 
personal charge, calling the shots, running one's cells 
around like toy trains.  Now that we know that viscera can 
be taught, the thought comes naturally that we've been 
neglecting them all these years, and by judicious 
application of human intelligence, these primitive 
structures can be trained to whatever standards of behavior
we wish to set for them.

Message: 45037
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: In search of
Subject: Life
Date: 07/11/87  Time: 12:19:23

  My trouble, to be quite candid, is a lack of confidence in
myself.  If I were informed tomorrow that I was in direct
communication with my liver, and could now take over, I 
would become deeply depressed.  I'd sooner be told, forty
thousand feet over Denver, that the 747 jet in which I had a
coach seat was now mine to operate as I pleased; at least I
would have the hope of bailing out, if I could find a 
parachute and discover quickly how to open a door.  Nothing
would save me and my liver, if I were in charge.  For I am,
to face the facts squarely, considerably less intelligent 
than my liver.  I am, moreover, constitutionally unable to
make hepatic decisions, and I prefer not to be obliged to,
ever.  I would not be able to think of the first thing to 
do.
  I have the same feeling about the rest of my working 
parts.  They are all better off without my intervention, in
whatever they do.  It might be something of a temptation to
take over my brain, on paper, but I cannot imagine doing so
in real life.  I would lose track, get things mixed up, turn
on wrong cells at wrong times, drop things.  I doubt if I 
would ever be able to think up my own thoughts.  My cells
were born, or differentiated anyway, knowing how to do this
kind of thing together.  If I moved in to organize them they
would resent it, perhaps become frightened, perhaps swarm

Message: 45038
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: In search of
Subject: Life
Date: 07/11/87  Time: 12:25:37

out into my ventricles like bees.
  Although it is, as I say, a temptation.  I have never
really been satisfied with the operation of my brain, and it
might be fun to try running it myself, just once.  There are
several things I would change, given the opportunity: 
certain memories that tend to slip away unrecorded, others
I've had enough of and would prefer to delete, certain 
notions I'd just as soon didn't keep popping in, trains of
thought that go round and round without getting anywhere,
rather like this one.  I've always suspected that some of 
the cells in there are fluffing off much of the time, and 
I'd like to see a little more attention and real work.  
Also, while I'm about it, I could do with a bit more 
respect.

Message: 45039
Author: $ Traci Sibel
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: last
Date: 07/11/87  Time: 14:26:16

scary....

Message: 45040
Author: $ James White
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Jim Lippard
Date: 07/11/87  Time: 16:46:05

I'd like to publicly thank Jim Lippard for being on our radio program today,
I do hope that you now know that theists can be rational, too, and need not
shove the Bible down people's throats to prove their points.  You were a
gracious guest, and thanks again.  I'd also like to invite you back on the
15th of August to discuss specific problems (as I see them) with the
information and conclusions in your book.  How about it?  Let me know.
     Next week Dennis McKinsey of "Biblical Errancy" will be my guest, and I
can guarantee you that the going will be faster and hotter then!  Hope you
all will listen in.  I also plan on posting specific problems with Jim's
book here on Apollo in the next few days.

Message: 45041
Author: Hugo Olliphant
Category: Politics
Subject: VARIOUS
Date: 07/11/87  Time: 18:10:02

Hey, if you ask me, which you didn't, the sky is blue, Hitler was
a socialist perverted psychotic jerk, Ollie was right and seems to be a
pretty cool guy, the head of the Senate committee is a real jerk-- I mean
the way he always- ALWAYS- sides with the counsel, and the birth of
Karl Marx was depressing.  I'm not saying that Karl Marx wasn't a 
communist socialist pig-headed lunatic, just that if I had known him
personally, I might have liked the guy.  anyway Ev IS going to be 
recalled- $5 on that to anyone.  Final words:  Confucious say: he, who
laughs last, didn't get the joke.

                        Hugo (NOT like the car, PLEASE)

Message: 45042
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod/God Stats
Date: 07/11/87  Time: 18:24:09

Yeah. I believe that about statistics, but James won't!!

Message: 45043
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Answer!
Subject: Nick/Debit Cards
Date: 07/11/87  Time: 19:20:14

But Nick, you left out one very important point, a point that wastes your
whole argument.   That point is:   SATAN
Come on, Nick, Wake up and smell the pot before it's too late.
ANd Jesus is a Mexican name.
                                
  Rod (the devil made me say it) Williams


Message: 45044
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Magic
Date: 07/11/87  Time: 19:28:52

Magic Mushrooms fill the air,
where they are I know.
Which way to Eden?
Bombs and Guns?
Communes and Free Land
A communist plot?
Ginsburg was gross but he made his point
Lenny Bruce went to jail many times
The flower children of the sixties
got stiffled by the rules of the establishment
but they are still around.
The new Summer of Love
how about Seattle next year?  No, this year, no, now.
The establishment buy and sells you, futures of PIG,
Daryl Westfall made me write this.
and now I die, I lay me down to sleep,
Don't pray no lard my sole to keep, FISH!
Did you know that a scientific study was done on prayer?
Preachers live not as long as Doctors, Church Building don't
get a discount on insurance because there building are subject to
the same hazards as everything else, yet prayer is within them.
Prayer is a ever-loving crock of dinosaur dung, it does nothing
except wastes your mind.  The holy ghost died last night.
Bye bye             (a poem written on the spur)    -Rod