Apollo BBS Archive - September 1989

Apollo BBS Archive - September 3, 1989


Mail from Apollo SYSOP
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 00:47:05

I would like the one in the living room.  It has a Laser Disk connector...
and I have a LAser disk player...  by the same company.

*=* the 'Mighty' Apollo SYSOP *=*
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 1:Okay, it's a deal.  His arcadia door lock is keyed to my house.  I suggest 
 2:that we wear coveralls with a moving company logo.  I can probably find 
 3:several pair at a thrift store.  We could rent a Ryder Truck and clean him 
 4:out.  He would naturally suspect the Mafia from Tommies so we would be in 
 5:the clear.  We just would not be able to invite him over again.  Or to be 
 6:safe, we could have Sandy 'hit' him and it would then be blamed on the 
 7:people in the gambling industry.

Mail from Charles Finney
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 04:37:04

RE: 60675
 
Hehehehe!
 
Is that like a modern version of a prayer wheel?
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 1:Yes, it is the electronic age answer to the old, water prayer-wheel.  It 
 2:would totally get rid of the flucuation in water-current rate.  The gods 
 3:would then be more impressed.
 4:
 5:        The prayer would read something like this:
 6:
 7:                O'Lard, please see to it that Cliffy hits the bulls-eye
 8:                with his revolver.  If a paper target, into the center
 9:                and if a enemy, into the heart.  Thank you, O'Lord,amen.

Mail from Apollo SYSOP
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 13:38:43

Ha ha ha ha ha ha... I would serve James right for taking off and not
telling us (His good friends), but I like him too much to want to rip him
off....  But next time he takes off with out asking us...  we will get him!

Ha ha ha ha

-Cliff
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 1:We should be hearing from James soon, I hope!


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Message: 5859
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Ann/last
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 06:04:10

Like wow! You have lumped a whole bunch of popular misconceptions into one
post there, gal! Don't know if I can answer all of them at once, except to
say that, rather than follow the doctrines and traditions of men, look to
the Word of God, which is consistent and the ultimate truth, and follow it.
If the Bible does not address a certain subject, then it is up to you to use
your God-given sanctified common sense and good judgement to adress th
subject in the most Godlike way you can, walking always in the light that
God has given you.
 As to the age of the world, since all the "believers" cannot come up with
one scintilla of actual evidence to support their 8-9000 year old theory,
and since there is plenty of room between Genesis 1:1 and 1:3 to allow for
millions of years of development, and since there are valid tests that can
date matter to millions of years, we have to go along with the idea that the
world is much older than some would have us believe. If we then can read the
Genesis record with an open mind and from a slightly different angle, it
tells us quite a different story. True, but different.
 As to those who think that "the devil made me do it", or that "God gave me
some horrible physical problem to teach me a lesson", or that the fallacy
called reincarnation has any validity at all, all three are totally
unscriptural, man made falsehoods. The first is a Freudian copout from
personal responsibility, of which the Bible speaks frequently, the second is
a misapplication of the fact that God is able to turn that which would be a
negative in your life into a positive, but does NOT cause those negatives,
and the third is easily disproved by one scripture. Hebrews 9:27.

Message: 5860
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Ann again
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 06:07:01

Re: the "unscientific" post. I forgot the conversation on that one, so
remind me if you want to continue it, but please don't eat your hat, It's
probably not digestible. (BTW, scientists come up with a lot of unscientific
stuff, too.)

Message: 5861
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Rod
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 06:08:19

So the devil made you the way you are, huh? Well, I'm sure that God is happy
to be relieved of THAT terrible burden! (smile)

Message: 5862
Author: $ Ralph Blehm
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: God
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 09:42:23

God is the answer to questions
that have no answer.

Very few people read the Bible with their own mind, they see it
the way their minister wants them to see it. We have a mind but when 
it comes to the bible we are told what it means

Message: 5863
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: God Speaks
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 13:13:31

Yes, He speaks to me all the time through the Holy Bible.  The only problem
is that He is so ambiguous that now I am confused.  

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Message: 307
Author: $ Kim Paskiewicz
Category: Bit Bucket Talk
Subject: OK Cliff
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 04:46:35

  It the truth, and put the money in a plain white, oops forget the money.
Kim V. Paskiewicz A.S.B.B.Ser

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Message: 60676
Author: $ Paul Savage
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: MAP
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 05:47:36

 I recently received an offer to convert to MAP from my mortgage company.
 If it wasn't for the fact that my house is on the market, and for the fact
that I am on a limited, once-a-month income, it sounds like a pretty good
deal. It's not for me, but for someone on a weekly income with a long time
left to pay on their mortgage, it could amount to a significant savings.

Message: 60677
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Libertarian
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 13:20:06

On C-Span this week the 1989 Libertarian Convention is being held.  It has
thus far been very interesting.

On another note, it looks like taxes are going to be going up quite
substantially.  Perhaps this will be 'the straw' that breaks the taxpayers
backs.  Should be interesting.

Of course we need the money to fight the drug problem, ha,ha, and then again
we need it to support Israel and some other foreign interests.

Another Arizona bank went belly-up this past week.  That makes three for the
year so far, not to mention the thrifts.

Message: 60678
Author: Mike Carter
Category: Answer!
Subject: Cliff on Pansys
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 14:49:11

EXCUUUUUSSSEEE MEEEEE!
 
But some of us have HOUSE payments and CAR payments and OTHER
things that we PREFERR to do with our money.
(When there is any to spend).
I have found the prices for these gun courses to be somewhat 
prohibitive. FOr the $1500 , I'd rather get my commercial pilots
ticket and *make* money.
Insinuating only "pansies" don't attend gun courses is like
me stating or insinuating that only geeks don't have their
ham-radio ticket.
 
But you didn't mean it that way. I know. But you simply must
refrain from adding derogatory terms .

Message: 60679
Author: Mike Carter
Category: Question?
Subject: MAP
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 14:55:25

This has been a widely known fact for many many years to
home-owners. I'm not curious enough to call, but 
one thing I'm wondering about:
Is this some business? If so, why would anyone pay $$$ to
do something they can do all by themselves?
 
I know.... 
 
Like most of my "worldly" friends have said at one time or another;
"The only way to make big bucks quickly these days is through
 a SCAM"
 
True, but unfortunate. DISCLAIMER: I'm not suggesting "MAP" is
 a scam. O.k..you've been disclaimed.
 
        -Mike

Message: 60680
Author: Tom Weller  *** NOTE: I uploaded this.
Category: Religion
Subject: Thoughts
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 16:27:40

ON THE ORIGIN OF MAN

Creationists believe that man was instantaneously created
by God, based on an account in a book called, "the Bible."

Several thousand years ago, a small tribe of ignorant near-
savages wrote various collections of myths, wild tales, lies
and gibberish. Over the centuries, these stories were em-
broidered, garbled, mutilated, and torn into small pieces
that were then repeatedly shuffled. Finally, this material
was badly translated into several languages successively.

The resultant text, creationists feel, is the best guide to
this complex and technical subject.

Religions are like glow worms; they require darkness to shine
in. -- A. Schopenhauer  (1788-1860)

Message: 60681
Author: Ella Wilcox
Category: Religion
Subject: Food for thought
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 16:57:08

Since some of you have been 'talking religion', here are a few:

            Hell is an outrage against humanity...Every step
which intelligence has made in Europe from the edge of darkness
has been in spite of the church --- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

            If religious people are so happy, why do they pray
so much? -- Anon.

            Religions die when they are proved to be true. 
Science is the record of dead religions -- Oscar Wilde
(1856-1900)

            Truth is the poison of religion. When it is
discovered religion dies.  Truth is the food of science. When it
is ingested, science evolves.  -- Zak Woodruff

            What ever knowledge is attainable must be attainable
by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind
cannot know. -- Bertrand Russell, 1935

      Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should
be, and value judgements of all kinds remain outside of its
domain. -- Albert Einstein, 1950

Message: 60682
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Mike on $1500
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 18:34:00

        Where in the heck did you get that figure?  I also have a house
payment...   
        $25.00 for the Basic, and $29.50 for each of the four parts to
Intermediate, and $27.50 for each of the five parts to Advance.  
        You go make money Mike.. I will protect myself and be there to help
carry your casket should you become the victim of a crime you are unable to
defend yourself from.  Because... making money is your prime reason for
living.
        Yes, I did not mean 'pansy' quite the way your post reflected.  I
just wanted to joust some of those lazy BUMs (NicK Ianuzzi) out of their
easy chairs.  Ha ha ha ha... in short... it was ment as humor.

        Honest, it does not cost that much...  It does take time however.

*=* the 'Mighty' Apollo SYSOP *=*

Message: 60683
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 18:56:57

Re:  "Everyone else is a figment of Cliff or JT's
imagination."

What a relief!  For a second there I thought you were going to say I was a
figment of Cliff's imagination.  

Message: 60684
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 18:58:56

Re:  "And I am the anti-christ."

Was it by chance that the message number of your message was 60666??
Maybe you're a beast instead of the anti-christ.

Message: 60685
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Cliff
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 19:02:04

Re:  "I scored a 801 to qualify for a pin."

A pin?  We have all kinds of pins around the house.  We got bobby pins, we
got stick pins, we got safety pins, etc.  Your welcome to borrow a few if
you like.

Message: 60686
Author: $ Bob Thornburg
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Tom W
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 19:05:19

Re:  "garbled, mutilated, and torn"

You and Rod should get along real well.  Do you know each other by chance?

Hey Rod, check this guy out!

Message: 60687
Author: Ed Gates
Category: Question?
Subject: Tom Weller
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 19:42:52

When are you coming out with your next book?

Message: 60688
Author: Ed Gates
Category: War!
Subject: Wilfred Brimley
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 19:49:24

Oh, I almost forgot.  Today I read in the paper (it was on CNN, too) where
that old guy who does Quaker Oats commercials, Wilfred Brimley, secretly
runs a whorehouse in Nevada.  He also belongs to Santeria, a cult of animal
sacrifice mixing elements of Catholicism and African heathenism.  As a point
of interest, Santeria worshippers can be identified by the symbols they use,
the most universal of which is that wooden, cigar smoking indian that used
to sit outside general stores across the nation.  I'm not sure why they use
this, but I swear it's true.

Message: 60689
Author: Tim Smith
Category: Question?
Subject: Tom Weller
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 22:48:13

I called the toll free number on page 64 (in the box containing the
drawing of Dr. Gene Scott) one night a couple of months ago.  It was about
3:30 am and I was reading in bed, and just decided to call the number.  To
my astonishment, Dr. Gene Scott answered.  He was apparently running some
sort of TV show, because he asked me whether I was watching on satellite or
cable.  I told him, neither, that I was reading a book called "Science Made
Stupid", and on pg. 64 there was a drawing of him, with his phone number. 
He said something to the effect that "Well, that's mighty interesting.  You
save that book, because it's a collector's item." and then he hung up.

I also tried calling "Loschmidt's number" (in the glossary on pg. 75), but
that was apparently an invalid number.

Weller's other book in the same format, "Cvltvre Made Stvpid", is also
uproariously funny.

Message: 60690
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: *foo* made stupid
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 22:59:45

Culture made Stupid is not quite as funny, as far as I am concerned.

Message: 60691
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Ella Wilcox
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 23:00:35

Welcome Back, Zak!

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Message: 581
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Last...
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 00:48:54

        I am getting better at that too!

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Message: 582
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Rod's expression
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 01:50:48

I think it has steadily improved since he stoppped smoking pot.

Message: 583
Author: $ Ralph Blehm
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: All
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 09:33:47

My Grammae died at the age of 96.

Message: 584
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: last
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 10:26:26

I got a Grammy at last year's awards.

Message: 585
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: B. Doggie/pot
Date: 09/03/89  Time: 13:21:39

Yes, LSD has quite a bit more expression in it that plain ole' pot.