NUMBER OF LINES: 999 001=Usr:0 Null User 06/30/87 20:34 Msg:0 Call:0 Lines:19 1$If you are in need of help, you need but ask... 2$************************* INSTALLED: 11 AUG 88 *************************** 3$Welcome to BWMS II (BackWater Message System II) Mike Day System operator 4$************************************************************************** 5$GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS II IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION 6$ PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM. 7$BWMS II was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS II is a privately 8$owned and operated system which is currently open for use by the general 9$public. No restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the 10$system is privately owned, I retain the right to remove any and all 11$messages which I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the 12$system, it will be periodically purged of messages (only 999 lines of data 13$can be saved). To leave a message, type 'ENTER'. Use ctrl/C to get out 14$the ENTER mode. 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Jones 22 ************************************************************************** 23 003=Usr:71 David Shult 08/11/88 23:27 Msg:2071 Call:10003457 Lines:65 24 I never thought I'd reach the top...but now after so many years of try 25 ing...and I've nothing of signifigance to type...such is life. 26 27 696969696969 28 Nomintion for the "Ten Best Censored Stories of 1987" 29 30 PENTAGON BIOWARFARE RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN UNIVERSITY LABORATORIES 31 32 Overshadowed b Star Wars and overlooked by the media, the push 33 toward biowarfare has been one of the Reagan aministration's best 34 kept secret. The research budget for infectious diseases and toxins 35 has increased tenfold since fiscal '81 and most of the '86 budget of 36 $42 million went to 24 U.S. university campues where the world's most 37 deadl organisms are being cultured in campus labs. 38 The amount of military money available for biotechnology research 39 is a poweful attraction for scientists whose civilian funding 40 resources dried up. Scientists formerl working on widespread killers 41 ike cancer now use their talents developing strains of such rare 42 pathogens as anthrax, dengue, Rift Valley fever, Japanes encephalitis, 43 tularemia, shigella, botulin, Q fever, and myctoxins. 44 May members of the academic community find the trend alarming 45 but when MIT's biology departent voted to refuse Pentagon funds for 46 biotech research, the administration forced it to revere its 47 decision. And, in 1987, te University of Wisconsin hired Philip 48 Sobocinski, a retired Army colonel, to help professos tailor their 49 research to attract Pentagon-funded biowarfare research to the school. 50 Richard Jannaccio, a former science riter at UW, was dismissed from 51 his job on August 25, 1987, the day after the tudent newspaper, THE 52 DAILY CARDINL, published his story disclosing the details of Colonel 53 Sobicinski's mission at the University. 54 Since the U.S. is a sgnatory to the 1972 Biological and Toxic 55 Weapons Convention which bans "development, prodution, stockpiling 56 and use of mirobes or their poisonous products except in amounts 57 necessary for protective and peaceful rsearch," the university-based 58 work is being pursued under the guise of defensive pojects aimed at 59 developing vaccnes and protective gear. Scientists who oppose the 60 program insist that germ-warfare defense is clearly impractical; every 61 person would have to be vaccinated for every known harmful biological 62 agent. Since vaccinatng the entire population would be virtually 63 impossible, the only application of a defensivedevelopment is in 64 conjunction wth offensive use. Troops could be effectively vaccinated 65 for a single agent prior to launching an attack with that agent. 66 Colonel David Huxsoll, commander of the U.S. Army Meical Research 67 Institute of Infetious Diseases admits that offensive research is 68 indistinguishable from defensive research even for those doing it. 69 Each of the sources for this synopsis raised ethical questions 70 about the perversion of academa by military money and about the U.S. 71 engaging in a biological arms race that could rival the nuclear 72 threat, yet none mentioned the safety or the security of the labs 73 involved. The failure to investigte this aspect of the issue is a 74 striking omission. Release of pathogens, either by accidet or 75 design, would prove tragicat any of the following schools: Brigham 76 Young, California Institute of Technology, Colorado State University, 77 Emory, Illinis Institute of Technology, Iowa University, M.I.T., 78 Purdue, State University of N.Y. at Albany, Texas A&M, and the 79 Universities of California, California at Davis, Cincinati, 80 Connecticut, Georgia, Idao, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, 81 assachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Utah. 82 83 SOURCES: ISHMUS, 10/9/87, "Biowarfare and the UW," by Richard 84 Jannaccio, pp 1, 9, 10; THE PROGRESSIVE, 1/16/87, "Poisons from the 85 Pentagon," by Seth Shulman, pp 16-20; WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/17/86, 86 "Military Science," by BillRichards and Tim Carrington, pp 1, 23. 87 88 696969696969696969 004=Usr:498 Hagbard Celine , 08/12/88 00:03 Msg:2072 Call:10003458 Lines:34 89 90 {} 91 92 Battle was followed by victory - but not for the group. During the 93 battle, I secretly collected some solar energy into my 'body' for later 94 use - no point in using up myself to help everyone in the future. After 95 some gooooood pure rays had entered my body, I felt ready for the foray. 96 Alas! Again my neglect had seeled my fate. Kurfur had slain hundreds of 97 the enemy, but the Beserkergang had left him spent. The Policeman had 98 just came to conscienceness, hidden from the 'creatures'. This would 99 require some mental gymnastics, but I found it to be easier with my 100 Zen training. I diverted some energy as a life force to Kurfur, 101 allowing him conscienceness for an hour (which should be enough for 102 his body to regenerate and gain strength. He should be able to hold his 103 own after that hour) I thought. The remaining energies were used to 104 neatly convert the mass of the humanoids into unbundled energy 105 |REMEMBER E=MC2?| and I used that to secure the landscape from 106 flying into the air. The energy re-direction was done by increasing 107 my gravity to a small black hole. If I had not first secured the 108 landscape with the extra energy, my friends would be stuck to me 109 like refridgerator magnets. Simply put, the land was clean and 110 visible without the bodies, Kurfur was slowly recovering, and 111 John (please forgive me if the name is wrong, I can't remember at the 112 moment and I'm in a hurry) seemed a little happier to find the brownie 113 not around to irritate him. I was tired from the exercise, but 114 I knew that this was not even one-tenth of what I had to do in the 115 future. I took a deep mental breath, and saw to their recovery. 116 117 I did seem a little darker though; collecting solar energy 118 does that to a 'body'. 119 120 Hagbard Celine 121 122 {} 005=Usr:283 KEVIN CONNELL 08/12/88 05:01 Msg:2073 Call:10003461 Lines:11 123 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@User 283############### 124@Zod: You are a product of line noise 125 126 Everyone else: How's life? 127 128 Hagbard Celine: Wafers. 129 130 Everyone: I like surfing on my waterbed 131 with female 132 ^C 133 @@@@@@@@@@@@@Early friday############### 006=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 08/12/88 15:09 Msg:2074 Call:10003469 Lines:9 134 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Rats, beaten to the toppppppppppp 135@ 137@Zod is only a figment of your imagination. You only think you're reading 138@line noise. (Profound statement for the day) 139 140 I'd continue in the adventure, but I'm too tired. 141 142 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Ask, and ye shall be put on holdddddddddddd 007=Usr:113 James Of Cassand 08/12/88 21:15 Msg:2075 Call:10003479 Lines:13 143 !!!!!@@@@@######$$$$$+++++))))) 144 Well, I'm just wondering were everyone has gotten to, I would 145 really like to see the story continued. I'm going to bring the 146 brownie back in, hope you guys don't mind that to much. 147 148 I'm a bit confused as to how things stand now. would somone 149 tell me exactly what happened last? 150 151 Enjoy all that life has to offer! 152 153 James of Cassandra. 154 !!!!!@@@@@#####$$$$$+++++))))) 155 008=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 08/12/88 21:57 Msg:2076 Call:10003480 Lines:8 156 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Get back here you posting users!!!!!!!!!!!! 157 158 James, 159 Yes, please do bring back the brownie. I wanna see if they taste 160 like smurfs. 161 KR 162 163 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Where's L. Beaker and Friar????????????????? 009=Usr:322 Stray Cat 08/12/88 22:23 Msg:2077 Call:10003481 Lines:3 164 165 . . . down at BITE perchance??? 166 010=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 08/12/88 23:12 Msg:2078 Call:10003484 Lines:10 167 &*&*&*&*'s 168 169 You know, I've noticed a bit of a pattern. We have a few days of frantic 170 entry, followed by a few days of next to zero! What I think is that 171 maybe some of you out there are staying up for 72 hours, and then sleeping 172 for 72 hours. Or, I guess maybe you just run out of things to say. 173 174 An Astral Dreamer. 175 &*&*&*&*'s 176 011=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 08/12/88 23:17 Msg:2079 Call:10003485 Lines:7 177 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | You've got it right thereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 178 179 Actually, I stay awake all summer, and then shut my brain off and 180 hibernate through the winter. 181 As to posting, I only leave a message when I have something to say. 182 183 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Zod's gone (for good?)))))))))))))))))))) 012=Usr:283 KEVIN CONNELL 08/13/88 03:53 Msg:2080 Call:10003491 Lines:11 184 @@@@@@@@@@@@User 283#################### 185 Soon to be up: 186 187 W a f e r L sa n d 188 B b s! 189 oops, darn line noise! 190 Anyways... 191 192 @@@@@@late sunday!#### 193 yeah! we;re going cruising on sunday! 194 013=Usr:245 Doug King 08/13/88 17:12 Msg:2081 Call:10003501 Lines:2 195 What's the phone number Creach? 196 014=Usr:483 Lord Beaker 08/13/88 17:30 Msg:2082 Call:10003502 Lines:33 197 -----------=-==========----------=-=--------------=-=============-=--------- 198 HA!! Back once again! After a 21 day vision of the essance of 7abernacky I 199 truly see were I am. Sort of. HI! 200 201 Good old LB. Yup, thats about the size of it. Hey you guys sure did get 202 weird while I was gone. I come back an everybodies on an astral trip. Well 203 I supose thats the way it goes. How'd ya get there anyway. Oh I'll figure 204 it out. I'm always open to summonings you know. HI! Oh I said that all 205 ready. Sorry. 206 207 Anynynybody wanna buy a hood orniment. Whoa! Thats a great word. You all 208 thought I was supprised. Whoa! What's that Rhinoserusurus doining in my 209 liveing room!?! I'd better go check this out. HI! How are you? HA!! 210 211 Errg. I'll come back later when I'm neededed. 212 213 Lord (Masterpiecicle) Beaker 214 215 Hey no more GIP, they accepted my application. :) I'm so happy. 216 217 FUG 218 uno 219 tid 220 uv 221 re 222 er 223 s 224 l 225 e 226 227 \__/ 228 oo 229 --------=-{=-=-=====----------=-=========-=--------=-=========------=-=====- 015=Usr:272 Talos 08/13/88 21:59 Msg:2083 Call:10003508 Lines:7 230 <*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*> 231 Sysop, 232 I didn't see a reply to my last inquirey so I'll try again and call in 233 quicker. 234 I left a message to Zod on here. It was erased. Why? 235 Talos Valheru 236 <*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*> 016=Usr:483 Lord Beaker 08/14/88 12:08 Msg:2084 Call:10003517 Lines:3 237 238 >>>DEAD SUNDAY>---O 239 017=Usr:104 Trokin Korka 08/14/88 12:36 Msg:2085 Call:10003518 Lines:27 240 283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283 241 "Huh, what?!", I said slowly sitting up, and then I remembered. We were 242 captured! I started, seeing my companions lying on the ground beside me, 243 except for the Guru, who was wide awake and sitting next to me. 244 "How..?", I said. 245 "No problem, just elementary physics.", he said. 246 "Where is Kufur, and Johnny Edison?" 247 "They're fine. Kufur went into Berserkergang, and that's why he isn't 248 here he killed creatures until they retreated with you. Johnny was left 249 unnoticed by the creatures, for he wasn't acting alive at the time, and 250 before you ask, the Brownie woke up before you and went to join Johnny and 251 Kufur, 'to keep an eye on Johnny', he said.", the Guru said, knowingly. 252 "I'll wake the others up-", I said, but Hagbard interrupted me. 253 "Not just yet, I have something to tell you", he said, and I looked 254 intently at him, "You are the one who must learn of himself and defeat 255 your own enemy inside before you can defeat the Dark Ones." 256 "What is my own enemy?" 257 "You will find out, in due time.", he said to me. Then he said, "Wake 258 up everyone, we have to join up with Kufur and the others". 259 The Wanderer woke up the first of all of them and put the white orb, 260 which was still in his hands, inside of his magical bag, which is really 261 a portable nothing-ness that all true magicians carry. Where they can call 262 up materials at a moment's notice. Everyone else woke up then and the Guru 263 lead us back toward where the rest of our party was... 264 ... TO BE CONTINUED BY OTHERS ... 265 P.S. This chapter was entered from Trokin Korka's point-of-view 266 283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283 018=Usr:71 David Shult 08/14/88 14:38 Msg:2086 Call:10003520 Lines:62 267 696969696969 268 Nomination for the "Ten Best Censored Stories of 1987" 269 270 BIASED COVERAGE OF THE ARIAS PEACE PLAN BY AMERICA'S PRESS 271 272 On August 7, 1987, five Central American nations -- Costa Rica, 273 El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua -- signed a regional 274 peace proposal that was authored by Costa Rican president, Oscar 275 Arias. The proposal, known as the Arias Plan, set specific guidelines 276 and target dates for each nation to comply with in order to stabilize 277 Central America and bring peace to the region. 278 Two separate studies monitoring U.S. press coverage of the Arias 279 peace plan revealed a startling bias in how America's leading 280 newspapers covered the region following August 7th. A national media 281 watchdog group, the New York-based Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting 282 (FAIR), concluded that the peace accord set off a U.S. media reaction 283 that "showed once again the extent to which White House assumptions 284 are shared by the national press corps" and how "Reagan's obsession 285 with Nicaragua has turned into a media obsession." FAIR's 90-day 286 analysis of THE NEW YORK TIMES found that the TIMES devoted three 287 times as many column inches of news space to Nicaragua than it did to 288 Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador combined. 289 The other study, by the Media Alliance, a San Francisco-based 290 nonprofit organization of media professionals, monitored stories about 291 the peace plan that appeared in seven major dailies -- THE N.Y. TIMES, 292 L.A. TIMES, CHRISTAN SCIENCE MONITOR, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, S.F. 293 CHRONICLE, S.F.EXAMINER, and the OAKLAND TRIBUNE. The conclusion was 294 the same -- most newspapers followed the Reagan administration's 295 direction as to what deserved coverage in Central America. Altogether, 296 the cmmittee members read, sorted, and analyzed a total of 406 297 individual articles and editorials and found: 298 1) More than 80% of the articles published during the first six 299 weeks after the signing of the plan focused entirely or almost 300 entirely on Nicaragua -- the Reagan administration's demands on 301 Nicaragua's Sandinista government, the prospects for renewed contra 302 aid, or the extent to which Nicaragua was abiding by the Arias plan; 303 2) While the seven newspapers published numerous articles 304 critical of the Sandinistas and their efforts to comply with the plan, 305 serious human rights problems and violations of the plan by the 306 governments of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala went largely 307 unreported; 308 3) Sources quoted for comments and analysis in the seven papers 309 were almost always either administration officials, contra leaders, or 310 representatives of other conservative organizations that advocate 311 military solutions to the region's political conflicts; 312 4) Editors at the seven papers, when contacted by the SAN 313 FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN for its article, generally acknowledged that 314 the national press has allowed the Reagan administration to set the 315 tone for Central American news coverage. 316 One result of the biased coverage of Central America last year 317 was that Americans were outraged when the Sandinistas shut down the 318 CIA-subsidized LA PRENSA (now reopened) while they were not even aware 319 that 70 journalists had been murdered by death squads in El Salvador 320 and Guatemala during the past decade. And that death squad activities 321 have increased in those two nations since August 7th. 322 SOURCES: SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, 1/6/88, "On Central America, 323 U.S. Dailies Parrot Reagan Line," by Jeff Gillenkirk, pp 7, 9-11, 33; 324 EXTRA, Aug/Sept 1987, "Media Put Reagan Spin o Arias Plan," by Jeff 325 Cohen and Martin A. Lee, pp 1, 5-6. 326 327 696969696969696969 328 019=Usr:245 Doug King 08/14/88 17:20 Msg:2087 Call:10003523 Lines:3 329 330 Yawn...... 331 020=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 08/14/88 21:17 Msg:2088 Call:10003527 Lines:15 332 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Hey guys, it's spelled KURFUR, ok???????? 333 334 Hey Lord Whatsyerface Beaker, 335 Nice to see you back in the land of imagined reality (is there any 336 other kind?). Congrats, too, on the promotion. Couldn't have happened to 337 a nicer deity. As you've allready noticed, things are getting pretty 338 wierd around here, but what the 'ell, it fills up disk space. At least 339 its not as strange as on the river. Its getting so that an honest 340 Berserker can't get his boat out and go Viking with his friends anymore. 341 By the way, I think I've finally gotten rid of that low-life, Zod. If he 342 shows his border around here anymore, he's gonna get a firm scolding. 343 I'll continue with my monologue as soon as the Brownie gets within 344 range (heh heh!). 345 346 KKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Did you get all that????????????????????????? 021=Usr:245 Doug King 08/15/88 15:19 Msg:2089 Call:10003540 Lines:3 347 348 << Brain Dead >> 349 022=Usr:104 Trokin Korka 08/15/88 15:33 Msg:2090 Call:10003541 Lines:8 350@><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< 351@ZOD RULES, I AM ONE OF HIS MINIONS 352@THE INNUMERABLE HORD SHALL DESTROY 353@YOU!!! ZOD! ZOD! ZOD! ZOD! 354@<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 355@283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283 356@YO! Zod's Lacky, What's yer name? Or are ya to scared to say? 357@283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283 023=Usr:283 KEVIN CONNELL 08/15/88 17:52 Msg:2091 Call:10003544 Lines:15 358 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@User 283################### 359 Wafers, I'm back. Looks like sod got 360 an idiot who's been brainwashed. Too bad, 361 I would have felt sorry for the punk.. 362 Oh well. . . . . 363 Hey, talos, how's life? Kev c. here.. 364 365 366 say... swhat happened to the boarder pi 367 RAT? 368 369 oh, my 45 colum border is so ya don't think 370 I'm a commie (user) 371 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@Sometime monday eve######### 372 ^C 024=Usr:96 Steve LaPlante 08/15/88 21:04 Msg:2092 Call:10003549 Lines:16 373 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 374 Trine returns, finds much to be bored about (anything by a zealot, anything 375 attempting to move me into political tripe, and especially the effete snob 376 and nattering nabob of negativism "writes" about "censorship". Yawn is 377 right! Go Kurfur! You guys are pure and untouched, it seems, by 378 the @#$%$#@## that surrounds your creative and -- please notice, whoever wrote 379 that stuff -- SPONTANEOUS effluvia. (Now I'll find out it was the Sysop, in 380 his other consciousness, trying to convert all of us. Sometimes I feel that 381 the fabric of our society is slowly tightening, and now and then it begins 382 to tear, ever so slightly, so that one of these days, one of these days 383 pilgrims, it will begins to RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIP. See, now 384 he's got me doing it! 385 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 386 /s 387 388 025=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 08/15/88 21:41 Msg:2093 Call:10003553 Lines:15 389 KKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | he went out with a glitchhhhhhhhh 390 391@Well, it seems that Zod's finally got the minions (or should I say, 392@minion) he's allways wanted. Good for him. That way, all the fools are 393@together and easy to ridicule. 394 As to being untouched, very little ever sinks into the mind of a 395 Berserker, making us very hard to force to conform to todays values and 396 ideas. In other words, we call them wrongly as we see them (if you catch 397 my meaning). As to caring of the opinions of the SysOp, forget it. All 398 the SysOp is to a good board is the working stiff. It's the members which 399 make it great. Not to say that Mikey isn't a good SysOp, he is (he lets 400 us say what we want without deleting us), it's just that this board would 401 be nothing without the members. 402 403 KKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | I challenge you. Prove you existttttttttt 026=Usr:71 David Shult 08/15/88 23:06 Msg:2094 Call:10003554 Lines:57 404 696969696969 405 406 Nomination for the "Ten Best Censored Stories of 1987" 407 408 DUMPING OUR TOXIC WASTES ON THE THIRD WORLD 409 410 Exporting hazardous and toxic wastes to Third World countries is 411 a growth industry. The exported material includes heavy metal residues 412 and chemical-contaminated wastes, pharmaceutical refuse, and municipal 413 sewage sludge and incinerator ash. The risks involved for countries 414 that accept our wastes range from contamination of groundwater and 415 crops to birth defects and cancer. 416 Traditionally, the majority of U.S. toxic waste exports have gone 417 to Canada where regulations are less stringent than in the U.S. But 418 now the most abrupt increase is in shipments to the Third World where 419 the regulations are either nonexistent or sketchily enforced. 420 Creating the search for new overseas markets is an explosion in 421 the volume of recorded hazardous wastes beng produced in the U.S. 422 According to the General Accounting Office, the amount rose from about 423 9 million metric tons in 1970 to at least 247 million in 1984; other 424 experts place the current figure close to 400 millon metric tons. 425 U.S. officials, aware of the sensitive legal and foreign policy 426 questions involved, are reluctant to crack down on illegal dumpers 427 and, in fact, the government itself is reponsible for generating a 428 significant portion of the hazardous waste exports. One large illegal 429 operation broken up last year received more than half its toxic wastes 430 from various branches of the Federal government, mainly the military. 431 Some examples of what is happening as discovered by the authors 432 using court records, interviews, and the Freedom of Information Act: 433 Philadelphia is planning to ship 600,000 tons of ash residue a 434 year from its municipal incinerator to Panama which plans to use the 435 materials as landfill for roadbeds; 436 U.S. sludge may end up in the tiny British Caribbean colony of 437 Turks and Caicos Islands which proposes to use it as fertilizer; 438 L.P.T., a company with offices in American Samoa and California, 439 is seeking approval to build an incinerator in American Samoa to burn 440 U.S. wastes and export the ash to the Philippines where it would be 441 used as landfill; 442 Western Pacific Waste Repositories, based in Carson City, Nevada, 443 is poposing to build a hazardous waste storage and treatment plant on 444 Erikub atoll, an unhinhabited area of the Marshall Islands. 445 The key U.S. government officials responsible for monitoring 446 waste traffic claim they are powerless. "Under the federal system, we 447 only have control over what's in the country," says Wendy Grieder, an 448 official in the EPA's Office of International Activities. "Once it 449 leaves, we can't do anything about it." 450 Finally, exported wastes may return to haunt us in a very direct 451 way. "It's possible that we could send sludge to the Caribbean and 452 they might use it on, say, spinach or other vegetables," warned 453 Grieder. And since the Food and Drug Administation checks only a 454 small portion of foods and vegetables that come into the U.S., 455 exported hazardous wastes could easily end up on our dinner table. 456 457 SOURCE: THE NATION, 10/3/87 "The Export of U.S. Toxic Wastes," by 458 Andrew Porterfield and David Weir, pp front cover, 341-344. 459 460 696969696969696969 027=Usr:113 James Of Cassand 08/16/88 00:06 Msg:2095 Call:10003557 Lines:40 461 !!!!!@@@@@#####$$$$$+++++))))) 462 Arthur Brownie and The Interdimensional Police officer were trying to 463 decide on a course of action. 464 465 "So mister 'Tag team wrestling Champ", how come you got captured?" 466 John asked the brownie. 467 468 "They hit me from behind, Atleast I wasn't unconciose on the ground. 469 And By the way, what happened to the Tub?" 470 471 "It's back on the beach I assume, did you expect me to carry it 472 on my back?" 473 474 "Why not, with all that brain your missing it would have been easy to 475 take on the added weight!" 476 477 "Really!?, And I suppose you also Have the highest IQ in the world, 478 along with being a great brownie wrestler of course." 479 480 "No, actually I'm third, of course thats in my home Dimension. I 481 might quallify for first in yours, if your any indication." 482 483 "Thatst, No more cards or badmouthing each other, We're going 484 to settle this like men!" 485 486 "Fine with me!" The brownie replied getting to his feet. 487 488 John Eddison charged the brownie, letting out a battle cry. The brownie 489 steped aside and put his foot out, causing the bathroobed man to 490 slide face first into a tree. Thud!!. John Eddison was out of the 491 conciose world again. 492 493 "Well, maybe that will teach you to attack a brownie!" Arthur said 494 looking down at his fallen companion. 495 496 "It's time we got this show on the road!" he said, looking deeper into 497 the woods. 498 499 James of Cassandra. 500 !!!!!@@@@@#####$$$$$+++++))))) 028=Usr:272 Talos 08/16/88 02:19 Msg:2096 Call:10003559 Lines:7 501@<*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*> 502@Hmmm, kind of funny I haven't gotten a reply. So Zod has a follower. I 503@guess those two guys can go and admire each other now. I just wish they 504@would keep that crap off the board. Well, I'm working on a story to put 505@on here. So be prepared for some bad stuff (As in, this may stink). 506@ Talos Valheru 507@<*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*> 029=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 08/16/88 13:07 Msg:2097 Call:10003565 Lines:3 508 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Arthur's back????????????????????????????? 509 M'mmmmmmm. Brownies for breakfast. Nothing better. 510 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Tripping is dishonorableeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 030=Usr:96 Steve LaPlante 08/16/88 13:31 Msg:2098 Call:10003566 Lines:5 511 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 512 Trine back. Sigh. Toxic waste is right. Talos, we will read anything and 513 enjoy. To write in front of others is a true definition of courage. As 514 for Toxic Waste, we will watch the Convention! 515 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 031=Usr:71 David Shult 08/16/88 15:24 Msg:2099 Call:10003568 Lines:62 516 696969696969 517 518 Nomination for the "Ten Best Censored Stories of 1987" 519 520 TORTURE IN EL SALVADOR:THE CENSORED REPORT FROM MARIONA PRISON 521 522 In late 1986, a 165-page report was smuggled out of the Mariona 523 men's prison in El Salvador. The report was compiled by five 524 imprisoned members of the Human Rights Commission of El Salvador 525 (CDHES). The report documents the "routine" and "systematic" use of at 526 least 40 kinds of torture on political prisoners. 527 The report made three main points: first, torture is systematic, 528 not random; second, the methods of torture are becoming more clever; 529 and finally, U.S. servicemen often act as supervisors. What is new to 530 torture in El Salvador, according to the study, is that the use of 531 torture, together with the continued (although diminished) use of 532 death-squad kidnappings of the "disappeared," are all a systematic 533 part of of the U.S. counterinsurgency program there. 534 The Marin Interfaith Task Force, from Mill Valley, California, 535 assembled the smuggled report from Mariona prison into a document 536 titled "Torture in El Salvador." Starting in September, 1986, the Task 537 Force has tried to generate media interest in the story. Suzanne 538 Bristol of the task force, said the group sent the report to the 539 nation's major newspapers, including THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE 540 WASHINGTON POST, THE BOSTON GLOBE, and the LOS ANGELES TIMES, as well 541 as to the wire services. By February, 1987, when Alexander Cockburn 542 wrote his article for THE NATION, UPI had run a Spanish-language story 543 and the report had received coverage on Spanish-language radio, in 544 Mexican periodicals and in Europe. Follow-up calls to the above papers 545 produced nothing, except for two letters in December from Art 546 Seidenbaum of the LOS ANGELES TIMES, who first wrote "You send plenty 547 of homework," and later wrote "We really have ... no staff for making 548 a 1500-word article out of a large series of reports." 549 As Cockburn noted, it was "during this period, on November 22, 550 Secretary of State George Shultz asked Congress to approve nearly $7 551 million in police aid for El Salvador in 1987, providing the necessary 552 certification that the government of El Salvador had 'made significant 553 progress during the six-month period preceding this determination in 554 eliminating any human rights violations, including torture, 555 incommunicado detention ...'" 556 Apparently only one newspaper gave the actual report substantial 557 coverage. The SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER ran two excellent articles by 558 free lance journalist Ron Ridenhour, who quoted State Department 559 spokesman James Callahan saying that the CDHES, the only Salvadoran 560 human rights group recognized by the United Nations, is a communist 561 "front organization." (It was Ridenhour's charges that led to the 562 revelations about the Army's massacre of civilians in My Lai.) 563 On October 26, 1987, assassins, probably belonging to the 564 Salvadoran security forces, murdered Herbert Ernesto Anaya, head of 565 the Salvadoran Human Rights Commission and the last survivor of that 566 commission's eight founders. 567 Anaya also was one of the five original researchers and authors 568 of the smuggled report from the Mariona men's prison. 569 570 SOURCES: THE NATION, 2/21/87, "After the Press Bus Left," pp 571 206-207, and THE NATION, 11/14/87, "The Press and the Plan," pp 572 546-547, both by Alexander Cockburn; SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER, 11/14/86, 573 "In prison, Salvador rights panel works on," by Ron Ridenhour, p A-8; 574 Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America, 7/2/87 letter and 575 various documents, by Liz Erringer. 576 577 696969696969696969 032=Usr:104 Trokin Korka 08/16/88 16:08 Msg:2100 Call:10003570 Lines:12 578@<><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 579@ONLY TWO GUYS?! ZOD HAS 580@MANY MORE THAN TWO GUYS! 581@AND SOON HE SHALL 582@HAVE THE UNIVERSE 583@BY THE WAY, I 584@AM HIS SECOND IN 585@COMMAND, VOUTIN. 586@THE OTHER ZOD CLAN 587@MEMBER WAS CEDERANON! 588@ZOD!!! ZOD! ZODDDD!!! 589@<><><><><><><><><><><><><> 033=Usr:113 James Of Cassand 08/16/88 16:23 Msg:2101 Call:10003571 Lines:10 590@!!!!!@@@@@####$$$$$+++++))))) 591@Yeah, and your all the same stupid infantile idiot to! Buy a new computer, 592@one capable of lower case. Oh, havn't you heard? Zod is dead. Kind 593@of leaves the one of you out of a job. (And on the off chance that 594@there are three idiots typing in stupidity from the same terminal the 595@following applies) Enjoy the eighth grade! 596@ 597@James of Cassandra. 598@!!!!!@@@@@#####$$$$$+++++))))) 599@ 034=Usr:379 Phoenix Polymorp 08/16/88 17:25 Msg:2102 Call:10003573 Lines:10 600 THIS IS WORLD WATCH THREE>>08/16/88 601 As you can see, the Wilsonville 602 Banzai institute hase been reduced 603 to 40Col. It is a pain. Just let- 604 ting you know I'm still alive and 605 have full rights to the photos I 606 shot in Highschool whit that cute 607 blonde.... 608 17:47>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wwiii 609 ^P 035=Usr:96 Steve LaPlante 08/16/88 19:47 Msg:2103 Call:10003578 Lines:18 610 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 611 Flash!!!!! WORLD PRESS UNCOVERS GIGANTIC PLOT TO CULTIVATE 612 CUCUMBERS FOR UNCOUTH POLITICAL AGITATORS!!!! 613 It has been learned by this news agency that nefarious 614 forces are at work placing nonsensical "News Flashes" on 615 BBS's throughout the free world.When interviewed, George 616 Shultz could only say: "I'll take spam, spam, spam, spam, 617 broiled Salvadorean foot leather, spam, spam, and spam." 618 On Thursday, August 18, 1988, when questionned about 619 this bilious bilge, Sam Spade could only reply: "We'll 620 always have, Backwater, Sweetha't." 621 Independent Trine followers inform us that he is in 622 Tenerife, waiting patiently for his 747 to land. 623 624 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 625 list 626 to 627 starboard 036=Usr:104 Trokin Korka 08/16/88 20:05 Msg:2104 Call:10003579 Lines:11 628@283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283 629@ YO! Zod Freak! You obviously can't read a comic book well enough 630@to figure out for yourself that Gen. Zit got killed off! That raises 631@questions about your mental capacity doesn't it? I guess only a 632@mental miget like you could believe another mental miget. Have all 633@of you sane people out there who hate Zit noticed something about 634@his writing style? I have...He writes something that looks very 635@similar to Kruschev's "We will bury you!", doesn't he? 636@ TROKIN KORKA 637@283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283 638@ 037=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 08/16/88 20:58 Msg:2105 Call:10003581 Lines:3 639 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 640 Talos, You might try asking your question on Blue Parrot. 641 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 038=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 08/16/88 21:50 Msg:2106 Call:10003586 Lines:9 642 Spam Spa Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam pam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam 643 Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam 644 SpSpam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam 645 Sausage and Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam 646 647 Just testing my macro's guys. 648 649 KKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | This wasn't a test of the EBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 039=Usr:113 James Of Cassand 08/16/88 22:13 Msg:2107 Call:10003587 Lines:4 651@to the minions( <- HAR,HAR,HAR :-) ) of the late Zod. I know who you 653@are. cease your infantile ravings or be exposed on this board. 654@ 040=Usr:322 Stray Cat 08/16/88 22:50 Msg:2108 Call:10003591 Lines:7 655 @#$&*_)@(#$^*+_)~*(#&)#$)@#&$^!@)(#^%&(^#$_)*@_)#^$_)!(#& 656 657 (yours looked like a starry night, oh well) 658 659 I am officially giving up on JDs. It's busy too _)@(#$&* often. 660 661 !_)(&#$^)#)(&^!@#_(&$^#)(@* 041=Usr:272 Talos 08/16/88 23:12 Msg:2109 Call:10003593 Lines:5 662 <*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*> 663 Hmm. I can post anything I want, but yet my last message was deleted from 664 the board. What's wrong with this picture? Heading for the Blue Parrot, 665 Talos Valheru 666 <*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*> 042=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 08/17/88 11:43 Msg:2110 Call:10003605 Lines:7 667 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Must've been a computer errorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 668 669 A nice guy like Mikey wouldn't resort to (dare I say it) CENSORSHIP, would 670 he? Lets hope so, cause if backwater goes, then whos to say that the weekly 671 Farm Report won't. 672 673 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Censorship is an ugly thingggggggggggggggg 043=Usr:483 Lord Beaker 08/17/88 12:13 Msg:2111 Call:10003607 Lines:7 674 ---=-========--------------=-==============-=--------------=-===========-=-- 675 Talos, try posting it again, and if it disapearss again...then the dread 676 stamp has come at last to backwater (shudder). 677 678 Lord Beaker \__/ 679 FUG oo 680 -=-----==-=---{=-==========-=----------------------=-=======-=-------=-===== 044=Usr:104 Trokin Korka 08/17/88 12:22 Msg:2112 Call:10003608 Lines:19 681@283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283 682@YO! Zod Freak! I guess you don't read a comic book well enough to find 683@out for yourself that Zod is dead. That raises questions about your 684@mental capacity doesn't it? I guess only a mental midgit could follow 685@another mental midget. All of you sane Zit haters out there, have you 686@noticed something about Zit's writing style? I have...he writes something 687@very similar to Kruschev's "We will bury you", doesn't he? 688@ TROKIN KORKA 689@283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283 690@P.S. Isn't anyone going to continue the story? 691@283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283 692@ THE STAMP OF CENCORSHIP HAS COME TO BACKWATER!!!!!!! 693@ I have noticed that this disk skip numbered lines 583-606 and 634-647 694@, those lines are not there!!!!!!! I wrote a message to Gen. Zit's minions 695@in the lines 634-647, right after the "list to starbord" message. It has 696@dissappeared!! Combined with the deletion of Talos's message, it is proof 697@that cencorship exsists!!! 698@ TRO[IN [ORKA 699@283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283 045=Usr:71 David Shult 08/17/88 12:44 Msg:2113 Call:10003609 Lines:19 700 APn 08/15 2127 Miracle Service 701 Copyright, 1988. The Associated Press. All rightc reserved. 702 By WENDY E. LANE Associated Press Writer 703 LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- Worshipers screamed and lifted their hands toward the 704 sky as a ray of light burst through the clouds Monday evening during an outdoor 705 Mass where thousands ca}e expecting a miracle. 706 Shortly after the 6 p.m. Mass began at St. John Neumann Catholic Church, 707 throngs of pilgrims stood and applauded as many spectators pointed skyward, 708 crying that they saw Jesus and the Virgin Mary and calling id0a myracle. 709 "I saw the sun pulsating a lot and saw Jesus about 10 times," said Mamie 710 Fertitta. "Then I saw Jesus above and the doves below." 711 A dozen priests standing on a rooftop altar and 600 Eucharist ministers 712 turned their bac{c t the crowd to look at the sky and wave. After minutes of 713 silence, St. John Neumann pastor Monsignor Joseph James began to sing "Amazing 714 Grace." 715 People in the audience whipped out cameras to photograph the clouds and 716 light. 717 0 "I saw baby Jesus for an instant in the sky," said Koreth Vargahese of 718 Houston. 046=Usr:113 James Of Cassand 08/17/88 16:33 Msg:2114 Call:10003615 Lines:25 719 !!!!!@@@@@#####$$$$$+++++))))) 720 I to would like to comment on the Censorship thqt seems to exist 721 here. I find it to be highly offensive. Backwater is a board were it 722 seemed to me a great deal of freadom existed. Now I see that this fredom 723 is not nearly as unlimeted as I had thought. 724 725@ Zod is a twit, xe k~ows this, it is what he intendst to be. The fact 726@that we comment on this should not be a problem. (Though I think that 727@some of the answers to him have been no better then his and his Pseodo 728@minions Stupid ravings.) 729@ 730 All0messages should be left intact, only those which contain offensive 731 language should be removed, and then only to the extent that the offensive 732 language is removed. 733 734 Oh, I did continue the story. I just hope it wasn't deleted. 7350 736 The story entry is still there, try around line 480. 737 738@To whomever: PLEASE RETURN THE ZOD MESSAGES AND REPLIES. SUPPORT A VITAL 739@DEMOCRACY!! 740@ 741 James of Cassandra. 742 !!!!!@@@@@#####$$$$$+++++))))) 743 047=Usr:)6 Sduve LaPlante 08/17/88 19:51 Msg:2115 Call:10003617 Lines:9 744 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 745 746 Trine's last attempt to access JDs Place= 637629876*&^(*^%9890873)(*&)(*& 747 ++++++++++++++++++0-000)9340xs;nfgiaer tsvbsf ;etc etc etc etc etc etc 748 gobbledegook. Every time I tried to type a word I got the above. It 749 remains the only BBS I have this trouble on, of the six I regularly 750 access. Why is this? Why is there air? What is life? 75! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 752 048=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 08/17/88 21:21 Msg:2116 Call:10003619 Lines:17 753 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Questions Questionsssssssssssssssssssss 754 75% Whi do I live? 756 Do I really live? 757 Do I even exhist? 758 Does it really matter? 759 Can I go get a Pizza now? 760 Yes? 761 Bye. 762 763 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Identity Crisis Hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 764 765 0L0 76&0 0 \___/ 767 U 768 769 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Nifty Huh? No? Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 049=Usr:498 Hagbard Celine , 08/17/88 23:20 Msg:2117 Call:10003622 Lines:54 770 771 {} 772 773 Hi folks. Lessee, as (un)offisal Wuru of Backwater, I'll try an 774 answer your question about 'life, the universe, and everything': 775 776 It just is. You can't explain why; to do so would make you more than 777 human (i.e., you would have to abandon a 'human' mindset, ant 77( re-pattern along different lines). Simply put (with no offense meant): 779 780 "Because you're there, Schmuck." 781 782 which is one of the few good answers I got from my teacher. The universe 783 simply exists, just the same way as a rock on the roadside exists; how 784 it got there, why it is there, and what makes it different is truely 785 immaterial, as these questions are not asked for in a metaphysical 786 context. The only use for those three questions would be in a pseudo- '87 framework, i.e., a society or culture, where the questions would have 788 relevence simply because the 'game' of society calls for some kind of 789 value to be placed on this information. Metaphysical elements don't 790 always carry the same kind of0values (if any at all, as it should be 791 pure thought without the cow pucky of social customs and morality), and 792 this is often forgotten when such questions arise. It's been my own 793 experience that people tend not to think; most societies ca|l fb some 794 form of conformance; with that comes the rejection of some actions, 795 most noteably individual thought, as a society trys to promote 796 the group over the individual. This is why you find more Anarchists 797 who are also Metaphysiciqns (or is it magicians? sometimes the two 798 seem the same...) Two good answers to questions you didn't ask: 799 800 1) The best form of government is self-government. This is because 801 government is initially created to protect people from othur `uople in 802 the same society. However, government is usually perverted by others 803 seeking one of the great corruptors, power. Therefore, if people could 804 get off of their lazy buns, think things out, and act on the thought, the 805 world guld0be a better place for everyone. Because you govern yourself, 806 you are (hopefully) given freedom and the interaction of culture without 807 conflict. If this sounds too convoluted, just stick to the first sentence. 808 809 2) The best religyon yc personal religion. In other words, religion is 810 a private and personal experience, and anyone else who would tell you 811 otherwise simply perverts it into power (see #1) because the religious 812 experience is no longer on a personal basis (y.e., you have something 813 or someone you interact with instead of directly communicating/thinking). 814 Everything else is a matter of values. Even the two answers are 815 recieved with bias on the reader's end because of values. I don't 816 cabu whqt the rebuttals are, because I make my own answers. If I 817 didn't, then they would not be my answers, wouldn't they? 818 819 What happened to the story? 820 821 Hagbard Celine, Resident Guru with smile and helpful typing. 822 82#0{} 050=Usr:283 KEVIN CONNELL 08/18/88 02:04 Msg:2118 Call:10003627 Lines:10 824 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@user 283!############## 825 Well well well toxic waste, eh? 826 looks like toxic avanger lived up to his 827 name. 828 829 Well, if you guis |ike, I could put up a 830 BBS *JUST* like BWII, if ya want..... 831 Just say so 832 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@Late thursday...############ 833 ^C 051=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 08/18/88 11:34 Msg:2119 Call:10003633 Lines:12 834 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig0l Good answer, wrong questionsssssssssssssss 835 836 To every question there is a short, easy to understand, cheap, simple 837 and wrong answer. 838 839 Hagbard, what I really want an answer to is whether I can go get a pizza 840 now. The angels n dxe pins can wait till I get back. Also, can any of 841 us prove that Zod exists? If not, then he must only be imaginary, and, 842 therefore, subject to deletion. 843 845 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | What type of Pizza???????????????????????? 0%2=Usr:104 Trokin Korka 08/18/88 11:58 Msg:2120 Call:10003634 Lines:39 846 283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283 847 Hagbard the answer to life, the universe, and everything is :"42". 848 What's the question? 849 Haven't read the sequels yet. I shall when I can find someplace that 850 has them. 851 I shall be contiuing the story unless the story gets deleted like 852 the messages from Zit and his followers, and our messages back to them. 853 85$ STORY TIME-------------------STORY TIME 855 856 We reached the clearing where Kurfur had slaughtered many of the 857 endless hord of savages, and found the brownie gazing out into the woods 858 with Johnny out cold behind him. I wend0up to the brownie an said, "So 859 you finally did it. You decided to slug it out and that idiot is gone 860 out like a light when we need everybody awake." 861 "Don't be so angry, I can double for that loser in his stead, let's 862 get goinw", said the brownie, who was starting to continue in his 863 put-down of Johnny Edision Inter-dememsional Policeman, when he was 864 interrupted by a groan from the same person which he was criticizing. 865 "Don't they know where to put trees", hu sayd slowly sitting up 866 rubbing his head which contained a rather small brain for its normal size. 867 "Are you all right", I said helping him to his feet. 868 "I will be if I don't get into any more fights with that brownie". 869 "We|l, you better be, for we have to get going while it's still night 870 on this world, so that we can approach the citadel of the Lord's of 871 Darkness under the cover of night". 872 "Trokin is right, even though the Lords of Darkness can see in the0 (73 darkness of the night as easy as in the light of the day, we can still use 874 it to enter into the citadel without the knowledge of the guards.", said 875 the Guru. 876 "Let's get going then. I'm ready for some more battle.", said Kurfur 8'7 awqkening from the Berserkergang sleep that had been upon him for many 878 hours. 879 So, with that, we started off towards the center of the island where 880 layied the Citadel of the Lords of Darkness... 881 ... TO BE SONTYNUED BY OTHERS ... 882 883 This chapter of "The Book of Backwater Adventures" by Trokin Korka. 884 283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283283 053=Usr:283 KEVIN CONNELL 08/18/88 14:58 Msg:2121 Cal|*100 3635 Lines:6 885 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@User 283############### 886 887 Bumdeal! back at 43 colums (nyea! thpt) 888 I've always wanted to post on a profound place... 889 @@@@@@@@@@@@@Line 900!###############3###3 890 ^C 054=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 08/18/88 16:41 Msg:2122 Call:10003636 Lines:17 891 &*&*&*&*'s 892 893 I along with the others prepared for the final asault on the Dark lords 894 of destructive Chaos. 895 896 Were my path would lie reyo~d this point I was not sure. I could feel my 897 body slowly deteriating as the orb pulled on the last of my researves. 898 There was now a thin cloud suffusing my body. I knew that without some 899 manner of seperation or rebinding I would fade t nothingness. 900 901 The offer of the vieled on played through my mind. I felt myself weakening 902 in that way as well. BarelyI held on and started with my companions 903 towards the Citidel. 904 905 An Astral Dreamer. 906 &*&*&*&*'s 907  055-Usr:428 Mercury X 08/18/88 17:29 Msg:2123 Call:10003637 Lines:10 908 (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((()))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) 909 910 Pizza sounds good, Kurfer...Pepperoni is my favorite. 911 912 Think of what woult happen if we had no sun and no light. The tempature would 913 drop to -483 degrees( I think) F. All metal would become brittle enough to 914 break on touch. Life would cease to exist. 915 Chilling thought, isn't it? (Pun intended.) 916 917 8(((8(((AUG 18((((((((((((((Mercury)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) 056=Usr:96 Steve LaPlante 08/18/88 18:07 Msg:2124 Call:10003639 Lines:15 918 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 919 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^N^^^N^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 920 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 921 Trine is back, somehow nourished by the prior P words. One was left out. 922 Hmmm. Censorship? Or simply foppishness? Perhaps it wqc Puce, my favorite 923 P word. But Pizza was fine. What is life, I asked, and received much for 924 my effort. Kurfur knows, but keeps it a secret from the rest of us. Why is 925 that? I think that you may look upon life as an uprofitable episode< 926 disturbing the blessed calm of non-existence. Unless it's pepperoni and 927 olive AND sausage. 928 929 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 930 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^N^^^^^ 931 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 932 057=Usr:283 KEVIN CONNELL 08/18/88 19:54 Msg:2125 Call:10003643 Lines:1 933 058=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 08/18/88 22:23 Msg:2126 Call:10003645 Lines:52 93$ K[KKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Well, here goes................................. 935 936 I once asked what life is. After many hours of serious soul searching (I 937 think it was my soul), I think I know what life is. You wanna know? Too 938 bad, you'ru gonna hear it anyways: 939 940 Life is knowing where to get the best Pizza. 941 942 I think that compiles up the last few statements pretty well. Nothing like 943 a composite theory. Now onto deeper thoughts (but I can't swim in the deep 944 end9. Hw do we know we exist? To be alive, we must exist, but life can 945 be imitated or imagined. Existance depends upon what is perceived, but isn't 946 perception a thing intrincis to life, which can be imagined? Therefore, I 947 think that the real auestyon is to prove that you exist, and after that, 948 life is easy to prove. But how? Everything could be imagined, or real, or 949 both. Are there separate realities, or separate perceptions of one reality? 950 If there are separate realities, then who yc to say who's reality you exist 951 on? Yours? Or someone elses? Or maybe they just imagine that you exist. If 952 there is just one reality, then how could we tell, relying on simple 953 perceptions, which (as was said before) can be only imaginet. What is real? 954 How do we know it's real? Is existance a part of reality, or vice versa? 955 956 To put it simply: " Is Canadian Bacon better than Pepperoni?" or something 957 to that effect. 958 959 "42" naw, doesn't fit. 960 961@KKKKKKK[KKK[KKKKKKurfur Redlig | AAAAAIIIIGGGGHHHHHH CENSORSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!! 962@ 963@Oh, one last note to you Mikey, 964@ Someone once said that only when there is a free press and all men 965@can read, will true freedom be achieved. 966@ I thi~k txat this applies to Backwater too. Censorship is an ugly 967@thing, and it does nothing to promote information. Whether a message is 968@good or bad, usefull or worthless, original or redundant makes no 969@difference. All should have the right to0cee0it. When people tell you that 970@they will leave the board because of certain messages, remind them that they 971@don't have to read them, and that an uncensored board is better in the long 972@run. Besides, (please don't take offense) how do you know ghat we should 973@and shouldn't read? Shouldn't that be our decision? I know that Zod was 974@not putting on anything new, but at least he used the board, and without 975@messages, this board would be nothingOnce again I ask you to please let 976@the }essages run their course. Everyone, I'm sure, would prefer a 977@redundant board to a regulated one. With censorship, stupidity may be lost, 978@but so eventually goes truth and creativity. 979@ With that said, I suggest that we take a vote 8If this truly is a 980@democratic board) on whether we prefer redundancy and obnoxiousness to 981@censorship. So everone, please say Yae or Nae to censorship at the 982@beginning of your next message. After a full disk, I will count the votes 983@ant report on them. Agreed? 984@ I believe that's enough on the matter. On to the next disk, and 985@please VOTE!!!! 059=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 08/18/88 23:06 Msg:2127 Call:10003646 Lines:2 986 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | See you next disk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 060=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 08/19/88 01:39 Msg:2128 Call:10003650 Lines:12 988 &*&*&*&*'s 989 Looks 990 Like 991 I'm 992 At 993 The 994 Bottom!!!!!!!! 995 Empty 996 Empty 997 Empty 998 An Astral Dreamer 999 &*&*&*&*'s