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From: plugge@cs.rulimburg.nl (Leo Plugge)
Subject: Re: Is there a spiritual force which also effects the future?
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 08:44:40 GMT

In article <1994Sep11.164225.6753@news.media.mit.edu> minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:

>In article <SOSUSER.2.2E731869@sos.net> SOSUSER@sos.net (SOSFULLUSER) writes:
>>Dear Reader,
>>
>>Many people believe that past, present, and future events are influenced by 
>>spiritual events.  What is your thoughts?

>Thousands of years ago, many clever people discovered that it was easy
>to implant this belief into innocent minds, and that these victims
>would then pay handsome fees to those who claimed to be able to
>manipulate these effects. This activity soon became so profitable that
>it is now the third largest industry in the world, surpassed only by
>entertainment and government.  It frequently attempts to advance
>itself by taking over government and by abolishing entertainment.

>Um, I don't know how good they are at changing the past.  It's hard to
>design really good experiments for that.

They're very good at it: 'they' recently announced that the earth is 
round and not the centre of the universe. History and text books will be 
changed accordingly. Other opinions will never have existed.
With the compliments of the Vatican. ;-)


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