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SubGenius Digest #400
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Message-ID: <19900316231849.0.MT@OUROBOROS.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 17:35 EST
From: thant%horus.esd@sgi.com
To: subgenius@MC.lcs.mit.edu
CC: thant@horus.esd.sgi.com
Subject: please add me to your list
Hindu sacred epics and puranas, the number of years reconed to the present
cycle of time, the so-called Kali Yuga, is 432,000; the number reconed to the
"great cycle" (mahayuga) within which this yuga falls being 4,320,000.
In the Icelandic Eddas, in Othin's warrior hall, Valholl, there were 540
doors, through each of which, on the "Day of the Wolf," there would pass 800
divine warriors to engage the antigods in a battle of mutual annihilation.
800 x 540 = 432,000
In Babylon, there had been a Chaldean priest, Berossos, who, c. 280 BC, had
rendered in Greek an account of the history and mythology of Babylonia,
wherein it was told that between the time of the rise of the first city, Kish,
and the coming of the Babylonian mythological flood (from which that of
the Bible is taken), there elapsed 432,000 years, during which antediluvian
era, ten kings reigned. Very long lives!
Old Testament (Genesis 5) from Adam to Noah were ten antediluvian patriarchs.
Adam was 130 years old when he begat Seth, who was 105 when he begat Enosh,
and so on, to Noah, who was 600 years old when the flood came: to a grand
total of 1656 years, or 86,400 seven-day weeks. 86,400 / 2 = 43,200.
The equinoctial points around the beltway of the zodiac (the vernal equinox,
for example, moving from the sign of Aries, where it had been before the birth
of Christ, through Pisces, where it is now, toward Aquarious, where it will be
in a couple of hundred years), requires for one complete cycle of the twelve
zodiacal signs exactly 25,920 years, which term is known as "great" or
"Platonic" year. But if we divide 25,920 by 60 (which is the ancient
mesopotamian 'soss,' or basic sexagesimal unit of astronomical measurement,
still used in the measurement of circles, whether of time or space), the
quotient is 432.
Sixty seconds per minute times sixty minutes per hour times 24 hours per day
is 86,400. (86,400 / 2 = 43,200)
Engineers in the Wilson Sporting Goods laboratories testing (for distance)
golf balls with anywhere from 30 to 1,212 dimples were advised by the computer
that the optimum number would be 432.
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Message-ID: <9003160337.AA08247@ucscb.UCSC.EDU>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 19:37:36 -0800
From: Kareem du Gristle <gristle@ucscb.ucsc.edu>
To: subgenius-request@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: got some HEAD for ya (severed, that is)
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Kareem du Gristle, registered Fore-Man, here to give you head!
you got any beef on that skull, reply to gristle@ucscb.ucsc.edu
"The bleeding head of Arnold Palmer, he will set you free
The bleeding head of Arnold Palmer, he's the one for me!
(woo woo)!"
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>From San Jose Mercury News:
BRONX TEEN-AGERS' "SOCCER BALL" TURNS OUT TO BE SEVERED HEAD
NEW YORK- A gruesome discovery in a desolate South Bronx
neighborhood left police detectives puzzled Sunday and neighborhood residents
horrified. The mystery began Saturday afternoon when a group of boys played an
impromptu soccer game on a dead end street. The "ball" they were using was a
severed head wrapped in cloth, police said. The boys had thrown the "ball"into
a trash-can fire before the father of one of them discovered it was a human
head, police Officer Anthony Mazzola said. The arms and legs of the
dismembered body, believed to have been a Hispanic in his late teens, were
found nearby, wrapped in two green garbage bags in a cardboard box on the
sidewalk. The torso was not found, police said, but detectives were looking at
a possible link at the discovery last week of a male Hispanic torso in Fort
Tryon Park. The torso also was found wrapped in plastic garbage bags and
stuffed in a cardboard box. The medical examiner's office refused to comment
on the case. The police report of the body parts found Saturday provided the
following account: Just before 3 p.m., the boys ranging in age from 9 to 13,
found a box on the sidewalk. Inside were two plastic garbage bags and what the
boys said they thought was a ball of rags. They kicked the object up the
street for about 10 yards and then threw it in a trash-can fire. Moments
later, Ralph Rodriguez, who was washing his car at a nearby hydrant, noticed a
human leg protruding from one of the plastic bags. Rodriguez, the father of
one of the boys, then found more body parts. It "was then he (Rodriguez)
realized the boys had been kicking around a head," Mazzola said. On Sunday,
police were continuing a homicide investigation. The abandoned block is a
popular spot to wash cars because of two open hydrants. But some residents
call it "the morgue." They say there have been at least five bodies dumped
there in the last two years. A young man who identified himself only as
Roberto, 22 said: "This is one horror story I don't want to know anything
about. I don't want to end up like that." Louis Cruz, 13, said: "I saw the
hacked-up limbs. I've seen dead bodies before, but this was wild. This was
like some horror movie."
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"Science does not remove the terror of the Gods"
"Nor does it remove your HEAD!"
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Message-ID: <9003170030.AA25063@psyche.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 19:30:25 EST
From: Michael Turyn <mturyn@psyche.mit.edu>
To: SubGenius%MC.LCS.MIT.EDU@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: SubGenius Digest #400
Oddly enough, if you take the letter `O' to be 0, and count backward in
the alphabet,
BOB = 13-0-13
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