Today's Topics:
Headline Proves Existence of Our Ancestor
superstition
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Message-ID: <9004160033.AA26769@ucscb.UCSC.EDU>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 90 17:33:59 -0700
From: Kareem du Gristle <gristle@ucscb.ucsc.edu>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Headline Proves Existence of Our Ancestor
A headline on the front page of today's (Sunday) San Jose Mercury News
reads:
"YETI OR NOT"
And has an article with a huge picture of what is unquestionably our great
ancestor, the Yeti
Rev. Kareem du Gristle
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Message-ID: <9004160208.AA20447@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 90 21:08:18 EST
From: John Woods <jfw@eddie.mit.edu>
To: SubGenius%MC.LCS.MIT.EDU@MINTAKA.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: superstition
So, on this past Friday, I overheard a conversation at work. The first
person is, I think, a real minister (of a State-authorized church, that is),
though he now does something vague back in the manufacturing area; the second
is nondescript.
P1: So, happy Good Friday to you.
P2: Hey, did you know it's also Friday the Thirteenth?
Aren't you superstitious?
P1: Nah...
Today's second lesson comes from tonight's Nature show, which was on snakes.
Evidently, identifying lunar eclipses with a snake eating the moon is a
common belief amongst peoples without mass-market religions. In Cambodia,
they even go to the effort of warning the moon of the impending danger as the
eclipse begins. "Nature" showed some footage of some Cambodian soldiers in
1975 or so using some serious heavy artillery to drive off the snake, killing
one (human), wounding 85, and (evidently) driving off the snake. Now, the
thought of people combining Stone Age superstition with Atomic Age weaponry
really frightens me... (Anyone knows that lunar eclipses are caused by the
X-ists borrowing the moon for cosmic practical jokes!)
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