Today's Topics:
Radium Electric Beam
The Spielberg Five, take two
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From: Christopher Penrose <penrose@silvertone.princeton.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 23:09:21 EST
Message-Id: <9211060409.AA03562@lespaul>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:
SEOUL, South Korea (UPI) -- The Tami Mission Society,
the group that
predicted the end of the world last Wednesday night, is to
disband after
the anticipated Armageddon failed to occur, officials said
Monday.
The group is also to place advertisements in Korean
daily newspapers
apologizing for the unrest it caused.
An official said church leaders met Sunday and decided
to discontinue
preaching doomsday. They decided to advise congregation
members to go
back to their original churches, the official said.
The church had predicted that the end of the world
would come at
midnight Oct. 28, and that only faithful believers would be
lifted up to
heaven. About 1,300 followers gathered at the church Wednesday
night and
prayed for ascension. But nothing happened.
Meanwhile, pastor Lee Chang-rim, 44, who opened the
church in May,
1988, remained in jail awaiting trial on charges of defrauding
his
followers of more than $4 million in the form of contributions
to his
church.
Lee has told investigators that he wants to return the
money to the
contributors now that his prediction of doomsday has failed, a
church
official said.
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 09:09:23 -0500
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9211051409.AA05016@hemlock>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Radium Electric Beam
>From _More News of the Weird_ by Chuck Shepherd, John J. Kohut, and Roland
Sweet (Plume Books, $7.95)
Ned Searight brought suit for $14 million against the State of New Jersey in
1976, charging that while in custody in 1962, the state unlawfully injected him
with a radium electric beam. Searight claimed that as a result of the
injection, someone talked to him on the inside of his brain. The case was
dismissed by the United States District Court on the grounds that the suit was
barred by the statute of limitations. In his opinion, the judge noted, "But
taking the facts as pleaded...they show a case of presumably unlicensed radio
communication, a matter which comes within the sole jurisdiction of the Federal
Communications Commission.... And even aside from that, Searight could have
blocked the broadcast to the antenna in his brain simply by grounding it....
Searight might have pinned to the back of a trouser leg a short chain of paper
clips so that the end would touch the ground and prevent anyone from talking to
him inside his brain."
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 09:14:08 -0500
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9211051414.AA05022@hemlock>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: The Spielberg Five, take two
>From "The New York Times", Tuesday, November 3, 1992, page A12:
And in Georgia, Senator Sam Nunn confirms that the tabloid Weekly World News
got it right. He says he and four other Senators - fellow Democrat John Glen
[sic] of Ohio and Republicans Orrin Hatch of Utah, Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas
and Alan Simpson of Wyoming - are, in fact, space aliens.
"I confess," he told a Savannah rally. "It's amazing I've been able to keep it
a secret for 54 years."
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