Name: Jk #18      
Date: Sun Mar 19 20:41:20 1989

You guys shoulda asked me about Baal...I ran across him a couple years ago in 
history class (plus I've got something very interesting in relation to him and 
the board to bring up at da Bash...)

Just something that occured to me whist reading through all these "You must be 
on ACID, d00d!" messages; is belief in this "God" SO well substantiated that 
it is PROVEN he exists?  If there were not a couple million Christians in the 
world, but rather only a few thousand, then those few thousand would be seen 
as TOTALLY insane: an all-powerful, invisible being who created the entire 
universe?  Get off the acid, d00d...

People "experience God in their lives", some get "reborn".  Guess what?  I 
have experienced things that can't be explained, and I have never even been 
drunk, much less high, in my life.  Of course, next you say "Well, then you're 
seriously insane..."  Fine.  If Christianity is synonomous with "sanity", I 
prefer being crazy.

And cut out the "Mr." stuff...to actually think someone around here is a 
"gentleman" is a joke...


Name: Headless Chicken #6      
Date: Mon Mar 20 00:15:07 1989

What was I going to ramble about?  Oh!  Hey, why don't you folks try to guess 
my PO box number.  It's not something that I can change and it is probably 
something you don't know.  Try it a few times, then I'll tell you if you are 
right.

As for Mr. K, if you dislike it, what would you prefer to be called?


Name: Doomer #20      
Date: Mon Mar 20 01:13:07 1989

Jk: I don't think that when the board said Baal possessed him, I don't think 
it meant the demon, dude...Something more realistic in fact.  Won't say it 
just now, but this is one of the things that I thought about before...


Name: Utwo #109      
Date: Mon Mar 20 15:23:35 1989

I think I get what Doom is getting at.  I'll wait an see though.  Don't
want to jump the gun.
 
JK:  Well why didn't you say so?  We were wondering about that at bash and you 
seemed void of comment.
 

Name: Fire Escape #65      
Date: Mon Mar 20 16:37:51 1989

Doom, Stex and Gryphon...  What did the board tell you about the 24th?  I
would wager to guess that it would try and persude you to reconsider your
plans for that evening. At any rate, as I have said before, it's nothing to
play with.

      JK: You want to be crazy? Go right ahead. Personally I think it takes a 
bit of insanity to throw away such a wonderful free gift as eternal life, 
forgiveness and victory. But that's your choice, more power to you, you'll 
need it my friend.


Name: Jk #18      
Date: Mon Mar 20 19:01:52 1989

First of all, I decided a while ago I AM insane anyway...kinda like it, which 
means even if I'm not insane, WANTING to be insane is insane, thus I'm 
insane...  I don't bite tho...usually...

Ah, but let a member of the lunatic fringe put a question to you, maybe try 
and give the foundations of Christianity a good swift kick...anyway...
You repeatedly say that I'm giving up ALL this good stuff...all I'm asking of 
you is to prove it to me.  If you can prove to me, beyond the shadow of a 
doubt, I'll...ummm...crucify myself (ah damn, you cn never get that last nail 
in though, can you? [thanks to Neil...]).  From my point of view, you're just 
suffering from delusions, or maybe a little too much acid (ahem)...  You have 
a mouldy old book and a several multi-million dollar businesses laughingly 
called "religions" to back you up.  You can claim "truth" all you want, but 
just becuause YOU claim it doesn't mean it is TRUTH.  Thus, we're not REALLY 
sure who the crazy one is around here.  

But tell me, is this cold of mine "divine retribution"?


Name: Doomer #20      
Date: Tue Mar 21 11:44:01 1989

Utwo: Email me your thoughts.  Still gotta clear up a few things...

FE: Heh, I think I'll talk to my board about the 24th just for kicks...let ya 
know what it says.


Name: Headless Chicken #6      
Date: Tue Mar 21 18:32:42 1989

Hmm, guess you deep believing folk aren't going to take me up on the 
challenge.  Oh, well.


Name: Doomer #20      
Date: Tue Mar 21 19:34:51 1989

What challenge was that, HC? I guess I missed it...


Name: Gryphon #21      
Date: Tue Mar 21 22:25:09 1989

Plus considering we haven't used it since last Bash, kinda hard...

Doom: Prithee, share thy thoughts....sounds interesting. next Bash oughta be 
really weird...did you remember the acid? 


Name: Ironman #120      
Date: Wed Mar 22 09:52:21 1989

Us thumpers can only point things out to you.  The only "proof" which will
ever satisfy you has to come from within.


Name: Headless Chicken #6      
Date: Wed Mar 22 10:54:38 1989

Get that piece of ply wood to tell you MY PO box number.  I can't change it, 
but you don't know it.  (Or at least I think that you don't know it.)


Name: Gryphon #21      
Date: Wed Mar 22 20:55:47 1989

But A board isn't omnipotent. 


Name: Doomer #20      
Date: Thu Mar 23 06:44:34 1989

Gryph is right, Spirits don't know EVERYTHING, if we knew where your PO box
WAS and when you'd be there it MIGHT work, but I seriously doubt it...Well,
I'll give it a try, the thing always gives an answer even if it doesn't know
most of the time.  What harm can it do?

Ironman: Welp, I'm waitin' for it...dum de dum...


Name: Jk #18      
Date: Thu Mar 23 15:00:00 1989

Ah, c'mon guys...don't say what he WANTS you to say.  The "proof" skeptics 
have is when somebody starts making excuses for the board or whatever.  Just 
give the thing a chance first.


Name: Utwo #109      
Date: Fri Mar 24 11:13:26 1989

It's just a game, I don't think to many people have an absolute belief in this
stuff.  Well may be CW.   But most of us do it for fun. Gees!  You other
people get carried away with reality.  Lightn' up.
 

Name: Crystal Warrior #25      
Date: Fri Mar 24 12:11:35 1989

Only "moi", i think not.  Don't EVEN try and tell me that evrybody else,
ESPECIALY Doom, n Stex aren't taken the board seriously. The things been to
accurit and to freaky to be called a game any more. We passed that stage along
time ago. Now it's real. Now it's not a game any more. Regardless of what
others tend to believe.
  
The test: Exactly, how the f*** is the board supposed to know you number when 
he doesn't even know who the hell you are? Perhaps if you were over and you 
communicated to the board youself and asked, then it could give an accurate 
answere. Nut thats not gonna happen now is it, cause we have no intention on 
letten -NON- horde's use it. THIS INCLUEDS TSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
   
 Horde: 1 question. Is Tss a member of the horde. If 1 person says yes, I 
swere I'm droppin out.
  

Name: Metalhead #7      
Date: Fri Mar 24 12:57:27 1989

    Crystal Warrior, explain to me the exact abilities of this board.  Then, 
we can give you a test of it's potential.  Can you sit it in front of the TV 
during the NBC Nightly News and acquaint it with Tom Brokaw and have it spit 
out his phone number?  It would know at least some information about Tom, and 
maybe that would work?  Or can you set a caterpillar on it, and learn what the 
bug was in its former life?  Inquiring minds want to know!!!


Name: Gryphon #21      
Date: Fri Mar 24 13:22:03 1989

CW: I myself consider the Horde as you, me, Jk, Doom, Stex, Utwo, Gaunt...


Name: Jk #18      
Date: Fri Mar 24 21:22:41 1989

I DO believe in this as well...my conception of reality includes the ability 
to contact otherworldly entities using this board because -I- have done it.  I 
have been BY MYSELF, barely touching the thing, and it was moving FAST.  Argue 
"self-delusion" all you want...I wasn't on anything, wasn't drunk, wasn't 
tired...I was TOTALLY aware of what was going on.  

For me, my mind is made up...ALL this exists.


Name: Doomer #20      
Date: Sat Mar 25 02:09:54 1989

-I- consider the Horde to be me and TSS.  The rest of you are dorks. :)

Metalhead: The thing can read your mind.  It can check on things (I think, 
just heard this haven't actually tried it yet) if it knows where you want it 
to check (Ah! Thought of an example: When Gaunt came to the door.  We asked 
the board when Gauntlet would get there and it spelled out NOW and we asked it 
'right at this second'? YES >Doorbell<)
Hmmm, I don't know how fast the spirits can travel but its pretty quick, 
methinx.  But if you put a note on Tom Brokaw's back (ahem) and then called up 
a really worldly, and honest, spirit I'm sure it could tell you what it said 
IF it knew where to go to find the dude.  The problem with asking the board 
questions that you already know the answer to is that it can read your mind, 
so its kinda pointless.  Tho, as I've said OVER AND OVER if you just think of 
a # and then ask the spirit to move it to that # IN YOUR MIND, that's good 
enough proof that the other guy is NOT pushing it! Now, why can't there be 
proof like that that God exists? Hmmmm..


Name: Fire Escape #65      
Date: Sat Mar 25 19:43:53 1989

Proof...  There is Doom, you just have to be willing to find it! 
 
P.S. Who do you think created the spirits in the board?  God DID!


Name: Doomer #20
Date: Sun Mar 26 15:05:30 1989

Whoa, Like, symbolism, dude...I say we write a letter to the pope to have
Warrior of the Son-on-on-on (Damncho, eh Gryph?) excommunicated on the grounds
of spreading false/stupid/IGNORANT (Heh..) doctrine.


Name: Gryphon #21
Date: Mon Mar 27 13:39:48 1989

Yeah Doom, I hate those echoes...


Name: Headless Chicken #6
Date: Mon Mar 27 16:01:32 1989

Commandments:  But now wait, FE, I'm confused.  Wasn't Mary the wife of Joseph
and wasn't her son the "Son of God"???  Maybe God should look in the mirror
himself.


Name: Ironman #120
Date: Tue Mar 28 20:21:50 1989

Uh, Headless Chicken, I tried my best (really !) but somehow I can't decipher
what you're asking/saying in that last post.


Name: Warrior Of The Son #116
Date: Wed Mar 29 16:26:18 1989

Ya Ironman, I was thinking the same exact thing.  Funny heh.


Name: Fire Escape #65
Date: Thu Mar 30 14:15:14 1989

Ditto Guys,  Care to translate that last post HC. 

Yes, Mary was engaged to be married to Joseph when the Spirit of God 
conceived in her God The Son (Emannuel: which means "God with us") to 
fulfill what was prophesied that a virgin will conceive and give birth to a 
son.. Isaiah 7:14.  
  Joseph was troubled (to say the least) to discover his financee pregnant and 
made plans to send her to the country so that she would not be stoned for 
fornication. It was at this point that an angel appeared to him in his dream 
and reassured him that Mary's child had been conceived by God, not through an 
act of the flesh. (Matthew 1:18-25).
   I don't see anything wrong here, why would God need to consult a mirror? He 
is perfect and can not do wrong, so what is your question concerning this 
event HC®                         Fire Escape