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Re: psychoceramics: god saves the earth flying saucer foundation
- To: Ken Alexander <k--@e--.umich.edu>
- Subject: Re: psychoceramics: god saves the earth flying saucer foundation
- From: "Andrew C. Bulhak" <a--@z--.net>
- Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 04:09:41 +1100
- Cc: p--@z--.net
- References: <199712230044.TAA--@q--.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: owner-psychoceramics
[Ken Alexander]
> Hadn't heard about this one. The bogon flux from Texas attracts
> them all the way from China. Mark your calendars! Go cults!
>
>
> TAIPEI, Dec 22 (AFP) - Taiwan has set up a special force to
> investigate [...] the God Saves the Earth Flying Saucers Foundation.
> [...]
> One member's mother told police her daughter had paid 60,000
> Taiwan dollars (1,875 US) in membership fees and had been asked to
> pay at least 30,000 US dollars more if she were saved.
> [...]
> The government was alerted by reports that around 100 members
> had followed the cult leader to Dallas, Texas where they were to
> wait for flying saucers to pick them up.
> In an interview with the Taipei-based United Daily News, one
> follower said they would be "meeting God" on March 31 in Dallas and
> would be taken to Mars by flying saucers in 1999 when Doomsday comes.
Dallas? Cult leader? Flying saucers?
Sounds like a mutation of a SubGenius meme.
-- acb [has anyone heard of the giant face-shaped asteroid due to
collide with the Earth in mid-1998?]
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