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To: one_less who wrote (362)	6/13/2008 10:56:44 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3816

The most "Feared" And Haunted Day Of 2008! 2008 has only one Friday the 13th this year and it is in June. So does this have any haunted or paranormal significance? In Necromancy it is a day dedicated for me to contact real ghosts, Spirits and sometimes demons and get as many predictions of the future I can! Many wiccan covens meet this night. as do those that hold seance's and Bone Conjurers. I personally have celebrated this day as a special day of the dead for many years. In my feelings and belief a special year is one that has one Friday the 13th and on Friday the 17th. I use tto celebrate the day when I lved in Marshall, Texas by shattering mirrors, and looking for black cats and ladders. Call me crazy but one should seize the day! Any other time of the year I could not stand people breaking mirrors. Friday the 13th is considered a day of bad luck in English-, French- and Portuguese-speaking countries around the world, as well as in Austria, Germany, Estonia, Finland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Republic of Ireland, Poland, Bulgaria, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, and even the Philippines . Similar superstitions exist in some other traditions. In Greece, Romania and Spanish-speaking countries, for example, it is Tuesday the 13th that is considered unlucky. In Italy it is Friday the 17th which occurs in October only this year. Many ghost hunting groups, Mediums, Psychics and Paranormal investigators go out knowing this is the day you will be in contact with the dead weither you want to or not. June 13 is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 201 days remaining until the end of the year. hauntedamericatours.com

To: one_less who wrote (362)	6/13/2008 11:18:40 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 3816

The Irish should quit pokin their drunken swollen noses into other people's business.

To: one_less who wrote (362)	6/17/2008 5:16:53 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3816

UNITED IN FEAR “I am leading to the notion of social control, Peter. To the requirement of every sovereign state to exert control over the behavior of its citizens, to keep them orderly and reasonably docile. To keep them driving on the right side of the road-or the left as the case may be. To keep them paying taxes. And of course we know that social control is best managed through fear.” “Fear,” Evans said. “Exactly. For fifty years, Western nations had maintained their citizens in a state of perpetual fear. Fear of the other side. Fear of nuclear war. The communist menace. The Iron Curtain. The Evil Empire. And within the Communist countries, the same in reverse. Fear of us. Then, suddenly, in the fall of 1989, it was all finished. Gone, vanished. Over. The fall of the Berlin Wall created a vacuum of fear. Nature abhors a vacuum. Something had to fill it.” Evans frowned. “You’re saying the environmental crises took the place of the Cold War?” “That is what the evidence shows. Of course, now we have radical fundamentalism and post-9/11 terrorism to make us afraid, and those are certainly real reasons for fear, but that is not my point. My point is, there is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us. Before terrorism we feared the toxic environment. Before that we had the Communist menace. The point is, although the specific cause of our fear may change, we are never without the fear itself. Fear pervades society in its aspects. Perpetually” MICHAEL CRICHTON – STATE OF FEAR – PAGE 500