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- From: brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown)
- Subject: Re: Capitalist rapture on the 28th :)
- Organization: Oak Road Systems, Cleveland Ohio USA
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:13:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <BxAq21.22G@NCoast.ORG>
- References: <1992Nov3.142811@IASTATE.EDU> <49282@shamash.cdc.com>
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- In article <49282@shamash.cdc.com> dternes@duke.cdc.com (David Ternes) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov3.142811@IASTATE.EDU> danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock) writes:
- >>
- >> According to the paper this morning the guy running the Korean church
- >>that predicted the Rapture for Oct. 28th of this year has investments
- >>that matured in May... ...just like another case Jim Lippard mentioned.
- >>This fact will be introduced as evedince in his frauf trial.
- >>
- >A good lawyer will argue that, while his client believed that the faithful
- >were going to taken to heaven October 28th, his client didn't believe himself
- >to be of strong enough faith to be one of the faithful.
-
- Or she could get him off on the grounds that most states have never
- enforced the laws against frauf.
- --
- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems brown@Ncoast.ORG
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- "Only the futility of the first flood prevents God from unleashing another."
- --Chamfort, as quoted in Claude Arnaud's {Chamfort: A Biography}
-