[UA] Random thought thing.

[Joe Iglesias]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:48:10   Doug Stalker wrote:
>I recommend Robert Anton Wilson's "Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies,
>Cults, and Cover-Ups"
>It is a very broad, very shallow look at conspiracies.  Excellent for use as a
>roleplaying source, and lots of fun to read.  It is less about real
>conspiracies, and more about what people think about conspiracies.

It's worth noting that RAW evidently came across a Mage: the Ascension homepage and took it at face value.  Still, it's a pretty good book.

>A strange real world incident:
>Several years ago, a friend and I were aboutto cross a road at University (UNSW
>in Sydney) when am old guy in a pickup truck pulled up and handed up a large
>stack of paper, before saying someting incoherent and driving off.  The paper
>was a lot of pamplets consisting of poor quality photocopies that seemed to
>"explain" how the author had created cold fusion and there was a large
>conspiracy trying to cover it up.  

When I was working at a Barnes & Noble, I was surprised to find we carried a journal devoted to the CF kook community.  Very eclectic magazine section we had.


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