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...truth: As far as we, his family know, at the present time there is no cancer anywhere in Frank's body, and he is not in need of surgery of any kind. It's still difficult to understand why the media continue to pass along erroneous stories that frighten people...
...These children can frighten you," says Rocky Morris, a fireman at Engine 16. He is interrupted by the crash of a vase thrown through a living-room window 16 stories above his head. As shards of glass rain onto the parking lot, Morris shoots a sardonic look toward a teenager whose face pokes through the shattered window. "We'll find who did that, and we'll work with that person," he says. "We can address them because most of us were raised in these projects." He pauses, then offers a comment that his colleagues would surely echo. "You know...
When the old god Jehovah, or Yahweh, ceased to frighten most people, new prophets arose. People listened to preachings about capitalism, democracy, humanism, socialism and communism. When even these failed to fill the human soul, the unexplored exotic religions of the East, such as Buddhism [RELIGION, Oct. 13], beckoned. But here in the West, those religions are artificially implanted in a society that is spiritually lost. The followers are ready to be led like sheep into any corner of the religious corral--be it to mass suicide, sexual excess or even murder. Eastern religions are Eastern in their mentality...
Besides the wall of spikes, employees at Dracula's Castle sometimes improvise new ways to frighten the customers...
Although everyone at the castle searches for new ways to frighten the customers, workers said that the city's current population of "witches"--those who practice wicca, a pantheistic religion that has a following in town--prohibits them from mimicking witchcraft...