Schwa
's past is slightly blurred, but it is generally held that the
religion has its roots in ancient Egypt. A small breakaway group are believed to
have gathered regularly to exchange news and, on occasion, personal accounts of
landings by what they called `star-creatures'. These beings were identical to
the Egyptian gods, and their belief was that these beings came to their land,
from their home amongst the stars, disguised as animals with which they were
familiar (the jackal, the cat etc). Some hieroglyphics have been uncovered by
archaeologists which, according to Schwa followers, are the original
inscriptions of members of the ancient religion, but have been wrongly
interpreted by `UFO ...
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year old art student at the
University of Michigan, started came to be known as `The Union', a wave of
change that would sweep across the world over a period of two years, and would
result in united international Schwa religion.
"I had just been transferred from (the University of) Wisconsin in the
earlier part of that year," Krantz says. "I had attended regular meetings with
about half a dozen other believers. We met one night each week to talk about
stuff related to our belief - that the Earth, and everything on it, was created
by extraterrestrial beings. I guess you could say they're on the same level as
the gods of other religions, but we believe that our creators are actual living,
breathing beings, not spirits; an analogy would be our superiority over
creatures which we created through gene technology, DNA splicing or whatever.
"At one of these meetings we decided that we should have some sort of
symbol that we could make into stickers. Each of us could then stick them ...
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pathetic, really. Finally my boss caught on to what I was doing,
and he called me into his office. He gave me a big lecture about the stupidity
of sniffing solvent, the fact that he could have had me charged with shoplifting,
don't ruin your life, blah blah blah. Then he gave me my last paycheck - minus
the cost of a can of solvent. That night I was pretty pissed off, and I sniffed
a little more than usual. I was climbing onto the roof to see if I could fly
when I thought of this brilliant joke. I thought it was so funny that I forgot
all about flying and just went back to my room to write it down before I forgot
about it. Later on I told it to the other guys over. Although it had nothing ...
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