(fwd) Heavens Gate - Formal Autopsy (fwd)

Gordon Irlam (gordoni@base.com)
Sun, 30 Mar 1997 18:34:03 -0800 (PST)

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Subject: Heavens Gate - Formal Autopsy

>
> Thirty-nine lives may be a powerful statement,
> if their deads and deeds are clear and pure.
>
> This is the judgement of their Form and Substance.
>
> Specifically, by their works, in this case, the
> tangible results are 39 dead bodies and some HTML pages.
>
> With an autopsy, it is appropriate "to see" the objects
> of which we speak and thus, here is the complete HTML for
> the "Heaven's Gate - How and When It May Be Entered" page
> at http://www.heavensgate.com/
>
> ---html---
>
> The first formal comment regarding this HTML is that
> there is *no* convention regarding the formal distinction
> between the formal HTML Tags and substantive content of the
> document. Because content may be arbitrarily capitalized,
> the optimum convention for facilitating the visual distinction
> and recognition between HTML Tags and document content is
> to uniformally capitalize the HTML Tags, which are *not*
> case sensitive.
>
> And, at a formal level, no DOC HTML Version Tag was included.
>
> So, now we look at the Head of the page and the title is well-formed.
> ( From this point on, formal comment lines will begin with "***** ". )
>
> <head>
>
> <title>Heaven's Gate - How and When It May Be Entered</title>
>
> ***** Okay, these folks are aware of Meta-Tags for facilitating hits
> ***** and "top-of-the-pile" retreival, hence, more potential customers.
> ***** The first Meta Tag is for summary descriptions and gives a lot of
> ***** clues of where these folks are coming from.
>
> <meta name="description" content="How
> and When Heaven's Gate, the Door to the Physical Kingdom Level Above
> Human,
> May Be Entered. Organized Religions Are Killers of Souls. UFOs and
> Extraterrestrials - Sorting the Good from the Bad. Final Warning for
> Possible Survivors.">
>
> ***** Now we get into the keywords and and these folks know how to pack
> ***** the deck. My favorite reference for how this game of Search Engine
> ***** registration is at
> http://www.digital-cafe.com/~webmaster/set01.html
> ***** The pure iterative nature of the repetition forces a high score,
> ***** but is pure formal and represents no additional substance.
> ***** Cheap, but it works, here and now.
>
> <meta name="keywords" content="Heaven's Gate,
>
> Heaven's Gate, Heaven's Gate, Heaven's Gate, Heaven's Gate, Heaven's
> Gate,
> ufo, ufo, ufo, ufo, ufo, ufo, space alien, space alien, space alien,
> space alien, space alien, space alien, extraterrestrial,
> extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial,
> extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial, millennium, millennium, millennium,
> millennium, millennium, millennium, millennium,
> misinformation, misinformation,
> misinformation, misinformation, misinformation, misinformation,
> freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, second coming,
> second coming, second coming, second coming, second coming, second
> coming, angels, angels, angels,
> angels, angels, angels, end times, end times, end times, end times, end
> times, end
> times, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, God, God, God, God,
> God, God">
> </head>
>
> ***** Okay, so much for the Head portion.
> ***** Clearly, these folks understand hexadecimal arithmetic,
> ***** as they must, in order to even be here. Okay.
> ***** However, there is a horrible flaw here, in that
> ***** an attempt to print a hardcopy with this color scheme
> ***** will produce a very light and bearly readable printed page.
> ***** This is because text colors are quite dim relative to a
> ***** pure white background, which is what is used in lieu of
> ***** printing a complete page of black background.
> ***** Ironic there their work is dim when transformed from
> ***** the medium of CyberSpace to the medium of the printed page.
>
> <body bgcolor="#000000" background="img/tile.jpg" text="#33ffcc"
> link="#cc99ff" vlink="#66cccc" alink="#ff0066">
> <center>
>
> ***** This is a *cool* graphic, but the IMG SRC Tag is terrible.
>
> <img src="img/redalrt3.gif" alt="Red Alert --">
>
> ***** Failure to include the WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes force the
> ***** browser to wait until the image is downloaded before the
> ***** browser can lay out the page. With cut and paste, it is so
> ***** easy to carry allong all the attributes and turn one the
> ***** one that are appropriate. It is also a constant reminder
> ***** of what all the options are. For example:
>
> <IMG SRC = "bitmaps/hr_rnbow.gif"
> BORDER = 0 ALT = "-------------------------------"
> VSPACE = 0 HSPACE = 0 WIDTH = 585 HEIGHT = 2>
>
> ***** is a more complete and useful Tag.
>
> 
> HALE-BOPP
> Brings Closure to:
>
> ***** Playing with the text colors too much obsecures the hyperlinks.
> ***** This is slick, but not professional.
>
> <img src="img/hbhgtd.jpg" align=center alt=Welcome to Heaven's Gate>
> <a name="top"></a>
> 
>
> ***** This is a relative complex table structure.
> ***** They have a high knowledge of HTML.
> ***** Note well that HTML is a "Mark Up" set of Tags,
> ***** and, that HTML is *not* a programming language
> ***** such as ALGOL, COBOL, PASCAL, or JAVA.
>
> <table border=0 width=92%><tr>
>
> <td> </td></tr><tr>
> <td>Whether Hale-Bopp has a "companion" or not is
> irrelevant from our perspective. However, its arrival is joyously very
> significant to us at "Heaven's Gate." The joy
> is that our Older Member in the Evolutionary Level Above Human (the
> "Kingdom of Heaven") has made it clear to us that Hale-Bopp's approach
> is the "marker" we've been waiting for -- the time for the arrival of
> the spacecraft from the Level Above Human to take us home to "Their
> World" -- in the literal Heavens. Our 22 years of classroom here on
> planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion -- "graduation" from the
> Human Evolutionary Level. We are happily prepared to leave "this world"
> and go with Ti's crew.
> 
> If you study the material on this website you will hopefully understand
> our joy and what our purpose here on Earth has been. You may even find
> your "boarding pass" to leave with us during this brief "window."
> 
> We are so very thankful that we have been recipients of this opportunity
> to prepare for membership in Their Kingdom, and to experience Their
> boundless Caring and Nurturing.</td>
> </tr></table>
> </center>
>
> ***** In walking through the above Table, the td and tr are
> ***** not immediately visible. The table is a 1 by 2 matrix.
> ***** In fact, the first tr entry is unnecessary since the
> ***** BR can be placed either before the Table, or within
> ***** the second tr pair.
>
> 
> <center>
>
> ***** Turning the center tag off and on is unnecessary.
>
> <hr width=80% size=1>
> Keys or Bookmarks to Vital
> Information
> 
> on Our Website
> <a name="keys"></a>
> <hr width=80% size=1>
>
> ***** Here comes the next Table, but the original HTML contains
> ***** no blank lines or comment dividers used here, such as
> ***** 
> ***** to visually partition the internal form of the HTML document,
> ***** for ease of maintenance and modification in the future.
> ***** However, there blank lines used to visually distinguish
> ***** several tr rows which constitute the 1 by 8 Table. Each
> ***** tr row consists of a a graphic image ( great graphics,
> ***** a bit sophmoric, but still, dazzling ) and narrative.
> ***** The above comments regarding IMG SRC Tags again apply.
>
> <table border=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr>
>
> <td><a href="misc/intro.htm">
> <img src="img/bttn1.jpg" hspace=25 align=absmiddle
> border=0 alt="Do's Intro: Purpose - Belief"></a></td>
> <td valign=middle><a href="misc/intro.htm">Do's
> Intro: Our Purpose -- The Simple Bottom Line</a> <font
> size=4>
> (an excerpt from our book 
> HEAVEN'S GATE
> -- see
> below)</td>
> </tr><tr>
>
> <td><a href="misc/95upd96.htm"><img src="img/bttn2.jpg" hspace=25
> align=absmiddle border=0 alt="Statement by an E.T."></a></td>
> <td valign=middle><a
> href="misc/95upd96.htm">Statement by
> an E.T. Presently Incarnate</a> color="#ccffff">
> (excerpt from our book)</td>
> </tr><tr>
>
> <td><a href="misc/ovrview.htm"><img src="img/bttn4.jpg" hspace=25
> align=absmiddle border=0 alt="Overview of Present Mission"></a> </td>
> <td valign=middle>
> <a href="misc/ovrview.htm">Overview of Present Mission</a>
> (excerpt from our book, a student
> paper)
> </td>
> </tr><tr>
>
> <td><a href="misc/lastchnc.htm"><img src="img/bttn5.jpg" hspace=25
> align=absmiddle border=0 alt="Last Chance To Advance Beyond Human"></a>
> </td><td valign=middle>
> <a href="misc/lastchnc.htm">Last Chance To Advance Beyond Human</a>
> 
> (excerpt from our
> book)
> </td>
> </tr><tr>
>
> <td><a href="book/book.htm"><img src="img/bttn6.jpg" hspace=25
> align=absmiddle
> border=0 alt="To Access Our Book: "Heaven's Gate"></a> </td>
> <td valign=middle>To Access Our
> Book Online in its Entirety: 
> <a href="book/book.htm">How and When <font
> color="#ffff66">HEAVEN'S
> GATE May Be Entered</a> 
> </td>
> </tr><tr>
>
> <td><a href="misc/latest.htm"><img src="img/bttn7.jpg" hspace=25
> align=absmiddle
> border=0 alt="Transcripts of 2 videos"></a> </td>
> <td valign=middle><a
> href="misc/latest.htm">Transcripts
> of Two Recent Videos</a></td>
> </tr><tr>
>
> <td><a href="misc/letter.htm">
> <img src="img/bttn8.jpg" hspace=25 align=absmiddle border=0
> alt="Our Position Against Suicide"></a> </td>
> <td valign=middle>
> <a href="misc/letter.htm">Our Position Against Suicide</a>
> </td>
> </tr><tr>
>
> <td><a href="misc/member.htm"><img src="img/bttn9.jpg" hspace=25
> align=absmiddle
> border=0 alt="How a Member of the K.O.H. Might Appear"></a> </td>
> <td valign=middle><a href="misc/member.htm">How a
> Member of the Kingdom of Heaven Might Appear</a></font
> size></td>
> </tr><tr>
> </table>
>
> ***** This concludes the Table of links.
> ***** Recall that a center tag is still in effect.
> ***** This fanciful use of color will force the
> ***** surfer to test *everything* on the page as
> ***** being a possible link. Not real friendly.
>
> 
> <hr width=85% align=center size=1>
> 
> 
> To Order a Hard Copy of Our Book
> 
> <hr width=85% align=center size=1>
> </center>
>
> ***** This ends the center tag's effect.
> ***** However, there are no blanks lines anywhere near here.
> 
> 
> The following materials are available through TELAH Services:
> 
> 
> One of our correspondents from Germany offered to
> translate the following two transcripts into German.
> 
>
> ***** Ah. The good old Unorder List structure, a workhorse.
> ***** Nothing original, but a good "grind it out" approach.
>
> <ul>
> <li>Videotape 1:
> Last Chance To Evacuate Earth Before It's
> Recycled 
> (Sept. 29, 1996 - 70 min.)
> <li><a href="misc/vt092996.htm">Transcript of videotape
> 1.</a>
> ......
> <a href="misc/vg092996.htm">German translation</a>
> 
> <li>Videotape 2:
> Planet Earth About To Be Recycled -- Your Only
> Chance To Survive -- Leave With Us 
> (Oct. 5, 1996 - 58 min.)
> <li><a href="misc/vt100596.htm">Transcript of videotape
> 2.</a>
> ......
> <a href="misc/vg100596.htm">German translation</a>
> 
> <a name="book"></a>
> <li>Our <a href="book/book.htm">Book</a>, entitled
> How and When "Heaven's Gate" May Be Entered
> 
> (An Anthology
> of Our Materials).
> </ul>
>
> ***** End of the Unordered List, but no blank line.
> ***** Another unsized image is used and a general mesh
> ***** of HTML goes on for a bit.
>
> 
> <a name="telah"></a>
> <img src="img/srhg.jpg" align=right border=0 hspace=10 alt="Saturn
> Rings">
> 
> If you would like to send for videotapes,
> there is no charge. If you would like to copy them and
> return the originals to us, we will make
> them available to someone else. If you choose to assist
> with deferring our expenses, those funds would be reinvested towards
> getting this information out.
>
> ***** The p Tag *begins* a paragraph, after spacing a line,
> ***** and immediately suggests and identical visual form of the same.
> ***** Having the p Tag at the end of a paragraph is contrary to
> ***** the sematics of the Tag and obsecures the Tag further.
>
> The transcripts of videotapes 1 and 2 can be
> <a href="misc/latest.htm">viewed online</a>,
> <a href="misc/trans.zip">downloaded</a>
> or requested through TELAH Services.
>
> ***** Again, the p Tag malformality.
>
> 
> Hard copy editions of the book may be ordered through TELAH Services
> for $45 US. This includes shipping and handling, via priority mail.
> 
> 
>
> ***** It is not easy to follow what is Tags are in effect.
>
> 
> Requests For Materials Can Be Emailed To:  
> <a href="mailto:rep@heavensgate.com">
> rep@heavensgate.com</a>
> Or Sent Via Postal Service To:
> 
>
> <center>TELAH Services 
> 4757 E. Greenway Rd. Ste. 103-178 
> Phoenix, AZ 85032</center>
>
> ***** Okay. This the end of the real substance.
> ***** Now the "Navigation Bar" links are given.
>
> <a name="navbars"></a>
> <h3><center>
> | <a href="book/book.htm">To Access Our Online Book</a>
> How and When HEAVEN'S GATE May Be Entered</font
> color>
> | 
> | <a href="misc/intro.htm">Do's Intro: Purpose - Belief</a>
> | <a href="misc/95upd96.htm">Statement by an E.T. Presently
> Incarnate</a>
> | 
> | <a href="misc/vt092996.htm">Last Chance To Evacuate Earth</a>
> | <a href="misc/vt100596.htm">Planet About To Be Recycled</a>
> | 
> | <a href="misc/ovrview.htm">Overview of Present Mission</a>
> | <a href="misc/lastchnc.htm">Last Chance To Advance Beyond Human</a>
> | 
> | <a href="misc/letter.htm">Our Position Against Suicide</a>
> | <a href="misc/member.htm">How a Member of the Kingdom of Heaven Might
> Appear</a>
> | 
> | <a href="misc/link.htm">Connecting Links</a>
> | <a href="misc/secure.htm">Privacy Concerns</a>
> | 
> | <a href="#keys">Back to Bookmarks</a>
> | <a href="#top">Top of this Homepage</a>
> |</h3>
> 
>
> ***** And this is why there is a great deal of blank space at the
> ***** bottom of the external form ( browser view ) of the HTML web page.
> ***** By setting the font size to zero, the text will not appear
> ***** on the web page, but will occupy lines. Again, the idea here
> ***** is to choke the serach engines so they will stop on this page.
>
> Heaven's Gate
> Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate
> Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo ufo
> ufo
> space alien space alien space alien space alien space alien space alien
> space alien space alien space alien space alien space alien space alien
> extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial
> extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial
> extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial extraterrestrial
> extraterrestrial extraterrestrial misinformation misinformation
> misinformation misinformation misinformation misinformation
> misinformation
> misinformation misinformation misinformation misinformation
> misinformation
> freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom
> freedom freedom freedom second coming second coming second coming second
> coming second coming second coming second coming second coming second
> coming second coming angels angels angels angels angels angels angels
> angels angels angels end end times times end times end times end times
> end
> times end times end times end times end times end times 
> Key Words: (for search engines) 144,000,
> Abductees, Agnostic, Alien, Allah, Alternative, Angels, Antichrist,
> Apocalypse, Armageddon, Ascension, Atheist, Awakening, Away Team, Beyond
> Human, Blasphemy, Boddhisattva, Book of Revelation, Buddha, Channeling,
> Children of God, Christ, Christ's Teachings, Consciousness, Contactees,
> Corruption, Creation, Death, Discarnate, Discarnates, Disciple,
> Disciples,
> Disinformation, Dying, Ecumenical, End of the Age, End of the World,
> Eternal Life, Eunuch, Evolution, Evolutionary, Extraterrestrial,
> Freedom,
> Fulfilling Prophecy, Genderless, Glorified Body, God, God's Children,
> God's
> Chosen, God's Heaven, God's Laws, God's Son, Guru, Harvest Time, He's
> Back,
> Heaven, Heaven's Gate, Heavenly Kingdom, Higher Consciousness, His
> Church,
> Human Metamorphosis, Human Spirit, Implant, Incarnation, Interfaith,
> Jesus,
> Jesus' Return, Jesus' Teaching, Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven,
> Krishna
> Consciousness, Lamb of God, Last Days, Level Above Human, Life After
> Death,
> Luciferian, Luciferians, Meditation, Members of the Next Level, Messiah,
> Metamorphosis, Metaphysical, Millennium, Misinformation, Mothership,
> Mystic,
> Next Level, Non Perishable, Non Temporal, Older Member, Our Lords
> Return,
> Out of Body Experience, Overcomers, Overcoming, Past Lives, Prophecy,
> Prophecy Fulfillment, Rapture, Reactive Mind, Recycling the Planet,
> Reincarnation, Religion, Resurrection, Revelations, Saved, Second
> Coming,
> Soul, Space Alien, Spacecraft, Spirit, Spirit Filled, Spirit Guide,
> Spiritual, Spiritual Awakening, Star People, Super Natural, Telepathy,
> The Remnant, The Two, Theosophy, Ti and Do, Truth, Two Witnesses, UFO,
> Virginity, Walk-ins, Yahweh, Yeshua, Yoda, Yoga,
> </center>
> </body></html>
>
> *****
> *****
> ***** End of the Heaven's Gate HTML Source code.
> *****
> *****
>
> It is difficult to be impressed with this work.
> It is that of an apprentice, not The Work of a Master.
>
>
> Formally yours,
> Robert Tufty
>
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