XPost: alt.magick, alt.religion.wicca, alt.native   
   XPost: alt.recovery.adult-children   
   From: medusa@slox.com   
      
   "Midwinter"  wrote in message   
   news:Xns996398B954FFCmidwintermhotmailcou@216.196.109.145...   
   > arewhanariki  wrote:   
   >   
   > > Corey... you are not a child anymore and it is time to put away   
   > > childish things in the words of Saint Paul.   
   >   
   > The words of Saint Paul have relevance only to those who subscribe to   
   > his church.  A person who puts away childish things willingly closes off   
   > a great swathe of life's lessons and experiences, and seals away things   
   > that are instructive, and joyous, and wondrous, and frightening.  A   
   > person who puts away childish things hides away from a large part of who   
   > they are.   
   >   
   >   
   > > Fairies are childish things.   
   >   
   > Fairies are no more childish things than are angels or demons.  These   
   > are the result of humanity's attempt to give shape and sense to things   
   > which otherwise defy our comprehension.   
   >   
   >   
   > > I appreciate the fairy drawing book you sent me.   
   >   
   > You tell him to put away such childish things and then tell him you   
   > appreciate his fairy book?  Do you not think this is a mixed message?   
   >   
      
   But she needs to put her ORTHOdox ethics aside to make money. She needed the   
   book. She needs to draw faeries for twelve-year-olds, even though she   
   doesn't believe in such things.   
      
   >   
   > > I am in my own pit of despair, wrestling with my own   
   > > demons, being licked at by my own hell fires. I have been thinking you   
   > > might want to go visit a monastery and find out what the angelic life   
   > > is all about.   
   >   
   > With more respect than you probably perceive, if you are so tormented   
   > then why do you feel entitled to give advice to someone else?   
   > Particularly someone as obviously confused and impressionable as Corey?   
   >   
      
   She's figured out that the more she talks to him, the more stuff she gets.   
      
   Medusa Slox   
      
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