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   From: EMAILSeekingHarryPotter@rocketmail.comHERE   
      
   On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 14:17:09 -0400, Tom wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 14:01:21 -0400, VD wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:31:08 -0400, Sirius Black wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:54:40 -0400, Carrie wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   I think the Harry Potter books are inspired.   
   >>>   
   >>> "Sirius" statement. lol Inspired by whom?   
   >>   
   >> That's an interesting and very important question. On the extreme edge   
   >> (or is it?), there is a contingent who very vociferously state that   
   >> Ms. Rowling was inspired by God (Gnosis).   
   >>   
   >> I fall to some degree in this group. I do not see how anyone, Ms.   
   >> Rowling inclusive, could produce such vibrant alchemical and elaborate   
   >> Christian symbology without there being a path of influence with   
   >> Gnosis.   
   >>   
   >> That path would be through her opened heart, her lily or rosebud, and   
   >> this shines to Ms. Rowling's credits. No one is summoned or commanded   
   >> to have open pathways, it is something they must due themselves. Peel   
   >> back the layers of this life in seeking the next (eternal).   
   >>   
   >> So if Ms. Rowling was inspired, and I firmly believe she was   
   >> gnostically, or if she was not, or if she was inspired by nicotine and   
   >> caffeine ;), it matters.   
   >>   
   >> It matters resolutely.   
   >   
   > Even when a book is part of a series it stands on its own or falls   
   > down on its own, no matter who wrote it.   
   >   
   > It's one thing to say "I've had good luck with Chevys so I'll take a   
   > chance on another" but something entirely different to say "I'll only   
   > ever drive a Chevy so you can keep the rest".   
   >   
   > There is a mindset that says "this is MY football team" or "this is MY   
   > make of automobile", or "MY political party", that gives itself over   
   > without further thought to being owned by a specific football team,   
   > one kind of car, or one author or band or political party.   
   >   
   > It is that mindset that I hold in contempt, not authors in general and   
   > not readers who have authorial preferences; there is a difference   
   > between preference and loyalty.   
      
   Nice rant, Tom ;>) albeit completely off topic and without merit...on   
   any topic as far as I can tell.   
      
   > Bah! You are still full of shit and have no /facts/ regarding this   
   > "Gnosis" or the influence thereof and within.   
      
   "Fact" as in scientific "fact", you are quite correct. By definition I   
   would thing of "Gnosis".   
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