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   From: EMAILSeekingHarryPotter@rocketmail.comHERE   
      
   On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 14:36:51 -0400, Tom wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 14:35:12 -0400, VD wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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".   
   >   
   > Fact as in you are full of factual shit, Dicks. You and your Potter   
   > Queers and your ramblings about magick and alchemy as if you know a   
   > fucking thing or none.   
      
   Closer to none than some I would acquiesce.   
      
   > Bah! The only fact here is that your a nutter.   
      
   Good Day, Tom.   
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