From: janice@mailinator.com   
      
   In article ,   
   david@edenroad.demon.co.uk says...   
      
   >I suspect that the more private believers   
   >are motivated by the more personal reasons: fear of death or   
   >meaninglessness, and so on.   
      
   I can remember being motivated by a desire to have some special occult   
   power.  Something on the order of Stephen King's "Carrie" would have been   
   preferable, but I was willing to settle for being clairvoyant or   
   communicating with aliens. :-)   
      
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