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   XPost: alt.magick   
   From: Aetyr@nc.rr.com   
      
   Beneath it all I sense a genuine question.   
   Yes, it works, but it doesn't work all the time.   
   Those who indulge in it, don't emphasize the failures, they prefer to see   
   the glass as half full, rather than half empty.  Pessimism destroys your   
   odds of success, which is quickly learned.   
   Like ESP, which is proven solely thu statistics, magical success can be   
   statistically proven to work a percentage of the time....but, you have to be   
   very specific on how you track your results and "experiments".   
      
   Do some people that you know seem lucky?  If you have this in your sights,   
   WHY do you think they experience luck?  Do you believe in luck?  Do you   
   believe in bad luck?  Do you believe that you have had bad luck?  If you do,   
   why do you believe that?   
      
   Most people think that they have had luck, good or bad, when things happen   
   that they have not contributed to causally, in a significant way.  Do you   
   know a poet who got a "lucky break'?  What is luck?   
      
   Anytime you are dealing with a deity, or the concept of luck, you are   
   already in Shez's shoes.  Be careful about what you are thinking.   
   Pip   
   "Pertial"  wrote in message   
   news:4225df70$1_1@127.0.0.1...   
   >   
   > >>Heehee.....let's put 'im in a mason jar with some Four thieves vinegar,   
   and   
   > >>throw it in the river......   
   > >>   
   > >>   
   > > No I don't want to pollute a perfectly nice river, Do you have any   
   > > plutonium dumps over their.. Lets put him with the radioactive Garbage..   
   > > He can spend the next thousand years or so having a half life...;)   
   > > I like the mason jar and vinegar, add a few bent nails and a bit of   
   > > urine and you would have an old fashioned witch bottle...   
   >   
   >   
   > Ya think that'll work?   
   >   
   > :)   
   >   
   > Admit it. In all your spells and   
   >                    horsing around:  Nothing ever happened.   
   >   
   > At least the Christians have the famous "Faith" concept to sidestep   
   > the obvious.  How do you?   
   >   
   > I mean, it must eat at you that none of it works   
   > (unless you delude yourself).   
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   > Cheers!   
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