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   From: Aunty_Kreist@satanickittens.net   
      
   "Pertial"  wrote in message   
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   > > "Pertial"  wrote in message   
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   > >> "Shez"  wrote in message   
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   > >> > In article <4225e7cc$1_1@127.0.0.1>, Pertial  >> > real.net> writes   
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   > >> >>"Pip"  wrote in message   
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   > >> >>heast.rr.com...   
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   > >> >>> "Dale Houstman"  wrote in message   
   > >> >>> news:42232390.4070905@skypoint.com...   
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   > >> >>>> Rhyanon wrote:   
   > >> >>>> > Ooh, grammar lames, a sign of having no wit with which to do   
   > > battle.   
   > >> >>>> >   
   > >> >>>>   
   > >> >>>> Ooh, magick, a sign of having no ability to deal with the world as   
   it   
   > > is.   
   > >> >>>   
   > >> >>> Well, you forget that the "world" is not the same as it was only 50   
   > > years   
   > >> >>> ago.  Much less 300 years ago.  And the world that you tidily   
   inhabit   
   > > now,   
   > >> >>> will not be the same one 50 years from now, much less 300 years   
   from   
   > > now.   
   > >> >>> So expand your thinking.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >>Yes, but:   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >>Name one magician whose magic is responsible for ANY   
   > >> >>change in the world at all.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >>Embarassing, isn't it?   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >>   
   > >> > Jesus by all accounts ;)   
   > >>   
   > >> If that's it, I claim a total win.   
   > >>   
   > >> Jesus wasn't a magician by any yardstick that you measure on.   
   > >   
   > > Water into wine is transmutation.   
   > > Calming a storm is weather magic.   
   > > The ascension is levitation.   
   > > Getting out of your own tomb is a damn good escape act any way you slice   
   it.   
   >   
   > All this seems silly.   
   >   
   > How about Santa Claus?   
      
      
   Santa is an egregore. An entity cretaed by the large magnitude of energy   
   directed towards it.   
      
   Gosh, didn't youse guys play D and D? :)   
      
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