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From: jani@dsl.pipex.com
"Shez" wrote in message
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> In article <38pc9hF5qvet1U1@individual.net>, Jani
> writes
>>
>>"Shez" wrote in message
>>news:lqGVHOCcW3JCFwMP@oldcity.f2s.com...
>>> In article <38p9qfF5qooe5U1@individual.net>, Jani
>>> writes
>>>>
>>>>"Pertial" wrote in message
>>>>news:42275aa4$1_1@127.0.0.1...
>>>>>
>>>>> "Jani" wrote in message
>>>>> news:38p0cpF5pgailU1@individual.net...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Pertial" wrote in message
>>>>>> news:42274108$1_2@127.0.0.1...
>>>>
>>>>>>> People who are shakey in what they term their "beliefs"
>>>>>>> (and I've never met anyone that wasn't shakey, since
>>>>>>> all the myths are fiction) can frequently overcompensate
>>>>>>> by defending them obsessively.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh gawds yes. You should look in on some of the xtian groups. Satan's
>>>>>> hiding under every rock, dontchaknow.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't even read much here. :)
>>>>> At this point, this thread is about it...
>>>>
>>>>I thought you were a r.a.p. reg? Of course, everyone passes through arw
>>>>sooner or later, it's like bloody Trafalgar Square in that respect :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>> God concepts are particularly prone to obsession, but
>>>>>>> obsession doesn't convert the myth into truth, and reality
>>>>>>> sits there chuckling at the gyrations. (poetic tangent)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, Rhy's not a godder, and neither am I. But I am interested in
>>>>>> religion as a social phenomenon. Watching the progression of Wicca,
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> mere fifty years or so, is a bit like watching that speeded-up film
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> mouse corpse decaying.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (Hmm, perhaps that wasn't the pleasantest example I could have picked
>>>>>> ... )
>>>>>
>>>>> When it comes to religion I'm sure I would have to invent one
>>>>> from scratch... (using only ordinary kitchen utensils, of course :)
>>>>>
>>>>> But perhaps the wicca/magick/pagan groups could help. Heh...
>>>>
>>>>Oh, we're quite good on the history of invented religions, indeed. And
>>>>apocryphal tales thereof ... did you know that Gardner and Crowley
>>>>cooked
>>>>up
>>>>Wicca so they could whip naked girls without getting arrested? Or that
>>>>the
>>>>Church of All Worlds and Scientology were both the result of a bet
>>>>between
>>>>Heinlein and LRH as to who could invent a better religion? :)
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are some *teachings* worth learning, and perhaps
>>>>>>> many are taught in your various practices.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From what I know of various pagan trads, yes, there are. Hell of lot
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> outright crap as well, of course.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> None of our Usenet banter affects it, eh?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Heh, one would have to be pretty insecure, if it did :) But then I'm
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> defending a myth, and I don't have any obsessions ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Not even chocolate? :)
>>>>
>>>>Oh, don't. My dislike of chocolate is a constant source of embarrassment
>>>>to
>>>>my pagan friends. And I made a real effort to substitute chocolate when
>>>>I
>>>>quit smoking, as well. Ended up giving away a block of Green & Black's
>>>>Maya
>>>>Gold to the neighbourhood children, cos it was just .. ugh....
>>>>
>>>>Jani
>>>>
>>>
>>> Blasphemy.... you could have sent it to me you know.. Chocolate is
>>> wasted on the young :)
>>
>>Oh, I dunno, Maya Gold has chili spices in it, I think. A learning
>>experience for the littl'uns :-)
>>
>>Jani
>
> Nope that's you off my Solstice card list, and I have taken you out of
> my will to... the garden gnome is going to my cousin now.... That will
> teach you...
I didn't want the gnome, I had my eye on the dragon ;)
Jani
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