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- From: radzy@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (T. O. Radzykewycz)
- Subject: Re: Pagan Bumper Stickers
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:06:57 GMT
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- radzy@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (T. O. Radzykewycz) writes...
- > I've seen "blessed Be" and "An it Harm None" bumperstickers at Sci-Fi cons...
-
- lib1p@jane.uh.edu (Tammy Stark Blandino) writes:
- > I have found that there is a higher proportion of pagans among
- > SF people that in the populous in general. I believe it is
- > because SF people have the ability (as someone once put it) to
- > "consider alternate possibilities". This is necessary to break
- > from the religion of your parents and take a different path.
- >
- > "Consider alternate possibilities" Think about it a little.
- > Also think about how the average person is unable to do so.
-
- Yes, I've noticed this myself. I think that it is based on the
- following:
-
- There are a bunch of things that require people to go against
- the norms of society. These things include homosexuality,
- paganism, (in the US) belonging to small political parties, and
- so on. If a person is willing to go against societal norms in
- one way, then that person is more likely to be willing to go
- against societal norms in one of the other ways. That would
- explain why it seems that the percentage of pagans who are
- homosexual is greater than the percentage of people in general
- who are homosexual.
-
- But, as you point out, Tammy, this doesn't stop with actually
- *being* one of those people. It goes on to include people who
- are *open* to the ideas, but don't subscribe to them
- personally.
-
- I suppose that was the original intent of my posting. There are
- a bunch of people out there who are open to ideas such as
- paganism, but who wouldn't call themselves pagans. A lot of
- these people would go to SF conventions. Some of these people
- who would be open to paganism but aren't pagans might actually
- buy pagan-positive bumper stickers.
-
- I've seen a lot of people who have said that bumper sticker sales
- are an adequate indicator of how many pagans there are. I don't
- think so, but instead I think that bumper sticker sales are an
- adequate indicator of how many pagan-POSITIVE people there are,
- or perhaps of people who have ideals similar to the usual pagan
- ideals.
-
- Is this line of reasoning so flawed? Or did I perhaps not make
- myself clear earlier, when I didn't specify what I *do* think
- the correlation is between.
-
- Bumpersticker Blessings!
-
- -- radzy
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- | An it harm none,
- T. O. Radzykewycz | do as ye will.
- The Incredible Radical Cabbage |
- | "Just pray for a
- radzy@cogsci.berkeley.edu | tough hide and a
- | tender heart."
- | -- Ruth Graham
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Tribal Mother was old, and lay ill on a bed of moss and
- fern. Her hair was long and grey. Her face was very
- wrinkled. Tamura'nun-pa thought: How beautiful you
- are, Mother, so old and wise.
-