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- From: radinsky@spot.Colorado.EDU (Wayne Radinsky)
- Subject: Re: Name That Deity contest!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.034244.26437@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <1992Nov18.190430.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:42:44 GMT
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-
- Hello! I've been off the net for a while (everybody miss me? -- don't
- answer that). Nasty cold, very cold, very nasty. Anyway, on to
- buisiness.
-
- rtsumn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
- > So instead I want to try something different. I want to be
- > something else besides a Satanist. One little problem: I need a
- > good symbol. Are there any gods, or other appropriate beings, who
- > would be good for representing:
- >
- > Night
- > Death
- > The bestial side of humanity
- > Worldly power
- > Love (for your own side)
- > Sex
- > Equality
- > Knowledge, reason, enlightenment
- > Change (e.g. overturning the status quo)
- > Dualism
- >
- > That's all I can think of for now. If anyone comes up with a
- > suitable god, I guess I'll switch over.
-
- Why, you're looking for the miserable desperate suicidal scientific
- zenist japanese communistic rapist revolutionary yin-yang god,
- of course. (Please don't let my crude humor annoy you... I couldn't
- get one for "love", is loving your own "side" really love?)
-
- > Otherwise, I'll have to start practicing Black Masses in order to
- > justify my continued existence.
-
- Semhaza, stop that! You don't need any justification for your continued
- existence.
-
- eshin@ddsw1.mcs.com (Eshin-Fun) writes:
-
- > So why have an imperfect symbol for that which is matrix of the universe,
- > which symbolizes all that is or ever shall be?
- >
- > A sphere, is the most apt to portray that.
-
- Pardon me, but Semhaza did =not= list "perfection" as one of her
- ideals! It seems to be one of your, however... and I do recommend
- you, and everyone live for your highest ideas, whatever they may be.
- For, as you know, the greater the ideal, the greater the opportunity.
-
- I'm not terriblly fond of "perfection", because it implies an =end=, it
- implies that nothing more or nothing better should be created. What a
- boring universe it would be if nothing ever happend.
-
- > This was AM'N meaning "the hidden" then they added RE meaning "light".
- > So in actuality "AMUN-RA" litterally translates "the hidden light".
-
- This is very en=light=ening! Is this true? I've never heard it pefore,
- and I've read quite a bit about the egyptians.
-
- BTW It's usually written "Amon" these daze.
-
- > "THERE IS NO GOD, BUT AM'N, AND AM'N *IS* THE HIDDEN!"
- >
- > So, when you are asked what your religion is, you say; "I am a Sabaean"
-
- You mean you worship Sabena, the X-rated movie star, right...!
-
- > What do you believe in? they'll ask; you say; "In the universe, the hidden
- > essance that is out there, here everywhere. I believe in the stars! After
- > all, we *are* made out of that which the stars themselves are made out of."
-
- > [remainder of elaborate philosophical framework
- > ommitted to save bandwith]
-
- You know, you've got a quite elaborate philosophy. You must admit, it is
- rather koanic.
-
- > And if the individual questioning you, tries to further their inquiry, you
- > can easily deterr their fascination by saying;
- >
- > "Look, I am satisfied, for now coming to peace with all that is hidden, I
- > can choose and concern myself with that which is obvious, and that is that I
- > am late to catch the next bus, or whatever transportation comes to mind."
-
- In other words, you might as well answer anyone's questions "mu".
-
- Here's an anology which I think represents more clearly the idea you're
- getting at, or which it seems to me like you're trying to get at. Say
- you're in a pitch-black room. You have a mental picture of the room.
- You start to walk across the room. At a certain point you bumb into
- something. At this point, you've discovered that your mental picture
- is wrong in some way.
-
- Over time, your image of reality gets better and better. However, it is
- never perfect, hence there is always something "hidden". And it is only
- when our lives =don't= work the way we want and expect that we learn how
- our mental picture of reality is wrong.
-
- (Maybe there's something to be said for learning through suffering after
- all).
-
- Wayne (the Anxious Puppy)
-