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- From: eshin@ddsw1.mcs.com (Eshin-Fun)
- Subject: Re: Name That Deity contest!!!
- Message-ID: <By6Mz2.4Cw@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:49:49 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.145537.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
- Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Chicago IL
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- >>rtsumn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
- : In article <By0yG9.2rM@ddsw1.mcs.com>, eshin@ddsw1.mcs.com (Eshin-Fun the
- : loon) writes:
- : >>>rtsumn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu (your god and damnator) writes:
- :
- :
- : There are two types of people in this world: those who divide everything
- : into categories, and those who don't.
- :
- : I don't think I fit either of your categories above. What am I?<<
-
-
- You're confused! And by the tone of your diatribe below, stupid and
- prejudiced.
-
- You specifically stated:
- "So instead I want to try something different. I want to be something else
- besides s Satanist. etc. ad nauseum....
-
- What are you doing if not dividing into categories??
-
- Night, Death, the beasteal side of humanity etc >are< categories.
-
- >>: Okay, answer number two: I don't think of "perfect" and "imperfect" in the
- : way you do. Things *are*; they aren't perfect or otherwise. Perfection is
- : an artificial human standard.<<
-
- Before you can argue what you think you have to see what in general use a
- word means. You can mean apples but the words you use are pears.
-
-
- >>: If I were into perfection, a sphere wouldn't strike me as particularly
- perfect.<<
-
- You know very little of aesthetics or mathematics. Let alone of symbolism,
- for which reason you have a problem identifying to anything symbolic.
-
-
- >: It has no style.<<
-
- Again you betray a poor recognition of style or aesthetics. Perhaps the
- simplicity of a sphere eludes you, but you cannot stand in judgement that it
- has "no" style. Your preception of what is stylish does not seem to have
- much dimension.
-
-
- >>: > Through a telescope envisioning the cosmos, the world of the macrocosmos,
- : > again we see that inspite of asymmetric design in some cases, the general
- : > patterns is orbicular.
- :
- : Even when an orbit is clearly elliptical it's still a circle. Have you
- : checked out the orbit of Pluto lately?<<
-
- If an alliptic is still a cirlcle, then did you read what I wrote above at
- all? Perhaps you should read a dictionary to furthyer your vocabulary.
-
-
-
- >>: I agree, but "that" is not what I'm after. Besides, I was looking for
- : something more sentient than a crystal sphere. Which is why I specifically
- : requested a deity, or similar person.<<
-
-
- What you requested, was:
-
- "...I want to try something different. I want to be something else besides a
- Satanist.....I need a good symbol."
-
-
- >>:However, the particular thing I'm
- : thinking of does have definite characteristics. They are not argueable. I
- : listed those characteristics. Why did you not address them?<<
-
-
- Because your petition was contradictory and misleading. If you want to
- identify with someting other than that which you "chide" (e.g. satanism)
- then you have to go beyond that which represents that. But if on the other
- hand you are looking for the same horse with a different name then be clear
- of that idea.
-
- You asked for "something different" you asked for "something else" and you
- asked for a "good symbol". That you enumirate a series of ideas that
- contradict your looking for something other than Satanism" is misleading.
-
-
- >>: I'm not after light. I specifically listed "Night." <<
-
- How can you have night without a day to define it? Further I explained of
- Amun Ra as a metaphor and in that metaphor you should have understood a
- irrefractable light. A "hidden" light. You obviously know very little of the
- occult principles of Satanism.
-
-
- >>I'm sorry I used the
- : term "Enlightenment," okay? Is that what confused you? Or was it your own
- : prejudices?<<
-
- No, it is you who are confused. It is you that has asked the questions.
-
- Don't flatter yourself that you can deduce what I believe in when I am
- answering what you asked. Prejudices seem to be an instinct with your
- rambling rather than any statement I have posted.
-
-
- >>: But that's not what I believe in! You are asking me to *lie*!<<
-
- No, again metaphors elude you. I really don't care what you want to believe.
- What i wrote is meant as a metaphor and a reasoning response to that
- metaphor. This, obviously, is a "suggestion" but it seems that you are on
- the defensive.
-
- Strange for one who asks of symbols that apply to "Wordly power", The
- bestial side of humanity, and dualism that you should be so squemish and
- moral that you should worry if you are to "lie"!
-
-
-
- >>: I don't believe in universality.<<
-
- Then what is night? What is world power? For that matter what is knowledge,
- reason, enlightenment?
-
- >> I'm a dualist.<<
-
- Then stick to satanism. Or better yet to avoid getting upset go to the
- library and research mythologies and think at your own expense for a
- change.
-
- >>: I don't *WANT* to represent
- : everything in one symbol.<<
-
- That's no problem. There aqre thousands upon thousands of symbols you can
- choose from. I simply implied one that was the most awsome, and seldom
- understood. In fact, it was a symbol of the Persian clergy of ancient times
- from where the word Magi comes from and their religion is considered
- "Dualism" In fact they are the source where the idea of the god of light
- have a great battle and popularized by Milton in "Paradise Lost".
-
-
- >>: Furthermore, I don't care for the implication that
- : since I seek to quantify my beliefs in human terms, then I must be
- : superstitious. <<
-
- I used the term superstitious because it is a condition of one believing in
- something without knowing the "why" but still do it anyway. Considering your
- outburst it seems to have described your frame of mind..and questions..
-
-
- >>: I desire to find a symbol to describe a definite set of characteristics. I
- : listed those characteristics. If I wanted a universal code, I'd have picked
- : a circle long ago. Please don't identify what you want with what I want.<<
-
- I never stated that I "knew what you wanted" to begin with. I don't believe
- you know that yourself. I mere suggested by the air of question a suggestion
- of possibly many that seemed most apt at that moment.
-
-
-
- >>: Yeesh. If someone is genuinely interested and listens to my answers, I'd
- : rather stay around and talk with them. If they don't (which is the case most
- : of the time) I wouldn't have gotten so far in the first place.<<
-
- Unfortunately I made the mistake of taking you seriously. By your response
- it is obvious you really don't care what anybody else thinks or answer your
- muddled confused "thinking outloud".
-
-
- >>: Yeh, why don't you honor my version of the quest then?<<
-
- I have. But it seems you haven't honored mine.
-
- >>: Instead you try to
- : tell me what I want, without consideration of what I said I wanted. Your last
- : statement seems pretty hypocritical in my mind. Why don't you take your own
- : advice?<<
-
- I didn't ask the questions. You did. And it seems that the hypocrite is you,
- saying one thing and meaning another. Why don't you take your own advice?
-
- >>: Sheesh. Now I understand why everyone considers you a flake.<<
-
- Is this an omniscient awareness or just a personal prejudice? Is this e-mail
- gossip or just purely envious despotism? I have been called many things but
- it seems I surpass my accusers and in the end, they usually prove to be
- whatever derrogatory adjective they use for me a quality of their own
- reflection.
-
-
- >> This is
- : proselytizing, plain and simple.<<
-
- Wrong again. Sabaeanism does not believe in proselytizing. Further you
- haven't got the stamina to ever be a "sabaean".
-
-
- >>: I posted on alt.satanism giving a plain and
- : simple description of what I was looking for. I never said I wanted to
- : convert to an existing religion, did I?<<
-
- You posted on alt.satanism claiming that you wanted to be "something else
- besides a Satanist." You posted on alt. Satanism caliming that you "want to
- try something different".
- Just what the Hell are you talking about idiot? If you do not know then
- spare us the bandwith.
-
-
- >>: If you want to extoll the virtues of your religion, keep it in alt.sabeaen
- : where it belongs, and leave us out of it.<<
-
- You conceited insect. ;-) You have no idea what I believe in. If you mistook
- what I wrote as a confession of my "soul" then you are as bigoted as the
- Christians you bitch about in your dissertation.
-
- And if you want to be "something else besides a satanist" what do >you< mean
- by "leave *us* out of it?" Suddenly you are speaking for all Satanists?
- I was not aware that you had been elected as the infernal messiah of this
- newsgroup?
-
- If you want to extall the virtues of your opinions then I suggest you start
- by being coherant and a little lest hypocritical and neurotic.
-
- Perhaps you should not write in any newsgroup at all, till at least you get
- your act together and give Satanism a bad name ranting like a fanatical
- christian fool.
-
-
- >>:
- : --Semhaza (The Antichrist)<<
-
- You flatter yourself to "CATEGORIZE" (e.g. the antichrist) your
- name with such worthy a title.
-
-
- Eshin-Fun
-
-
-