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Subject: 
My one minute recap of the recent debate wreck...
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Date: 
Fri, 19 Jul 2002 19:08:07 GMT
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Norse God of Thunder = Thor
dogpoop = Cheech and Chong
Black Madonna = Paganism is alive and well in the Roman Catholic Church.
Green Fairies = Absinthe
Aristotle = High Priest of rational inquiry

FWIW, and although I realize no one cares and it is not very useful to
anyone but me, I sometimes think of myself as a "neo-pagan". What exactly
that means changes a lot for me, but it has more to do with rituals and acts
that appease certain parts of brain with aesthetic beauty than a specific
belief system. The closest I have come to describing my personal image of
the divine here in off-topic.debate was when I stated the following
(http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=12748 ):

MY fantasy is one of an Earth Mother locked in the act of love with the
Horned God of the Sun. I don't happen to ACTUALLY believe in my fantasy,
but I think it is more aesthetically pleasing than your fantasy...

Can we all agree it is quite obnoxious to rub others' noses in one's own
personal beliefs and faith-imagery?  Really, it's a very private matter...

...it also has no bearing on our accepted communal reality, nor should it.

-- Hop-Frog



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  Re: My one minute recap of the recent debate wreck...
 
(...) I've been inclining towards some sort of 'Gaia' system, wherein the earth is the mother of all things living. I mean, in our daily lives, microbes on mars or concepts of aliens on another planet are fun do discuss and theorize, but when I (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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