From: Farrell McGovern Area: MagickNet To: Oberon 5 Jun 92 09:49:10 Subject: No Tests UpdReq In a lo-rez cyberspace object, Oberon @93:9510/1 texuralized the following thoughts onto the reality grid of my fav VR co-ordinates: WM>> X SLMR 2.0 X All Rites Reversed - Prosecutors Will Be WM>> Transgressicated O> O> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ O> Hunh? My spell checker just went into terminal O> overload. Look it up in a copy of the Principia Discordia! Hail Eris! Farrell 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Farrell McGovern Area: MagickNet To: Grendel 6 Jun 92 14:29:36 Subject: ASCORDIA CENTER UpdReq In a lo-rez cyberspace object, Grendel @1:343/56@Fidonet texuralized the following thoughts onto the reality grid of my fav VR co-ordinates: >> Go back to internet address 18.72.1.58, and request a >> FAQ! :-) G> What is that the address of (if it is real)? Place where you can get a FAQ on Linux, the public domain UNIX! It's at MIT, btw. ttyl Farrell 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Lord Aslan Area: MagickNet To: Olorin 8 Jun 92 07:38:36 Subject: EVIL, a concept? UpdReq Ah yes, Dante's "Inferno", a truly classical novel even if it is a bit weird. I guess that you are correct in that all religions have their own concept of a place of eternal damnation "HELL". I know that I never want to see them. Besides the world is already so messed up, why worry about some other realm beyond the physical. I just go day to day doing the best I can with what I have and trying to spread a little love and joy. Well, take care, there are some munchkins calling for my attention. Blessed Be. Lord Aslan 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Dungeon Master Area: MagickNet To: Mike Pfeiffer 6 Jun 92 15:04:00 Subject: Re: MAGICK UpdReq Thanks.....also doesn't the Crown represent the universe before the Big Bang when it was a tiny dot of energy....and isn't The Kingdom representing man? Dungeon Master 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Tim Maroney Area: MagickNet To: Mike Pfeiffer 6 Jun 92 11:23:30 Subject: RE: Re: FUCK YOU? YOU SUCK? UpdReq I can't believe how manipulable BBS's still are. When will people learn not to spend hundreds of messages discussing this kind of bite-baiting posting? 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Guy Heath Area: MagickNet To: William Mclaughlin 7 Jun 92 08:22:56 Subject: Drop me a line any time UpdReq Well thanks for the greeting, my man! I'm always glad to make the day of another computer hacker! Also, I'm glad that you're not one of these high a mighty dudes, who would have come across like oh, "Don't you ever do that again!" or, "My ideas are worlth more that just a dull and vapid response." Actually, and however delighted to read a message from such an alumus dude as yourself-the only response which said message generated within me was my very vapid yet creative message. Actually, I'm new here and I've come here to make friends and participate in the various discussion! It would have be nice if you'd had opened your message up with a friendly greeting or something which would have started us off on the right foot! (I get the feeling I better get my hand ready to grab some mudd). How dare you tell me how to respond! This is a free country and I have just as many rights as you do! I can do what ever I want to do to share in the activities around here! Are you one of the Republicans who want to tell people what school they can go to and how they should or shouldn't respond to a message on a metaphysical board; and, you didn't even do it well! Man, it's sure has been "vapid" meeting you! 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Oberon Area: MagickNet To: Abdallat Al-Talib 5 Jun 92 09:44:00 Subject: Your Glorious Flamer UpdReq AA>You'll excuse me while I go over to the Book of Shadows conference and AA>deal with my very own flamer, Bryan Meadows, who purports to be pagan. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ NOT! * OLX 2.2 * Blood is thicker than water - also tastier... 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Oberon Area: MagickNet To: Wita Woman 5 Jun 92 09:45:00 Subject: Evil, Maybe Not??? UpdReq WW> > Albums don't kill people, people kill... :-> WW>And People can often Kill themselves. Which is frequently an improvement. {gryn} Oberon * OLX 2.2 * Bad command or file name. Go stand in the corner. 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Oberon Area: MagickNet To: Olorin 5 Jun 92 09:48:00 Subject: Evil, A Concept? UpdReq OL>LA> Hell is as far as I know a Christian invention. OL>Actuially it was barrowed from th sumerians as ampliphied and defined by OL>the persian and Hyksos cultures about 2-3K years ago much before Xian OL>thought modified it to what it is now. Dante and all that rot. Pax OL>Keltoi! and B*B Although the current Xtian concept of Hell seems to owe more to Dante and Milton than to either the Bible or it's Sumerian and/or Persian roots. Blessed Be, Oberon * OLX 2.2 * Campus Crusade for Cthulu - it found me! 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Ammond Shadowcraft Area: MagickNet To: Merlin 7 Jun 92 19:43:00 Subject: Re: Reverse Bigotry?? UpdReq => Quoting Merlin to Lord Aslan <= M> Just an observation but what's wrong with christianity? You seem to M> have the impresion the chistian=antagonist. If you've ever read the M> cronicles of Narnia Lord Aslan is the name of the lion, (lion and the M> lamb. lamb being jesus and the lion being god the father.) who M> represents god the father. C.S. Lewis did a lot of christian books you M> know. Is this just another pretty face pasted over the scrowl of an angry, violent Jehovah? ------------------------------------------------------------------ "The mind can see only what it is prepared to see. The brain has to use existing patterns and catchments. When we believe that we are analysing data we are really only trying out our stock of existing ideas to see which one might fit. It is true that if our stock of ideas is rich enough then our analysis will be adequate." I AM RIGHT YOU ARE WRONG --Edward de Bono "But then again, the stock may be just adequate, not extraordinary." Ammond Shadowcraft --Undercover EpiskoPope of the NewWave Cybernauts ... Nobody notices when things go awry. It looks politically correct. 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Ammond Shadowcraft Area: MagickNet To: Mandy Vivian 7 Jun 92 19:45:00 Subject: RE: Re: EVIL, Maybe not??? UpdReq => Quoting Mandy Vivian to Al Kemyst <= AK> MV> Who is to say that we arn't on hell right now????? AK> Or that we are in heaven for that matter? MV> If we are on heaven then why is the world such a disaster area? MV> Maybe heaven (here and now, or there and later) is what you make it? ------------------------------------------------------------- A belief system is a way of perceiving the world that prevents us from testing the validity of the belief. Belief sytems create perceptions that reinforce the belief system. They can be so powerful that people are prepared to give up life itself for their beliefs." I AM RIGHT YOU ARE WRONG --Edward de Bono "Silly isn't it? People'd rather die than test their belief system." Ammond Shadowcraft --Undercover EpiskoPope of the NewWave CyberNauts ... Ride The Wave! 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Al Kemyst Area: MagickNet To: William Mclaughlin 7 Jun 92 17:45:12 Subject: RE: Re: Really!!?? UpdReq In a message to Oberon written on Saturday, June 6, 1992 at 20:43:00, William Mclaughlin writes: WM> Remember when seeing someone wearing a pentagram told you something about I guess now days we have to look for the people who wear their pentagrams pendants inside their shirts. After all, there is no need to advertise your beleifs. -Al 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Mike Pfeiffer Area: MagickNet To: Dungeon Master 8 Jun 92 20:28:36 Subject: Re: MAGICK UpdReq You're welcome. Yes, that is one good interpretation. We are talking singularity I think... 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Mike Pfeiffer Area: MagickNet To: Philip Cavanagh 8 Jun 92 20:30:16 Subject: Re: XTIAN. UpdReq I wasn't actually trying to communicate, Phil. we were having a primate territorial dispute, no more, no less. He pissed me off, so I pissed in his cheerios. I he gets real pissed off, then perhaps we can whip his frenzy into a nice stable meringue... 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Mike Pfeiffer Area: MagickNet To: William Mclaughlin 8 Jun 92 20:35:00 Subject: Re: FUCK YOU? YOU SUCK? UpdReq No, I'm not a Satanist. I know of no Satanist using this BBS. I therefore inferred that he meant those of us who bow down not unto his (I presume him Xtian) slave god. i'm a Thelemite, among other things, and I resent being tarred with that particular brush. Maybe if I believed in Satan I'd feel differently. In any event, fuck him. I'm far more concerned with your thoughts than his, even though you happen to be incorrect in this case (joke - i don't need to be right that bad). 93, care frater. 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Mike Pfeiffer Area: MagickNet To: Tim Maroney 8 Jun 92 20:47:22 Subject: Re: RE: FUCK YOU? YOU SUCK? UpdReq Point well taken. Next subject? 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Grendel Area: MagickNet To: Peter Giordano 9 Jun 92 15:44:00 Subject: ASCORDIA CENTER UpdReq > Hi Grendle :) u the grendle from Spectrum's? If so, why didn't you > call me any more? > Peter I guess I'm not since I have no idea who you are. -= Grendel =- 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: James Heaton Area: MagickNet To: Philip Cavanagh 10 Jun 92 02:19:42 Subject: What's up UpdReq > Welcome to the echo's! Nice to see some positive comments > like you have posted, very rarely I see a negative > message, but when I do, I tend to wonder if the person is > basing his message on what he's heard, or what he has seen! > I come from a Christian background, but I rarely learn > from the Christian faith, I find it too restrictive, and > full of negativity personally! Change of mind again!! I am turning more toward Tantra -- mainly Buddhist! The qabbala and hermetics was a nice start, but there's more out there to be learned. You say that you havn't learned from Christianity -- quite the contrary, you have !!!! You've learned how negative and restricting an ORTHODOX religion can be!!! TRUE Christianity is a totaly different matter. Learn from what Yeheshua Bar Yosef (that's the hebrew name of Jesus) had to say, and not from the words that people put into his mouth. You can tell. Read the bible with an OPEN mind, not with what would be considered a "traditional christian" mindset. That's the biggest mistake that they (the orthodox types) make. They read the bible with a certain set of outcomes in mind -- BAD MOVE, they're missing out on a whole world of wisdom simply because they're looking for the confirmation of doctrine!!! Also, don't be affraid to learn from other religions/spiritualities -- study some of the others IN DEPTH. The easiest to start with would probably be Judaism, but Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism also promising fascinating adventures of the mind/spirit. Shanti James 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718