From:    Paul Hume                              Area: Night Side
To:      Kai Mactane                             2 Dec 94 08:29:10
Subject: Samhain and halloween                  UpdReq 

Kai -
Just as there are secular and religious holidays all over the Winter Solstice, 
so Halloween and Samhain coexist. They are interchangeable
in that there is a common origin (halloween descending from Samhain
via All Hallows and the syncretistic evolution of British/Celtic culture
after the advent of Christianity). Just as I'd hate to see Neopagans
get on some high horse about recognizing the importance of Channukah
and Christmas to their neighbors just because "Yule came first" or some such, 
and it would be a pity to see anybody miss the social importance of
"secular" Christmas in the West, which is still there after you scrape off the 
advertising hype, as a time when all can "celebrate the mystery of eternal 
Love" (to misquote Charles Williams (g)).
 I agree that everyone can enjoy the secular aspect of these days as well as 
the religious ones peculiar to their sect, and applaud you for making what 
seems to me to be a very healthy point.
 (And of course the astro-freaks can celebrate Samhain as a literal
"cross-quarter" sometime in the first week of November, ie. 45 days
after the Autumnal Equinox, give or take a day (g))
 Paul


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From:    Wored                                  Area: Night Side
To:      The Moonshadow                          2 Dec 94 02:13:34
Subject: Re: help                               UpdReq 

I just got a little excited while typing. HOWEVER, the title of this sub is
NIGHTSIDE> So as I down another brew to stimulate my genius we will witness
another brilliant transcription. Glug, glug....ahhhhh
Here we go:
NIGHTSIDE

N- Night
I- Igniting
G- Gnostics
H- Have
T- This
S- Sub
I- Invoking
D- Dark 
E- Ecstacies
And what do you think of that?!?
Like wow, that is so heavy even I can bearly grasp my own meaning!
Let me go get a shot of J.B to contempt this (burp) peice of genuis. I am over 
welmed at my own !@^$^*^(%&^**.....!!!!!
oops...I kinda fell off my chair there. ONLY because I am astounded by what my 
superfucking mind comes up (burp) with. Like man, I am god and you are too and 
aluminum knows the secrets of the universe and nothing is everything and Coca-
Cola speaks in our dreams. (glub, glub, choke, cough, cough) Boy that J.B.
(mixed with some good Tylonol) takes me beyond the garbage can.
This is just so heavy I have to go now and supplement my Tylenol level!
So before I go (burp) whatta ya think. are you in a Liminal Gnositic state or
have I sent you even deeper into the true awareness of corndogs.
Gotta go!
"LIFE IN RESTRICTION KNOWS NO EXPANSION!", cried the wandering Wored.



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