This article is excerpted from the Rocky Mountain Pagan Journal. Each issue of the Rocky Mountain Pagan Journal is published by High Plains Arts and Sciences; P.O. Box 620604, Littleton Co., 80123, a Colorado Non-Profit Corporation, under a Public Domain Copyright, which entitles any person or group of persons to reproduce, in any form whatsoever, any material contained therein without restriction, so long as articles are not condensed or abbreviated in any fashion, and credit is given the original author.! DEAR ORACLE Advice to the religion-lorn. Any readers with ceremonial or religious hangups, blunders, or just plain strange questions are invited to ask the oracle..... The following letters are to illustrate the varying range of reactions which my column has produced in the past year. These are the two extremes, of course, and there are bags of letters that fall into every category in between. As you can see, the reactions range everywhere from "I find Dear Oracle to be fatuous and unfunny" to "Why wasn't the Oracle in the December issue?" What's your opinion? ________The Oracle Dear Oracle, There seems to be an awful lot of preconceived ideas in your column. If you're truly an oracle, you should know what people's problems are without having to have them write to you, anyway. Next, you'll be wanting us to fill out some hokey questionnaire to find out about our problems. What do you think you're doing? .......... Hateful G. Dear Hateful, Do you find life to be a cut-and- dried experience? If you know so much, maybe you should take up "oracle-ing". You know the old saw... Those that can't do criticize those that can. Dear Oracle, Like, wow. I mean, really, man, you are the wildest! Where do you find all those wild sayings? I don't have any problems, (Bet me! -ed.) but if I ever do, You'll be the first one I call. ......Spaced Dear Spaced, Thanks for the vote of confidence (I think). ..........from R.M.P.J. 8/86