From: owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen Rowley)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Unvarying standards of male unattractiveness
Date: 5 Jan 93 23:12:54 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.141735.4227@spdcc.com>, joe@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis) writes:
>  For people of European descent, powders and
> pomades, beauty-marks, lip glosses, hair bleaching, and so on, go back
> very far; they are almost always a mark of leisure and abandon,
> self-involvement, many things.  If you ever read the medical lore of
> Trotula (thought to be the oldest known female /healer/ in written
> history) part of her gynecological lore is about such things as
> lightening hair.


Actually, cosmetics may well have an extra-terrestrial origin.

The tale of genesis relates the story of  *a war in heaven* between the forces
of light and the forces of darkness.

The sons of god (angels) looked upon the daughters of men, and found them fair.
they took wives amongst the daughters of men who bore children of the union.
These Sons of God, led by the angel Lucifer came into conflict with
some of their peers, over the children and how they should be dealt with.

Those who had taken earthly wives wanted to teach their arts and sciences to
their children, thus elevating the children to the status of their fathers.

The others wanted the children to be destroyed, in order to prevent the
dissipation of their power, they argued that if the knowledge
proliferated beyond their ranks, they  would loose their edge of
superiority.

Lucifer and his angels lost that battle and were banished to the earth
along with their wives and offspring. 
They did teach their arts to the children and the generations that came
after, but being earthbound the spread of the secret knowledge was kept
in check.

Each angel in Lucifers army was an expert in his craft or art, amongst those
were.... metalurgy, animal husbandry, agriculture, art/painting, etc..
and cosmetics.

In any case all of these secret arts so jealously guarded by the winning
forces were clearly very dangerous things to teach :-)

It *was* a battle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness,
after all. Lucifer and his skilled artisons,
against Yahweh  and his skilled warriors. The fallen angels
protecting their children against the valiant victors who would have them
slain. By the way, Lucifer means light bearer, what do you suppose that
makes the other guys? Yahweh was known as the thunderer .

You won't find this detail about the genesis in the *official* bible, it is
from a version that was --uh-- rejected. I found it in a volume of apocrypha
that went out of print in the early 19th century, and the only modern source
of information on the *fallen angels* is in "the Dictionary of Angels"

It can be a very *enlightening* experience to ponder the spread of
yahweh cult dogma and domination if you simply understand that Yahweh
led the forces of *darkness*.

I guess those drag queens are divine after all, and that makes
tammy fay the spawn of Satan!


LUX ./. owen

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From: john@drummond.demon.co.uk (John Fisher)