From: rtsumn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: Name That Deity contest!!!
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 06:36:32 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

In article <1992Nov22.034244.26437@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, radinsky@spot.Colorado.EDU (Wayne Radinsky) writes:
> Hello!  I've been off the net for a while (everybody miss me? -- don't
> answer that).  Nasty cold, very cold, very nasty.  Anyway, on to
> buisiness.

Yes, of course we missed you! (never tell me not to answer a question)
 
> rtsumn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
>> So instead I want to try something different. I want to be 
>> something else besides a Satanist. One little problem:  I need a
>> good symbol. Are there any gods, or other appropriate beings, who
>> would be good for representing:  
>> 
>>      Night
>>      Death
>>      The bestial side of humanity
>>      Worldly power
>>      Love (for your own side)
>>      Sex
>>      Equality
>>      Knowledge, reason, enlightenment
>>      Change (e.g. overturning the status quo)
>>      Dualism
>>
>> That's all I can think of for now. If anyone comes up with a
>> suitable god, I guess I'll switch over. 
> 
> Why, you're looking for the miserable desperate suicidal scientific
> zenist japanese communistic rapist revolutionary yin-yang god,
> of course.  (Please don't let my crude humor annoy you...  I couldn't
> get one for "love", is loving your own "side" really love?)

To me, it's the only form of honest love. Love includes some
understanding of what it is you're loving. Music, for example--I love
that music which I can identify with on some level, which means
something to me. I can't love country western. If I start talking
about loving everything, I'm trivializing a vital feeling.
Indiscriminate love is diluted. When I acknowledged to myself that it
was okay for me to pick and choose what I loved, it began to be a 
word with meaning again.
 
>> Otherwise, I'll have to start practicing Black Masses in order to
>> justify my continued existence.
> 
> Semhaza, stop that!  You don't need any justification for your continued
> existence.

Aw. I was really looking forward to being a defrocked priest (and 
having a defrocked congregation ;-)

What I meant was, I desire to maintain a sense of continuity in my
beliefs. I don't care for some forms of inconsistency. And I like to
appear consistent to others (image, y'know).
 
> eshin@ddsw1.mcs.com (Eshin-Fun) writes:
> 
>> So why have an imperfect symbol for that which is matrix of the universe,
>> which symbolizes all that is or ever shall be? 
>> 
>> A sphere, is the most apt to portray that. 
> 
> Pardon me, but Semhaza did =not= list "perfection" as one of her
> ideals!  It seems to be one of your, however...  and I do recommend
> you, and everyone live for your highest ideas, whatever they may be.
> For, as you know, the greater the ideal, the greater the opportunity.

Yeah, I'd better comment on what I said earlier. Eshin-Fun's ideas are
fine, and I'm sure that they are what works best for some. But it
wasn't what I asked about, and I just blew up. I've been having trouble
getting people to listen to what I'm actually asking lately...apologies
if I was too harsh. I still maintain that it wasn't a valid response to
my inquiry.
 
--Semhaza
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