From: radinsky@spot.Colorado.EDU (Wayne Radinsky)
Subject: Re: Name That Deity contest!!!
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:42:44 GMT

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.

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?)

> 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.

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.

I'm not terriblly fond of "perfection", because it implies an =end=, it
implies that nothing more or nothing better should be created.  What a
boring universe it would be if nothing ever happend.

> This was AM'N meaning "the hidden" then they added RE meaning "light".
> So in actuality "AMUN-RA" litterally translates "the hidden light".

This is very en=light=ening!  Is this true?  I've never heard it pefore,
and I've read quite a bit about the egyptians.

BTW It's usually written "Amon" these daze.

>         "THERE IS NO GOD, BUT AM'N, AND AM'N *IS* THE HIDDEN!"
> 
> So, when you are asked what your religion is, you say; "I am a Sabaean"

You mean you worship Sabena, the X-rated movie star, right...!
 
> What do you believe in? they'll ask;  you say; "In the universe, the hidden
> essance that is out there, here everywhere. I believe in the stars! After
> all, we *are* made out of that which the stars themselves are made out of."

> [remainder of elaborate philosophical framework 
> ommitted to save bandwith]

You know, you've got a quite elaborate philosophy.  You must admit, it is
rather koanic.

> And if the individual questioning you, tries to further their inquiry, you
> can easily deterr their fascination by saying;
>
> "Look, I am satisfied, for now coming to peace with all that is hidden, I
> can choose and concern myself with that which is obvious, and that is that I
> am late to catch the next bus, or whatever transportation comes to mind."

In other words, you might as well answer anyone's questions "mu".

Here's an anology which I think represents more clearly the idea you're
getting at, or which it seems to me like you're trying to get at.  Say
you're in a pitch-black room.  You have a mental picture of the room.
You start to walk across the room.  At a certain point you bumb into
something.  At this point, you've discovered that your mental picture
is wrong in some way.

Over time, your image of reality gets better and better.  However, it is
never perfect, hence there is always something "hidden".  And it is only
when our lives =don't= work the way we want and expect that we learn how
our mental picture of reality is wrong.

(Maybe there's something to be said for learning through suffering after
all).

Wayne (the Anxious Puppy)
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