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Date:         Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:33:37 -0500
From:         "Vampire Lestat" <wk00636@WORLDLINK.COM>
Subject:      Re: House and spirituality ?

Seems to me that maybe over there where you are in your world that you might
not be experiencing the same thing that I have experienced over here.

In the world that I live in there is to be always an educated version of love
and life. Not something that youwould just write off as a 60's flower-power
movement reborn.  I did not agree with the sixties and their unwarranted
striving for a platonic world. I believe that there is a lot of hard work to
be done in this world and that this should never be forgotten, nonetheless,
if even one of the people that goes to any of these parties *around the
world*  comes out of it with a more positive outlook on life then it is at
least a small step in the right direction.

It seems to me in your reply that, and please correct me if you will, that
you are a real glass is half-empty kinda person.

The people that I went with to these parties over the course of the past year
were all educated thinking people who believe in the fact that we cannot and
should not run away from the world we must confront it head on. I *do not*
believe we can all just hold hands and there will be no problems in this
world, and I resent the inferrence towards such a thing.

When I am talking about *spirituality*, I derive it from my own *positive*
experiences... After living through the riots in the L.A. Basin, and when I
mean through it I mean in the thick of it, a friend of mine got shot at and
there were buildings near right by my house that were burned down, and then
after a weeks duration of reflection in this horribly selfish and unattached
world that it seems you place me and my experiences in, there was a party, or
Rave if ya want to call it that, held in rememberance of the suffering that
took place.  It wasn't a party on the graves of those that died or of those
that suffered a death in there emotions it was a party with the hope that
people could get a message, just as Rodney King said himself "Why can't we
all just be friends?".

 Now in addition to *spirituality* in the manner that you say...when I look
around at this world and see what the hordes of human masses have claimed as
there own spirituality, organized religion that really only divides and
causes conflict in a world where there are already too many conlicts as it
is, and the other movements that are going on in "my world" New Age,
Transcendentalism, etc..  I see people trying to control there world in ways
that are unrealistic.  I then turn to this "hopefully dead" form of music
that cannot...

> How about *waking up* and taking up a mature
> responsibility for a change?

have people involved in it that do not have any mature responsiblity in it
and I see people that I know not caring whether or not the other people
around them are black or white or yellow or red, and I see that these people
do think about what they are doing.

Maybe over in the "European Scene" that you have come into touch with in your
world the people are trying to get away from it all and not think about life,
but over here, at least the people I came across since I can't speak for
everyone, were actually an educated and thoughtful version of your so-called
hippie flower power sixties movement reborn.

And by the way the universal language statement with regards to music and sex
was meant to be a joke.

i.e. >> O, come one, you're not serious, are you? F*ck and dance and the
>>      world will be saved??? We're not gonna get another ego-wave of
>>      immature flower-power-like oblivion, are we?

I think that instead of attacking the thoughts I put forward in my previous
message outright as somthing that you will not agree with, that maybe you
ought to remember that even though the world is an increasingly small place
your experiences are not the same as mine are.  It would be a true testament
to your open mind, which I believe that you do have, if you might do this.

I don't believe in forgetting about the world for one instant and I don't
believe in not thinking about the problems and how they can be solved;
however, I do believe that the only way I can do this chore correctly is to
keep an *open mind* throughout all of my interactions...


Thank you for the honest albeit kind response, and I appreciate your input,
hopefully you'll appreciate mine.


Brett Francis "Vampire Lestat"

p.s. and yes I did make this up and I try to follow it.

                                Remember Yesterday,
                                Think about Tomorrow, but
                                Live for Today!

it's good to have something simple to fall back on in a world where there are
people who can be as negative as you, although the reality check is always
required and I thank ya once again...
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