From: luikero@pcuf.fi (Lauri Kero)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: Meaning of pentagram, pentacle for You
Date: 29 Dec 92 14:25:07 GMT
Organization: The PC-users of Finland

To_article_from: lib1p@elroy.uh.edu (Tammy Stark Blandino)
 
> Picture a cross with a circle behind it.
> VERY CRUDE ASCII DRAWING  (not shouting, just emphasizing)
 
        Thanks for the drawing, I got the picture.
 
>> I myself wear the six-pointed star of David.
> See, to me that really sucks, cause look how many people use a
> 5-pointed star and all the things they use them for.
 
        Sorry.. I'm really sorry...
        But I haven't seen anyone carrying a pentagram here in Finland,
        such a small place..
 
> Hell, the US flag has 50 5-pointed stars, but you don't hear anybody
> call it satanic.
 
        Look, I didn't say that I still think it's satanic!
        I just said back there that my view has been broadened!
 
> But put one on a rock album or on a piece of jewelry...watch
> out!...them gawdless, un-american,
 
        So un-american is the same as shit, right?
 
> I'm sorry folks.  I'm just getting my fill of it.  I try to be nice.
> I try to be open minded.
 
        Do you have to read and post in that mood then, wouldn't it be
        nicer to everyone if you didn't post when you feel like that,
        everyone get's enough once in a while...
 
> I have never, NEVER, felt the beauty of nature and life the way I do
> now.
 
        Amazing, your heart is full of love for life and nature, yet you
        bust into flames like this.
 
> Never in all my life being raised as a devoted Christian. And yet they
> hammer at us. Not because of anything we have done, but because they
> think we're evil.
 
        I'm not christian, I haven't found any religion to match my own
        yet and I don't think you're evil.
 
> Being pounded on all sides because we're different.
 
        I haven't punded anyone because he/she is different, at least
        not in the net.
 
> These are the things they call EVIL and SATANIC and UNGODLY!
 
        Too bad they call it that, too bad I called it that.
 
> I cry.
 
        Helps you to get rid of harmful chemicals.
 
> If they only knew.  If I could only tell them.  If they would only
> listen.
 
        I'll listen and consider anything you tell me, just pour it out.
 
> So now we are attacking each other....as to name...as to symbol...as
> to meaning of said symbol...and what for?
 
        To be quite honest, I think (THINK) you attacked me or someone
        else.
 
> If you find it evil, so be it.
 
        I don't know what I find it anymore, but it's not evil anymore,
        I have received many opinions of what it represents, I have yet
        to find out what it means to me.
 
> You may be able to hurt me,
 
        I do not wish to hurt you in any way,
 
> and curse me, and make my existence in this society miserable, but you
> can never take that embrace away.
 
        I wouldn't want to do that. Right now, all I would like to do is
        to sort out this mess, tell you what I think and don't think,
        hear what you think and don't think.
 
> Even in death you cannot rob me of the beauty that is represented by
> that pentagram, or the word witch, or the rites we perform.
 
        I wouldn't want to!
 
> Tammy
 
        Sorry, Tammy. :-(
 
 
-- luikero@pcuf.fi  (Lauri Kero)                      (I feel miserable)
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