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- Subject: Re: Satanism and Gothdom?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.125930.3287@nic.csu.net>
- From: beth@nermal.SantaRosa.Edu (Beth Winegarner)
- Date: 20 Nov 92 12:59:28 PST
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- Organization: Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
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- >The more contact I have with these people, the more disconnected
- >I feel with the (self-proclaimed) goth-scene here. I am curious
- >as to how common that religious form really is in Gothdom. Is
- >it purely theatrical? Aleister Crowly has been trendy for years,
- >but I thought interest in him had waned finally...
- >
- >perhaps with elements of Romanticism from the Nineteenth
- >Century in Europe (a movement which itself looked
- >back to the Middle Ages and the Church for fantastic
- >imagery... e.g. ghost-stories and horrific fairy-tales)?
- >
- >The satanic phenomena here deeply perplexes me. I just
- >do not understand the link....Are they all just
- >confused children filled with an overabundance of
- >Angst or is it truly a part of the scene? Anyone have
- >a clue as to the relationship between Gothdom and
- >these new cults? I personally fear that they are robbing
- >the movement of its majesty, its beauty, its dark
- >splendor...
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- The goths in the United States become that way more or less by
- listening to music--music like Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim, the
- Cure, and so on. Many are not necessarily _Satanic_, but are certainly into
- practicing black magic and the like. I was recently told that local goths
- do this a lot, and many have spirits that follow them (I got into the
- conversation after getting a lot of weird vibes from a particular local
- club, and someone told me this could certainly be one of the reasons.)
- But I can't fully answer those questions (whether they were
- rhetorical or not), because I am seeing them from the outside...
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