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- From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Help for a friend
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 21:10:48 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.181056.28242@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov19.181056.28242@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Jessica Raine) writes:
-
- > I have a friend who asked me about help for a co-worker of his. This
- > co-worker met a woman, at a bar I think, and they exchanged numbers. The
- > woman is a Wiccan priestess, according to D (my friend). D's friend decided
- > he didn't want to see the woman again. (Nothing to do with her being Wiccan,
- > he just wasn't interested.) The woman had other ideas. She's pursuing him.
- > Some specific instances: D's co-worker had a nasty dream that the woman's
- > face appeared on his beeper, threatening him...five minutes after he woke
- > up, terrified, he got a message from her on his beeper telling him to call
- > her. A little while ago, while the co-worker was in Ireland, the woman
- > showed up at the place where D and the co-worker work. She was responding
- > to an ad that the office had placed in the Globe--they were hiring people.
- > D says that his computer stopped working as soon as she entered the
- > office. He (D) has been, in the past, what he calls a "weirdness magnet",
- > and past experience has taught me that there are, in fact, people who
- > attract magical activity and have the ability to sense it.
- > Thoughts/comments/ideas? D's not real worried for himself, but he's
- > afraid for his co-worker. He'd like to know what she (the priestess) can "do"
- > to either D or his co-worker, and what they can expect.
-
- I've always felt very strongly that people who are unstable enough to
- behave in this way are not stable enough to wield any real power. Real
- power comes from knowledge of yourself and the world around you -- if
- she's so clueless that she's going to chase a man like this, then the
- only power she has is in her mind and in the minds of people who she can
- con into fearing her. Your friend and his co-worker need a heavy dose
- of skepticism and a light dose of paranoia. And two doses of calm.
-
- The dream can be explained by thinking that the beeper went off when he
- was asleep and so his dream explained the sound without waking him up.
- Happens to me with my alarm clock all the time, much to my chagrin.
- If her entering the office made D nervous, then he could have easily hit
- a nasty key combination accidently.
-
- Even to wiccans, this is the Real World and not a D&D game. The only
- curse that she can put on him is to make him uncomfortable and nervous.
- Or, of course, she could pull out a gun and shoot him if she's that
- unstable. Unless he's really harmed her or she has some really good
- reason to be harassing him like this, I really doubt she's going to
- raise any real power. It's just not that easy, no matter what kind of
- priestess she calls herself.
-
- > "All the cute ones are mutants..."--?
-
- Yeah. Aren't mutants adorable? (Sappy smile...)
-
- Dawn
-
- Joseph Campbell gave me hope and now I have been saved.
- "Folk Song" by Bongwater
-