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- From: thorfinn@wixer.cactus.org (Thorfinn Einarsson)
- Subject: Re: Power-over/Power-from-within
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.022239.443@wixer.cactus.org>
- Organization: Real/Time Communications
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 02:22:39 GMT
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- Greetings to All and to the Elves!
-
- > billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >: cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese) writes:
- >: Get off the bipoar bandwagon, people. Even I -- the one who hates
- >: bipolar thinking so much -- neglected to realize what was going on.
- >: Let's say we stop taking an axe to the universe in a effort to fit the
- >: pieces into one of two mutually exclusive boxes. We do it with human
- >: talents -- this one is "male," this one is "female." This one is
- >: "liberal," this one "conservative." This is "hawk," this is "dove."
- >: This is "feminist," this is "traditional." This is "Pagan," this is
- >: "Christian." Let's knock it off.
- >:
- >: Yes, I'm back and snottier than ever!>
- >
- >Glad to see it. I have been arguing the same point, although not as
- >eloquently, for years.
-
- This was the goal of my original article "On Power": power is power,
- and magic is magic. Reading the passage above brings joy to my heart.
- For Neo-Heathenry to mature, it must grow beyond the
- Wizard-of-Oz-Mentality: "Are you a good witch or a bad witch?"
- We must accept ourselves as whole entities and not externalize that
- from within which we are led to believe is evil or bad. It is when we
- repress or externalize these aspects of ourselves that we give power
- to them, and thus allow them to control us. The left hand path is
- as valid as the right hand path.
-
- And the Eagle Flies With the Dove!
- =-= Thorfinn Einarsson =-=-=-=-=-= ALU =-=-=-=-=-= O'dhinn er alfadhir! =-=
- "En stundum vakti hann upp daudha menn o'r io"rdhu edha settisk undir hanga;
- fyrir thvi' var hann kalladhr draugadro'ttinn edha hangadro'ttinn."
- =-= ALU =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ynglinga saga ch. 7 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ALU =-=
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