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Pastimes : Calling All SI Satanists -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (250)	3/23/1998 9:52:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1187

Holly, I don't think it was your ISPs, at least it wasn't in my case. The culprit is either SI servers, or routers near San Jose. SI has been miserably slow today for other people, according to posts I've seen. I got so many "operation timed out" errors that I signed off and gave up multiple times. On the other hand, I've had no trouble getting into Yahoo and other sites, which is why I think it's SI servers and/or routers near or in San Jose. DK

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (250)	3/23/1998 9:56:00 PM
From: Reginald B. Arturo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1187

Satanism as it stands is a belief that has its origins in mankind's inner struggle between good and evil. The struggle between good and evil runs the gamut between those who actively practice a daily form of satanic ritualism as opposed to those who fear it to such an extent they turn to various forms of organized religion. In many cultures the devil is a symbol of the very root of what is wrong in that particular society which then turns to explain the evils which have come upon it as some form of anti-deital manifestation. Freud always postulated that the Id and the Ego were pyschosexual urges brought about by the collective unconscious at it struggled to rationalize between what was inherently good for the individual and what was basically right for society at large. In the Watambi 'Thuk' 'Thuk' tribe of the Kalahari desert this dynamic polarity can be witnessed by the very intricate rituals practiced by the Shamans who force all those thought to be possessed by evil spirits to ingest the Harambi root which brings on very powerful hallucinatory effects. The purgative effect of such a ritual has been compared to the exorcisms carried out by the Tappas Monks of Spain in the early thirteenth century. Nevertheless, the belief in a dark force has set up a dichotomy in the nurture nature approach to civilized relationships between humans. There is a sense that whatever crosses from the light to the dark, and vice versa, can only become as one if there is indeed some unifying force that can bring it all together. In essence, the entire belief system upon which these frenetic strategisms can continue to survive, will continue to be in a state of flux until there can be a harmonious resolution of the many synchophantic debacles. There will continue to be endless debates as to the conglomeration of the spiritual as wellas the earthly feelings which combine to create the illusion of pure evil and pure goodness. As this argument continues to expound itself upon the mendicants of self -expression and tolerance, there will be further overtures to the origins and understandings of those belief systems which predicate themselves upon this formula. In other words, the final conflict which is always raging in the innermost corners of the mammalian brain, will expend themselves to such an extent that all further contingencies will be entirely without meaning.