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To: Grainne who wrote (27592)	1/3/1999 9:27:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

You understood me exactly Christine.

To: Grainne who wrote (27592)	1/4/1999 2:49:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I have seen most of the Joseph Campbell series on PBS. It has been a while and I wish that they would repeat the shows. They were very well done. I am not against a new belief system, I guess that I would prefer to see it based on fact. I am bothered by people believing in myth as if it were real. I am not that much in disagreement with X as it may seem, and I admire her posts, and I believe that I have told her so, just as I have told you so...sometimes. My heart sings when something that I have read in the sciences helps me understand how things work, from physics to biology to astronomy. Del

To: Grainne who wrote (27592)	1/4/1999 5:16:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Christine Grace -- About Maypoles and Mayday I remember 36 years ago when my son was required to participate in what I feared was an ancient pagan ceremonial of May Day in an English day school. While state subsidies were involved, and the English had no concept of a wall of separation, I soon learned that May Day and the May Pole were neither a Christian or Pagan ceremonial, but was a Socialist ceremony. May 1 (or May Day) was adopted by international social and communist organizations in memorial to the American labor and anarchist martyrs at Haymarket Square massacre in Chicago. The formerly phallic maypole which celebrated creative and fructifying nature was gradually transmuted into a symbol of the newly self-liberated working man, casting off the bonds of industrial servitude, and standing unmewed, his fists raised against all oppressors provided a noble model for small children who were connected by ribbons of sympathy to the globe atop the pole. Having learned this, both I and my son, as good Americans, were eager to participate.