Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!PRESTO.IG.COM!relph From: relph@PRESTO.IG.COM (John M. Relph) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: west-coast KaTemas Message-ID: Date: 12 Jul 89 19:22:04 GMT References: <3013@scolex.sco.COM> <8907121812.AA18682@hop.toad.com> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: relph@presto.ig.com (John M. Relph) Organization: IntelliGenetics Inc., Mtn. View, Ca. Lines: 43 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu In article <8907121812.AA18682@hop.toad.com> tim@toad.COM (Tim Maroney) writes: >It's kind of you to think of me. However, I find devotional >personalities highly annoying, and for that reason, I would no more >consider attending a "KaTemas" party than I would, say, a Neo-Pagan >summer solstive ritual. Well, I would consider attending a party with such people, merely because I wouldn't mind meeting some of these people with no faces that address me at my screen every day. It would not be my goal to come to such a gathering for the purpose of "worship" (KT, Neo-Pagan, or otherwise), and besides, I don't think I have a "devotional" personality (though I may be annoying in spite of that fact). I would not assume that all of these people who read Love-Hounds (aka Gaffa) are "worshippers", after all, I have at least two examples to the contrary (you, Tim, and myself). Unfortunately, your statement that you wouldn't consider attending has the effect of representing yourself as a person who, because of your non-devotional personality, is superior than those other low-minded folks who would consider attending. This appears to be a very conceited attitude, no matter its intentions. > I prefer my minds unfettered. The truth is told. :-) But if you think you would be placing your mind in fetters by attending such a possibly ritualistic assembly such as a Katemas party or a neo-pagan ritual (not to mention the odd Christian wedding -- ever been to one of those?) then you are admitting that you have a weak mind, and would be "converted" merely by association. Which I doubt. C'mon Tim, give us some credit. We're not as dumb, as "devotional", nor as rude as you think. Although I'll be the first to admit that I have no morals and that I'm an asshole. So, where's the Northern California Katemas Party? -- John -- Be careful what you say about others