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From: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc)
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Subject: Re: Crowley's sense of humor.
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Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 13:47:38 EDT
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>Would that Josh could ruin it for you, but he isn't in network-land any
>more.  I don't think it's foolish (in either the bad or the good sense) not
>to get the joke, but I'm afraid you won't find anyone who will spell it out,
>except perhaps in some of the published Crowley journals' footnotes.  Here's
>an unhelpful hint: all the secrecy in the book is actually about a set of
>closely-related topics.
>-=-
>Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking

Definitely unhelpful; and truely disappointing.  I would like to give
Crowley the benefit of my doubt that this really is a joke (never mind
that might I have a hard time seeing the humor in such a joke if it were
one); that somehow he didn't really advocate human sacrifice at all.  I
would think that people who so strongly object to charges of satanic
practice against Crowley and his disciples (is that a good word?) would
be a little more helpful in clearing up any misunderstanding.

Josh's inference that people who don't understand can't (or won't) think
doesn't do it, I'm afraid.

By the way, what's the "good sense" of being foolish?
-- 

Paul Dubuc 	cbscc!pmd