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From: padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Some thoughts on availing ourselves to evil
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Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 10:10:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 10 10:10:00 1985
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>... The trial came when I
>was so high that I didn't even know where I was (I was open). My friends played
> me a acid rock record in the dark and I had a confrontation with something I
>can remember to this day....sent me running into the streets at 3am. My friends
> found me pounding on the doors of a Catholic church, begging to come in. Any-
> way, something in the record triggered something in my subconscious...

Truly fascinating. I'm not sure I should listen to someone whose mind
has been made into mush by drugs. (The above could be taken as evidence
of the fact.) That someone can be converted to christianity by a bad trip,
and at the same time criticize drugs as evil is most interesting. Why
don't you write this up and submit it to a  journal on philosophy; imagine
you may just have come up with a new "proof" of god's existence: proof
by controlled substance abuse. Just think of it, seven "proofs by ingnorance"
and one "proof by abuse". Now that's progress.

You may want to encourage others to experiment with drugs and heavy metal
rock also.

Padraig Houlahan.