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From: dobro@ulowell.UUCP (Chet Dobro)
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Subject: Re: A home for discussions on the esoteric, the occult, etc.
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Date: Sat, 31-May-86 03:27:48 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 31 03:27:48 1986
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In article <639@bu-cs.UUCP> bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>Has it ever occurred to some of the PSI folks that you've been derided
>not because the readers are unreasonable but because most of the notes
>you present to the audience constitute completely incompetent drivel
>and most of us have seen far better on the subject that we have disagreed
>with (or agreed with?) Presuming oppression or parochialism is such
>a comfortable and puerile position to create for yourself (Hey, look MA!
>we're misunderstood! We *must* be right!)

That's one of the points that I plan to bring up in my first posting.

>
>I for one am sympathetic to PSI, I just think a discussion of even the
>most minimal quality has yet to get started, as far as I can see all we
>get is a bunch of defensive psycho-babble with a few laced together
>buzzwords all of a distinctly adolescent bent (like the above quote.)

That is going to be one of the major uses for the group: the comparison
and finalizing of defintions. The determining of criterion, etc.

>
>I've spent years speaking with people and reading about subjects like
>Crowley, the Kabbala (I was raised by "Kabbalists"), PSI etc, nah, I
>haven't seen anything yet on these lists worthy of discussion, the quality
>is zip.
>

Well, we'll see...


						Gryphon