Prosthetic Paradise(2) Enfetishment&MS (fwd)
Lorentzen / Nicklaus
lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
Tue Dec 7 02:07:59 CST 1999
Jody schrieb:
> No one on this list is being
> tortured by Nazis, or suffering from bomb induced radiation sickness, or
> having their genome evaluated by a duly appointed board.
What makes you so sure?
> How does one tell a good Archon from a bad Archon?
It's these, ahh, EYES ... A-and, of course, the genitals.
(- what you call "good Archons" are in fact: Angels)
> The
> good Archons always win. It may take a millenium or two, but we never
> fail. If you don't believe that, then you may as well open the oven door
> for yourself and walk in, because you will be no good to us, and we won't
> open it for you. We will, however, act to keep bad Archons from making
> ovens and putting victims in them. No revengence, though. That leads
> to oven making.
Well, this passage does not seem to be "conclusive" at all.
> I am not offended by your pessimism.
Strange enough, it somehow sounds like it.
> Personally, however,I don't feel particularly victimized by the trends you
> allude to, if not exagerate the seriousness of. They are perhaps serious,
> but using them as icons, or stringing them together into a chorus of
> pessimism doesn't help me to understand exactly how, and why I should be
> worried, shocked or concerned.
To become a victim you don't need to "feel particulary victimized".
>It becomes like geese returning to the
> flock- certain gestures and attitudes must be displayed, in order to be
> accepted.
This must be a socio-biological reference I do not get.
> At any
> rate, a random set, if there is such a thing, is only random once. (...) It
>just doesn't repeat itself.
"The same is different" (Ranulph Glanville)
KFL
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