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To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.satanism,talk.religion.misc,talk.religion.newage From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nagasiva) Subject: EWilliams: 'Left Hand Path' Date: 6 May 1997 14:33:54 -0700 [from alt.religion.wicca: eric_williams@MENTORG.COM (Eric Williams...)] In article <5jlv2a$lbu$1@nonews.col.hp.com|, natalie@col.hp.com (Natalie Ramsey) writes: | Followups trimmed to alt.religion.wicca and soc.religion.paganism. | | h_e_m@juno.com wrote: | : Some might be interested in: | | : http://www.inetport.com/~one/dkdark.html, | : "The Dark Forces" --Excerpts from the Work of the Tibetan | | [snip] | : Anyone who over-exalts the concrete mind and permits it continuosly to | : shut out the higher, is in danger of straying on the left-hand path. | [snip] | | ObPetPeeve: I thought we had abandoned the idea that left-handed folk | are evil, undesirable, or what-have-you. Why do so many folk persist | in using the term "left-hand path" with such a connotation? | | To say nothing of the fact that I wasn't aware the term was in | use in Tibet... It may be impossible to fully eradicate this bias until other terms such as "sinister" (derived from the Latin "sinistral", meaning (what else?) "left-handed") are purged from the language. Also "gauche" (French for "left", if memory serves; also means "tasteless" in English) and "adroit" (French for right; also implies dexterous or flexible). 'Tis a sinister plot, this gaucheness of the otherwise adroit English language... :-) [.sigsnip] -- eric_williams@mentorg.com -- ugh, "dexterity" is from "right-handed" as well! The preceding is *not* to be construed in any way as an official (or unofficial) public policy statement by Mentor Graphics, Incorporated, my employer, or any of its employees, legal representatives, affiliates, customers, or vendors. -- see http://www.hollyfeld.org/~tyagi/nagasiva.html and call: 408/2-666-SLUG!!! ---- (emailed replies may be posted) ---- CC public replies to author ---- * * * Asphalta Cementia Metallica Polymera Coyote La Cucaracha Humana * * *
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