[UA] Devotion

[John Williamson]

Religion is the opiate of the masses -- where in this age has dwindled to a 
poppy seed muffin.

Have yous seen the Muffin Man?

The Muffin Man?

Yes - the Muffin Man!


>From: Royal Minister of Stuff <yokeltania at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
>To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
>Subject: [UA] Devotion
>Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:40:24 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>--- Tim Toner <thanatos at interaccess.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > IIRC, Isaac Newton never married and might have
> > died a virgin (the
> > virginity of dea guys is hard to
> > > validate, however) but I'm too lazy to back that
> > up.
> >
> > For some reason beyond comprehension, I tossed my
> > copy of The Book of Lists
> > a few years ago.  One of these lists went into 10
> > (or so) famous men who
> > probably died a virgin (or nearly so).  Newton was
> > mentioned, as was Hitler.
> > They backed up their claims with some armchair
> > psychoanalysis, noting
> > Hitler's extreme hang-ups about sex (the pre-cursor
> > of the CIA, the OSS,
> > considered dropping pornographic leaflets on
> > Hitler's Bunker to make him
> > wig-out).
>
>HA!  They should have sent him pictures of J. Edgar
>Hoover in drag.  Of course, that probably would have
>worked on Stalin, too, who, by all reports, seems to
>have had it together on the opposite end of the
>Hitler/Newton scale.
>
><snip nice build up about suffering>
>
> >  Since all the
> > daughters married and took
> > their husbands' name, the only chance to continue
> > was him, and he was about
> > to agree to never marry or sire children.  And I
> > remember thinking to
> > myself, "Damn.  That's devotion."
>
>This is EXACTLY why the next UA book needs more
>preists.  I'm not kidding, either.  Father Carillo is
>great, but devotion and faith are as important to
>magic as anything else.  I mean people devoted to
>organized religions.  Hindu, Catholic, Muslim,
>Buddhist and Jewish cabals could be neat, although, of
>course, you'll have to tread carefully.
>
>=====
>-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
>The Electronic Nation of Yokeltania:
>http://www.geocities.com/yokeltania/
>
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