[UA] ObUA Catholics

[Timothy Toner]

----- Original Message -----
From: "James O'Rance" <jorance at hotmail.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] ObUA Catholics


> "Bailey Watts" <didi_mau at hotmail.com>said:
>
>  >>>But as long as you get the gist, then as the Catholics say "It's Not
> Really Important."<<<
>
> *laugh*
>
> I was taught in Catholic schools and a Catholic university. Oneof my email
> addresses is <heretic at catholic.org>. On my bookshelves I have books with
> thousands of saints and angels listed and described. When I was an altar
boy
> as a kid, I can't remember a single Mass that wasn't the feast day of
> something obscure.
>
> And that statement is the funniest thing I've heard today, and one of the
> truest. I'm going to start saying that (the way that I say "All knowledge
is
> tentative" a lot when people challenge my assertions).
>
> Insert-feminine-hygiene-productUA:
>
> It strikes me that the Catholic Church might have amuch larger presence in
> the OU than good ol' Father Carillo. As a large "cabal" (perhaps the
world's
> largest) with a lot of interest in the occult and in influencing the world
> (often with the best of intentions) I can't imagine how there could *not*
be
> a large number of powerful cliomancerrs and bibiomancers in the Church.

For the same reason that there aren't a large number of dipsomancers who are
Irish* or entropomancers found in casinos.  One might assume that such a
fertile ground would breed the obsessed, but the opposite might be true--if
the person lives for the act, and not the underlying paradox, then magick
doesn't enter into it.  As Freud said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

* and I'm Irish, and I know of what I speak.  Statistically speaking, I
could have been safe if I used Russian or Amerind, but I went with the one
back by the statistics AND personal experience.


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