[UA] Re: Is God A Carp?

[Michael Dinowitz]

> Michael Dinowitz writes:
>
> > Of course, this is just in America. In other countries the traditions of
> > oracles, necromancers and the like are still going strong, if not in prime
time.
>
> Agreed. I'm a practicing magickian myself (a long-time tradition in my
> family). I just gotta laugh when I read something about talking fish or any
> other "spiritual phenomenon". It's all in you, not in that which surrounds
> you.
That's one take and a more modern Hermetic one. I'm of a tradition that says
that it's not all in you and there is 'stuff' surrounding you. The reason I
mention it is that the event happened in a place loaded with people of that
tradition and take on things. Even more importantly, one of the two witnesses
was not of the tradition or even the religion (or language group) of the
'entity' possessing the fish.

This of course can lead to many interesting thoughts and game ideas. The beliefs
of a community having an effect on the environment of the community, even to the
point of effecting others. What happens when you get a community of dipsomancers
living together? ;)

> :)
> Fra. Pompoesus 08/15


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