> "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in news:cp15j7$nq9$0@pita.alt.net:
>
> >
> > news:54522494.0412052026.515b046d@posting.google.com...
> >> "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message
> > news:<cp00lm$hhd$0@pita.alt.net>...
> >> > news:54522494.0412051050.573e05a5@posting.google.com...
> >> > > "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message
> >> > news:<cov27b$kfk$0@pita.alt.net>...
> >> > > > <nospamplease.tom.mcclelland@ntlworld.com>
> >> > > > > Uncle Davey wrote:
> >> > > > > > news:6c840ad4.0412041724.75c65d37@posting.google.com...
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > >>>Yes, but it's code for non new age people.
> >> > > > > >>>
> >> > > > > >>>There are a lot of things encoded in J K Rowling's
> >> > > > > >>>unfinished
> >> > heptology.
> >> > > > > >>>
> >> > > > > >>
> >> > > > > >>And you know this how?
> >> > > > > >>
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > The people on alt.pagan had a discussion with me about it.
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > There are a lot of witches and wizards on there,
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Uh, Davey, there is no such thing as a real witch or wizard.
> >> > > > > Those
> > are
> >> > > > > stories to entertain and frighten and control.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > > and they specialise in this
> >> > > > > > kind of symbolry.
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > You can always go there and ask them whether the aspects of
> >> > > > > > J.
> > K.
> >> > Rowling
> >> > > > > > encode genuine occult matters or whether she's just mucking
> > around.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Rowling cannot encode "genuine occult matters" because there
> > aren't
> >> > any.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > Not all will agree, but there seems to be a body of opinion
> > among
> >> > them
> >> > that
> >> > > > > > the series encodes a lot of stuff for those in the know.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > There are always a few complete idiots who will believe
> >> > > > > anything
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > Not being an occult practitioner myself, and not intending
> >> > > > > > to
> > become
> >> > one
> >> > if
> >> > > > > > I can help it, I have to bow to their <cough> superior
> >> > > > > > wisdom.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > You won't manage to become one if you try, because no-one
> >> > > > > can.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Tom
> >> > > > >
> >> > > >
> >> > > > So much the better, because I never liked that stuff.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Whether it exists, or whether it doesn't exist, they still
> >> > > > think
> > Rowling
> >> > is
> >> > > > pretty much in the know.
> >> > > >
> >> > >
> >> > > Davy, you are aware, I assume, that the majority of the "occult
> >> > > secrets" believed in by neo-pagans are derived from reading
> >> > > fantasy fiction; correct? The fact that people on neopagan
> >> > > froups think that J.K. Rowling is "in the know" is not evidence
> >> > > for the factuality of any of her stories, it is evidence that the
> >> > > neo-pagans borrowed ideas either directly from the HP novels or
> >> > > indirectly, from the same sources that inspired the details of
> >> > > those novels. IOW, it is not that Rowling is knowledgable about
> >> > > neo-paganism (although she may be), rather, neo-pagans are
> >> > > knowledgable about Rowling's fiction.
> >> > >
> >> > > It's analogous to the people who dress up as Klingons. They
> >> > > might honestly believe that the people who wrote Star Trek were
> >> > > "on to something", but it was Star Trek that inspired them to
> >> > > think that there was something to be on to in the first place.
> >> > > Your causal arrow is pointing the wrong way.
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > I'm not assigning any causalities.
> >> >
> >> > Uncle Davey, hth.
> >>
> >> Then I shall give you the benefit of the doubt and tell you that your
> >> words in this thread, as quoted above, are at best misleading.
> >>
> >
> > All right then.
> >
> > Uncle Davey
> >
> >
> >
>
> And none of your weasling has yet provided any justification for using
> derogatory terms for Muslims, which is what started the whole thing, and
> which you neatly deflected into another topic.
>
I'll await your indignance next time someone uses the word 'Fundy' then,
shall I?
Uncle Davey
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