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Archetypal Keys in Wiccan Mythological History

Aug 04, 2006 16:15

I've been bored lately, and when I'm bored, I read. Mostly, I've been reading RJ Stewart's The Underworld Initiation. I have a lot of problems with the book, but it's definitely thought-provoking. It inspired some thoughts, that I thought I'd share with everybody :-)

( Keys in The Underworld Initiation )

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madfedor August 6 2006, 02:39:53 UTC

I'm not sure where to begin, but since you are encouraging thoughtful posts, I'll just start with a phrase I use often. In no particular order ( ... )

persipone August 6 2006, 03:03:39 UTC

Ooh nice response. I'll reply to the political part here ( ... )

madfedor August 6 2006, 03:37:22 UTC

I don't mean to minimize the danger we were all in during the Cold War. There was way too much room for mistakes. But, it's like the current situation and the borderline (and also valid) paranoia over the possibility of a nuke showing up in an American city: it has been possible for this to happen for many years now, and one has to ask why it hasn't happened yet, especially in the wake of 9/11. If they could go through many months, with all the planning and resources needed for the preparation, why the heck didn't they nuke 10 or 12 cities instead? The answer lies underneath the growing myth around 9/11: because they were deterred.

The USSR was a very complex situation, so I'll stipulate all your points and just mention one thing: it is not stereotyping to describe the Russians as a culture as paranoid. It is a factual, reasonable description. Much can follow from that, including a brinksman strategy of goading them to hasten their downfall.

persipone August 6 2006, 03:54:26 UTC

I don't dispute your characterization of Russian culture as paranoid- I don't know enough about the culture to judge, but the government certainly *was*. Again, though, their fall was in their flaws, not in our success ( ... )

madfedor August 6 2006, 04:07:08 UTC

I join you in your view of deterrence, especially in the incompetant use of it being demonstrated by Dubya, Israel and our European "partners" in the war on terror. It's half-assed at best.

Ironically, though, I must point out that the fate of Afghanistan's Taliban regime is a strong lesson to many would-be pinpricks on the US skin. How effective it has been or will be depends on negative proof, so we'll just have to wait and see...

Thank you for this. I don't get enough true, intellectual stimulation.

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