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Date: 12 Nov 2000 00:00:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Arguments
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On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, catherine yronwode wrote:

> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 03:32:56 GMT
> From: catherine yronwode 
> Newsgroups: alt.religion.orisha
Subject: : Re: Arguments
> 
> Grisso wrote:
> > 
> > Mamaissii wrote:
> > 
> > > E. C. Ballard wrote:
> > 
> > > > You are in no position to claim that I am not a legitimate priest 
> > > > in an African religion. Your skin color does not make you an 
> > > > African Papess.
> > 
> > > I am sorry but you are wrong.  <...> Not only am I in a position 
> > > to *tell* you that you are no priest in this religion, I am in a 
> > > position to *make* YOU and anyone else. I *know* what you don't 
> > > have, and I *know* what you can *never* have or *possess* or *do*.
> > > I wash and crown the heads of babalawos .... 
> > 
> > The only legitimacy that one can ever claim is the one conferred by 
> > self. 
> 
> I have no comment, simply a smile on my face. I am thinking of Alice in
> Wonderland in the moment that she began to wake up, and of the certainty
> with which she declared, "You're nothing but a pack pf cards." 

The feigning sleeper can delude others--he cannot delude himself.
The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
[One-Minute Wisdom].

Alas.
 
> cat yronwode 
> 

Peace,
Grisso


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