OFF: Illuminatus!

[Arin Komins]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 DASLUD at AOL.COM wrote:

:Subject: Re: OFF: Illuminatus!
:
:In a message dated 6/23/00 9:57:10 AM, james.hogard at JUNO.COM writes:
:
:<< Only Hanna-Barbera cartoons have had a greater effect on my psyche.
:
:-Hogard
: ===
:may i comment here?
:
:when i'm not having tons o' fun here at BOC-L, i'm a regular at a place
:called Disaster Message Service, specifically discussions on the chechnya
:conflict and what's going on in yugoslavia. at DMS, i'm "L'menexe."
:on the russia page, there is a strident poster named Antonio, who routinely
:rails against what he calls the "illuminati/masonic/jewish conspiracy"; in
:fact he appears to believe nothing  but certain papal edicts from centuries
:ago.
:as you might expect, i regularly blast this individual...and when he got to
:the point of burning rabbis at the stake last week, i blasted him severely
:enough to a degree where he's toned down such talk....for now anyway.
:==
:point being that there are people out there who took/take the illuminatus
:trilogy seriously, even _dead_ seriously.  'Antonio' would be an example.
:
:never read it meself.

<imho>

following up on this argument, though (and similar arguments that came
out after columbine and other tragedies) is that unstable folks are
just that, and one cannot blame the source material for the act.

else big brother will come down and make life severely not fun anymore :)

</imho>

Arin
(not just 'cause I'm a great fan of the illuminatus series, m'self.)
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