Re:virus: The Purpose of the Articles

From: Mark Collins (me@thisisnurgle.org.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 30 2002 - 17:14:35 MDT


On Tuesday 30 July 2002 8:51 pm, you wrote:
<snip>

> > 2) Was there a reason for not simply making a single post containing the
>
> URLs, rather than posting reams of badly formatted text, without
> reference
> to the sources?
>
> Yes, to make the texts a part of Virus archives.

Not wanting to fan the flames (honest guv), archiving articles without
permission is illegal. Reference the URLs, and if the URLs are changed, tough
shit. Authors perogative.

<snip>

> That is because list members are generally well-versed in Christianity,
> but not so well versed in chaos magick or eclectic wicca, and need to
> be exposed to their texts in order to be able to critique them from a
> position of knowledge. If they are indeed bullshit (and parts of every
> faith are), we need to clearly state why, and how we can avoid making
> the same mistakes in our engineering of a virion faith.

I think Herm was refering to me as identify an article as "bullshit", and if
so, I was claiming the article was factually incorrect in its explaination of
Chaos magick, not Chaos Magick is bullshit.

<snip>

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