From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #298 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, December 13 2000 Volume 05 : Number 298 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Now what starts with the letter C? [Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: Now what starts with the letter C? At 20:06 2000.12.06, you wrote: Sorry for the delay, I've been running my head off getting ready for the holidays. >I found the string of references kinda hard to follow: are you saying I >can special order Gothic? I tried >once at the Tower in Las Vegas, no dice. Where I live now, there's no >Tower Records; and it tends to be >too much work for local min. wage record store employees... ;) > >Hmmm, maybe I could try a Dear Santa letter... but it's hard to when you >don't believe, eh? Yes, on the Tower Records website. That's the theory, anyway. Also, there's a website called GEMM (short for Global Electronic Music Marketplace) that has four different sellers listing Gothic on vinyl, along with gobs of other Dolby works in various media, including a few I'd never even heard of before. (Sex Machine? Technology? If they weren't listed over at Lazlo's, I'dve had my doubts as to their authenticity.) I haven't done business with them, so I don't know how reliable they are. If anyone has, feel free to chime in. >THIRD: > >(Sorry, didn't save snippet from old message) >Robyn (M, not T): (Sorry, hon!) >I never really had the mental balls to broadcast my affliliation with >wicca. But thanks for the >inspiration. However, I tend to feel that I do not want to directly >associate with any religion wholly, as >I find no matter how tolerant (or intolerant) that religion may be, it >still excludes you from others. >Then of course you always have a difference of opinion between sects >(followings, such as Baptist vs. >Mormon, Zen vs. Tao, Aphrodite vs. Pan, etc.). So I choose to say that I >flirt with Wicca, with a dash of >Buddhism as the spice. And this mix is tending towards spicier at the >moment. I don't have the info in >front of me right now, but there is a major Wiccan/Women's Rights/'other' >temple on the outskirts of Las >Vegas called (and I will misspell this) the Temple of Sekmet, which my >wife and I frequented. If you need >more info, email me directly as I don't want the alloy server to ban me or >kick me off for filling it >up... I've always been fairly open about it, in a low-key,if-you're-paying-attention kind of way. I think it particularly important not to live in the broom closet because my husband and I have a young daughter, since I want her to learn that while what we believe is a bit on the unorthodox side, it's nothing to be ashamed of. I'm actually mostly the Celtic/eclectic type, with a little bit of Native American thrown in as opposed to strictly Wiccan. However, Wicca has legal standing as a legitimate religion in the US. This is an important point, given that we have a few intolerant elements here in Oregon (A measure to ban the "promotion of homosexuality" in any school that recieves state funding, including colleges, was narrowly defeated in the recent election.), and Wicca's legal status gives me a leg to stand on should someone decide to start a Witch hunt. I've heard enough stories of people losing their children for being pagan that I felt the need to cover my posterior somehow, so Wicca's listed as 'religion of choice' on legal papers such as hospital records, etc. (Yeah, I'm a smidge paranoid, but what parent isn't?) Robyn M @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.wiccans.net/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #298 ***************************