On Sat, 8 Aug 1998 19:03:53 -0600 papabeardm@... (David L. Milner) writes: > "Deus ex machina" means "A god from a machine, and it was a >dramatic device used in ancient Greek drama to solve all the problems >when man had screwed it up so badly it took a god to fix it. A good >example is the last scene in "Agamamnon" or "Medea". > > As to the present controversy, IT'S A GAME, PEOPLE! It works >(woks?) sort of like a smorgasbord. If you can use an aspect (an >aspic?:-)) of the game, use it. If it is problematic, use what _will_ >work. It doesn't take an official rule change to do that. (Hmm. I >must be getting hungry. Is that pizza I smell?) > > On the lighter side, we could do an adventure featuring all >the fantastic creatures. Maybe we could call it, "Pegasu Got Marred." > :-) (Yukka, yukka. Yes, I know its a plant but they spell it >differently.) > > Mormons, eh? I was thinking JW's myself. > > Lady angels, eh? I thought they transcended sexuality, as >opposed to being sexless like worker bees. I guess there could be >lady angels. All those Rennaisance cherubs had to come from >somewhere. :-) > > Personally, I don't care what we call the stupid dragon. We >still have to deal with him. Just as a ricocheted tangent here, it >strikes me that too many Christians spend too much time trying to >define Satan and his minions and too little time working to defeat >him. But I don't mean that in a bad way. :-) > I couldn't agree with you more Dariel. I mean, whats in a name? :). Also, I think Rainbow is good by itself. It shows evil taking the shape of and perverting something that God made to be beautiful. Doesn't that happen all the time? I mean, thats the biggest thing in our culture. Taking good things and twisting them. Like sex, God made it as something beautiful, but demons have found it to be a great temtation. They've used temptation in the form of sex, but in a perverted way, to lure thousands of people into their web of deceit. What could be a better representaion of showing that kind of temptation. People were saying that the rainbow is used by homomsexuals. Well, just like the rainbow dragon represents twisting the use of a rainbow, homosexuality twists the use of sex. New agers use the rainbow to twist religion, they use something God made into something to replace God. So, if you ask me, it makes sense the way it is. Greg, the One With No Special Title _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]