Now I have to agree. Keep our symbols, and let those that twist them worry. Kind of like the first of the Plains of Futlity Raid series. But that comes later. Jack ---------- > From: Peggish M Owen <dabassboy@...> > To: dragonraid@... > Subject: Re: [DragonRaid] pegasi, etc. > Date: Sunday, August 09, 1998 12:01 AM > > > 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] > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to <dragonraid-unsubscribe@...>