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Old 07-08-2010, 05:41 AM   #767
beppe
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Your argument (suggestion/contention/observation - I'm not sure what the status of the above passage is), is that a lot of people have believed something for a long time, therefore...therefore what? We should immerse ourselves in the same antediluvian fog? It must be true?
Take that as you want. Who knows if they believed it? Should there always be a therefore? It must be true what? That the cult of the Mother is possibly the longer lasting concept in humankind?

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No one who has not taken mescalin and seen the spirits of the cactus enter a man's body and transform him into a coyote can only imagine it, or read about it and quite easily reduce it to some drug-induced hallucination. So what? They are probably right to do so. To think otherwise is simply to build immunity to scrutiny into your mythology - which many systems of myth do, but that doesn't make them true.
I am inclined to think that reality for you start when it is well written up and documented so that you can discuss it.
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