Attila & Witch Doctor
gloria nyquest nyquest@montana.com
Sat, 05 Dec 1998 22:25:27 -0700 (00912943527, 366A1547.1258964B@montana.com)
Carl Geisik wrote:
> At 11:44 AM 12/4/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >At 10:41 AM 11/27/98 EST, JONFILET@aol.com wrote:
> >>>Listen here- I dont give a flying **** about how much **** you have
> studied.
> >>>You abboned the bible- you have abbandoned your loving father in
> heaven. rot
> >>>in hell you *******.
> >>
> >
> >TILL
> >>I'd like to publish this letter in the "mailbag" column of my paper *The
> >Skeptical Review.* I always print >the writer's name and address with each
> >letter. Would you send me your address please? I have room >in the
> >January/February issue for it.
> >
> >TILL
> >I haven't gotten your answer to this request. May I hear from you soon?
> >
> >Farrell Till
> >Skepticism, Inc.
> >jftill@midwest.net
> >
> >
>
> Greetings,
>
> Sorry to edit the above, but I really can't include this filth in something
> I reply to.
>
> Anyway, this kind of response seems all to common. Far too often
> Christians will change personalities before our very eyes. How quickly the
> warm grin and the gracious "Believe in what I tell you, friend...." turns
> into a toothy snarl and a rasping "....or I will kill you!"
>
> What is it that Rand said about the "Mystics of Faith" and the "Mystics of
> Muscle?"
>
> Carl Geisik
Greetings Carl: Ayn Rand: The essential characters of these two are Attila,
the man who rules by brute force, acts on the range of the moment, is concerned
with nothing but the physical reality immediately before him, respects nothing
but man's muscles, and regards a fist, a club or a gun as the only answer to any
problem----and the witch doctor, the man who dreads physical reality, dreads the
necessity of practical action, and escapes into his emotions, into visions of
some mystic realm where his wishes enjoy a supernatural power unlimited by the
absolute of nature. (pg. 12 For The New Intellectual). Gloria