John truly outdid himself on this one. We were amazed at just how much nonsense he could pack into such a small letter. The footnotes below, as usual, are Antistoicus', leading to commentary on the John's blatherings, which often touch on topics far more interesting than his thoughts regarding them.

From: (address ommitted) Number: 443959 To: DEMIPAGAN Date: 10/15/01 12:32 AM Subject: Something you have written... Reference: None Read: No Private: Yes Conference: Private E-Mail Attachment: ATT1.HTML 2.96K AddressBook: Add Sender Add Recipient View Mode: Standard Text Web Headers Em Hotep Antihistamine! I actually found something worth reading (what a surprise) at your website: "2. Pray, and see who answers........ (ad nauseum)" I did. I prayed to Sekhmet and many other Names of Netjer. I can not tell you that every time I prayed that I hada positive outcome (some were actually negative in nature). (1) However, from a few names (Sekhmet, Bast, Set, etc.) I have noticed that, "when [I] pray for something worthy", that I definitley do receive it: (2) whether it be strength to find temperance of Anger (Set), being sick (Sekhmet), or getting my cats to calm down (Bast). (3) I would not be so stupid to say that I have "faith" in Netjer simply because "well, um..gee Antiwhateveryournameis, I have faith"...I have been through so many religions that I can not tell you how disenchanted I am with theology all-together. (4) However, I have faith in Kemetic Orthodoxy because, frankly, I see it manifest in the "real world" that you so wonderfully talk about. My life is going quite well compared to my past and I believe that my "faith" is one of the reasons: not only the faith in myself (5) but the faith in my "Parent Name" that I hold "conversations" with. (6) Well, in closing, I certainly hope that you never hear Aphrodite speaking to you...you may think that you are Schizophrenic (7) or, at the best, Schizo-effective. ..then, of course, Aphrodite will be offended... (8) As Her Holiness Tamara L. Siuda stated...Netjer WANTS us to communicate....with their ACTUAL names (Sekhmet...not Sachmis, my friend...). (9) So have a nice day! .... (10) John a.k.a. Isep P.S. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT EAT BAKLAVA.

".. and such were the words of the prophet, may Sekhmet's blessings be upon him". Try to imagine a world in which thinking such as this has come to define the religious mainstream. As we read John write

"My life is going quite well compared to my past"

we should remember that the author of these words would, reportedly, be dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in a few years, the policemen who found his body saying that they had no idea of why he would do such a thing. Such are the rewards of a life in which reason and common sense are angrily discarded, and replaced with fantasy. Click here to return to "Groupthink in Action".