Hold on here. _All_ religions improve the lot of their followers -- this may or may not be an obvious heightening of physical or mundane comforts, but at a minimum you are improved because you are of the gnosis, or because you alone know you will get to heaven, etc.
>The Shakers, who bred (or rather did not breed) themselves out of
existence
The Shakers, who are almost but not quite extinct, would contend that their sexless lives are far more spiritual and fulfilling than ours. And the same can be argued for most such groups.
Ingo Tschinke
>I know the official statements of the Rokari church. But I think
it is one
>thing to have official rules and laws and what the churchman do in
reality.
Tap is a pretty obvious case, though, and is especially anathematized and considered chaotic. I do not believe that the Rokari are, by and large, hypocrites. Crank-minded bigots, maybe.
>Everbody knows Theoblanc the pious has used the forbidden spell
immortality
"Everybody".
BORISTS
Peter M. and I have had a brief off-line discussion about
these fellows, and here is some of the stuff we've wholeheartedly
agreed upon.
Basically, the Borists believe the Arkati doctrine that there is both a dark and a light side to Illumination. But, they differ about which is which.
Sandy P.
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