From: "Eric Boyd" <6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca> To: <virus@lucifer.com> Subject: Re: virus: missa viriis Date sent: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 18:14:30 -0400 Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
> Wade T.Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu> writes:
> <<
> >So -- rituals. It is certainly a direction we can shoot for.
> >
> >How do we begin?
>
> And it's not even rituals, but the level of _involvement_ that is
> exercised by the participants.
> >>
>
> I hear you. It's not so much the rituals as the imbuing of meaning
> into those rituals by participation. And this reflects back unto the
> churchs in a negative way -- as people pull away from them, and begin
> to see the dogma beneath them, the meaning vanishes, and what's left
> is what you experienced -- the structure with inept priests.
>
> So we need new rituals -- new events, to which people can come and
> really feel a part of each others lives. In which they can
> participate, in order to build commitment and meaning.
>
> "nihilism just isn't enough anymore"
>
> <<
> You know, it ain't so much that we need any heirarchy of members, but
> every ritual does need a prompter- a person stage center willing to
> sing the first chorus- until everyone can sing it.
> >>
>
> We need a singer/song writer. Does anybody want to volunteer their
> time to compose some Virian Vibes? (I'd suck at it...) We could
> harvest the soundtracks that we have for something appropiate. I
> think "It ain't easy being Green" (Kermit the Frog) might make a cool
> song to sing with Virians!
>
> <<
> So, what rituals?
>
> I don't have a clue. I think it's more an attitude about why we would
> gather.
>
> ... a song to sing when Virions meet.
>
> ... a joy to share with those who observe.
>
> ... and whatever, however, shows that there are no barriers between
> us.
> >>
>
> yes. For a long time, I've wanted to meet members of Virus in
> person -- and it would be so cool to have a song to sing, or rituals
> to participate in.
>
> I want to meet some Virians.
>
> You know what we need? A member directory -- a who's where? to find
> each other, to make meeting each other easier.
>
> If there is widespread desire for something like that, I hereby
> volunteer my time to make it -- both an online version and a
> 'published' one, if we want that.
>
> Once we have such a directory, it should be easy to find good
> locations to meet.
>
> ERiC
>
>
Any rituals we craft should be empirically based. This means that
they should revolve around one of two poles; 1) the environmental
(the changing of the seasons, the phases of the moon) and 2) the
personal (rites of passage - birth, puberty, marriage, menopause,
death).