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avant-garde -- That is it in a nutshell
Ultimately whenever one person is trying to convert another person to their faith an assumption of a spiritual deficiency in that other person is made.
posted by
gomedome
on April 5, 2005 at 9:02 PM
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boiling down taffee
i believe it's everyone's responsibility to look into things for themselves. it is in trying to convert others that the problems really begin. one person is saying, 'i know better than you, and you are screwing up.' that is the unconscious message. i think a life lived with integrity speaks more than a volume of books written about it. thanks for the thought-evoking post.
posted by
avant-garde
on April 5, 2005 at 12:50 PM
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Thanx scoop
I figured I had better add something in the form of worthy content after coming out with both guns blazing.
posted by
gomedome
on April 5, 2005 at 8:46 AM
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081121 -- you cover quite a bit of territory in your comment
If you do not mind I will respond in greater detail in a posting tomorrow. I will take the liberty of correcting a few of your typos when I do. (again if you have no objection)
posted by
gomedome
on April 5, 2005 at 8:44 AM
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Ariala
nyuk nyuk.
posted by
gomedome
on April 5, 2005 at 8:41 AM
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Gomedome great post
Love these two sentences;
When all is boiled down to taffee, religious beliefs are nothing more than a person's opinion.
And this one…
Freedom of expression is okay as long as you are expressing an opinion that I agree with
. I think you have it covered.
posted by
scoop
on April 5, 2005 at 8:30 AM
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I understand from your blog how you must feel when others are trying to impose their belies upon you/
But supose some one has found a principle for living that might help you woould you still feel bitter if they only wanted to share it with.
I too feel that Christiaanity is being presented as a better idea than any other, but I have noticed a I study the Bible that many of the principles discovered in if practiced could make this world a better place to live in.
In my writings of IN THE BEGINNING GOD I am trying to present the New Testament as writings of men who were sincerely seeking a better way of life and had allowed themselves as time went on to become blinded to the reaity of living by their religious concepts.
I thank God for them if there is a God for presenting some thoughts about life that I never would have thought of. I was a hopeless alcoholic until I began to practice some of the principles found in the New Testament to live by.
posted by
123Clint
on April 5, 2005 at 8:27 AM
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We are all bozos on this bus and everyone has an opinion, and a right
to voice it (as long as it agrees with mine, of course.)
posted by
Ariala
on April 5, 2005 at 8:01 AM
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