Shannon, When I saw this thread I though: oh no, Sirdar Argic! Ludwig Plutonium! I also thought: people who believe in religions are being uncreatively irrational, until I then thought: well I seem to have my own irrational beliefs, without which I would be neither myself, nor generally human. Faced with the vast impersonal nature of much that surrounds I should not be surprised that we wish to carve something personal and meaningful out of it. But that is the crux - meaningful though our beliefs may be they are also personal and I admit to being irritated when perfectly good and practical ideas are discarded because someone else thinks their derivative world-view is under threat. Emotional issues, about which only emotional views seem to be expressible. Oh well. john At 09:33 AM 7/10/00 -0700, you wrote: >On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Joel Figen wrote: > >> Perhaps it would be better if we didn't discuss religion that >> intimately in this list? > >I respectfully disagree, so long as we are discussing religion in >general, and not couched in terms of _your_ religion or _my_ religion. ...>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Shannon Smith cantante@x... > >"Oh, _theater_. Theater doesn't even approach it. > Opera isn't theater with singing and dancing. > Opera's _opera_." --Terry Pratchett, "Maskerade" > ... John Blyth Baritono robusto e lirico Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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