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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (40716)6/17/1999 4:25:00 PM
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I know you feel that way. I think the airplane worshippers, do, too. I think the behaviors I describe have quite a lot to do with quite a few worshippers. Your 'God,' or state of worshipfulness, may differ from others, though. But of course they... (No need to write it out; you know what comes next.)

I can't help wondering what it is that you give the name 'God' to, and why you give it that name instead of the name 'Ralph'? Granted that you see the cosmos as a very grand thing, do you take the next step and derive ethical intuitions from this perception, and give the name 'God' to an association you have with it, and proceed to 'worship' it? And how do you jump from one step to the next? and do you do it because it 'feels' right, which is, of course, what I suspect is standardly the case? (In my prior post I hypothesized about what might be the origin of such feelings-of-rightness.)
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