I should have just said "slide into".
Actually, I was able to guess you meant "slide into" or "ease into," but I'm still not certain of your meaning. My meaning was that people who have a propensity for superstition would also have a propensity for religion. If you believe in astrology, it's easier to believe that Eve was created from a rib bone than if you're not superstitious. "Slide into" could describe that relationship, or not. So I wasn't sure.
Regarding "neediness," I thank you for the little lesson on the moral argument. I asked you whether it was meant to address the neediness question. You said it did. That was helpful...not. I guessed it was about neediness, but I couldn't figure out what you meant. So I asked. Confirming that it was about neediness did nothing to enlighten me.
We're probably both tired.
Re sacred, I really don't like that word. I don't like sacred cows because they stifle discussion, learning, change. It matters not to me whether the thing considered sacred is a "cow" or the something certifiably religious. I'm talking about ideas here, not statues of Buddha. Ideas, practices, assumptions, etc. are meant to be picked apart. All of them. "Sacred" is about some of them being held beyond critique. So the word makes me itch.
<<Thou shalt avoid gratuitous slams, and take some care to treat with respect, or at least some forbearance, what is sacred to others.>>
<<Yech! Ain't nothing sacred. I reserve the right to discuss things other people perceive as sacred. I'm prepared to do so in a constructive way, without 'tude, but I recognize nothing as sacred. In return, I expect the religious to recognize that what they consider sacred is their POV only and to lose the sacred chips on their shoulders.>>
The point here is that I have a limit. This is my limit: I will not acknowledge something to be sacred just because someone else considers it so. People who hold ideas to be sacred will just have to understand that that is their opinion only, not an absolute. I will be respectful of the person who so believes--we all have our foibles--but I will not genuflect before the cow.
So, you have my draft. I have your draft. You have my objection to your draft. Would you find it useful to try again? If so, have at it. If you determine that I'm incorrigible, I'll understand.
Karen |
