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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Gauguin who wrote (21525)4/13/1999 12:20:00 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 71178
 
Its not just that they are noisy- its that they are noisy and they KNOW better. They presume to tell people they don't know well (or at all) how to live. That's a mighty big presumption.

Its annoying to be told, by someone who doesn't know me at all, that if I just opened my eyes, or accepted xyz, suddenly the light would descend upon me. For this presumes I have been going through my life with my eyes closed bumping into the spiritual furniture which I assure you I HAVE NOT. It also assumes I could make a choice to believe something that my head and my heart reject utterly (and have rejected since the age of 5). How someone can TELL someone else that if they just believed they would believe (and this is essentially the message) with a straight face is more than I can fathom.

If I went around with a silver dollar and said "If you just believe in my silver dollar you will be saved" no one could actually prove I wasn't saving souls with my silver dollar but I'd be pretty annoying and I doubt I'd get invited to a lot of parties. And you probably WOULd get a sense of well being if you could believe in the magic of my silver dollar- but if you could believe in that you could believe in anything- so why not just believe in the power of goodness, and gentleness and respect and wisdom? Things that are fairly universal? I don't have an answer for that.
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