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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (40262)	6/13/1999 2:26:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<<Either you will have a St. Paul type conversion (to whatever belief, not just Christianity), or you won't. If you do, we will have something valuable to talk about which those who have not can simply not understand. Not meaning to be exclusive, or pretend to be superior; just that those who have never been in love simply can't understand what love is.>>> I believe I understand your feelings about the beauty and mystery of life. I believe I have those feelings; I'm not dead, or dull, or lacking in imagination, or insensitive to the ineffable and immaterial, or incapable of putting myself into a state I call "mystical thrall-feelings" and you call, I believe, something like "nearness to God." But I might say, taking a leaf from your book, that those who have never experienced the fullness of life, and beauty, and love, and joy, and sorrow, and pity, and terror, and grief without (childishly; weakly; this is my belief) personifying these feelings and their earthly sources and projecting the personification outward to an imagined realm simply can not understand what it is to be centered in their human souls, and experience life as it is, truly. Both what you said and what I said inevitably must appear to the other as a claim of superiority. I suppose both claims may be true, yours for you, mine for me. For me, imagining myself converted to theism is imagining myself shrinking; or maybe it would be more accurate to say it is imagining myself living in a room shrunken, and lit with a dimmer light.