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

To: haqihana who wrote (79699)	5/23/2000 9:21:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I'm not a Buddhist. I don't have to think your belief is valid, I don't have to like your belief system, and I don't- that doesn't have anything to do with your "rights". I wouldn't STOP you from practicing it- I think people can do whatever they want- from Devil worship to Protestantism- as long as they don't hurt other people. But I don't have to LIKE what they do- the fact that you want to control my likes and dislikes (I mean what do you mean by tolerant? I have to be Ok with what you do???)makes YOU pretty darn presumptuous. I don't have to think your religion is a GOOD THING (and I wouldn't expect you to think my philosophy is- in fact I'd be AMAZED if you did). It doesn't make me a bad person (imo) to dislike and even HATE the ideas in most religions. UGH. I am holy and you aren't. I am saved and you're not. I have the truth and you don't. Gosh, it makes me sick. But I'm ok with that. Why should it matter to you that what you believe makes me sick? It doesn't make me want to shut you down. It just makes me want to puke. That's a personal thing. I can't lose my title of good person 'cause I gave it to myself and only I can take it away. And I don't plan to take it away. That's the benefit of an internal value system.