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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (9304)	3/21/2001 5:36:57 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

You said: "Life is well worth living to people whether or not they have "faith" as you limited spiritualists define it." In order for life to be well worth living to me (and a large section of the world's population) I require that it be just and fair. I did not know that your contention would be to simply dismiss it from the concept of a "life well worth living." Since you stated that life is well worth living, I just was hoping you could clarify how that works. You said: ”all the agnostics and atheists would be jumping off bridges in droves, which they aren't. Perhaps what really scares you is the possibility that people who operate outside the bounds of faith, as you concieve it, and seem perfectly happy,” Well, I was simply confirming that even from a faith based perspective I can understand why people living life outside of that concept could SEEM perfectly happy. The fact that the rewards of the Earthly existence can be achieved whether living a life based on the principles of religion and faith or living with a goal simply to acquire those rewards on their face value is of no consequence and doesn’t support to your premise. Sorry, but I think the way I put it may have been distracting “one human being can screw another and reap some materialistic rewards in this life.” I can’t imagine this universe without the concept of Justice, or a life well worth living that does not incorporate justice as a concept in the immediate as well as in the wholeness of eternity. I don’t see how these comments are irrelevant or illogical in relation to your postings. I do see that if you take fairness and justice out of the mix of things your ideas embody a whole different perspective, albeit incomplete IMO.