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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (12580)	6/14/2002 3:54:17 PM
From: vds4	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"As to being open-minded: I do wish that people would stop confusing rationality and criticality with close-mindedness." my brother!! martin

To: Solon who wrote (12580)	6/14/2002 4:01:05 PM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"lack of personal knowledge" Yes, this is not exactly the same thing as sitting in the same room with a person. Maybe some time that will happen, in which case our discussion would be much more interesting, I think. Inevitably, because of the mechanisms of experience we all form pictures of one another. And so I have some sort of picture of you. Years ago, for a couple of years I did business with a guy (Bob, by name)with a rich sonorous voice whom I visualized to be a big, handsome "hunk" of a man. Then, after that time, by chance I met a short, tubby, bald man with fringes of hair on the side. Then he spoke! My God, THIS was Bob! Since that time I have been less trusting of my "images". But they still happen! Relative to "rationality" and "criticality", we ALL consider ourselves to be rational and we ALL consider ourselves justified in being critical of others whose viewpoints to not agree. I am just as rigid as you are in this. So where is WISDOM in the face of so many VIEWPOINTS? Namaste! Jim