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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (38271)	7/22/2005 7:06:44 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

I would persist in trying to correct my own mistake- a wrong done to someone by me, and the misperception that has compounded since then. Yes- I would try to do that. I would not do it if asked not to do it by the person in question. I can't see how that is wrong, so we will have to disagree if you think it is. Honest yes. All of it. What you believe about the whole thing is out of my control. If it ever bothers you that I answer you back (since this doesn't look like spurning, but maybe it is) please let me know. I wouldn't want to be harming you, or stalking you, or whatever. OK? I have been reading this thread lately, because I've been coming up. It's my nature to want to correct complete misinterpretations of my pov, and now I also want to try to correct old wrongs, and lingering animosities. If you don't have any of those desires, that's fine. IMO it's not sad if you don't have those desires, and it's not "not sad" if you do, it just is. But we can disagree if you find it "sad". edit- and just a note- it's not actually "affection"- what I said was that I try to think good thoughts, and keep in mind that even those people I disagree with are human, and have people who love them and care about them. I don't know these people- and I try to remember that all my perceptions of people on SI are colored by the prism of my own interpretation of their writings. The less I understand them, the more I disagree with them, the farther off my idea of them may be. I think that holds true for all of us. You may disagree. I wouldn't call what I'm saying "affection"- that's too pushy- I think it's more akin to "Namaste", without the religious overtones, since I'm not religious- but as a recognition of our shared humanity I like it. The namaste gesture bespeaks our inner valuing of the sacredness of all. It betokens our intuition that all souls are divine, in their essence. It reminds us in quite a graphic manner, and with insistent repetition, that we can see Paramatma everywhere and in every human being we meet. It is saying, silently, "I see the Deity in us both, and bow before Him or Her. I acknowledge the holiness of even this mundane meeting. I cannot separate that which is spiritual in us from that which is human and ordinary."