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To: Dayuhan who wrote (24261)	8/13/1998 8:02:00 AM
From: George S. Montgomery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Dear Steve: You close your post with: "I'm beginning to be afraid my spirit is a little too earthy for this thread, though. I've nothing against the abstract, but I have trouble seeing it as much more than an amusing toy, and I can't really get as passionate about it as some here. Which perhaps is good." Two reactions: One) I believe your earthiness has taken a bit of the starch out of this laundry - which is good. (Also introduced a new dimension to it - fabric softener with a previously unsniffed fragrance?) Two) You, not somebody else, - this is cited above - use the phrase "an amusing toy." Unless you are totally overburdened with your gourmet cook-outs, ain't that an appealing diversion? Better than crosswords? Resulting in response and admiration? Say it isn't so, you won't go! George PS: Now, penni's thread (Rambi) is a yuppie delight. It is whimsical and quite receptive to such items as the details of your banquet. I do not play in it because I do not have the equipment. You may (have the equipment). But, there are several charming cogitating chaps right here - and your absence would be a loss to them. (I am sure.) Geo.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (24261)	8/13/1998 9:23:00 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"I'm beginning to be afraid my spirit is a little too earthy for this thread, though. I've nothing against the abstract, but I have trouble seeing it as much more than an amusing toy " You're a blind man trying to explain the colors of the rainbow to people with sight. There is nothing more earthy than the divine Son of god taken on human nature and wallking among men. The Gospels are very earthy eyewitness accounts of the reality of God's soujourn among men. He lived, cried, suffered, was tempted in all ways as we are, but maintained his purity and divinty. He exchanged his divine-human perfection on the Cross for man's sin and degeneracy. He took upon himself the sins and darkness of every single human being and offers in return his perfect righteousness. That's what you call earthiness mixed with divinity! That's what the Incaranation was all about. I'm not at my computer right now, but when I get a chance I will send you St. Athanasius's Incaranation. He does a much better job of explaining how earthiness was mixed with divinity when the divine Jesus became man. Emile

To: Dayuhan who wrote (24261)	8/13/1998 5:50:00 PM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 108807

I don't know. I would have to be in the sealskin boots of the person making that choice to be aware of all the factors. But I'm pretty sure that if I was in those boots, I would know. Yes yes yes!!!!! Exactly!!!! You're respecting the ability of others to think, to be moral, and you're saying that you can't judge them from your place. This does not mean that within your moral framework, you are unable to know the rightness or wrongness of a behavior, but only as it applies to you. Well, if that's not what you said, it's what I think you said and what I was trying to say. Far as I'm concerned it's what you said.