Wendy wrote:
I really do not know where to go with this.
I have no idea where any of this came from, Wendy.
If you will re-read what I wrote, I think that you will have to realize that nothing which I said in my posts have any bearing at all on the way you are seeing things right now.
For some reason, you have just interpreted it differently and you are probably the only one who can come up with an answer as to why you took things that way.
Just as when I take things in a certain way, I am probably the only one who knows why if I search deeply enough. We all do it at least I know I do it.
This is why the mandate TO KNOW THYSELF (OKAY OURSELVES) is vitally important.
Sometimes we all have to take responsibility for the way in which we are feeling and thinking in the moment.
That is not an easy thing for me and I doubt if it is an easy thing for most.
I have my own way of expressing things. Perhaps I use words differently than you do when it comes to matters about God and one’s relationship with God. That still keeps us on an equal basis, Wendy. Not one higher or lower…just differently. We all use words differently than each other when it comes to our experiences of and interpretations about God.
No, you did not wrong me. I have no idea where that would even come from, Wendy.
This is my point - that we all have a right to our own minds and hearts and experiences.
If we feel that way and others know that, how can one see that as being wrong and be offended by it?
Perhaps this…
We are all touched in different ways and I do not think that it can be a good thing to infringe what qualia, intuitions and epiphanies we experience through this God onto other people
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Was I saying this to you, directly to you, to take to heart? I don’t know. Perhaps on an unconscious level since you and I were speaking but I still don’t know.
But consciously speaking, I was speaking in the universal sense where EVERYONE IS CONCERNED. There are necessarily others in here who would be reading this - not just you and me.
Tell me what you think, Wendy?
DO YOU THINK THAT IT CANNOT BE A GOOD THING TO INFRINGE ON WHAT QUALIA, INTUITIONS AND EPIPHANIES WE EXPERIENCE THROUGH THIS GOD ONTO OTHER PEOPLE?
Do I have a right to my own subjective thinking, my own so-called informed opinion about this? Yes, for me, I do because so often in here I see the same thing happening - everyone or at least many feel the need to push their religions convictions down the throat of others or at least do more gently than that.
Politics and Religion!