Angela, your god is the judge of me only in your mind, not my own. I could equally say that the people who have used transcendant monotheism to slaughter people and destroy our planet will be judged by the Goddess, and it has exactly the same force - only the force that the hearers give it, and the force that the sayers are willing to exert (sometimes murderously - Inquisition, Crusades, etc.) to fulfill their own prophecies. Joe >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Nov 13 16:14:44 1998 From: "Joe E. Dees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 17:14:36 -0600 Subject: Re: white goddess / Christian nemesis/obedience Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date sent: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:47:46 EST Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: white goddess / Christian nemesis/obedience > In a message dated 98-11-12 06:59:15 EST, you write: > > << Then I suppose I'm lucky because my goddess doesn't expect obedience from > me. > She wants me to question even her & think about what she directs me to do & > say. Thinking & questioning in my book is the only path to enlightenment. > > Aedrienne > > >> > > Hi! Quick question - you obey nothing in life? You live an undisciplined > life of thought and questioning - and that brings enlightenment - what brings > guidance? Does "your" goddess give you answers to any questions? May I ask > "How do you communicate with her?" and "How do you know she is the one > answering? Do you ask her for guidance? I am truly curious - If I am getting > personal - just tell me. > How do YOU know, Angela? You don't - you believe. That's all right; just please try not to confuse the two. One requires repeatable, predictable and intersubjectively viewable evidence. It is called Knowledge, and is determined and (always conditionally) verified by Science and scientific experimentation (the things that told us about the Greenhouse Effect and ozone layer depletion). The other, Faith, is by definition a personal, internal and subjective experience lacking such evidence and is therefore outside the realm of knowledge. Joe > Peace! > Angela >
