--- In [email protected], Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Turq, > > Is it my projection or did I go too far and smack you instead of > tickle you?.....did I trigger a bit of a harrumph kinda mood?
Not at all. I'm really busy right now, and 1) didn't have time to read everything you wrote and respond to it, and 2) found it difficult to actually *follow* everything you wrote enough to finish reading it. I *get* that you were having fun with it, and that's cool. It's just that your idea of fun isn't mine right now, with a big software deadline hanging over my head. <snip> > I've read your posts here while I was lurking, and I gotta > tell ya, I have no handle on your emotional tone -- wondering > if I'm not hearing your voice at all. When you challenge me > for how I use the word "God" for instance, I feel like you > feel like I'm trying to jam the concept into every reader's > brain, and yeah, I do do that sort of thingy, do try to bully, > take a short cut, but in my most recent posts, I think I'm > mostly just having myself a thrill with seeing how words can be > tossed at other words. I'm not the *least* offended by Godtalk, yours or anyone else's. It's just that every so often, possibly out of the same sense of fun that you called upon, I like to remind people that *assuming* that everyone believes in God is just that, an assumption. I'm a forty-plus-year spiritual seeker with more than a few fleeting enlightenment experiences under my belt who does *not* believe in God, and I suspect that there are a few other Buddhists on this forum who are in the same boat as me. It's not an aversion thang, really... just a remind-people-of-the-language-they're-using thang. > You seem to be, well, very hair-triggered about certain > concepts. Is that true? You may say no, but then why > that tone? What tone, dude? I was dashing off a reply to you that I *really* didn't have time to write, because I should have been working. I took the time to write what I did because *you* took the time to write what you did. I felt *nothing* in reaction to *what* you wrote; I was just being polite enough to respond to a long reply with as much of one as I could manage given my tight work schedule. If you read anything else into it, you were reading something into it. Same with this one. It's nearly 11:00 PM my time, and I'm just taking a short break from work. This is as far as I have either time or inclination to read into your post, and thus reply to. So if I stop here, it has nothing to do with you, only with the realities of software development. Get it?
