At 08:47 PM 2/24/2009, you wrote:
> > > Marsha said:
> > > Try this. Remove all pronouns from the following statement.
> > >
> > > "I love myself...I love you.
> > > I love you...I love myself."
> > >
> > Michael said:
> >I've lived that all my life, Marsha.
> >
> >"God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God
abides in him"
> >(1 Jn 4:16).
> >
> >
> >But your exercise doesn't answer my question to you as to why
you denigrate
> >one or another approach to "love" over your particular one for
any reason, let
> >alone based on a conviction it has something to do with an MoQ
understanding
> >of reality.
> >
> >IMO you are making MoQ out to be a religion, and your own personal one at
> >that. I'm not going to tell you you can't or shouldn't chose one
course of action
> >over another in this regard but IMO the path you're taking is
one not well suited
> >to throwing stones.
>
>
> Marsha said:
> Michael,
> Okay.
> Marsha
>
> "When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to
> possess and drives out before you many nations . . . then you must
> destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no
> mercy." (Deuteronomy 7:1-2)
Marsha,
I'm not sure what to make of your response.
Does "Okay" imply agreement with what I said above it? Why the Deuteronomy
quote? I don't see the relevance and it seems to imply a
contradictory position
to "Okay."
I hesitate to respond until I understand your meaning ...
MP
Michael,
Obviously I failed to dispel your skepticism towards my wish for you
to receive an abundance of joy, which I believe was being
questioned. I want EVERYONE to have an abundance of joy. As for
'theism' and 'God', those concepts have no meaning for me
personally. I did provide a number of quotes by RMP indicating that
the MOQ was atheistic and anti-theistic which you choose to
ignore. The Deuteronomy quote was introduced to show a biblical
contradiction in your loving god in 1 Jn 4:16 and the merciless god
of Deuteronomy 7:1-2.
I do not denigrate one approach to love over another, but that does
not mean I need to embrace or accept every approach. Parents may
decide to love their children by beating goodness into them. I
wouldn't accept that approach and I would try to stop such a loving
expression. A person of power may ask me to prove my love by
forfeiting reason and experience. I wouldn't accept that approach to
love. I wouldn't accept the definition of love given by the bible
when there are such blatant contradictions concerning god's
love. Maybe now you get the idea.
Okay?
Marsha
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