The only person I can change is myself... BUT, *I* cannot change me all by myself.
The only way I can change, grow, become better, is by listening to the input of others, people I like and respect, sure, but also those I don't care for might also have something useful to add. I can hear it all, and hold on to that which is good, useful, profitable, and discard that which is not. It seems that on a metaphysical discussion group, you would find the majority with this view - openness to discourse. It is threatening to most folks out in the world, to have their ideology and worldview challenged. Here, though, it should be a safe place to bring it ALL up. A LOT of people believe in a god of some sort. To just chuck out any conversation including allusions to deity or theism is to exclude a lot of interesting discussion. Just the words "god, deity, theism" seems to cause instant panicked reactions, a whole lifetime of prejudice is married to those words. But I assure you that the attachments I have to them differs from yours as much as I differ from you, but what I also know, that most "atheists" or "anti-theists" don't seem to (or it isn't apparent from what I have observed here, anyway), is that if we actually took the time and effort to ask the pertinent questions, and to really listen to each other, we would find ourselves closer than we might think, and we would all go away from the conversation richer. Lu - the wife of a discouraged man. *sigh* Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
