Argument freaks..
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB
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That occured to me when writing it up. The
exact
*same* story can be pointed to by God freaks
Where did that term come from? Is that the
opposite of atheist
freaks?
Yes, and it's totally innocuous. It's a lingering
Sixties-ism in my speech. So far on FFL I have
used
the term dozens of times, in contexts such as
enlightenment freak and Bruce Cockburn freak
or
music freak (both referring to myself), or neat
freak, or Mongo freak (referring to fans of a
certain short fictional detective). It's a slang
way of referring to the odd things that some
people
get off on. It has no negative connotations,
except,
seemingly, in your mind.
And what's a God freak anyway? I think the term
freak is
possibly reserved for those pushing an agenda,
as it appears
you are doing now, my dear Buddhist atheist.
Jim, since you stopped actively slamming me, I've
taken a chance and replied to a few of your posts
as if you were an adult, and as if you were
actually
a rational human being. My mistake. Back in the
trashbin you go.
I meant no disrespect to you when I used the terms
Buddhist and
atheist. Isn't a person who doesn't beileve in God
an atheist and
aren't you a Buddhist? What you perceived as my
anger or rigidity
was merely intensity. I read back what I had written
and I *got* the
intensity, but no anger. And the intensity was
merely a reflection
of my daily circumstance, not directed at you or
FFL.
On the other hand, I am trying to be more careful
with my writing.
Sometimes when I am writing, I will look back at
what I have written
and realize it didn't convey what I had intended.
Case in point was
my response to Rory's comment about our taking our
subtitles of the
life movie as gospel. As many things he writes do,
it tickled me and
I responded that it was a great joke. Later I
realized that could've
been miscontrued as me not taking what he said
seriously. Writing is
a skill that is a challenge for me because it must
be self-
contained and linear. Give me a good canvas any day,
literally.
Now, as to your response that 'freak' is reserved
for the odd things
that people get off on, would you or have you
referred to yourself
as a 'Tantric freak' or an 'atheist freak' or a
'Buddhism freak'?
The reason I ask is that perhaps the term is not as
innocuous as you
think it is. Maybe, and maybe not. I personally
don't know, and that
is why I am asking you. And I am also curious why
you see atheist as
a negative term? I consider those who choose to not
recognize God as
atheists. What is the issue there?
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