--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > I honestly think that a lot of the bottom line > > of why some people .... > > I'm out on this
I'm going to spend my next-to-last post of this week asking for a clarification on this, Michael (thereby wasting it, when I could have been talking about things of greater consequence). I really don't understand what you're trying to express here. I understand that your first language is not English, and so it's possible that you were trying to express something different than what came across. What *did* come across was a sense of you being somehow *offended* by what I said, and drop- ping out of the conversation because of it. This leaves me puzzled and confused. I don't see how I could possibly have been clearer that what I expressed in the post you're reacting to is *my opinion*. It does happen to be my long-thought- out-and-considered belief, but that is synonymous *with* opinion in my book. I also went out of my way to say that not only was it my opinion, I wasn't suggesting it to anyone else as something they should hold as *their* opinion, or subscribe to as one of their beliefs. I wasn't "selling" a thing. Therefore, if you *were* offended, I really don't understand why. I made it perfectly clear that I perceive no Plan behind the universe. None. Nada. Nichevo. Bupkus. That's how *I* see things, not how I was suggesting that *you* see things. I also went out of my way to say that I DON'T KNOW. There could very possibly *be* a Plan for all I know. And I am as comfortable with that as I am with there being no Plan at all. So again, if you were offended somehow, I just don't understand why, or for what reason. Please explain. What I said about one of the baseline reasons for belief in God being a desire to believe that there is some kind of Plan to creation is not new. It has, in fact, been stated by any number of philos- ophers, and by any number of *believers in God*. It's basically a *staple* of such discussions. What about this idea could *possibly* be considered offensive? If you *were* trying to express a sense of being somehow offended by what I said, I have to say that *that* is the very reason that we who don't believe in a God are often reluctant to discuss things with those who do. They tend to get offended and indignant over the mere expression of *ideas* that run counter to their own. Again, please explain. Stalking off in a snit, if that is what you intended your cryptic message to convey, doesn't make a terribly strong case for your position in all of this, IMO. Not that I am trying to "argue" at all; I'm not...I'm merely expressing what I tend to believe. If you thought I was trying to sell you something or convince *you* to believe it, I suggest you look into not only what I really said, but also the accuracy of your own perceptions.
