--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain <no_re...@...> wrote: <snip> > Treating people like a horses ass is a sure path to not > seeing the divine in (people who are a ) horses' ass.
Not necessarily. Actually, it depends on what the meaning of "is" is. Substitute "behaves like" for "is," and the picture changes. Then the question becomes whether one believes the behavior is irremediable. And even if one does, there's a further question as to whether that behavior is in fact UNdivine. And yet another: if the behavior *is* remediable, *should* it be remedied? Is it imperative that the behavior change to reveal the inherent divinity "underneath"? Or even, does one see the behavior as horse's ass-ish *because* one sees the inherent divinity "underneath"? Lots of possibilities, not even necessarily mutually exclusive.
