In Reply to: Respecting the person and not just your own perception posted by Thinker on February 04, 2007 at 14:38:16:
In Reply to: Re: Just so there is no confusion posted by Farmer on January 20, 2007 at 08:50:38:
How can I be against something that in my world does not exist. However, if you are talking about using the metaphor of 'god' to express something beautiful in the human spirit that is a different story
This quote & another is just about all I am "fussing" about...now Susie could claim, that it's just in her world & not in all the world, that God doesn't exist...it could make quite some difference...I could agree, that that claim is quite a bit closer to agnosticism, then the claim that in this world of ours there is no God.
For me it's fine...it's all about being alive here after TF & if someone doesn't need God in his life , well, that's from my viewpoint sad, but I accept it.
As for the probably misfitting analogy of mine:
I was married/mated to an Indian woman/sister myself & think that coloured people are among the most beautiful people...so I don't know whether you really "read me" well...
Idiot used to have in the old Greek a total different meaning then it now has & also Negro just happens to describe the colour, although it is nowadays avoided for different reasons...however I noticed that a lot of songs of the blacks (is that really a better word???...Negro is just Roman/Latin vocabulary & black, where is that from??) were encouraging their fellowblacks to feel pride about their colour & origin...I put Michael Jackson in question marks, because I had happened to read in some papers, that he deliberately tried to "treat his skin" in whatever way, so that he looks quite different ("whiter")from his youngster-time...true or not; I don't know.
The analogy was meant to be like this: If you are a coloured person, then have the courage to be like one, "living & confessing" it...no eloquent way of putting it, but I guess you know what I mean.It means, everbody knows it from observing the person, but the person might live in some
dreamworld denying it...
It could be, that Susie is a bit of a hard to define atheist...in her world no God exists...but that is a bit of a funny God, if He could exist in mine, but in her world it's obvious, that there isn't one.
So to me..she's still a bit coloured ; )