snitsnat wrote:
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> the problem is you two seem to think other people don't have these
> experiences unless they define themselves as religious or spiritual
> and consider it a religious experience -- which is to say, both of you
> believe there is something besides human existence, some greater being
> or whatever that's out there.
There is something besides human existence....animals, stars, earth, wind, fire, roses....rocks...
> r happens to think a lot like the two of you, but in no way does he
> imagine that somehow people live lesser lives because they don't agree
> with him. both of you imply that, becasue we don't explain and view
> the world and those experiences you describe as you do, we are somehow
> impoverished being for that fact. encapsulated nicely in dennis' last
> line: despair. those poor souls. what condescending bull shit.
I said nothing of despair or lesser lives.
Joanna