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Re: fanatics
Posted By: Darien, on host 140.186.100.155
Date: Thursday, August 12, 1999, at 23:29:34
In Reply To: Re: fanatics posted by Jommeke on Thursday, August 12, 1999, at 23:17:00:

> I have some 'Christian' thoughts though, like care about the other like you care about yourself, stuff like that, and do no harm...
> But i dont need somebody or Somebody to tell me that or indoctrinate (humm, probably a bad english word, but you get the idea) it to me.

You sound exactly like a very large number of people I know who classify themselves as everything from "I suppose I'm Christian" to "agnostic" to "vehemently anti-Christian." The funny thing is, this is a very broad group of people, and they all think of themselves and of the world differently, but they are all saying fundamentally the same thing. And their beliefs are really similar, and... oh, bloody heck... my coherence is failing. Somebody remind me abou this tomorrow when I'm better able to think straight, and I'll finish this thought.

> But when i say that i am against all extremism, that makes me an extremist too. Humm, this is a hard one. I guess 'some' extremism is good, like your example of the mother and her child, oh well, i dont know how to express my feelings anymore...

Don't judge people. There is really no way to say "group X is bad," if only because, as Issachar explained earlier, bad is subjective. And, just as bad is subjective, extreme is subjective as well. So to say extremism is bad says, as we've discovered in this thread, something completely different to Issachar than it means to you. I suppose it sounds rather like my moral is "don't ever say anything," but it's not. My moral is simply this: don't be set in one view of a situation to the extent that you consider all of the alternatives to be bad or whatever, because there is *always* another side to the issue.

Dar

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