Guest guest Posted April 25, 2001 Report Share Posted April 25, 2001 ========= It sounds like you have some legitimate complaints about the negative stereotyping you have had to deal with in your life. Truly, I am not unsympathetic about that and the plight of any and all marginalized people who are lumped into groups and somehow rejected on that basis. I will also freely admit to being sensitive myself about similar stereotypes and other negative characterizations made about Christians, or women, ========== Dear Gloria, Fellow moderators, Do you feel Gloria that your Christian perspective and need to find harmony and agreement is as much a handicap as (for example) my tendency to find and expose and confront interior and external anomalies? You seem deeply perturbed by ideas of Shiva the destroyer as part of God? Or the idea that Skanda (a homosexual deity) is somehow a less than perfect holiness? What are you doing about your tender tendencies? Being reasonable with unreasonable people (for example me) is in itself - unreasonable. My feeling is that whipping people into a line of reasonable behaviour is worthwhile only when it comes without compulsion. Just as people can be possessed by 'evil' so too can they be possessed by 'good'. And possession is not part of vedanta. However that might just be my thoughts gone awry . . . Love Lobster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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