If you don't agree, you're better than me.

[drrocketanski]

I think it may be true that:

1) The unity of a society grows to the extent that there is agreement on what offends.  Friendships seem to grow in the same way.

2) There is (almost?) nothing that is "naturally" offensive.  I would suggest that God is never offended by anything (though He is saddened and angered by things).

What I mean by "to be offended

Comments

[nur_jahan]

this is the only thing that I can think of after reading this

[drrocketanski]

I've had a hard time knowing how what you're saying has anything to do with this post. I could only figure this out by thinking about the kind of person you are (or, perhaps, "aren't" would be better). Then it began to make sense

[nur_jahan]

I think my reply streamed somewhere from 'I think we are incapable of making sense of life without being offended.' but I don't know how...and nor do I care to try and explain myself, but I will, a very little, anyway

[grease_1978]

Travis,

I think that the point of Barbie's response is that she believes that one thing that is "naturally offensive" is being "assumed" as something you are not...or even that someone would announce their assumption, no matter how right it might be, and be utterly cold about it.

If you are going to judge another person you should be there on the flip-side. Heck, you should be there from the beginning. If you love and know someone you can judge them...but you should also look for opportunities to bring justice to them as well.

I know this is gonna be cheesey and our cynical minds have a hard time with it - but we do need to pull each other down off our high horses sometiems...but we also need to be there to pull each other UP from the ground, too.

- Chrissy

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Barbie,

The way that you say things just begs for judgement. :) And you know that Travis loves this kind of stuff. You both can pretty much disect each other perfectly. The only thing missing in your relationship is love/care.

- Chrissy

[nur_jahan]

I don't know how and am too scared to try and think too hard about it, so I'm just going to say that 'what you said, Chrissy, seems pretty rite on with what my point was

[drrocketanski]

I think you've both missed my point. I'm not judging Barbie in this post. But that says something, I think. Perhaps I'm simply wrong about myself. Wouldn't be the first time.