Frying Pan, Fire

[matt_arnold]

I had a conversation with a neopagan about religion recently. Now that I consider how this conversation set off my memetic allergies, it comes as no surprise that they usually don't want to talk about it with somebody like me! "Why would I as a non-religious person want them to talk about it?" one might ask. Because there are so many of them in my

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[twoofdtm]

I haven't run away yet matt. You're very much fun to discuss philosophy with and like I just said I haven't run yet. I'm not religious but I have my views on life and everybody does. We haven't really argued yet and that's okay to. We might someday but you know what that's okay. Friends can't expect to get along all the time. Not even married people do. Nor do families. It's part of life. I won't go anywhere though. *hugs*

thank you

[matt_arnold]

You are a gem. I need to see things the way you describe. If we pick any two people, we will find that they disagree on something, somewhere. For instance, I got on an e-mail list for Michigan humanists, but did we agree on everything? No, I found that they had serious fights about politics even though we agreed about religion. And very few of them are sympathetic with my desire for medical technology to cure us from dying of old age, so we got in a fight about that. So, I should stop trying to find a place where I could stop worrying about conflict. In fact, maybe that would be boring and stultifying. There will always be conflict, it just has to be with forgiveness. People just have to put up with each other and see the good in each other.

[wormquartet]

Hehehe..."memetic allergy." You clever little heathen

[matt_arnold]

I am now converting to Shoeboxism. Shoebox is god. I am falling off my chair laughing. Just so that you know who I am, I'm that guy who harassed you at Penguicon about how much I love "Dear God" and bought two of your CDs. I enter them into the CD player gingerly to prevent smearing your signature any more than it already is. I am resigned to the fact that ballpen ink will never dry on a CD surface.

Correct!

[wormquartet]

That is, indeed, who you are.

-=ShoEboX=-