(urth) TWK: The Aelf dilemma

[stilskin]

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/5/05, stilskin <acronus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > >>Worship isn't primarily a matter of seeking
> > > >> supernatural reward.
> > >
> > > >It's a matter of seeking to avoid supernatural
> > > >punishment.
> > >
> > > Don't parade your arrogance.
> >
> > I fail to see any arrogance in my statement, Dan'l
> 
> That is a sign of the arrogance I'm speaking of.
> 
> I mean the arrogance of assuming that you can make
> broad
> statements like that about worship, as if all
> worshippers worship
> for the same (rather craven) reason and you, in your
> superiority,
> have diagnosed it. It really isn't all that
> different from seeing a
> black guy walk into a restaurant and assuming he's
> going to
> order chicken and watermelon. It is bigoted, and
> bigory is
> always arrogant.


Dan'l, you're the arrogant one around here.  You don't
know me from Adam, yet "in your superiority" presume
to diagnose my soul from a flippant remark of nine
words in which I conveyed no disrespect for anybody's
position or beliefs, just attempted to interject some
levity into the discussion.  And then, on top of it,
you arrogate to yourself the right to judge me and
attempt to smear me as a racist -- once again failing
to realize that you are only holding the mirror up to
yourself.  



--- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/5/05, stilskin <acronus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > >>Worship isn't primarily a matter of seeking
> > > >> supernatural reward.
> > >
> > > >It's a matter of seeking to avoid supernatural
> > > >punishment.
> > >
> > > Don't parade your arrogance.
> >
> > I fail to see any arrogance in my statement, Dan'l
> 
> That is a sign of the arrogance I'm speaking of.
> 
> I mean the arrogance of assuming that you can make
> broad
> statements like that about worship, as if all
> worshippers worship
> for the same (rather craven) reason and you, in your
> superiority,
> have diagnosed it. It really isn't all that
> different from seeing a
> black guy walk into a restaurant and assuming he's
> going to
> order chicken and watermelon. It is bigoted, and
> bigory is
> always arrogant.
> 
> --Dan'l
> 
> --
> I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who
> fear him.
>                         -- St Teresa of Avila
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