mizombie opened this issue on Feb 21, 2003 ยท 23 posts
lordbyron posted Fri, 21 February 2003 at 11:18 PM
Bijouchat, uhm...yes, I do understand why Dodger slams druids. I think you misunderstand the tenor of my comments to Dodger. While decidely tongue in cheek, I was earnestly commending him for the open-mindedness of his anti-fundamentalist stance. Too often I see individuals attack the narrowness of one doctrine or another w/o struggling with the narrow perspective that seems a common human trait. If there was any deprecation in my remarks it was simply a part of my uneasiness with the paradox of hating those who hate. But this paradox is unanswerable in our short scope of conversation. Dodger, i think, shows us the basic answer with how to deal with fundementalisms of most sorts: good-natured derision. For extreme hatred of any sort stands as the basis from which they spring. So chill out and laugh. I did. I think Dodger was doing so. ridendo castigat mores, --lb