I know you can quote chapter and verse; it's your nature. I cannot, but I
dimly remember the idea that we call (at the most) for justice for others,
but we ourselves want mercy from others.
When you stop for a minute and think of the hopping fleas, all a-host and
well fed, knowing how to dodge the dog's hindfoot, how to mount a mate----do
you imagine that in the half-minutes of reverie, lying down on the dog's
back, they say to themselves: "Sometimes I think this warm floor's like me.
It may even be me . . . somehow." This just before the belly aches to feed,
the life cycle draws nearer its end, the leg muscles sting a bit, and then
.. .. .. .. the flea sleeps .. .. ..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: Hello out there
> <sigh>
>
> I dunno -- you and I and Patrick take this seriously.
>
> Few others seem to do.
>
> I think you're so seriously wrong it beggars belief.
>
> But doesn't it bother you that if you're right, you'll spend an eternity
> in
> heaven laughing at me as I burn in the flames of Hell?
>
> Why I like Origen -- the concept of Universal Forgiveness seems to me to
> be
> one of the few elements of the Christian Religion that makes the least
> remote bit of sense.
>
> Not that that makes me believe in it.
>
> <g>
>
> Robin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "judy prince" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 3:50 AM
> Subject: Re: Hello out there
>
>
>> 'Zooks, Robin, you give me far too much credit! I always tell you, as if
>> you couldn't gather it from my writings: I'm non-intellectual, ill-read,
>> misinformed, blatantly desirous of comfortable conformity, and
>> deliciously
>> ignorant.
>>
>> I can't argue by analogy if I don't even know what it is, can I? ;-)
>>
>> And who is this Ezra Pound? Is he the Quaker you revered back in high
>> school?
>>
>> You should know by now that arguing with a God-believer is just so Damned
>> frustrating. We always lose the logic battles; it would be impossible
>> not
>> to. But we refuse to go away---and the best of us will listen and laugh
> and
>> still love you. Amazing, isn't it?
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> Margaret Fell, George Fox's brilliant spiritual companion, administrator,
>> and rabble-rouser
>
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