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Originally posted by JPaul+20 September 2003 - 23:31--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JPaul @ 20 September 2003 - 23:31)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-jbrockz@21 September 2003 - 00:21
...there have been people who have understood it without explaining it all to them, including a priest with whom i discuss theology...
The bricklayer will build a house for anyone and can still be a racist. The restaurateur will sell food to someone he despises, so long as they pay. The fact that a person provides a service for recompense does not diminish the contempt in which they may hold the customer.
A true professional can separate their job from their feelings.
It is time you understood. The people you are discussing these thing with are indulging your ill-informed opinions, in order to encourage you to think and form opinions for yourself. That doesn't mean they agree with you, they merely wish to encourage your independent thought.
However at some stage you must fly the nest and be responsible for what you say. It is then that you must be able to back up this drivel which you currently believe to be rational thinking. [/b][/quote]
if i m in need of help, i believe the priest would have told me if that was the case....
you, sir, seem to have a lot of opinions about WHO i m from the time you wrote ''stage directions''.
you have read what i have written within the last 30 minutes and think you know me as a person. and you base your opinions about me on that picture that has been formed in your mind from this little talk. you ask me to fly from my nest whithout thinking that maybe my opinions are off-beat because i have 'flown away' [and i don't mean to a mental health facility :D ]
the only personal observation that i have made about you is that you are a critique of words and not their meaning, cause that's the only thing that i have observed here, and i am not even saying i m right. other than that i have no personal opinions about you as a person, and all my replies have been to your arguements and not you.
you think i am writing all this cause i am some high school kid who would indulge in stupidity if so encouraged by others. i would say that's coming from someone who absolutely doesn't know me [to begin with i m not a high school kid].
also, you might be thinking while reading this that i m going to the priest for counselling or something. actually, i am a hindu and i met the priest on another forum like this one a long time ago. he liked some things i wrote and the trusting man of God that he is, he told me where he was based. it happened to be near where i was and we have been discussing theology ever since.
and in case you are wondering, i am not religious either. i believe in God, but not in the path that religions have prescribed for us in order to reach God, to attain salvation. i duscuss my views with him cause he is a priest and i am quite sure he wouldn't judge me prematurely [also the confidentiality factor]. And i think my views on that would be falling in the wrong 'ears' if i were to discuss it here, so i'll let it pass, cause you obviously think i am a nut.
my humble request to you would be to reply without forming an opinion about ME , cause i consider that to be shallow at best.
as regards the whore-socialite conversation, if you have seen the movie made on bruce lee's life [oops, another movie], he was refused a table at a 'white' resturant when he went on his first date with his to be wife. ina Hallmark movie that i don't remember the name of about a black family that goes to live in a white neighborhood in the 70s, whoppie goldberg asks the question 'would the butcher have washed his hands first and then delivered me meat if i was white'. so, sir i beg to differ. the service remains, but the delivery differs, for a racist. why i choose the whore example was, letting someone enter you is one of the biggest services and if you are a racist, a person of another race entering your holiest of holies has the most potential for being unthinkable. And yes, they are sometimes a victim of circumstance too and hence are allowed to have principles [example, they get raped too].
