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Old 08-28-2011, 16:38   #14
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Originally Posted by WayoftheWolf View Post
I would say we traded one set of value judgements for another. I am not saying at all that religious law is good for anybody. I do not believe in religion. And for cover, I believe anybody is allowed to wear whatever they want ; but, it is contigent on their reasons. The reasons must not be because of direct physical or overt psychological oppression. "If I want to understand somebody, I cannot condemn him, I must observe, study him. I must love the very thing I am studying. If you want to understand a child, you must love and not condemn him. You must play with him, watch his movements, his idiosyncrasies, his ways of behavior; but if you meerly condemn, resist or blame him, ther is no comprehension of the child." Krishnamurti 1954:42
I'll bet you like Cannibals and Nazis too. Just different value systems, can't condemn them.
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