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   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   David Dalton wrote:   
      
   > The problem with most so-called fundamentalists is that   
   > they follow minor messages that conflict with their   
   > main messages.   
      
   Another problem with them is that they follow their main messages, to   
   the letter, however the letters can be twisted to accomodate their   
   desires.   
      
   > One of my messages on my Salmon on the Thorns web page is:   
   >   
   > "The fundamental is to love; however this can not be always   
   > achieved and so one must at least strive to love. Messages   
   > that conflict with that sentence must be discarded or edited   
   > to no longer conflict."   
      
   No cigar, dude; striving might work okay if you're rowing a boat or   
   picking up a log, but when it comes to the "spiritual", striving is a   
   definite Catch-22.   
      
   > Two other related messages on that web page are:   
   >   
   > "Don't care what anyone believes as long as they are loving,   
      
   I wonder if Cook Ting loved his oxen.  I wonder if Josef Menegle (the   
   "Angel of Death") loved his patients.  Watch out for those loving folks   
   who believe they should cook you and eat you.   
      
   > or try to be as much as possible within constraints of life."   
   >   
   > and   
   >   
   > "Loving behaviour should be both within our species (including   
   > to other nationalities, races, spiritual paths, orientations,   
   > genders, ages, transgendered status, mental health diagnoses,   
   > physical illness diagnoses, and physical disability   
   > classificatons, and with no instigation of war) and, though   
   > we would give our own species a `human family' edge, to   
   > members of other species and to each species as a unit and   
   > to the environment we are part of."   
   >   
      
   Sounds like a well-intended crock to me, fwiw.   
      
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