[TheForge] Meteoric iron - wrap it in foil

[Ralph E Douglass]

Phlip wrote:
> 
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
> 
> > That doesn't sound very "Saintly". By that reasoning, you shouldn't get
> mad
> > at me for making bomb parts for a terrorist that blows up your family.
> After
> > all, it is not my problem what they believe or what they do with what I
> make
> > because it is not what I believe or what I would do. I'm just in it for
> the
> > money.
> > Darrell
> 
> I knew I shouldn't have allowed myself to get into this.
> 
> WHAT THE BLOODY FUCKING HELL CONCERN OF MINE ARE OTHER PEOPLE'S RELIGIOUS
> BELIEFS????????
> 
> My relationship is between me and my deity or deities. It is no more my
> concern what YOUR relatiuonship is with your deity or deities than it is
> what you you had for breakfast.
> 
> If you want to discuss your beliefs with me, or I want to discuss my beliefs
> with you, then fine, we can have ourselves a pleasant conversation- if it
> gets unpleasant, I guarantee I'll terminate it. But there is NO WAY I will
> tolerate ANYONE trying to tell me that THEIR way is right, and that
> therefore I must do things their way, any more than I would ever attempt to
> tell someone else that their way is wrong, and they must believe my way.
> 
> In the Christian Bible, there is an appropriate quote, " In my Father's
> House, there are many mansions". There isn't anything that says we all hafta
> crowd into the same undersized bathroom in the same shack in order to have a
> viable relationship with That Which Is. If you are so small minded that you
> can't accept the thought that other people have other ways of thinking, then
> please, kindly keep your small mind and your selfish thoughts away from me.
> 
> One of my firmest tenets of belief, is that That Which Is is big enough,
> GOOD enough, to come to us as we can best understand- and my way of
> understanding is no more your way, than my shoes are made to fit you.
> 
> I'm sure you believe whatever you believe, and I'm sure it's usually a
> comfort to you. But keep it to yourself- I'm not interested.
> 
> To the rest of you guys on TheForge, my apologies. Narrow minded bigots,
> particularly those who attempt to promote their beliefs through emotional
> arguments including "terrorist", having nothing to do with the topic under
> discussion, really irritate me.
> 
> Saint Phlip,
> CoDoLDS

I think you need to step back a bit there lady.
I did not see him as attacking your choice in religion at all. It seemed
to me he was commenting on the bit about how you were just wanting to
make a commision on the item and you did not care as to how it was to be
used. His comment was trying to say if he made bomb parts and sold them
it mattered not to who as he did not care as to how 'they' planned to
use them.

To be honest this is one of the biggest arguments as to why I personally
do not make knives for sale. I will make them as gifts for good friends.
But that is me and I am not trying to tell others how to live.

Ralph
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