MarcEsadrian -> RE: Due Deference? (10/31/2008 7:58:14 AM)
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As I’m not religious or even remotely spiritual, I tend not to describe it as divine, but I believe I can relate in the sense that some experiences have gone beyond the physical; I tend to see it as the power of the mind. In what sense are you using the word ‘stickier’; I’m unclear if you mean more complicated or more of a matter of staying-power, as in long term? I'm not religious by any stretch of the imagination, but being human, I do understand the state of mind it entails. I do believe most of us have the natural ability to experience something of a spiritual nature—of an all-fulfilling, all-consuming thing, and that is what I mean by sticky; something that involves psychological and physiological complexity, something that may not always be "pragmatic". I believe there is a place where logic and the emotive exists together. I think the fusing of something that is both grounding and deeply fulfilling is where a would-be slave wishes to be. Once there, they will give all and defer gladly, over and over again.
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