Thank you for your post. I found it very insightful and incisive, as well as heart-felt.
After reading and thinking about it for a bit, I have to agree with you. Humans may be spiritual beings but that's not all we are, any more than our bodies are the sum total of our experience.
Being equal does not mean being identical which, I believe, is a fallacy that many people get tangled up in. Woman can be equal to men, homosexuals can be equal to heterosexuals, etc., etc. without the former being identical to the latter. Embracing our differences while appreciating our commonalities seems a better way of learning to respect each other than using a fear of those differences to force conformance.
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Date: 2006-10-02 11:30 pm (UTC)From:After reading and thinking about it for a bit, I have to agree with you. Humans may be spiritual beings but that's not all we are, any more than our bodies are the sum total of our experience.
Being equal does not mean being identical which, I believe, is a fallacy that many people get tangled up in. Woman can be equal to men, homosexuals can be equal to heterosexuals, etc., etc. without the former being identical to the latter. Embracing our differences while appreciating our commonalities seems a better way of learning to respect each other than using a fear of those differences to force conformance.
...*coughs*
*gets off soapbox*
Soo... yes. Loved your post. Thank you. :)