The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #46998   Message #699038
Posted By: CarolC
26-Apr-02 - 09:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: War crimes - continuing discussion
Subject: RE: BS: War crimes - continuing discussion
I don't know troll. But why should only one side be expected to turn over their assasins?

I think I'll answer this one on this thread instead of the other one...

The well-meaning people who give my wife tracts are stunned too. They just can't conceive that anyone could not believe as they do. Especially when they have shown them proof. My wife is not wicked because she doesn't believe as they do and you are not foolish because you don't agree with me. There are several sides to almost every question and one mans Mesiah may be another mans Prophet.

I think you misapprehend the emotions that motivated both my statement that I didn't think you had read the links as well as the statement that I found it stunning that you could have read the links and still hold the views that you do. It has nothing to do with whether or not we agree with each other. It's more that I have been so deeply and profoundly effected, emotionally, by the things I have read in those links, I just wasn't prepared for the possibility that someone else might not be similarly effected. It just took me by surprise, is all.

I don't expect you to believe as I do, or to agree with me. I just was unprepared for a different emotional response by others, from the one I experienced myself. This doesn't happen very often for me. I usually don't have any expectations about what other people should or shouldn't feel. Maybe that's why I was so unprepared for my reaction to your response to the links. What I experienced was just a very strong, visceral, gutwrenching sort of inability to comprehend.