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As far as adults knowing where (sic) the line gets crossed, that's not for you to decide. >
>I should give you the name of the last person who made the mistake of telling a member of my family they'd burn in hell for not being Christian. That person would tell you differently. <s>
But aren't you comforted to know that if there is some kind eternal after-life you won't have to spend it with those people ? <bg>
( I must lead a very sheltered life because I run into remarkably few people who've confronted me in the way you describe - though I'm pretty sure a lot of people have thought they have pretty much figured out what is in store for me <s>)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
