” By the way, “Mommy Dearest”, I could ask you the same thing…why would any woman want to listen to you? You’re obviously extremely narrow-minded.” By James Gemmell on 10/10/2008 3:13 pm James, not only narrow-minded…She’s a very dead, very old actress……Harmless darling, simply harmless!

Absolutely, and I’ve stated that in another post that I had a supernatural experience myself. One with an answering machine going off right after an outloud prayer following the death of my girlfriend. The other may’ve been a mere dream, but I heard a female voice calling my name when I’d fallen asleep on the highway in 1993 in heavy traffic, which woke me up. And as I stated above, I wasn’t trying to shove any opinions down any throats, just expressing my own.

I respectfully disagree, C A Rose. I think it’s fair to express religious points of view. In no way was I trying to denigrate anyone’s religious belief, just stating why I don’t agree with astrology. But I prefaced my comments in that post by saying, “I’m not trying to shove my opinions” down anyone’s throat. That was my way of saying not to take too seriously what I was saying, because I was afraid someone would misread it as a vile diatribe against someone else’s beliefs. Not so. In fact, if astrology were in any way a sin, I’m sure it would be way, way low on the list of things deemed offensive by God. But without the benefit of vocal inflections (tone of voice) or facial expressions, sometimes it’s very hard to properly convey one’s stance on something. What was meant as just a flip paragraph was misinterpreted as an entrenched religious stance, when that was never intended in any way. But, I got jumped all over for my remark. Fair enough. But when “Mother Dearest’s” rebuttal was encased in personal insults, I took offense. To me, that’s the height of rudeness and totally counterproductive to intelligent back-and-forth conversation, when it gets personal.