Sacred Landscapes

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morfe Jul 30, 2003 21:50:37
Replying to baza

You mean I misunderstood you, or I was 'wrong'??

If it was the former, then I dispute that too, you are using imperfect logic. Belief is belief. You can believe that it is wrong, but it still makes you a believer in your own belief. And things like sacred spaces are in many and varying parts wholly subjective, which precludes 'right' and 'wrong' , but does not perhaps exclude 'useful' or 'useless'

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B baza
baza Jul 30, 2003 22:31:19
Replying to morfe

You seem to regard `sacred` as meaning something different to my meaning.

To me `sacred` is synonymous with `holy`.

If you say "this landscape is sacred" then I interpret that to mean that, to you, the landscape has some special religious significance and I can accept that. As far as I am concerned, that doesn`t actually make the landscape sacred, it`s only sacred within the minds of those who have such a faith.

I do know that the word `sacred` is sometimes used without a religious context. To my way of thinking, that just devalues a powerful word.

baz