I'm gonna try to answer this in sections, rather than all at once, simply because you've posted so much, that to respond to it would also be very long, so I'm gonna try to keep it in managable chunks.
Personally, I never saw the witch in the story as god's law, or the Christian god (Jehovah, if you will, although that's actually fairly inaccurate.) Keep in mind that a story with the witch as the bad guy is potentially inflammatory to someone who is a witch. I overlooked that, because it was irrelevant to the point on the story, just as the names of the characters were. At any rate, I saw the witch as a personification of fear and greed. The witch was greedy, wanting the money for her salves, so she sowed fear in order to get it. Can there be parallels drawn to the Christian god? Perhaps... certainly the first commandment is a greedy one, and the fear of hell is also sown to enforce it. I'd say, moreso, though, that more parallels can be drawn between this witch and the church (based on Pauline Roman Catholic thought, as all strictly Christian churches that I'm aware of are). At any rate, I hadn't made that connection until you pointed it out. I find that rather ironic.
I'm interested that you say that there needs to be a balance. This is contrary to any Christian teaching I've ever heard. You may have to explain this to me a little better, since I'm having trouble reconciling this with my understandings of Christian theology.
I certainly understand having sex with people to make them like you. I've done that in the past, too. It's an easy way to make "friends", and it does leave you feeling empty inside if the friendship is hollow, and based solely on the physical. That's not what I'm talking about here, though. I'm working, in my life, specifically on seeking emotional attachment, which may end in sex, or may not. Making this connection is difficult for me. The fact that it's challenging, and brings up fear in me, is my clue that it's a major issue for me, and one that I need to resolve. Could I go out there and just fuck a lot of people in that same hollow way I've done in the past? Absolutely. It would be pathetically easy, and maybe it would even sate my general state of lust. But I doubt that. It's the connection I seek, the connection I need to learn, the fear of connection what I need to overcome. How silly of me it would be to stop short if my heart wanted to take the connection to a physical level. How selfish of me to deny it to my husband if his heart felt connected to another. Our moral standpoints are simply different on this. You feel it's wrong to do this, for EVERYONE. I feel FOR ME that it's wrong NOT to. Other people have different needs, different challenges, different experiences. You certainly know from previous posts I've made that I don't endorse any type of open relationship that I think is unhealthy. I'd be happy to debate the healthiness of my actions, and be happy to listen and re-evaluate. But I just don't believe in the morality that forbids it.
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Date: 2004-07-09 01:21 am (UTC)Personally, I never saw the witch in the story as god's law, or the Christian god (Jehovah, if you will, although that's actually fairly inaccurate.) Keep in mind that a story with the witch as the bad guy is potentially inflammatory to someone who is a witch. I overlooked that, because it was irrelevant to the point on the story, just as the names of the characters were. At any rate, I saw the witch as a personification of fear and greed. The witch was greedy, wanting the money for her salves, so she sowed fear in order to get it. Can there be parallels drawn to the Christian god? Perhaps... certainly the first commandment is a greedy one, and the fear of hell is also sown to enforce it. I'd say, moreso, though, that more parallels can be drawn between this witch and the church (based on Pauline Roman Catholic thought, as all strictly Christian churches that I'm aware of are). At any rate, I hadn't made that connection until you pointed it out. I find that rather ironic.
I'm interested that you say that there needs to be a balance. This is contrary to any Christian teaching I've ever heard. You may have to explain this to me a little better, since I'm having trouble reconciling this with my understandings of Christian theology.
I certainly understand having sex with people to make them like you. I've done that in the past, too. It's an easy way to make "friends", and it does leave you feeling empty inside if the friendship is hollow, and based solely on the physical. That's not what I'm talking about here, though. I'm working, in my life, specifically on seeking emotional attachment, which may end in sex, or may not. Making this connection is difficult for me. The fact that it's challenging, and brings up fear in me, is my clue that it's a major issue for me, and one that I need to resolve. Could I go out there and just fuck a lot of people in that same hollow way I've done in the past? Absolutely. It would be pathetically easy, and maybe it would even sate my general state of lust. But I doubt that. It's the connection I seek, the connection I need to learn, the fear of connection what I need to overcome. How silly of me it would be to stop short if my heart wanted to take the connection to a physical level. How selfish of me to deny it to my husband if his heart felt connected to another. Our moral standpoints are simply different on this. You feel it's wrong to do this, for EVERYONE. I feel FOR ME that it's wrong NOT to. Other people have different needs, different challenges, different experiences. You certainly know from previous posts I've made that I don't endorse any type of open relationship that I think is unhealthy. I'd be happy to debate the healthiness of my actions, and be happy to listen and re-evaluate. But I just don't believe in the morality that forbids it.