You can’t make a long story short, can you?
Don’t you wonder sometimes how you can have a long conversation with someone about something you have totally different opinion about? Just today I was talking to a close friend and she keeps yakking and yakking about a buddhist meeting and something about an indian elephant god (and the two is supposed to interlink) and in one of her dream, she has a premonition that if she pay homage to/worships (or whatever) the elephant god, she’d have monetary gain in a short span of time, and then she told me how amazing it was that she hit her sales target after a very long time and…….etc etc. Long story short, it was a very long story.
Now before I continue, I have to tell you that I’m not a religious person. Spiritual maybe (at least I’m trying to be), but not religious. So all this talk about gods, ghosts, spirits and stuffs do not register in the ‘logically accepted’ part of my brain. But I can have long conversation with you about this topic, that do not necessarily be in the form of an argument. I have my own view of things (and I doubt that you can make me change my mind in the near future) but it does not mean I can’t accept your take on the topic and where you’re coming from. Know what I mean?
It’s not always easy to state your view to someone you know who has a completely different opinion on the same issue. I still can’t do it with everyone I know, simply because I’m too lazy. I don’t want to be dragged into an argument where someone just won’t leave you alone trying to convince you that you should accept their view. Been there before, haven’t you?
I’m glad I’ve friends that understand this as much as I do. Just like this friend that I mention in the story above, she knows that I’m currently an atheist, and she respect that, but it did not stop her from sharing her experience and views concerning religion to me; and just as she had shown, she’s comfortable talking to me about it.
I have nice friends. Don’t be jealous.
