Sunday, October 10, 2004

She is becoming one of "those" people....

I was on the phone with my sister yesterday and something I realized about myself a few weeks ago was validated today. I am becoming a free-thinking, bohemian, hippie without the tie-dye, reefer, or Birkenstocks. We were chatting about life, love, marriage, then the topic changed to politics. My sister is a die hard Republican...I have not chose a party. In fact I don't think I ever will again. I will say that my views generally sway toward the Demo-side.

We discussed the President elects, which was great. It is so great to get my sis all fired up and raising her voice. I love it.

I told her about Measure 36,

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http://list.pacificgreens.org/pipermail/pgp-process/2004-August/000053.html

that is on the ballot for us Oregonians. In a very silly yet sarcastic voice replied," I know how your voting on that one."

I DON'T know how I am voting on this one.

We went into a HUGE discussion about pro-life, pro-choice. Yeah this was the kicker. My sister was so jacked up I could imagine her head spinning around. I told her my views on this and we argued for almost 20 minutes. She told me I was not taking a stand and being wishy-washy like Kerry. I told her I am taking a stand, it is just a different stand that she is taking. I know that everyone thinks if you are a Christian you should vote one way, think one way, act one way...

I am not that Christian anymore.

I talked about how we are going to see things differently. I then proceeded to relay to her a conversation I had with Kevin McVicker the other day about truth.

Truth, I said is relative. Truth is my truth to me, because it is what I believe, but it may not be true to other people.

After a LONG discussion, we came to the conclusion that I am not explaining myself correctly(after having him tell me I sounded like a relativist) We came out with this:

Truth is truth. It is true that God created, Jesus came, died, rose, yada, yada, yada. It is truth that he did this for everyone. It is absolute truth. The people that do not know this have not been enlightened to this truth. It does not mean that it is not truth, it just means that they don't believe it to be truth.

So I came out of the conversation a relativist with absolute truth...which is an oxymoron, but whatever. Or was I a partial relativist.

Anywhooo...my sister upon hearing this replied:

AUGHGHGH don't tell me you are becoming one of those people...they told us about you in bible college.

I love that I am becoming one of "those" people.

posted by Kat @ 9:19 AM