furthermore, "god" as a language -- your language, the sum total of your experience -- you may be able transcribe, but can never hope to adequately translate. just like any other language: conceptions in one language have no equal in others. like the 52ish(?) conceptions of love in sanskrit, that can't be captured in the half a dozen in other language. a simple, self-evident argument that's hardly worth a single sentence in one language, may force you into paraphrased litanies that invite interpretation beyond its merits. if you will, "religious" people are like "ghetto youth" genuinely failed by the education systems and their parents: their vocubularly is very narrow, very limited and limiting. if you wanted to teach them, to pick them up where they've been abandoned and walk them towards a meaningful life (= teach them skills), you'd waste your time -- and their time -- if you instantly blasted them with sophisticated verbiage, telling them that everything they are doing is wrong, but, just like the system you're trying to pull them out off, never why. for anyone else, well -- you know it yourself: while you understand the english language and can apply the most literal by-the-book reading if you so fancy, you may also harbor a certain bias and think in terms of connotations (i.e.: choice of words) first and universal function (i.e.: ideas) second -- if at all. (cont.)
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