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Originally Posted by BringTheDarkness 
One other point I want to make. I make no judgements on the spirituality of others. If you WANT to merge with "God", don't let me stop you! I'm not trying to convince anyone to change or think like I do. I merely wanted to point out that there are a lot of misconceptions about my side of the fence.
I'm not trying to tell anyone that their spirituality is wrong; merely that their conception of MY spirituality are wrong.
Hope this helps to clean up any confusion.
BTD
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I'm not sure your conception of the other side is correct, either. In the process of becoming closer to the Good or God or whatever you want to call it, you do not get your personality erased. I.e. you do not become a zombie for God. There are people like that, but there are people like that in every demographic you can think of (including yours).
Whether left-hand or right-hand, it is the same Power that animates everything. The question is in how you use that power. I can use a knife to prepare food (to keep up with the analogy) or I could stab someone in the eye. The knife didn't change, it's the way I used it.
I think life is like an instrument or tool that can be used in many different ways. Most people don't know what to do with it at all, so it just sort of lays there. They might as well already be dead. The only real need to distinguish light from dark or left from right is to begin to understand what this tool might be used for and what works best for me.
I think Steve's point is that the more you use the knife to slice bread, the more it looks like a butter knife. The more you use it to stab people in the eye, the more it looks like a dagger. It isn't easy to slice bread with a dagger or to stab people with a butter knife. The instrument conforms to its use.
BTW, BringTheDarkness, thanks for coming on here and discussing this in a clear, intelligent manner. You've made it a much more interesting conversation.