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THE OLD OLIGARCH <\/a>WILL LOVE THIS<\/strong>: \u201cI\u2019m tangentially reminded of what a friend in Santa Barbara would say when he ran into really hard-core relativist types. Eric was very much into the intellectual end of neo-paganism, so this wasn\u2019t an infrequent sort of encounter. When someone started going on about how everyone construct their own subjective religious experience, Eric would get todally deadpan and say, \u2018I\u2019m glad that works for you.\u2019 When asked what he meant, he\u2019d explain that in his practice, he encountered universal and objective forces, so he couldn\u2019t adopt the other person\u2019s relativism, but he was happy that they\u2019d found a practice that worked for them. Very very often this led to huffy assertions about he was wrong, at which he\u2019d affect great umbrage and say something like \u2018Are you trying to force me into your views? Have you no respect for my individuality and personal quest?\u2019 I saw this a few times in Santa Barbara\u2019s good used bookstores, and always loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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