[quote="tourbi"]One of the things that drew me and continues to draw me to this site are the many people with many beliefs, religions and ideas all sharing and being shared with.  The fact that so many with differing views are able to speak and listen and share with so little anger and so vew misunderstandings.  For me, that is very powerful and empowering to all who wish to share.  
I dream of a time when we can all respect each other in our differences and similarities.  I appreciate that we have our own spaces to be with people who are like minded and I appreciate when we can all get together to understand each other better.
Where we try to listen to others, to understand, we have opportunity to grow.  Where we help each other so we aren't afraid of each other, we have the opportunity to work and live together in respect and care.
This site for me affords me the opportunity to understand others better, to talk with those who often don't want to listen.  
I celebrate this site and all the people who are here, sharing their truths and honoring the truths of others, be it through their religion or thru their interests of tarot, palmistry, being psychic.[/quote]


Tourbi,

"Sites" are like oases, embedded in the plethora of desert-land that surrounds these "cool" spots. But the warm destructive desert winds lie just outside licking their dry, thirsty and sandy tongues to enter the oasis and consume it just for the sake of uniformity! Fundamentalistic uniformity! And that is scary, particularly when it is observed in an oasis!