Thinking on this issue a little further: there are the "Jesus" people who have posted to these threads, and there are the ones who have posted obscenities and strong disagreement with the ideas herein, and I tell myself that I would never say such things. BUT, when one considers that all of these "others" are within one's perspective and therefore ARE you, then a light goes on.

I notice that when I tell myself, for example, that I don't believe in a fairytale figure invented by the Romans in order to keep some religious harmony within its empire, that a part of me that DOES believe in a real hero named "Jesus", pops up in my perception.

Am I explaining this in a way that makes sense?

It is as if all the things that I say that I am not, seems to manifest in others.

However, if I see these "others"; if I become aware of these "others" who seem to have qualities that I insist I do not have, then I feel an impetus to accept them and say, "these are other me's, expressing qualities that I do not want to recognize that I also hold". They are all a part of my perspective.

Ah, well. Just consider this to be thread filler.