[FreeRepublicLoginName]

"Your words: "... my "ultimate goal", my "purpose" is .. to be happy. My purpose in life is to be happy".

This fulfills one of the dictionary definitons of a "god".
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Yes, it does fulfil one of the dictionary definitions of a "god". That is true. I should have been more clear, and I apologize. When you say "god", not capitalized (as it was not in your spelling), I refer to the first definition listed by Webster's for the non-capitalized meaning:

"
1 capitalized : [...]
2 : a being or object believed to have more than natural attributes and powers and to require human worship; specifically : one controlling a particular aspect or part of reality"

I do not define my happiness to be a "god", as defined in Webster's as the most common defintion for non-capitalized usage.

I see you've resorted to the definition game, and I am disappointed.

[Sam Cree]

"Either that, or Dianna is half way to becoming a liberal and just doesn't know it yet :)"

Or FreeRepblicLoginName is halfway to becoming a conservative ;-)

I don't know if you noticed or not my post #92 in reply to you, however I had wanted to agree with you that there is common ground. I mentioned that there are those (many, IMO) on both sides who are not friends of liberty and freedom.

I probably should note also that there are those on both sides who truly love liberty and freedom.

Our ideas on how to ahieve it differ at a fundamental level, though.