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Rubbish. You're proposing a definition so broad and slack that, at bottom, all it really means is "important, only in a deeply meaningful way that I nevertheless find impossible to express".

No, I'm looking at the experience of the sacred and describing it. Tell me this...what is it that you feel when you experience the sacred? Internalize it and describe it. Isn't it true that we definately feel a certain way when something is presented to us that we think is sacred? What is that feeling? That's what I'm trying to get at.

And I think this started when you said something can be sacred and fun at the same time. I'm still waiting to hear how you experience something as sacred and fun at the same time. What are your emotions like when that happens?

I agree that sex can be sacred. But not because someone else defines it that way. Rather, it is sacred because you experience it as sacred. A particular sexual experience can be so overwhelmingly, beautiful, wonderful, and breathtaking, that it compares to being sacred. But when that mystical, wonderful and transcendent experience happens, I don't think you are experiencing "fun" at the same time. "Fun" is just too trivial an experience to co-exist with the sacred.