1) For everyone to accept and respect others religious/spiritual beliefs
regardless of their own.

2) For everyone to understand, that no matter how different we may seem,
we are no more/less significant than those around us.

3) OK, Bill Gates fortune in my bank account wouldn't hurt either!

It's hard to tell, with out the benefit of talking face to face, how a
person understands our use of some words we write in e-mails. It sounds
like she read it with the impression that you were being somewhat
dis-respectful or crude, while you had'nt any intent in doing so! Read
your e-mail as if you were her, recieving it from a guy she doesn't know
in the least, before you send it, and try to see the man writing to her,
through her eyes! She may see you as coming on too strong or thinking
maybe you think you're "it"....every womans dream, while she wants a man
who one day only calls "her" baby, and is the man of "her" dreams!! It's
the tone, mannerisms, and demeanor that you use when talking face too
face that usually avoids misinterpretations of words. I'd just write
her, apologize if she was offended, and let her know you meant no
dis-respect. If she feels you are being sincere, it will have been
forgotten already! If not, be thankful it ended now!!!

There are an abundance of single, highly educated men, both involved in
blue-collar jobs and/or volunteer work who are wonderful people and have
chosen their life-style based on what makes them happy, and many
"professionals" who will never be happy because they would never
sacrifice their financial and/or power status just to make their lives
happier, and if they wouldn't make the sacrifice for themselves, it is
clear in what place a relationship would fall. It is in the person that
we find happiness and contentment, and once we start putting
restrictions on those who might just bear those qualities, we begin
judging them based on basically irrelevent factors which make up their
true being. Sure, it makes sense to find someone with similar interests,
but to characterize and even think that those working in a "professional
position" will fulfill the void in our life differently than someone in
a "blue-collar position" , because they are somehow "two different
animals", is simply absurd. You are projecting a negative vibe to both
groups. First being the insensitivity expressed in your view that an
average "Joe" is any the less person than the next, and second, to the
"professional", that you seem to infer that you may just be more
interested in what he does for a living, or how much he makes, that
takes presidence in your expectations of a loving relationship,
superceding the decency of the man himself! Sometimes you have to
sacrifice one for the other, or vice-versa....