• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

What is your Motivation to Discuss/Debate Things Online?

Rescued One

...yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me
Dec 12, 2002
36,209
6,789
Midwest
✟131,573.00
Country
United States
Gender
Female
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Widowed
There is always hope ... all one can do is try. Being silent certainly isn't going to change anything.
God changes people when HE saves them.
 
Upvote 0

Chesterton

Whats So Funny bout Peace Love and Understanding
Site Supporter
May 24, 2008
27,575
21,939
Flatland
✟1,139,757.00
Faith
Eastern Orthodox
Marital Status
Single
I've been online "discussing" things with people for many, many years in various platforms.
Not one person in those years has ever said in any of those discussions that I've been in or witnessed.....oh, ok, I get it, thank you all for sharing that. It's caused me to change my mind on that. I appreciate you all sharing the truth and showing me I was wrong.....or something to that leaning.
Just about 24 hours ago I admitted I was wrong about a fact I'd posted.
So what is your motivation to discuss/debate things online?
Offline is more difficult. For example, when I'm in the mood to discuss some fine point of Calvin's theology, and I ask strangers at the bus stop about it, I get responses like "Who's Calvin? The bus driver?" ;)
 
  • Like
Reactions: PloverWing
Upvote 0

Bob Crowley

Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
Dec 27, 2015
4,011
2,531
71
Logan City
✟999,130.00
Country
Australia
Gender
Male
Faith
Catholic
Marital Status
Married
I suppose I sometimes think I might have something worthwhile to say. And sometimes I learn from others.

What I'm not prepared to do is to go on long winded debates in which both sides end up endlessly repeating their original POV.

If someone has a different opinion, I certainly won't change their mind and they won't change mind.

But after some reflection they might change their mind and / or I might change mine. In other words we all change our own minds, not other people.

They might provide cogent arguments, but WE are the ones who change our minds.
 
  • Agree
Reactions: seeking.IAM
Upvote 0