• 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.

Like watching passengers on the Titanic

Maine Progressive

The war bow. God uses metaphors.
Feb 16, 2026
313
86
78
Bangor
✟11,793.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Presbyterian
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Democrat
Saw a recent metaphor: It’s like watching passengers on the Titanic cheer for the iceberg. Always startles me that today’s adherents to the economics of wealth continue in the delusion that somehow all that wealth and power concentrated in the few will magically diffuse into their life and make everything rosy.
 

Maine Progressive

The war bow. God uses metaphors.
Feb 16, 2026
313
86
78
Bangor
✟11,793.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Presbyterian
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Democrat
They've seen how badly the alternatives have turned out.
well, continuing the metaphor, sink or swim, we'll see how it turns out. However unlikely, I do hope you survive.
 
Upvote 0

Servus

<><
Site Supporter
Oct 2, 2020
32,024
16,290
Washington
✟1,164,375.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Single
well, continuing the metaphor, sink or swim, we'll see how it turns out. However unlikely, I do hope you survive.
Could you explain what it is you're hoping I survive that apparently you won't experience?
 
Upvote 0

Maine Progressive

The war bow. God uses metaphors.
Feb 16, 2026
313
86
78
Bangor
✟11,793.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Presbyterian
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Democrat
Could you explain what it is you're hoping I survive that apparently you won't experience?
Could you explain what the alternatives were and what it is that turned out badly. I think we're like ships in the night here, no?
 
Upvote 0

Servus

<><
Site Supporter
Oct 2, 2020
32,024
16,290
Washington
✟1,164,375.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Single
Could you explain what the alternatives were and what it is that turned out badly. I think we're like ships in the night here, no?
It sounded like you were rallying against capitalism. The alternatives being communism and socialism.
 
Upvote 0

Maine Progressive

The war bow. God uses metaphors.
Feb 16, 2026
313
86
78
Bangor
✟11,793.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Presbyterian
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Democrat
It sounded like you were rallying against capitalism. The alternatives being communism and socialism.
Ha. No. I am not anti-capitalist. I am anti-stupid.
 
Upvote 0

Maine Progressive

The war bow. God uses metaphors.
Feb 16, 2026
313
86
78
Bangor
✟11,793.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Presbyterian
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Democrat
Just when you thought you only had to choose between a metaphor and analogy, along comes simile. :)
Hmmm. Do we need an article of faith here? Or just an article?
 
Upvote 0