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Multifavs said:

For much of my life I've had a hard time dealing with people I disagree with, mostly if it's something I feel strongly about and/or constantly hear about, especially when the other people are rude or insult my beliefs/opinions (whether towards me or someone else who feels the same).

When it's something trivial I need to try not to get upset, but when it's something important where the other people are actually wrong, I wonder if I'm not doing the right thing by not saying anything to help them understand what is right. But if I do say something I'm afraid I'll get in a huge argument or something and I'd rather be in a friendly and peaceful conversation. But, I do continue to say prayers for all of them that they may see the truth.

I think God is helping me improve on this, though. With Him more on my mind and in my heart, I'm beginning to feel less upset and more caring. Sometimes, even despite all the differences, all the times when others were unkind to me directly or indirectly, I get a loving feeling inside me, like I just want to love and care about everyone. I believe this is all from Him.

That's all the rambling I'm going to do for now. Thank you if you've taken the time to read all that I had to say.

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Multifavs said:

when it's something important where the other people are actually wrong, I wonder if I'm not doing the right thing by not saying anything to help them understand what is right. But if I do say something I'm afraid I'll get in a huge argument or something and I'd rather be in a friendly and peaceful conversation.

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Mr. O said:

Let our faith and love for God be our guiding light in Christ Jesus.

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Multifavs said:

For much of my life I've had a hard time dealing with people I disagree with, mostly if it's something I feel strongly about and/or constantly hear about, especially when the other people are rude or insult my beliefs/opinions (whether towards me or someone else who feels the same).

When it's something trivial I need to try not to get upset, but when it's something important where the other people are actually wrong, I wonder if I'm not doing the right thing by not saying anything to help them understand what is right. But if I do say something I'm afraid I'll get in a huge argument or something and I'd rather be in a friendly and peaceful conversation. But, I do continue to say prayers for all of them that they may see the truth.

I think God is helping me improve on this, though. With Him more on my mind and in my heart, I'm beginning to feel less upset and more caring. Sometimes, even despite all the differences, all the times when others were unkind to me directly or indirectly, I get a loving feeling inside me, like I just want to love and care about everyone. I believe this is all from Him.

That's all the rambling I'm going to do for now. Thank you if you've taken the time to read all that I had to say.

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Raphael4 said:

Sorry, but I have to tell a story...

This post probably isn't about me, but I will say I often come off rough around the edges, and the reason why is that I often act quite "real". That's not to say other people act fake, but you have not really seen life until you have gone and seen someone really bad off, even more bad off than me mentally and physically, and seen their perspective on life. It really changes our cushy perspective of sitting back and thinking "Well X is right, and Y is wrong."

Now I don't think any of your opinion is wrong, per se. I'm just saying don't pass judgement on those "rougher around the edges" than you, because you haven't heard their story.

I'll be honest, you don't really know me real deeply yet, even though we have talked a lot, but when you do, you will find out I'm rougher than you like, but not as rough as the worst off. And I was even rougher when I joined these forums. But why did I improve? Because of people kind of like you Multi, who have hope in God's creation. I value your hope and think you often go in the right direction, but also say, don't be too quick to judge, either.

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Multifavs said:

For much of my life I've had a hard time dealing with people I disagree with, mostly if it's something I feel strongly about and/or constantly hear about, especially when the other people are rude or insult my beliefs/opinions (whether towards me or someone else who feels the same).

When it's something trivial I need to try not to get upset, but when it's something important where the other people are actually wrong, I wonder if I'm not doing the right thing by not saying anything to help them understand what is right. But if I do say something I'm afraid I'll get in a huge argument or something and I'd rather be in a friendly and peaceful conversation. But, I do continue to say prayers for all of them that they may see the truth.

I think God is helping me improve on this, though. With Him more on my mind and in my heart, I'm beginning to feel less upset and more caring. Sometimes, even despite all the differences, all the times when others were unkind to me directly or indirectly, I get a loving feeling inside me, like I just want to love and care about everyone. I believe this is all from Him.

That's all the rambling I'm going to do for now. Thank you if you've taken the time to read all that I had to say.

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JesusLovesOurLady said:

Yeah, I'm sort of similar I am a firmly believer in absolute Truth and absolutely despise relativism. My problem when I get into debates is that I tend to go for a brute force approach where I just try to shove the truth in peoples faces, needless to say that doesn't work and is counter-productive. I really want change that, but it's a struggle.

One thing I'm trying to work on, as to have an increased sense of respect and honour. I once saw a comment made by a modernist where she complained about TradCats saying the Catholicism is true and that, that was ,allegedly, (I'm 99.99% sure it isn't) driving non-catholics away from the Church. That modernist's comment has inspired to develop an attitude of having more respect for non-catholics who firmly believe and say that their believes are right and that Catholicism is false, than for non-catholics who try to cozy up to us Catholics and insist that our differences are no big deal. Now don't get me wrong there is a line to be drawn in this kind thinking, there are somethings that I should not tolerate, and I will defend the Faith, but I need to try and be careful about how offended I get, and what approach I should take in defending the Faith.

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