Actually, I am noone's sock, I was a member a couple of years ago and left and then returned just recently and once again find myself being disappointed in the forum in many ways. I have a lot of insight in this forum trust me.
never hurts to be charitable, does it?do we really have to go accusing one another of being a sock ALL the time? OK I do detect some socks around here but I don't know, what if waving palm branches is for real and we're making a huge mistake?
You seem OK to meIt's funny how those who complain about threads being complaint threads often complain more than anyone else
Hi, Joan of Arc. What a wonderful, powerful role model for a young woman to have.
It's OK to be disappointed with CF. Realizing that you only have the power to change your own behavior, you still can hope that your example may inspire others.
Yes, there are some people who communicate by personal attacks. I just figure they are emotionally scarred in some way that causes them to lash out at others, so I try not to take it personally.
On my bad days, I (born Catholic) sometimes muse that perhaps being a convert from the evangelical religions might be akin to being a reformed smoker--that they have taken all the rigidity from their old religion and gone hunting for all the rigidity in their new religion and become completely inflexible. And I don't have the experience of being a convert (and if I had, I would surely have become UCC or Episcopal or something pretty liberal) so I can't criticize.
I was just born a Catholic and try to make the best of it, which, for me, means focusing on all the great things about Catholicism and not thinking very much about the rest of it.
if what you say is true, you had another account
you are a sock
there is no temporal loophole, sorry
waving palm branches,
I will use this post as an example as an attempt to make a point... I have no ill will towards this poster, who obvious is taking a jab at me.
So, waving palm branches, you mean like this post here? A passive aggressive backhanded insult geared toward me, but yet, never directed at me?
and this is to make a point, they we fail in meeting the standard. Ironic, I know.
Does anyone understand my point? Stop judging, just stop judging ppl and let them be them. Because when you are judging another person, you are failing your own standard.
I don't meet the standard... none of do. we are human beings who are just working it out.
I may ignore 10 of these types of posts, but that 11th one... man... what to do? In the past I didn't allow a single one to get past me, but now, I can let them go... because I have grown.
personal growth is, well, it's personal.
I admit it's hard for me to calm down and let insults it go... it cracks me up when a person thinks they aren't just as insulting. but I realize the type of person the poster may be, and I accept they are just comming from their own wounded place like I am, so I let it go now, becuase there is no merit in me bullying a person.
You see here's the deal none of us are perfect... not one, if anyone here has a problem with anyone else, guess what? You falied to meet the standard.
I know you are expressing your feelings and I'm not discounting them. I'd like it to be different too, but it's not going to be. it's really not.
I'm not offended anymore because like I said, OBOB is more like the real world, not some fake virtual world where we all march in line agreeing with one another.
It is not run by any kind of Catholic authoritative staff. Heck, the mods are all non Catholic, so folks are going to express themselves, right or wrong and we need to all, including myself, be able to handle that.
We are different, we all have personalties and we should not have to defend that, defend constantly who we are.
as long as we aren't foul mouthed and nasty, and I do not see anyone being foul mouthed and nasty. I really don't. I mean this post was pretty nasty towards me... but if this is as bad as it gets, were doing good.
I constantly see people throwing insults at one another, I see "back biting" all over the place. Harsh words, unkindness, and total lack of the golden rule. This place shouldn't be a place to harshly debate but a place to educate, inspire, and relax. Christians of all Churches need to really think before they make a post. We shouldn't come on here to insult but have some sort of communion with one another, though we do not hold complete common bonds together in every aspect, we do hold a bond in that the sole purpose of this forum is Christ in the center of it all, and yet, I see Christ absent in people's post and words. It saddens me to the core, that a place one should be able to come to for reflection, has turned into nothing but a "attacking" mob in all sorts of ways and in several of the forums on here.
"But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels". 2 Tim. 2:23
and that's a mature statement because...?
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