Are JWDers helpful to each other?

by AuldSoul 15 Replies latest jw friends

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  JamesThomas

  My sense is that Terry is acutely aware and sensitive to the fact that much human suffering ensues from the division of mankind into the saved and the damned which Christianity emphasizes and institutes. Such empathy can cause us, at times, to do or say things which may seem on the surface as unkind.

  One need only read our dear Chris' (Big Tex) post in the Grace vs. Forgiveness thread to see how Christian beliefs shove a stick in an already bleeding wound.

  Of course this does not authorise us nonbelievers to crash Christian threads (as I too have done many times in the past). It just means that it may not be our meanness and insensitivities that are the cause, but rather, perhaps, just the opposite.

  j
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  AuldSoul

  Odrade,

  This place helped ME to, many posters here were helpful, but I wonder how many have been left to the "known" of the bOrg because their skin wasn't thick enough to handle our "unknown"?

  I am a first class a-hole in the sense that I really don't care what others think about me or my opinions. Some here would believe differently, but that is only because they don't know me in real life. When it comes to people interfering in the respectful healing processes of others for the purpose of scoring one over someone else or over a hated or disrespected belief system, that is going to get me heated in a hurry.

  Odrade, in the example you posted UnDisfellowshipped didn't ask for any kind of specific consideration from the forum for his/her thread and was plainly preaching a message to the entire forum. S/he wasn't seeking any information, and certainly not any information of a specific type. In the case of my thread, I asked for both specific consideration and specific information.

  If Farkel had posted similarly on my thread I would have responded similarly to the way I responded to Terry, while I can't fault any of the responses Undisfellowshipped got. Terry's addition to my thread was completely without regard for basic respect due another human.

  Respectfully,
  AuldSoul
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  AuldSoul

  HS,

  Don't you think this statement a trifle arrogant Auld Soul?

  Not when the stated purpose of the thread was to gather more information on the thread topic, HS. No, it isn't arrogant. I do think the behavior I described (and which is borne out on the thread in question) was arrogant in the extreme.

  The reality is that regarding WTS issues, all that needs to be said, analysed, uncovered has been debated and discussed here before...

  I am certain this is true, and I also wish there was a working search function for the forum. I think it would be valuable beyond measure for lurkers. As it is, there is not a search function that works.

  I am sure even your perpectives on 'grace' and 'forgiveness' have been discussed before.

  Quite probable. However, my purpose was not to preach to the forum about grace and forgiveness. My purpose was to collect Scriptural and Christian viewpoints on the topic for the benefit of the person who asked me to post the topic. I felt certain that Christians would not be put off by my approach in the least. I used the thread topic to flag that the thread was specifically directed to those who would not take offense or try to muck up the thread with arguments and their noisy and loosely logical pet theroies about everything when I was only trying to collect specific information.

  Terry refused to respect clearly and respectfully communicated boundaries.

  Respectfully,
  AuldSoul
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  I quit!

  My sense is that Terry is acutely aware and sensitive to the fact that much human suffering ensues from the division of mankind into the saved and the damned which Christianity emphasizes and institutes

  I agree, nasty Christians. If they were all good atheist like Joe Stalin the world would be a much better place.
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  Odrade

  Herding cats, auldsoul. It's illogical to assume that a forum like this- one where newly exiting JWs are flexing their powers of being contrary, and long-out exJWs are comfortable with challenging narrowly defined ideas- will adhere to a demand that ONLY a certain segment of people will respond to a topic. It's like trying to tell a bunch of cats to all walk in a straight line, with only minor deviations in pace and trajectory.

  Cats are cool.
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  ozziepost

  This thread seems to have gone off in one direction i.e. to be solely directed at another poster.

  Without making comment on your thoughts, AS, I think it best to leave it.

  Thread locked.