Dearest Bluegrass...

by AGuest 19 Replies latest jw friends

  • AGuest
    AGuest

    May you have peace!

    I read your thread(s) regarding the... ummmmm... "unsavory" posts that appear here from time to time. While I don't share some's, er, "taste" for such things, I must say that I do find your statement regarding "punishing" and "banning" folks, well, curious, if not actually funny. I guess seeing a thread asking for someone to be, well, "shunned," if not outright "disfellowshipped" (which is what you're suggesting)... on a forum where most participants are disfellowshipped (or disassociated, often to avoid disfellowshipping)... seems, to me, to be a bit, well, hypocritical, wouldn't you agree? I mean, wouldn't the best thing to do, if you are offended, besides leaving the offending thread, be to simply notify a moderator and then let them do their job? True, it may take time, but that should only be a problem if you keep returning to the offending thread.

    If you're worried that someone might not come here because they inadvertently open such a thread, I would say do not worry yourself about it too much. Most will probably open another thread or two and realize the offending one is a fluke. Or... they'll move on. Which, I have to say, if their consciences are that... ummmm... "tender"... they probably should do so anyway. Because it can get pretty... ummmmm... candid... in this place from time to time.

    But it IS place where certain, ummmm... perhaps unsavory... topics are discussed... both candidly AND in jest. Having come from environments where almost ANY subject (other than WTBTS-created, -indoctrinated, -manufactured, -fabricated propoganda) was, well, virtually forbidden, you're gonna come across a LOT of pent-up... ummmm... "stuff." In the most loving way I can, I would say to you... deal with it. Learn to deal with it.

    What, though, if you're worried about what God and/or Christ would think? You must remember: the Son of God hung out and ate with sinners and tax collectors. Do you REALLY think the only "conversation" he heard while doing so was, "the Law says this" or "the Law says that"? Dear one, that was the scribes and Pharisees ("Teacher, according to the Law..." Teacher, Moses said..." etc.). You are among sinners and "tax collectors," dear one (well, you also were if/when you were among the WTBTS, too, but they would NEVER admit that). But here, people at least try to be REAL... and honest... even if such honesty is, at times, unsavory.

    So, I ask you: give Simon a break. And give him the benefit of the doubt. And if your eyes and ears are really that tender... ask the Most Holy One of Israel, JAH of Armies, to send you some of His holy spirit, through Christ, to make YOUR forehead as hard as flint. Because if you EVER were to become a slave of that One... you're certainly gonna need it. Because you won't be "sent" to be among people who are "above" such things. Those people don't need a savior - because they are already "righteous"... aren't they?

    Again, I bid you peace!

    YOUR servant and a slave of Christ,

    SA

  • mrsjones5
    mrsjones5

    Ya, I had read BG's topics and almost thought I was back at the hall.

  • Blue Grass
    Blue Grass

    My post have been limited to ten a day so I'm going to use this thread to respond the following comments made by Lady Lee:

    BlueGrass
    You are one to complain? By your own words you should be gone. Three of YOUR threads

      Nude Sex
      Nude Sex Porn
      **** is a douchebag where you quote his comments about . . . . sex -- comments that we don't need on this board
    YOUR threads have been locked and/or removed from the board
    Talk about disturbing the peace
    Now I will lock it again before Simon does me in

    Lady Lee way to take my threads out of context. Perhaps you could of been more honest and state why I created a thread entitled "Nude Sex Porn" and the fact that the content of the thread had nothing to do with sex. And all the quotes I made from Cagefighter were allowed by the mods, which was basically what I was complaining about.

    Blue Grass

  • Blue Grass
    Blue Grass

    AGuest this site has changed so much over the last year. It's hardly ever any serious topics and the people here act like 3rd graders. This site is pretty much useless now and I see nothing hypocritical about banning immature kids from conversions trying to be held by serious adults.

  • mrsjones5
    mrsjones5

    Oh you should have seen it five years ago, this is nothing.

    Oh, as far as your posting limit reduction: I think you pissed someone off.

  • watson
    watson

    Blue Grass, you've been here over a year...you should know better. Grow up.

  • Snoozy
    Snoozy

    Bluegrass, I understand where you are coming from and share a lot of your views on the obscene posting. Since I don't read a lot on here I just pick and choose, I miss a lot of what you claim goes on. (Thankfully). But on the other hand, Aguest makes some good points. I myself will try to be more tolerant of those posters and just roll my eyes and move on..

    I am not sure about who Bluegrass is speaking of but my main complaint is the posters that continuously post trashy sex talk, not the occasional one.
    The ones that obviously have a porn addiction or a sex addiction where it seems like every post they make has some kind of sexual undertones to it...as I said, it is not the new posters letting off their new found freedom to express themselves, it is the ones that have been posting a while and still have the same shock value posts..

    As I have been a long time member of a few of the ex Jw boards, I have learned in time to just let the mods do their jobs. If they miss something bring it to their attention in a message to them,not to announce it on the boards..for some reason posters love to fight with any that may have stricter/different morals than they do..

    I for one like to talk trashy once in a while..maybe once a year or so...

  • asilentone
    asilentone

    Blue Grass, nagging complainers will not fare well on this board, live and learn.

  • transhuman68
    transhuman68

    How do you know where you're going
    When you don't know where you've been
    You hide the shame that you're not showing
    And you won't let anyone in
    A crowded street can be a quiet place
    When you're walking alone
    And now you think that you're the only
    One who doesn't

    Have to try
    And you won't have to fail
    If you're afraid to fly
    Then i guess you never will
    You hide behind your walls
    Of maybe nevers
    Forgetting that there's something more
    Than just knowing better
    Your mistakes do not define you now
    They tell you who you're not
    You've got to live this life you're given
    Like it's the only one you've got

    Memories have left you broken
    And the scars have never healed
    The emptiness in you is growing
    But so little left to feel
    You're scared to look back on the days before
    You're too tired to move on
    And now you think that you're the only one who doesn't

    Have to try
    And you won't have to fail
    If you're afraid to fly
    Then i guess you never will
    You hide behind your walls
    Of maybe nevers
    Forgetting that there's something more
    Than just knowing better
    Your mistakes do not define you now
    They tell you who you're not
    You've got to live this life you're given
    Like it's the only one you've got

    What would it take
    To get you to say that i'll try
    And what would you say if
    This was the last day of your life

    You hide behind your walls
    Of maybe nevers
    Forgetting that there's something more
    Than just knowing better
    Your mistakes do not define you now
    They tell you who you're not
    You've got to live this life you're given
    Like it's the only one you've got

    You hide behind your walls
    Of maybe nevers
    Forgetting that there's something more
    Than just knowing better
    Your mistakes do not define you now
    They tell you who you're not
    You've got to live this life you're given
    Like it's the only one you've got

  • Mad Sweeney
    Mad Sweeney

    Ah the self-righteous indignation of a 20-something. I used to be JUST LIKE that.

    Perhaps a mature discussion about how society determines what is "clean" versus what is "drity" and whether those standards have any tangible moral basis is in order. Perhaps I'll start a thread.

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