How We Address One Another (page 2)

skeeter1

Everyone always assumes I am a redneck bigot. Oh well, guess it's the name I chose and some of the recent posts where I am exploring how cults operate outside the JWs. I have alot of fun laughing at other people's assumptions. I try to not take stuff so seriously anymore. None of us are high and mighty JWs who were picked by angels to lead a charmed life after Armegheddon. This is as good as it gets. We are all in this together, and are strangers in a strange world (i.e. cult members trying to survive in a new, non-cult environment that we were taught is supposed to be Satanic) Calling each other "messed up" or wrong is crazy, as we will never operate with a full deck ourselves.

Skeeter

MMXIV

dearest CoCo,

I assume that if you're posting with someone in mind then it's best to address them, if however it's a point made for general readership then one can't be so personable. I care less about the pleasantries and more about the content not being offensive.

Yours gratefully

MMXIV

compound complex

Good Morning everyone!

Josie: Please keep chewing and let us know how it tastes!

Lee: Understood; it's not possible to read everyone. Often I'm delighted to discover a wonderful post by someone I'd never read before, though they've been here forever.

Quandry: Your kind words made my day. I hope we can "talk" more in the days ahead.

Letsslatejws: I promise never to call you Sister again!

Justitia Themis: So clear and to the point the distinction you've drawn. That helps immensely.

Sylvia: Your comment reminds me of time spent in the Midwest pioneering. We got acquainted - over a series of then-termed backcalls - before talking "the Truth.' Not always, of course, but we had to prove ourselves neighborly.

Mad Sweeney: Yes, the nature of the post. I do see now that some type posts would not "require" using one's handle nor a salutation, almost seeming out of place.

Skeeter: Good point about not taking ourselves so seriously. JWN has helped temper me, particularly insofar as thinking myself a special representative of the Most High - I really dug being a 'theatrical spectacle to men and angels.' O, no - couldn't be me after all. All Scripture applies to the anointed only ...

Edited to add:

MMXIV: The distinction is clearly seen, as you've so nicely stated. Getting to the point - a challenge for me - is really the best!

Thanks again!

CoCo

snowbird

Oh! One other thing about neighborliness.

I majored in History in college; once, when we were studying late 19th century American history, I learned that people used to share personal information when ordering from catalogs.

There were accounts of customers informing the mail-order businesses that a new baby had been born, the house had caught on fire, a different family had moved to the area, one of the kids had started school/gone away to college, etc.

Of course, those were very different times, but I couldn't help being touched by the friendly way business was done back then.

Syl

compound complex

Beautiful, Syl! Thanks for that bit of early Americana ... !

CoCo

snowbird

I think this deserves a big, old fat Tuesday morning bump!

Syl

PSacramento

I always view posts as personal, they are a persons opinion, their beliefs and the person cares enough to share them with us all.

So I tend to address my reply to them or to another that has made a post before mine.

I don't think I ever address my posts to the subject as if it was a "disembodied entity" simply because what makes it interesting isn't that subject per say, but that SOMEONE thinks it important enough to make it.

snowbird

Agreed, PSac.

Syl

THE GLADIATOR

compound complex

I have this little habit of copying and pasting the persons name so it is clear to whom I am replying; as I have done with your name.

I have other curious little habits but they are best kept to myself!

snowbird

I have other curious little habits but they are best kept to myself!

Uh huh.

Syl

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