Hurling the First Stone

by orangefatcat 18 Replies latest jw friends

  • orangefatcat
    orangefatcat

    I am a firm believer in that scripture that if a person is without sin let him hurl the first stone. I cannot believe the hostility that is going on in the forum. We are grown adults we have opinions but do our opinions and feelings have to come down to mud slinging? So we may or may not agree with the reasoning of some individuals but does that give us the right to use profanity and hurl insults at one another. Are we not past the childhood stage? I like everyone in here and I want to continue to, but sometimes when I see the hurtful things that are said in here I cringe at the thought that we have lowered ourselves to this level. Once upon a time we shared a common bond of love, have we lost that because we are no longer JW's? There is enough animosity in this world that we don't need to add to it. Please would you reconsider some of your words when you type your thoughts down. That is all I ask.

    Orangefatcat.

  • Windchaser
    Windchaser

    I loves ya! I loves ya all!

    Edited to add: Anyone here from Chesterfield?

    Edited by - windchaser on 9 October 2002 23:19:19

  • onacruse
    onacruse

    "Our words have wings, but fly not where we would."
    George Eliot

  • jgnat
    jgnat

    I know it is hokey but, it seems appropriate about now...

    The Angry Tongue...

    There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

    The first day the boy hammered 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he gradually learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

    Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

    The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave scars in people just like the holes in this fence. Hurtful words are like a knife you drive into a person's heart. No matter how many times you say you're sorry, the wound will still be there."

  • outoftheorg
    outoftheorg

    Yes OrangeFatcat.

    I agree with you on this subject. I would like to see a little more respect and less degrading of others that do not agree with some one else's view of things.

    It reminds me of those bickering elders meetings. Or trying to reason with a rabid JW about their beliefs.

    Outoftheorg

  • SixofNine
    SixofNine

    Just don't say "Jehovah"!

  • Beck_Melbourne
    Beck_Melbourne

    "Jehovah"

  • onacruse
    onacruse

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    LOL

  • Reborn2002
    Reborn2002

    Ok Beck, you are being bad!

    Time to bend over on my knee and get your spanking!

  • onacruse
    onacruse

    Sheesh, Jason...don't I get a spanking too?

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