I wasn’t trying to get in a battle with you, Tibby. I noted a blaringly rude post and tried to draw to the poster’s (your) attention that maybe this isn’t the place for it – and in fact no place is open to rudeness at anytime in anyone’s life.
The questions in your replies have absolutely nothing to do with my attempt to let you know you were being obstinate toward a poster with a legitimate question/request – but rather you seem to feel the best defense is an offense.
Do you get a real charge out of being exceptionally insulting? Does it make you feel ‘big’?
Okay, allow me to dissect your first reply to my post;
You said:
I’ll save tact for the real world.
If that statement is supposed to make you appear more obstinate, I assure you, it worked better than you may ever imagine. If it was meant to make some other profound statement, it sorely failed.
1 Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble.You have made it clear you believe rudeness
does have a place – particularly in your life on-line. After all – you don’t have to look ‘your brother’ on C-Unite in the eye when you are being rude, do you?
As for not being admin, what does that have to do with disliking how he runs the board? Do I have to have been the president to like or dislike what he is doing? Do I have to leave the country if I disagree? No. I have the right to feel how I do about the board, and if admin doesn’t like it, he has the power to ban me. He has yet to contact me and tell me he to leave. Ray is a big boy, he doesn’t need you to call foul whenever someone plays armchair QB. First hand Experience isn’t a prerequisite for holding an opinion, is it?
That is basically one question with a lot of question marks, am I correct? First I have to ask: Where did
THAT come from? What
ARE you talking about? I’m very impressed with your ability to name drop, (and I’m also sure that ‘Ray’ is also impressed since you’ve now given ‘admin’ a persona), but what in the world does that have to do with my asking you if the “We” in your original post implied you have a say-so in the matter of what goes on the board and if you are ‘admin’? Unless you “put words in my mouth” by adding to my post, your reply has nothing to do with my statement/question.
Now to your second defense of yourself in reply to the scripture I posted:
That doesn’t answer my question.
That, my dear Tibby, appears to be a personal problem.
Sure, it implies I am foolish
If you feel foolish perhaps you shouldn’t put yourself in the position to be made to feel that way.
and you are all-knowing,
No, I have never and will never ‘feel’ or ‘be’ all-knowing. (That would be quite foolish of me.)
and thinking that make maybe you feel just peachy
No, just the opposite. I wish everyone acted with love and compassion and maturity – it makes me feel ill to have to point out to someone who proclaims himself a Christian that he is being obstinate to a brother in Christ.
But we, as Christians, are biblically directed to do so.however, I asked you a specific questions. You did not answer a single one.
I have now.
So, when can I expect answers, and not biblisults?
You don’t need to wait any longer. “Biblisults” – did you make that up all by yourself? Is that what you consider any scripture that makes you feel uncomfortable?
Tibby, I am 30 years your elder – and yes that does make me wiser than you. Much wiser. More than twice as wise. My original post was a simple attempt to calm you down and get you to look at yourself and your interaction with others. It is the same way I would approach my own son. If you don’t care for someone, you don’t care how they act. If you love someone then their actions impact you personally. Accept my rebuke of your rudeness or ignore and attack my rebuke. Either way, I’ll not bother you again on the matter. I will examine myself and my motives more closely, I suggest you do the same.
