understanding the concept of a singles forum.

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royalscot

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man seeks woman or woman seek man. lol

strangely, if you do not know, how singles met in the bible, it was at the well. ie water hole or water well.
most of these ended with an arranged marriage.

so how can it be done in modern day 2017, when so many have different views to the ifs and buts. etc

how are you meant to chat someone up on a forum, with the whole of cc watching. lol

any thought to a secret code or nudge nudge wink wink. that could be used. etc
 
cinder

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The concept of the singles forum is that it can be lonely, difficult, and downright isolating to be both single and Christian. And it can also be really difficult to maintain your standards if all the people around you have none. So this forum is a place we come, not to date, but to support and encourage each other and to discuss and often laugh at all the challenges of being single.

We also talk about the two biggest loves in most of our lives: God and food. Hope that clears things up and welcome.
 
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Hahahaha. God and ​food. For most of us, in that order, I hope.
 
Dino246

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Without wanting to criticize the OP too heavily, there was a thread recently about the wild and diverse ways in which marriage relationships were initiated in the biblical accounts. One distinct absence is consistency of form. :)
 
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cinder said:
The concept of the singles forum is that it can be lonely, difficult, and downright isolating to be both single and Christian. And it can also be really difficult to maintain your standards if all the people around you have none. So this forum is a place we come, not to date, but to support and encourage each other and to discuss and often laugh at all the challenges of being single.

We also talk about the two biggest loves in most of our lives: God and food. Hope that clears things up and welcome.
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small problem, when did i ask you why you post here.

so many concepts you mentioned , and to think, how do you support them all.

being christian, you would class that as being single. may be, if you understood the concept ,of being christian etc lol
 
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Dino246 said:
Without wanting to criticize the OP too heavily, there was a thread recently about the wild and diverse ways in which marriage relationships were initiated in the biblical accounts. One distinct absence is consistency of form. :)
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bible accounts are different because someone else account is being told. and single life or marriage life, there would be free will involved . what consistency are you addressing.
 
Born_Again

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cinder said:
The concept of the singles forum is that it can be lonely, difficult, and downright isolating to be both single and Christian. And it can also be really difficult to maintain your standards if all the people around you have none. So this forum is a place we come, not to date, but to support and encourage each other and to discuss and often laugh at all the challenges of being single.

We also talk about the two biggest loves in most of our lives: God and food. Hope that clears things up and welcome.
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But is not spending countless hours posting on CC a form of isolation in its self?

Lets think through this for a moment.... If an evening is spent on here posting, that time is gone is and never coming back. At the end of the night and the glow of the monitor dims to black, you're still alone and isolated. In turn, nothing was accomplished to remedy the pre-existing situation.

Anymore these days, days are lived soley through electronic media of sorts and very little tangible interaction. So, we bury ourselves in our phones and computers then have the nerve to complain about being lonely??? C'mon.. Seriously, isnt that a little self destructive?

I recently stopped replying to text messages of people I know that do not live close to me. For the others, if they want to talk, lets go grab coffee or dinner or something... Fix the problem, dont drag it out and make it worse.
 
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However I noticed you also have been posting a lot on the Forum...
 
cinder

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Born_Again said:
But is not spending countless hours posting on CC a form of isolation in its self?
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In short no, because you and Lynx and others here on CC are not robots (or at least you have me fooled into believing you aren't) therefore, posting and getting replies and replying to replies on CC is a form of interaction with other human beings, while it's not as great as having people local, it does help ease the lonliness, especially when there may be perfectly legitimate other factors that make it difficult to spend time with people in real life.

I will however agree with your point that as a culture (quite possibly as a planet) we spend too much time neglecting the people right in front of us in favor of strangers far away.
 
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royalscot said:
man seeks woman or woman seek man. lol

strangely, if you do not know, how singles met in the bible, it was at the well. ie water hole or water well.
most of these ended with an arranged marriage.

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bible accounts are different because someone else account is being told. and single life or marriage life, there would be free will involved . what consistency are you addressing.
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The consistency (actually, lack thereof) I was addressing was that to which you referred in your OP: that singles met at the well. I see no such consistency in Scripture. That's all. :)
 
Born_Again

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Lynx said:
However I noticed you also have been posting a lot on the Forum...
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Like 4 posts a day..... LOL Lynx, You have been on this site a few months longer than me. I have about 1,500 posts in a little over 2 years. You have 9,500... Just sayn. And I do this on my breaks at work.
 
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