Hmm. Venting. Interesting. Let's review the title of the forum, and it's description.
Cut and pasted, directly from this very page (and enhanced for clarity):
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Christian Singles Forum[/h]
Christian and single? Seek (or give) advice and encouragement here.
Seek advice and offer encouragement = venting?
That's not to say that one can't vent. But I think you miss the point that Emily was trying to make. As I pointed out in the very thread where this all blew up, Emily was pointing out that many of us are supposedly "dying of thirst" while standing knee deep in water! It's a serious point, and one with a great deal of merit. As members of the body of Christ, we are to be thankful and content in what God has given us. Especially in the Singles forum, we're a joyous bunch here...and a lot of that has to do with the fact that many of the veterans here are content in what the Lord provides. The love of Christ and the members of His body are our companionship, and we take joy in that, because that's what God expects of us. Do you honestly think that God would sacrifice His perfect, beloved Son for us so that we could spend our days complaining about being alone or how nobody loves us?
Nobody loves us?
CHRIST LOVES US! TO THE POINT OF ALLOWING HIMSELF TO BE SLAUGHTERED just so that we could share in the joy and glory of being called the children of the Most High God!
And we thank Him by sitting around a griping?
THIS is Emily's point. YOU made the assumption that she was "hating" on people. She didn't hate on anyone. She simply said she saw a lot of this particular behavior here.
Thought experiment. I live in El Paso, a border town. I walk into a restaurant, I look around, and I simply state, "There sure seem to be a lot of Mexicans here." Is your first instinct to jump up and say, "Hey, stop hating on Mexican people!" Or is your reaction to also look around the restaurant, and notice that the place is INDEED populated by Latin-Americans who identify as Mexican? I didn't hate. I just simply pointed something out.
So now that we've clarified Emily's motivation, let's take a look at how you've responded.
Is that all you can do post a video? How bout you type something for once coward and have a discussion
Someone makes a joke, not even directed at you. You call him a coward in response.
ErraticEmily hopefully because I can't stand people who don't like people to vent on a venting forum
Because that's how Christ wants us to be, right? Spiteful and vindictive towards each other. Hate thy neighbor more than thou love thyself? Actually WISH that someone, a sister in Christ, no less...be sent to Hell, all because of a misunderstanding?
Go post your cute little pictures on a pokemon forum because that is where an immature girl that can't read what the forum is for should go.
More personal attacks. As I've pointed out earlier in this very post - Emily knows precisely what the forum's purpose is. It is you, my friend, who have misinterpreted the purpose of this place.
Let's run another thought experiment. A man walks into a Sunday school class of single people. He doesn't know any of them, it's his first time there. But many of the people in the room have been friends for quite a while - months, years even. He comes in to the room, and introduces himself by yelling, "Being single sucks! God needs to fix this, and all you guys do is sit around making fun of people, because that's all I've seen in the whole two minutes I've been here!"
A nineteen year-old girl in the group looks up and says, "Being single in Christ doesn't suck. It's a blessing."
The new man responds by saying, "Well you're stupid! Why don't you go back to your stupid Pokemon game!"
A guy in a hat says, "Whoa man, where's all this coming from?"
New guy: "Your hat must be cutting off circulation to your brain! Nobody is listening to me!"
Someone else says, "You're being kind of rude."
New guy points at the girl. "SHE INSULTED ME! SHE STARTED IT FIRST!"
Keep in mind that this class has been meeting together for a while. Some of them think of each other like family. So I pose two questions in this thought experiment. One: if you were a member of that family, how would YOU react if some new person came rolling in like that and suddenly went off on one of the younger members of the group, someone you maybe considered a little sister? Two: which party seems to be acting more unreasonable, the new person, or the people who were just chilling out and minding their own business?