Whats to Be Done For the BDF?

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Willie-T said:
Uh, what is consequential about Judges 3:21 and 22? (And I could keep this up all day long... there are so many Scriptures that really make no differences in our lives, if we read them or not.)
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So, anywho...

Earlier in the story, it was said the Ehud was left-handed. This is significant with warriors and kings, because their training and life experience tells them to keep an eye out on the right hand. Specifically because the right hand is what most people use for weapons, so any movement with right hand is suspect.

But, noper. Ehud was left handed. So he had the time to move his hand without raising suspensions quickly enough to react. And, sure nuff, he did it. He pulled his dagger out quickly and thrust it in all the way to the hilt.

Eglon was fat! Fat enough that the dagger couldn't come out again. The sign of what Ehud had done remained. AND emptying the contents of his bowel really did mean what it seems like it was supposed to mean. He's dead! Really, utterly, not even with a defibrillator on hand, (if such a thing had existed back then), would he be revived, DEAD.

So God not only raised up Ehud, he wanted the Moabs to know who did it, when they figured it out.

According to JFB,

Judges 3:21-26


Ehud put forth his left hand — The whole circumstance of this daring act - the death of Eglon without a shriek, or noise - the locking of the doors - the carrying off the key - the calm, unhurried deportment of Ehud - show the strength of his confidence that he was doing God service.
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Why that one? Out of all the stories in the Bible, why do you think that one is inconsequential?

And, if you don't get it, what's wrong with seeking out answers to get it?
 
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How does dislike effect their work levels? I mean, I'm guessing likes don't effect them, so how would dislikes? Not like X numbers of dislikes = 1 report.

I don't even think of dislike as "I dislike you." I think it's more of a "this is really a bad idea/asinine/makes little to no sense/is somewhat or completely wrong/you've gone off the deep end. Frankly, if we could dislike our own posts, I could see myself doing that. And I don't want to report myself. I just dislike some boneheaded moves I've made.

And, yeah. I see where it would be abused, (although hard for me to imagine it being more abused than what is already happening on this site), and I know it's not going to happen because that's already been decided, but I don't see it as more work either.
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Because many in this site Love to report over every little thing. So you can imagine how many complaints would be given for getting too many dislikes. Or conspiracy theories. It's just fuel for the "Christians hate the truth (well what I declare truth)" martyrs as well.

You may see it as "disagree with what was said" but it should be obvious not everyone will see it that way.

Whether it's more abused or the same amount, it's still granting Another way to abuse, to hurt feelings, cause even more division, more isolation.
My thought is if you don't care enough to verbalize your disagreement then your opinion doesn't need to be known.
 
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CaptainGoat

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Not reported anyone myself... Not even myself when I'm naughty!
 
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NoNameMcgee said:
well...

i agree with you to a point lynn

but ...

when there is so much work to be done


if me and you get into debate over how a "year" is different now in America than it was when/where Genesis was first written

and we waste time arguing over exactly how old seth was when he passed....


that seems somewhat inconsequential

in comparison to Jesus

wouldnt you say?

(sorry
lol me debating even this may be a waste of time... i love ya lynn and doooo agree with your point as well as willys point... just words could have been chosen differently)
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I've been reading my Bible (75% of the time) since 1972. Most of that time, I read it and let God teach me what he wanted to teach me. That works for quite some time, but I got to noticing if I don't understand what it's talking about the first time, it rarely makes any more sense the 2nd, 5th, or 20th time. (Very cool when it does suddenly make sense though.)

So, I figured it was time to work on understanding it, rather than merely just reading and expecting God to give me everything by osmosis.

A few years ago, I started at the beginning, story by story with the aid of 3-7 favorite Dead Guys. (Dead Guys -- Bible scholars who spent their lives studying the Bible and writing what they learned so future generations could learn it faster. I have a thing for the classics when it comes to study aids.)

Even with the aid of the Dead Guys, want to know how long it took me to learn I'm still not getting it and need some help? The serpent! The serpent in the garden. What's that? Like Chapter 2 in Genesis? I'm that bad! One of my Dead Guys eluded to that serpent being related (in the ancient Hebrew word) to Moses' staff and to magic.

No way! He wasn't magical and God is, so there is no magic, right? So how is the word serpent and the word staff and the word magic all related in ancient Hebrew? Google search!

Guess what showed up high on the SERP for that relationship? A post in CC BDF by TinTin. (Too bad you missed TinTin. Good guy. You'da liked him.) That's how I came to find this site.

It's not a really important part of the Bible, but it is consequential. And, if we're going to decide what is and what isn't inconsequential, then there is no purpose for BDF for me. Ultimately, I want to suck out all the marrow God's word lets me have. AND, I ain't that smart, so I need help when my Dead Guys fail me.

BDF isn't merely BDF. The real title is "Bible Discussion Forum." I get that's not it's purpose for most people, (which is why I really would like CC to start a sermon forum, so the BDF stops being the place to dump failed teachers), but it is why I'm there. I see stuff in the Bible I want to learn but don't get. And I see stuff that is so cool I need to share.

Why? Because even serpent/staff/magic is cool to learn it's connection. Because even the death of a very fat king is cool to learn the connection. AND, because I was able to learn what the deal was for veils v. hair in church. Something I think is important for everyone to understand, rather than relegate it to only-morons-buy-that-stuff. God's word is worth knowing!
 
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Well the bdf to some is a lost cause to others they want to help find a cure for the problem there and some say to avoid it all together, It's true I have seen much hurt and anger come from that place to I have also seen good come from it. I myself was newly saved and frequenting the bdf even under all that heavy fire helped me to become the person I am today.
It's easy to recognize the bad and call it a lost cause but it's the good I have seen that makes me believe there is hope.

Of course I have no idea how one becomes a mod a person messaged me yesterday after saying I nominating blue lady bug as a mod saying I should be a mod here, I don't really know what to say to that lol but hey maybe there can be a vigilante group of people here to make sure people in the bdf act their age eh? jk of course but how funny would that be? like there are Christian groups here in cc and like what if there was one called the unofficial mods or something and our motto was I want to make cc great again with trumps pic on it XD
 
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I couldn't be a mod. If a member started slinging mud at me because of my moderating I'd probably hand in my resignation immediately.
 
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Jennie-Mae said:
I couldn't be a mod. If a member started slinging mud at me because of my moderating I'd probably hand in my resignation immediately.
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Well sadly that comes with being a mod, you have to have even tougher skin than required to be able to debate in the bdf. There are not a lot of people on this I would recommend as a mod and one of the reasons is how so many cannot debate in the bdf without attacking name calling or letting their emotions get the best of them.

I am not innocent in having weak moments though
 
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Jennie-Mae said:
I couldn't be a mod. If a member started slinging mud at me because of my moderating I'd probably hand in my resignation immediately.
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It gets even better when a member is clingy (I mean "must-have-a-mental-illness-clingy) :p
I've tried moderating.... I don't think I'd do it again even if I was paid for it
 
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Years back, there was so many problems in the chat rooms that they made some of us part-time mods. (I know, I was one of them).

Regular mods could either kick or ban, & us part-timers could only ban. I thought they had that backwards, lol.

I would give them 3 strikes & they're out.

The nice part about it was the members didn't know we were mods, no title, so it didn't bother our reps.

Imagine the shock of the trolls that would come in to the Bible discussion room to cuss & say bad things, & would immediately get banned.

Now, that part was fun, because the chatters had no idea who did it. Talk about putting the fear of God in someone, lol!;)
 
Blain

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Stephen63 said:
Years back, there was so many problems in the chat rooms that they made some of us part-time mods. (I know, I was one of them).

Regular mods could either kick or ban, & us part-timers could only ban. I thought they had that backwards, lol.

I would give them 3 strikes & they're out.

The nice part about it was the members didn't know we were mods, no title, so it didn't bother our reps.

Imagine the shock of the trolls that would come in to the Bible discussion room to cuss & say bad things, & would immediately get banned.

Now, that part was fun, because the chatters had no idea who did it. Talk about putting the fear of God in someone, lol!;)
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Hey man if your secretly mod right now you gotta tell us so we can troll you with lots of reports for silly small stuff lol
 
Willie-T

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Stephen63 said:
Years back, there was so many problems in the chat rooms that they made some of us part-time mods. (I know, I was one of them).

Regular mods could either kick or ban, & us part-timers could only ban. I thought they had that backwards, lol.

I would give them 3 strikes & they're out.

The nice part about it was the members didn't know we were mods, no title, so it didn't bother our reps.

Imagine the shock of the trolls that would come in to the Bible discussion room to cuss & say bad things, & would immediately get banned.

Now, that part was fun, because the chatters had no idea who did it. Talk about putting the fear of God in someone, lol!;)
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A humorous read, indeed. That would have been one of the most disastrous things to happen to CC.... to let you have that kind of ability.
 
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NoNameMcgee

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Willie-T said:
A humorous read, indeed. That would have been one of the most disastrous things to happen to CC.... to let you have that kind of ability.....now giving that ability to NoNameMcgee is a different story entirely
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i agree
:rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
Blain

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The real question is who among us is a secretly a mod? What if I am a mod and none of you know it? hmm.......
 
Willie-T

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Blain said:
The real question is who among us is a secretly a mod? What if I am a mod and none of you know it? hmm.......
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Hey! I thought we signed an agreement about not divulging that information.
 
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If it makes the graphics better its a good mod, if it's a rubbish map its a bad mod. If it's a group of mods its a mob.
 
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