This [below] link may set your mind clear as to how the complexity of communications and their origin in the mind can become so fractured that the author of words is sent into a spin when they are refused. The link is here. @
#1. And the only reason I have elected to make this point to yourself is because you just posted to Heather Frank (Combanitorics).
SocioPsychological explanations that give rise to reasonable empathy cannot explain many of the things that are said in forums.
That opening paragraph @
#1 is a single sentence and there are few who would in fact follow it easily - yet it is exacting and entirely rational. Combanitorics was banned after that post took a significant twist and that was essentially predictable because it crossed some dark lines. The term Theosophy is utilised in the thread @
#16 as an insult. As a former Occult Theosophist I was already reading her posts to discern the likely effect. As for reporting things to a mod - I don't do that when things are against myself because I am not effected by language when I can see the contract that is grammatically implicit. That field of study is called Phonology. Calvin had that same skill and that is why his works are sometimes misunderstood or else easily distorted. He wrote to project meanings in linguistic terms - in possible disregard of the spiritual implication that could ensue when his words were rejected outright.
We all claim a living faith - and yet we too often refuse the Lord's admonition to be ready to account for every word that comes out of our mouths. This thread is a lesser effect - but a similar meaning. We should stop excusing either ourselves or others when our words incite effects that produce the astonishing outcome to that now locked thread of Combanitorics staring at
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Jesus often utilised words that were astonishingly blunt and exacting - even to a seeming risk of considerable offence. Yet the offence was checked because he had the authority of the Father to so speak. Such words either provoke the flesh or if they are in the Spirit they afford an opportunity to repent. Are we so called in Christ that we can make of ourselves an equivalence of Christ? Yet that is precisely what is asked of us - to speak as though we speak the word of God. To be more than mere men. Not I, but Christ that liveth in me. If we understood that then we can also see why we also need to be dying daily and taking up our own cross - not insulting one another and missing the mark.