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I agree with you.
I did a thread on it months ago...and NO..there is no such thing as Christian porn...lol.....it was about watching what your eyes see and guarding your heart.
http://christianchat.com/bible-disc...ing-un-christian-porn-protect-your-heart.html
I did a thread on it months ago...and NO..there is no such thing as Christian porn...lol.....it was about watching what your eyes see and guarding your heart.
http://christianchat.com/bible-disc...ing-un-christian-porn-protect-your-heart.html
I put them on ignore when they slander and are just full of obvious malice.
One such person I asked them to stop but they wouldn't so I gave them the option to either stop and if not I would either ignore them or report them. He choose for me to put him on ignore. He had even changed my name to greasy-gracists777 at one point.
Now, I'm reporting when people slander others as this nonsense needs to stop so that we can have a safe environment to discuss things in. And it is ok to agree to disagree too but we don't have to slander each other.
Other ones, I just don't answer as I know they just want to squabble and for those - I just ignore their posts and usually don't even read them.
Yes Willie..it does take self-control...lol
I have about 5-10 on ignore. They ALL subscribe to Grace PLUS works in some form or another. Others have done a superb job in countering with Grace alone debates. I bear no ill will toward them at all, I'm simply weary of them, as rarely is the convo uplifting, and maybe it's just me, their arguments seem completely devoid of love.
I've seen some abrasive Grace alone people, and briefly thought about ignoring, then the Lord taps me on the shoulder to remind me of the patience He had and continues to have with me, and the fact that I was pretty rude to some when I 1st joined.
I've seen some abrasive Grace alone people, and briefly thought about ignoring, then the Lord taps me on the shoulder to remind me of the patience He had and continues to have with me, and the fact that I was pretty rude to some when I 1st joined.
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Hearing you needed St. Ignora is like finding out I suddenly don't need it. Wow! I really thought you were able to take such good care of your goats, that no one could ever, ever get your goat.
And me being me, my next thought was, "I hope I'm not the person she has on ignore."
(I'm 99.9% sure I'm not just because you'd write to me before you had to take it that far.)
But good news for you -- when we get to heaven, none of us will sin anymore. I think we even won't be able to, but in that it would never dawn on us to want to. With that, none of us will ever recognize each other enough to think we have to protect our goats anymore. The goats were tossed elsewhere, and we sheep just spend eternity with God.
So don't worry so much about facing anyone up there. We're all changed enough that thought never enters our mind either. We're doing what we were designed to do -- glorify God eternally.
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About the same spot you were in, but I'm not quite as delicate -- either I'm going to stomp the person or I ignore the person. There is little in-between for me.
BUT, quite often, I only ignore for a while, until God takes me out of the time out. The ones with permanent lives in St. Ignora are those who lie or gossip so often, I just can't watch. (And, yes, sometimes I peek to see what they're saying now. Usually that reminds me why they're ignored. Sometimes it means it's time to unignore. One is teetering in my mind right now.)
BUT, quite often, I only ignore for a while, until God takes me out of the time out. The ones with permanent lives in St. Ignora are those who lie or gossip so often, I just can't watch. (And, yes, sometimes I peek to see what they're saying now. Usually that reminds me why they're ignored. Sometimes it means it's time to unignore. One is teetering in my mind right now.)
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It also requires cooperation with everyone else on here to not Reply-with-Quotes and we know how likely that is to happen.
There was an old-timer on here, who simply liked to attack self-righteously certain people. You know me. You know how easily I set up people to do that, if for no other reason than habit. So, once God led me to this change-your-attitude-Young-Lady thingy I've been working on for a few months now, the guy laid me out in one post.
Good news. I had him ignored so never read it.
Bad news! Several people blasted him for it, and sure enough I did read their Reply-with-Quotes.
It's one thing to brace yourself for the onslaught. A completely different thing when you bypass but get it anyway.
(I did take that to God, and said, "Aw, come on! I was being good then. What happened?" I think he had a little chuckle and told me I got what I gave before. Not quite sure, other than he had me chuckling back when I did sense his answer.)
There was an old-timer on here, who simply liked to attack self-righteously certain people. You know me. You know how easily I set up people to do that, if for no other reason than habit. So, once God led me to this change-your-attitude-Young-Lady thingy I've been working on for a few months now, the guy laid me out in one post.
Good news. I had him ignored so never read it.
Bad news! Several people blasted him for it, and sure enough I did read their Reply-with-Quotes.
It's one thing to brace yourself for the onslaught. A completely different thing when you bypass but get it anyway.
(I did take that to God, and said, "Aw, come on! I was being good then. What happened?" I think he had a little chuckle and told me I got what I gave before. Not quite sure, other than he had me chuckling back when I did sense his answer.)
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Yeah, but for most of that time you've had the power to ban, didn't you?
I mean I think you're truly set for long-suffering, (admiration for that attribute), but if you ignore someone that just branches out to never seeing if that was just a personality problem or that person is being a schmuck to many people in nasty ways. You're pretty much stuck watching everyone whether you like us or not.
I mean I think you're truly set for long-suffering, (admiration for that attribute), but if you ignore someone that just branches out to never seeing if that was just a personality problem or that person is being a schmuck to many people in nasty ways. You're pretty much stuck watching everyone whether you like us or not.
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Now this is my kind of nosy:
1. Again, then why are we friends? Is it that you don't like people who refuse to be reasoned with or is it okay if I just don't agree with you sometimes? Because I often refuse someone's reasoning, but only after talking out the reason. (Oh, and I jump to conclusions too much, but I think we both have that in common, so not a problem with our friendship.
) So, may I assume it's okay to disagree with you, just as long as you know you were heard? (Which I think is where we became such good friends despite only agreeing 50% of the time.)
2. I had to check my list of folks on ignore to see why I ignored them.
-- One I could take off because he's since been banned. (I tend to ignore a lot of people before they're banned.)
-- Two I just took off my list, (including the one I've been thinking about taking off the list for the last couple of days), knowing I can't trust them still, but finally calming down enough to talk with them reasonably on their good days, and then to expect we're just never going to agree on some subjects. One I consider deluded by a false gospel. The other is simply too much like me, and the part of me God's helping me get beyond. He's got that annoying, quick-to-judge, arrogant, say-whatever-I'm-thinking-and-let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may attitude I hate so much specifically because that IS me but it seems his guilt is never around afterward.
Which leaves the six I still have ignored:
-- Two think PCism/humanism IS the gospel, yet believe they are Christians when never showing anything at all about God unless God is a minor character in their stream-of-consciousness thoughts. (Not even on a good day does God's merits get a mention.) It's kind of like that "christian" you work with that never goes to church just because, thinks there is a god and probably the one the Bible talks about but leaves him or her alone, expecting the same thing from that god, and all his opinions are straight from the news as if God isn't involved in life. Worst yet, if you don't think same-sex marriages are right, there is no gay agenda, Black Lives Matter is important with worthy goals, exercising and eating a proper diet is essential, and evolution is a given, you need to be more "tolerant," because that is the proof of the word "Christian."
-- One is so removed from reality that everyone on a thread may be talking about soccer while that guy posts a bunch of verses having to do with creation. I simply don't have a clue as to what he's ever talking about, and I've tried. Can't get a response back when I'm asking for clarification (and as nice as I can do too.)
-- One believes he is as gentle and kind as one can possibly be in the Lord while all the time complaining how nasty everyone else is, and done so nastily.
-- Another one is the same thing, minus any attempt to present self as gentle and kind.
-- And the last one is something like a story hubby told me about a guy in the Singles Meeting from way back when he was in that Singles Meeting before I came along. After the meeting, the singles went into the kitchen together to get ready for the after-meeting snacks. There were roughly 15 people in the kitchen and about evenly split on genders. This guy walked up to future-hubby and kicked him as hard as he could in that spot that is guaranteed to drop a man to the floor. It took hubby about 15 minutes to stand up again and regain his composure enough to ask the guy why he did that. And the guy said, "Oh. I didn't mean anything by it, I just wanted to impress the girls." (Right after it happened two men pulled that guy away from future-hubby and everyone else was around trying to help him. The "girls" were the exact opposite of "impressed.") The last person on my ignore list is like that. He kicked me out in the open for all to see and then came back with, "Oh, I assumed it was no big deal to you. Don't worry about it."
And, if you're trying to figure out who I'm talking about, good luck, because I called them all guys when they all aren't. I'm telling what bothers me. I'm not pointing my finger to who is bothering me.
1. Again, then why are we friends? Is it that you don't like people who refuse to be reasoned with or is it okay if I just don't agree with you sometimes? Because I often refuse someone's reasoning, but only after talking out the reason. (Oh, and I jump to conclusions too much, but I think we both have that in common, so not a problem with our friendship.
2. I had to check my list of folks on ignore to see why I ignored them.
-- One I could take off because he's since been banned. (I tend to ignore a lot of people before they're banned.)
-- Two I just took off my list, (including the one I've been thinking about taking off the list for the last couple of days), knowing I can't trust them still, but finally calming down enough to talk with them reasonably on their good days, and then to expect we're just never going to agree on some subjects. One I consider deluded by a false gospel. The other is simply too much like me, and the part of me God's helping me get beyond. He's got that annoying, quick-to-judge, arrogant, say-whatever-I'm-thinking-and-let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may attitude I hate so much specifically because that IS me but it seems his guilt is never around afterward.
Which leaves the six I still have ignored:
-- Two think PCism/humanism IS the gospel, yet believe they are Christians when never showing anything at all about God unless God is a minor character in their stream-of-consciousness thoughts. (Not even on a good day does God's merits get a mention.) It's kind of like that "christian" you work with that never goes to church just because, thinks there is a god and probably the one the Bible talks about but leaves him or her alone, expecting the same thing from that god, and all his opinions are straight from the news as if God isn't involved in life. Worst yet, if you don't think same-sex marriages are right, there is no gay agenda, Black Lives Matter is important with worthy goals, exercising and eating a proper diet is essential, and evolution is a given, you need to be more "tolerant," because that is the proof of the word "Christian."
-- One is so removed from reality that everyone on a thread may be talking about soccer while that guy posts a bunch of verses having to do with creation. I simply don't have a clue as to what he's ever talking about, and I've tried. Can't get a response back when I'm asking for clarification (and as nice as I can do too.)
-- One believes he is as gentle and kind as one can possibly be in the Lord while all the time complaining how nasty everyone else is, and done so nastily.
-- Another one is the same thing, minus any attempt to present self as gentle and kind.
-- And the last one is something like a story hubby told me about a guy in the Singles Meeting from way back when he was in that Singles Meeting before I came along. After the meeting, the singles went into the kitchen together to get ready for the after-meeting snacks. There were roughly 15 people in the kitchen and about evenly split on genders. This guy walked up to future-hubby and kicked him as hard as he could in that spot that is guaranteed to drop a man to the floor. It took hubby about 15 minutes to stand up again and regain his composure enough to ask the guy why he did that. And the guy said, "Oh. I didn't mean anything by it, I just wanted to impress the girls." (Right after it happened two men pulled that guy away from future-hubby and everyone else was around trying to help him. The "girls" were the exact opposite of "impressed.") The last person on my ignore list is like that. He kicked me out in the open for all to see and then came back with, "Oh, I assumed it was no big deal to you. Don't worry about it."
And, if you're trying to figure out who I'm talking about, good luck, because I called them all guys when they all aren't. I'm telling what bothers me. I'm not pointing my finger to who is bothering me.