RE: Who's the most prominent Christian on this forum?
August 31, 2012 at 8:55 pm
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2012 at 9:00 pm by Cyberman.)
Everyone has their posts dissected, at least at some points during their career here; it's nothing personal unless you want to make it so. I've had my flaws pointed out and I'm grateful for it, otherwise I might have carried on with all my flawed arguments uncorrected and that way madness lies - or at least misconception.
On the other hand, I have had people who have gone out their way to be personally insulting. Most of them have been dismissed, ignored and the worst offenders banned (though not necessarily as a direct result). One or two have even offended me on a deeply personal level. Either way you need to learn how to recognise the difference between possibly valid criticism and a deliberate insult. Otherwise, as I said, you're not going to enjoy yourself very much. This is not a pulpit from which every utterance is infallible revelation. This is a place for the meeting of minds of varying wattage. Inevitably people are going to have different opinions to your own and you'd better get used to that fact because there are a lot of them.
On the other hand, I have had people who have gone out their way to be personally insulting. Most of them have been dismissed, ignored and the worst offenders banned (though not necessarily as a direct result). One or two have even offended me on a deeply personal level. Either way you need to learn how to recognise the difference between possibly valid criticism and a deliberate insult. Otherwise, as I said, you're not going to enjoy yourself very much. This is not a pulpit from which every utterance is infallible revelation. This is a place for the meeting of minds of varying wattage. Inevitably people are going to have different opinions to your own and you'd better get used to that fact because there are a lot of them.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
