(May 16, 2019 at 3:23 am)Smaug Wrote:Seriously?(May 15, 2019 at 2:44 pm)Drich Wrote: what is it you think I am doing here if not enduring the elaborate tortures of the mind set fourth not by the church but by the devil himself?
So having a civil discussion albeit with someone who you do not agree with and having your limbs disjointed or being burnt at stake is the same level of suffering. Interesting to know.
Also why would you think that Devil has nothing better to do than to argue with you on the Internet? Are you that important to him?
do you see the efforts of your peers?
Do you think you are the only person I speak with?
I am of a major minority here in word thought and deed. for every subject you might want to be apart of you might have 5 to 10 posts per thread. I may have 20 to 50 on a average thread. now in those posts are you saying can you seriously speak and say all your peers seek to have a civil discussion albeit with someone who you do not agree with?
And if words where not meant to mame spur or hurt then why do we criminalize hate speech? why make speech which is supposed to be free an added crime when someone is caught doing something harmful?
Put it another way.. Lets say in a day you get 20 to 30 people trying to beat you up intellectually, spiritually by attacking your intellegence self worth self esteem just because you think differently, now put yourself through such a thing no restrictions on what can be said. now do this every day on every subject including tender moments from your life that you choose to share. Now do this almost everyday for 10 years...
Who among you could endure being site upon for a decade almost everyday by people you are supposed to love and care for?
Another perspective, in the bible when paul encounters someone who wants to fight and argue we are given permission to walk away from such people, and remembered paul was martyred. there is no mandate that any of us be in a ministry where we are not welcome. in fact Christ said don't throw your pearls of wisdom before swine. but because I came from your ranks and I unlike christ can not comletely discern who can be tossed away and who can't be I am not willing to assume all of you are swine because you do not or at this moment can not think as i do. so i slog it out in the mud trying to find that one diamond in the rough that fell through the cracks.
