You Who Have Been on the Board For Awhile - What Are your Concerns ?

by flipper 176 Replies latest jw friends

  • Eliveleth
    Eliveleth

    Ian,

    The main reason I stayed here so long was to help others, but now there are others who are doing an excellent job of that. If it wasn't for the vigil threads I doubt I'd even be visiting as much as I do.

    Your strength and courage and all you have endured over the months,years have been an inspiration to me. I think that you may have been posting mostly when I had taken a leave of absense from JWD. I mostly just lurked when I first found JWD. But I remember your maturity and kindness. I understand that you may want to move on. Sometimes, as you said, we just see the same things over and over and we just stay to help others. You are right. The questions and answers will always be new to the new ones coming out of the organization. This is why I stay. I want to encourage those who have been through so much hell. I want to show them love and that there are people out there who will accept them for who they are and not what they believe. Whatevery your decision I hope that you will keep in touch and let us know how you are and what is happening in your life.

    With much love,

    Velta

  • Eliveleth
    Eliveleth

    Grace,

    You are so sweet. I hope you do not leave. I know we can always count on you to love and encourage us. Heck, if old was a problem, I wouldn't be here.

    We just want to be able to see your smiling face and to feel your love.

    Please don't leave us

    Love and hugs,

    Velta

  • eclipse
  • Abandoned
    Abandoned
    Oh really! What bluster and nonsense, and you know it.

    No offense, but I don't see this conversation being beneficial. You have now just told me what I know. You are now, apparently, inside my head, running through my brain cells, checking synapses, and analyzing the data. That's a pretty cool trick considering we aren't even in the same city.

    What I'm getting at is I don't think you are viewing this rationally. You called Mincan an idiot. You told me that you can't figure out how I can manage to get up in the morning. It appears to me that you are full of anger. I would seek anger management training if I were you.

    I guess what it comes down to is that if the mods don't mind you calling people idiots, that's their decision. If you feel comfortable being so abusive and nasty with other people, well, my guess is you are probably dealing with the results from that decision on a daily basis anyway. I don't know, it's just a hunch.

  • Mincan
    Mincan

    Basically Hillary_Step, my reply was to show how I felt about your arguments that people can't be civil on the board with each other, that it can't work. This is complete crap, so I made that remark as a reply as to how little thought I believe you've put into the matter.

    For a good example of many people calling one person "scum" "idiot" and "troll" and then that person not biting on any of their ad hominem attacks, but instead "kickin their asses" with logic and facts without personal attacks, check out my posts and those "against" me on the "Why Socialism Will Not Work in America" thread, pages 6-11 or there about.

  • hillary_step
    hillary_step

    Abandoned,

    No offense, but I don't see this conversation being beneficial. You have now just told me what I know. You are now, apparently, inside my head, running through my brain cells, checking synapses, and analyzing the data. That's a pretty cool trick considering we aren't even in the same city.

    What I'm getting at is I don't think you are viewing this rationally. You called Mincan an idiot. You told me that you can't figure out how I can manage to get up in the morning. It appears to me that you are full of anger. I would seek anger management training if I were you.

    I guess what it comes down to is that if the mods don't mind you calling people idiots, that's their decision. If you feel comfortable being so abusive and nasty with other people, well, my guess is you are probably dealing with the results from that decision on a daily basis anyway. I don't know, it's just a hunch.

    Again, delicious irony. You accuse me of not knowing what is in your mind, and then carry on instructing me as to what is going on in mine. Well, if that is how you function in life, that is up to you.

    What I do want to know however, is why you have for the second time evaded the issue and dealt with peripheral issues. Bizzy Bee bought this to your attention as well.

    I make no apologies for reposting comments made above and hope that this time you, having chosen to enter this thread and make comments, will have the courage to answer the questions at hand.

    Here is the COMPLETE post, not your cherry-picked version.

    Abandoned,

    His comment was directed at your inanimate post and you responded, ad hominim, by insulting him personally. I truly can't believe you don't see the difference.

    Oh really! What bluster and nonsense, and you know it. Who do you think you are kidding? Are you really trying to sell the idea that 'inanimate' insults to 'inanimate' posts are not to be taken personally. Look to the end of this post for an experiment in such erratic ethical values.

    Side-stepping the issue I see. I also noticed that you thought better than to actually answer a question

    If you were to write one of your poems and I replied after your posts, without using a 'smiley' {how would you react} :
    *makes fart sound with his mouth in reply to the above post*

    I suspect that you would take this a very personal attack on your INANIMATE post and either go running for help to the moderators or do the right thing and bloody my nose for being an complete and utter idiot.

    So would you be personally offended if I were to describe your poems as embarrassing, shallow crap? Or would you be able to separate the inanimate from the animate?....lol.

    Shaking head.

  • Xena
    Xena

    LMAO watching this thread turn into an object lesson on what HS was posting about.

    I've been on this board a long time...probably to long if you ask some people ....and HS is spot on with his comments. Newbys generally lurk and know pretty much what they are getting into here when they start posting, we left the dubs and are past love bombing for the most part, and given the mix of leaving an oppressive religion, some emotional and mental instability and the pure bliss of finally being able to speak our minds freely ya gotta expect some fireworks.

  • Shawn10538
    Shawn10538

    No action! Lot's of whining though. I joined this board for the explicit reason of taking group actions. As of yet I have not seen or heard of a single significant unified action. This has been a great disappointment for me.

  • Shawn10538
    Shawn10538

    Well said Xena!

  • flipper
    flipper

    DOGPATCH- I agree if we are to turn people on to this board , we need to provide a good peaceful place for them to turn to. I think it is just a few posters ; not the majority who show disrespect to others. The majority try to be respectful. But it's a good idea you had of letting posters delete their own threads and re-posting them if they get out of hand !

    ABANDONED- I admire your tenacity and for standing up for Mincan being called names in an abusive manner .

    EVILETH- I agree . Many newbies are scared to post here in the first place. We don't want to scare them further, I agree.

    STILLA- I agree with you and Randy !

    WEDNESDAY- I still think JWD has the best board - most communication !

    MINCAN- I agree with you. It's crap to think people can't be civil on this board ! People don't have to resort to name calling !

    XENA- You have your opinion about HS and his takes. I respectfully disagree with you and him. We need to be civil to newbies and others and make them feel welcome ! I don't mean love bombing ; just be normally friendly and welcoming !

    SHAWN 10538 - There are a lot of positive people on this board who are accomplishing many good things at present ! Hitch your rope to their wagon, bro !

    HILLARY STEP- As I said on my other thread- I agree that we disagree, I have nothing further to say to you

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