jskains wrote:guy sajer wrote:I happy to dialogue with you, but you'll have to tone it down a notch or two, at least from the git go. I think others (though not all) will agree.
No, I am fairly certain that most on this board are childish. There were no insults or insinuations in any of my initial posts, and I got back everything from a slam on my sexual activity to being called a "lower lifeform".
See ya folks. I got better things to do then try to dialog with children.
JMS
Ahem, please note items in quotation marks.
"Anti-Mormons like to dance and flail about, I know. It's now comical looking into it these days." Now that I am going to be a father, I have grown closer to the Church and feel it is a positive light in a very dark world. Teenage pregnancy is up, school shootings are more common than they used to be.... Children are declining in moral and social value (play on XBox Live and see how these kids talk), and now the family unit is under attack.... I am frightened of the world that I am bringing a child into (the pregnancy was a suprise for us, not planned)..... "Ultimately it looks like people need to HATE something, and for Anti-Mormons, they get that high by trying to bring down something others care about."
In your world, this constitutes "no insults or insinuations?" If one of us went to a board populated mostly be believers and started off with this kind of rehtoric, what response do you think they'd get?
As I said, other believers here have managed to stick with it and we've developed a kind of live and let live harmony.
If there's guilt here, your in it up to your eyeballs, as am I. I'm willing to try again with a commitment to tone it down. (Ignore Schmo, he insults everyone--love ya Schmo).
Change your tactice/rehtoric, and the result will be much different, I think.
God . . . "who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, . . . and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him ..."