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Originally Posted by awareness
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Points of view? We all have 'em. And sometimes they collide. It's called human interaction.
Personally I don't see that we've been all the rough on each other. I've been on much rougher forums. I've been on Christians forums where they really flame each other, calling each other, and me, foul names. I've never seen the likes of it.
By contrast, we've been very decent to each other. Maybe we're being a bit too sensitive. We're all grown ups. Can't we take a little differing with each other.
You and I differ bro Ohio, but we seem to get along ... I don't love you less for it. I've come to love you quite a bit bro Ohio. You remind me of my dearest friend, Hosepipe.
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As much as I hate to admit it, I agree with Awareness on this.
Several times I have seen the "spectators" react requesting a time out, yet if you go back and read the posts it is very hard to see anything that seems over the line.
In the case of this recent discussion on Job I would say there were only two comments that could be construed as less than decent. OBW used the term "nonsense" but I didn't get offended, I merely felt that opened the door for me to use the term as well. Likewise their was the one joke about me not being a Bible teacher, well if your ego is that sensitive you really have no place teaching the Bible. But again, I just felt that opened the door for me to follow up on Awareness reference to Star Wars. I took no offense at either comment. I saw them as opportunities.
That said if you quote John Houseman you are enlisting him as a co-combatant, something that I think is a very foolish move to make. People pull this because if you are unfamiliar with reference you can't respond. The danger of course is that if they are you will suffer loss.
Another point, if you post very long posts, like this one, it is unlikely that people will really read it. Therefore I think it is a much better strategy to pick a single sentence to respond to and to keep your response short and direct.
Also, I think we all know that the last post is the one that will be read. If someone logs in and sees 30 new posts they aren't going to sit down and read them all, hence the rapid fire responses back and forth, no one wants to cede the all important last post.
Finally, the "Lee esque" charges were, in my mind, an admission of defeat. I knew very well that Lee had not shared any of this in the Job Training because I had been extremely disappointed with what he did share in that training. I have said several times that since 1985 I really didn't read his ministry anymore. I don't know when the Job training was given (off hand I would guess 1985 or 1986?), but it was clearly not his finest work.