Against Bad Faith Posting in Spirituality

@secondson said
There is the present which is even more certain.

The rest of your post is just more of your virulence. It's all you can do in the face of an honest poster like Philokalia, who in his OP gave a clear presentation of the truth about posters like you and your cohort FMF.

😴

@secondson said
You and FMF are trolling this thread. You are both the most prolific trolls in the spirituality forum.

And you are an especially spiteful, arrogant and judgmental troll. You learned well from the heretics and naysayers.

And you are a weedy guy who like to through his puffed authority around in his little church.
You try it in here but find the wind blows your piss back at you.

@divegeester said
And you are a weedy guy who like to through his puffed authority around in his little church.
You try it in here but find the wind blows your piss back at you.

Here again you demonstrate how askew your perceptions are.

@secondson said
Here again you demonstrate how askew your perceptions are.

I don’t think so:

You don’t teach
You don’t counsel
You provide spiritual muscle to settle disputes among 30 elderly, young and otherwise meek members
You try it on in here
You get blowback
You make out you “used to be” a tough guy in real life
You claim it would be better if god gets me, rather than you get me
You’re a blowhard SecondSon, no one is impressed

@bigdoggproblem said
@Philokalia

Ever considered not reacting to posts that, in your opinion, do not contribute to productive discussion?

(e.g. "Don't feed the troll" )

I have. And that would be a good tactic in many circumstances but so much of the content revolves around the high volume posts of a few users.

@philokalia said
I have. And that would be a good tactic in many circumstances but so much of the content revolves around the high volume posts of a few users.

The highest volume poster of this year - and the best, according to you - was probably Romans1009 and yet you scarcely engaged him or his content at all. Maybe you should treat posters whose content and style you disapprove of in the same way as you did Romans1009: you basically just let him be.

@divegeester said
I don’t think so:

You don’t teach
You don’t counsel
You provide spiritual muscle to settle disputes among 30 elderly, young and otherwise meek members
You try it on in here
You get blowback
You make out you “used to be” a tough guy in real life
You claim it would be better if god gets me, rather than you get me
You’re a blowhard SecondSon, no one is impressed

You haven't been on topic yet in this thread.

You seem to think debate is about calling names, criticizing, ridiculing, making derogatory remarks, insulting and harassment.

Earmarks of a troll.

@secondson said
You haven't been on topic yet in this thread.

The topic of this thread is primarily about how the OP poster got thoroughly rubbed up the wrong way on Thread 179061 and he did not like it one little bit. The title of the thread broadens the topic more generally to cover what we approve and disapprove of with regard to other people's posts.

@fmf said
Everything I post is offered in good faith.

Dude, far out!

Who did you post as saying things like this? I forgot the name you pretended to go by.

@secondson said
You haven't been on topic yet in this thread.

You seem to think debate is about calling names, criticizing, ridiculing, making derogatory remarks, insulting and harassment.

Earmarks of a troll.

You are just making this up. Every one of my posts was on topIc until YOU can in making personal attacks.

Go back and have a look and stop channelling Suzianne.

@divegeester

Define "corporate religion" please.

You use that expression a few times.
What is it ?

DO you avoid "corporate religion" by never gathering with anyone else so that it could be said " I worshipped with this congregation " ?

Is that how you avoid "corporate religion," with rank individualism ?

Rosalia was born of a Norman noble family that claimed descent from Charlemagne. Devoutly religious, she retired to live as a hermit in a cave on Mount Pellegrino, where she died alone in 1166.

I like to believe God still found her, (even in her solitude).

(Wiki)

@Ghost-of-a-Duke

Rosalia was born of a Norman noble family that claimed descent from Charlemagne. Devoutly religious, she retired to live as a hermit in a cave on Mount Pellegrino, where she died alone in 1166.

I like to believe God still found her, (even in her solitude).

Of course God can have a relationship with someone in solitude.

But do we have any consideration for what He wants and not just what is the individual's private needs ?

Understanding Solitude and Silence

Solitude is for being alone with God. It is completed by silence. There’s much to be said about solitude, but what’s most important is that it is a way to do nothing. Yes, do nothing. Don’t try to be productive — even in Bible study! Solitude and silence is an opportunity to focus on your Intimacy with Jesus, to unhook from your daily responsibilities and the people you interact with, in order to attend to the Lord alone. In solitude we don’t try to make anything happen. We just bring our naked self to the Lord to be with him.

“Solitude is the creation of an open, empty space in our lives by purposely abstaining from interaction with other human beings, so that, freed from competing loyalties, we can be found by God” (Life with God Bible, p. 531).

“Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the ‘tent of meeting’… The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.”

(Exodus 33:7, 11)