Are trauma survivors too attached to their trauma?

@dj2becker said
Whether I do or don’t is not for me to say.

You appear to want to keep how you see yourself a secret. In that case, why aren't you keeping how you see others a secret?

@fmf said
You appear to want to keep how you see yourself a secret. In that case, why aren't you keeping how you see others a secret?

Ironic innit that you yourself have declined to answer many personal questions on this forum? Hypocrisy. Does the word ring a bell?

-Removed-

Thanks for your kind words. I’m sure you mean well. Don’t you?

@dj2becker said
Ironic innit that you yourself have declined to answer many personal questions on this forum? Hypocrisy. Does the word ring a bell?

What hypocrisy? You are using the word incorrectly. I have talked about how I see myself and how I see my beliefs in the context of what was being discussed on countless occasions.

@fmf said
What hypocrisy? You are using the word incorrectly. I have talked about how I see myself and how I see my beliefs in the context of what was being discussed on countless occasions.

We both know you have declined to answer questions directed at you. It is also quite common to be unaware of your own hypocrisy. It’s part of the human condition.

@dj2becker said
We both know you have declined to answer questions directed at you.

There is no hypocrisy here. I remember declining to answer some creepy questions you asked me about my wife and children. Indeed, you apologized for it. I can't remember anything else. I have never asked you anything about your wife and children.

Here you are being asked to answer pretty much the same questions as you are asking Rajk999 ~ and then deflecting the same questions. You leave yourself open to accusations of hypocrisy.

I am not asking you to presume whether or not OTHER people think you are an "ambassador of Christ". I am asking YOU if YOU see yourself as being an "ambassador of Christ". Things like me not answering your irrelevant questions about my marriage has nothing whatsoever to do with the peculiar evasiveness you are displaying here.

@dj2becker said
It is also quite common to be unaware of your own hypocrisy. It’s part of the human condition.

Hypocrisy is indeed part of the human condition, but I am not being hypocritical here. You, on the other hand, clearly want to keep how you see yourself a secret. So I don't get why you aren't keeping how you see others a secret too.

@dj2becker said
As I said before it’s not for me to say. You are welcome to make up your own mind.

If I ask you if you think other people see you as a follower of Christ, a valid answer is "it’s not for me to say". If I ask you if you see yourself as a follower of Christ, the answer "it’s not for me to say" is just a dodge. And a really strange and nonsensical dodge as well.

I cannot think of any other follower of Christ on this forum who would answer in that way, nor answer that way in all the time I have been here. What possible agenda could a so-called Christian have for being secretive or reticent about whether they see themselves as being a follower of Christ, or see themselves as being an ambassador for Christ, or see themselves as being someone who exhibits the love of Christ and his commands?

@dj2becker said
We both know you have declined to answer questions directed at you.

Ask me any "How do you see yourself in terms of X?" type question - on a Spirituality Forum-related topic - you want.

@fmf said
If I ask you if you think other people see you as a follower of Christ, a valid answer is "it’s not for me to say". If I ask you if you see yourself as a follower of Christ, the answer "it’s not for me to say" is just a dodge. And a really strange and nonsensical dodge as well.

I cannot think of any other follower of Christ on this forum who would answer in that way, nor ans ...[text shortened]... dor for Christ, or see themselves as being someone who exhibits the love of Christ and his commands?

The reason we both know why I declined to comment is simply because we both know you are just trolling me with your rhetorical questions. And you’re just looking for more information to troll with. I would have answered you if I believed your motives were pure.

@dj2becker said
The reason we both know why I declined to comment is simply because we both know you are just trolling me with your rhetorical questions.

No. I am not "trolling". And they are not rhetorical questions.

@dj2becker said
And you’re just looking for more information to troll with. I would have answered you if I believed your motives were pure.

If you see yourself as a Christian and someone who is trying to be an ambassador for Christ, how would divulging that "information" weaken your position and leave you open to what you call "trolling"? I have never once mocked or criticized anyone here for being a Christian or for believing in Christ.

@dj2becker said
I would have answered you if I believed your motives were pure.

Do you yourself want people to believe that your "motives are pure" when you post on this forum?

@fmf said
If you see yourself as a Christian and someone who is trying to be an ambassador for Christ, how would divulging that "information" weaken your position and leave you open to what you call "trolling"? I have never once mocked or criticized anyone here for being a Christian or for believing in Christ.

Twisting my words again I see. If you think people won’t see your questions as trolling that’s fine by me. I believe I can see right through you. All the smoke and mirrors aren’t fooling me.