Full moon? Halloween? Need a cold shower?
Posted: November 1st, 2008, 1:11 pm
Hey gang -- I have been a wee bit busy over the past few days, and have not been tracking the turmoil as closely as some of you, but...
PEOPLE - can we calm the tone and chill the rhetoric a little and take an objective step back?
Irthenvsl came in with a bang. He posted more posts in his first few days here than some people have ever in their entire time among us. You may or may not realize that he didn't write all that stuff spontaneously. Google "Irthenvsl" and you will see that he actively participates on numerous Christian discussion forums, with pretty much the same series of posts, same selected topics... and that's fine. He has chosen to make himself, as one man put it, the world's leading expert on his own opinion.
I see that many of you don't seem to care for his style, and I agree with you to this extent: he has approached Jude2 as just another of his impersonal, doctrinal debate forums, rather than the way most of us view it -- as a circle of friends interacting on multiple levels and becoming involved in one another's lives. (I know many of your spouse's names, your children's names, your struggles and triumphs; I have prayed you through tough times and you have returned the blessing. We are more connected than the posters on the average forum, and I am not sure newbies catch that right away.)
Feeling perhaps a bit like the Lone Ranger ("I'll take cultural references from the 50's for $100, Wink") he invited his brother and a friend/co-worker to join him here. Due to the IP/router address, I wrongly believed it was just Irtenvsl playing around with us by registering multiple ID's. That was NOT the case. 3 names... 3 individuals. I did change one of the names from "N.T. Wright" to "N.T. Wright Fan" because I have an issue with anyone posting under the name of a real person other than themselves.
Let's try to step back a few paces, take a cold shower, and start over.
Forgiveness is a virtue.
PEOPLE - can we calm the tone and chill the rhetoric a little and take an objective step back?
Irthenvsl came in with a bang. He posted more posts in his first few days here than some people have ever in their entire time among us. You may or may not realize that he didn't write all that stuff spontaneously. Google "Irthenvsl" and you will see that he actively participates on numerous Christian discussion forums, with pretty much the same series of posts, same selected topics... and that's fine. He has chosen to make himself, as one man put it, the world's leading expert on his own opinion.
I see that many of you don't seem to care for his style, and I agree with you to this extent: he has approached Jude2 as just another of his impersonal, doctrinal debate forums, rather than the way most of us view it -- as a circle of friends interacting on multiple levels and becoming involved in one another's lives. (I know many of your spouse's names, your children's names, your struggles and triumphs; I have prayed you through tough times and you have returned the blessing. We are more connected than the posters on the average forum, and I am not sure newbies catch that right away.)
Feeling perhaps a bit like the Lone Ranger ("I'll take cultural references from the 50's for $100, Wink") he invited his brother and a friend/co-worker to join him here. Due to the IP/router address, I wrongly believed it was just Irtenvsl playing around with us by registering multiple ID's. That was NOT the case. 3 names... 3 individuals. I did change one of the names from "N.T. Wright" to "N.T. Wright Fan" because I have an issue with anyone posting under the name of a real person other than themselves.
Let's try to step back a few paces, take a cold shower, and start over.
Forgiveness is a virtue.
