Quote: Originally posted by visiondude on Nov 16, 2010
the 180 degree difference is joker is a disrespectful jerk to those with whom he disagree's, especially to those of faith.
joker actively hunts those people and opportunities and instead of a respectful "back and forth" engagement, joker descends into condescension land, even cussing people out.
part of my opposing jokers nastiness is setting the tone with him that he is not ever going to run free in here unopposed when it comes to being disrespecful about another persons "faith".
to be perfectly frank, i don't care if i got asked to leave, i cannot sit there and watch as he verbally assaults people like that.
you have a search feature, and that member search feature will tell you i don't hunt people who believe opposite of what i believe. i share my opinion, and that's what usually leads to a defense.
if i was a "hunter", my fingers would bleed with the built in opportunities i would have here at LP
that member search feature will also reveal how many run in's joker stirs up because he is missing self control DNA
i don't mind defending when i have to, it's the least i can do in comparison to what the living God has done for me.
i make ZERO APOLOGIES when i have to.
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back to your comments about your experience....
i appreciate your candor, and i whole heartedly agree, it's the "doer" and the "servant" mentality that stamps a believer as a follower.
what you never got around to, and is increasingly more obvious the farther we go along, is what event (or series of events) that precluded your "i am not sure about this anymore"?.
for God to be real, and His standards just and true, there has to be something where your emotions or circumstances were allowed to overtake the facts.
i have a friend, one with whom no one would have guessed he would have turned his back on Christ.
solid as they come.......except he has a DAILY choice to believe / trust the facts over you know what, just like everyone else.
we are ALL........one choice away from alot of things. good AND bad
until he met a woman who wispered in his ear that she would do to him, what his wife (apparently) wouldn't do.
that one choice to pick "emotions" over facts sent his life into a still spirialing tilt-a-whirl of justification nation.
he now denys Christ. not because Christ "isn't real", but because he wants it not to be true, so he can play.
with God being real, and His standards true and everlasting, either a person traded emotions / circumstances FOR truth, or is in the middle of justification wasteland.
there is never a point where Jesus Christ isn't who He claimed to be, or who His eyewitnesses said He was.
never
with that in mind, unless you don't want public spillage (which i understand), what was your "intersection"?
it's not like this is something you have to explain to me anyway.
the truth is, if it is ultimate truth you seek, i gave you an avenue back, or certainly one for others that are piggy-backing your experience, that one picks truth / facts over circumstances and emotions.
God resides at the intersection of truth and facts.
thru all circumstances and emotions (not just the ones i "like"), i CHOOSE to trust the architect of that intersection.