Spirituality
18 Oct 18
@sonship saidNot at all. Romans1009's spammy threads/comments with copy-pasted religious texts seemed like a 'plastic crucifix' when juxtapositioned with his thousands and thousands of child-abuse-themed trolling (a tank of urine) to which you never once objected or even questioned.
Crazy, convoluted "question".
I think the "Piss Christ" comparison is apt. Not convoluted.
When Romans1009 was offering endless banter about getting an 8 year old child drunk and trying to get it to have sex with waitresses ~ for which he has now been banned ~ did you see him as your Christian brother, or were you too busy getting apoplectic about a more genuine Christian brother of yours whose doctrinal differences with you rub you up the wrong way?
08 Nov 18
@philokalia saidDespite your injudicious and insincere claims that Romans1009 was one of the best posters on the forum, he was in fact a malicious forum troll who fell foul of the site administration due to him spamming the forum with his copy/pasted routines.
It seems this guy really had a deep impact on you, dive.
However, I think this is excessive and spammy.
I note that you never once called him out over it; presumably because your puddle of integrity had dried up in the heat and excitement of having another posters who didn’t like the posters you don’t like.
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08 Nov 18
did you see him as your Christian brother ...
I have no idea whatsoever of what you are talking about.
You apparently took meticulous notes.
But I do not disown a Christian brother as a Christian brother because he has some kind of failure. If such a one has received Christ we are still of one divine life.
Knowing nothing about the scandalous information, brothers and sisters in Christ do not move in and out of the brotherhood based on behavior.
I have no interest to dig into the scandal. It is not mandatory that I do so to qualify in your eyes to write here.
08 Nov 18
@sonship saidYou don’t think he had a “diseased mind” or posted “faeces” at all then?
@FMF
did you see him as your Christian brother ...
I have no idea whatsoever of what you are talking about.
You apparently took meticulous notes.
But I do not disown a Christian brother as a Christian brother because he has some kind of failure. If such a one has received Christ we are still of one divine life.
Knowing nothing about the ...[text shortened]... st to dig into the scandal. It is not mandatory that I do so to qualify in your eyes to write here.
@sonship saidHe addressed thousands and thousands of trolling posts to me and others here in public across virtually every thread for months and months. I mean, literally, thousands. You can't possibly have been unaware of it. So... your "I have no idea whatsoever of what you are talking about" is a "white lie" on your part, right?
I have no idea whatsoever of what you are talking about.
You apparently took meticulous notes.
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08 Nov 18
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You don’t think he had a “diseased mind” or posted “faeces” at all then?
I don't know of the scandal being hand waved about.
Christian brothers have failures.
And sometime Christian brothers could use some scolding.
Now that I think about it the Apostle Paul's word about some in the churches given to excessive questioning were " diseased with questionings. "
I don't see in that warning that he is speaking ONLY of unbelievers.
"If anyone teaches differently and does not consent to healthy words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching which is according to godliness,
He is blinded with pride, understanding nothing, but is sick with questionings and contentions of words, out of which come envy, strife, revilings, evil suspicions." (1 Timothy 6:3,4)
Some points:
1.) It says "If anyone". So I assume Christian brothers or sisters are included
2.) It does [not] say "You shall not have or ask questions".
So everyone asking questions is not "sick with questionings"
3.) Some translations say "diseased with questions". Other renderings use the word unhealthy or perhaps obsessed.
Recovery Version (2nd ed.)
... diseased with questionings ...
Holman Christian Standard Bible
... a sick interest in disputes ...
New Living Translation
... unhealthy desire to quibble ...
English Standard Version
... unhealthy craving for ...
Berean Study Bible
... unhealthy interest in controversies and semantics, ...
Berean Literal Bible
... unhealthy about controversies
New American Standard Bible
... a morbid interest in controversial questions ...
King James Bible
... doting about questions ...
Christian Standard Bible
... an unhealthy interest in ... disputes and arguments ...
Contemporary English Version
... Their minds are sick ...
Once again so that no one forgets.
It's not saying all questionings are sick.
It's not saying the malady only applies to non-Christians.
Now a related warning says that some unhealty attitudes will "spread like gangrene"
"But avoid profane, vain babblings, for they will advance to more ungodliness,
And their word will spread like gangrene, of whom are Hymanaeus and Philetus who concerning the truth have misamined saying that the resurrection has already taken place ..." (2 Timothy 2:16-18a)
That may be where I got the picture of leprosy.
I think Hymanaeus and Philetus were two Christians. They may have been once co-workers with Paul who turned aside to some false teachings.
They were bad teachers that needed some kind of quarantine because their spiritual germs were contagious - "spreading like gangrene"
Some English translation use such words there as -
cancer, cankor, "sore that won't heal," "sore that eats away the flesh," infection, "consuming cancer," "running sore,"
So Christians should heed the warning.
And sometimes they may have to deliver the warning in a kind of tough love.
08 Nov 18
@sonship saidIs that a yes or a no?
@divegeester
You don’t think he had a “diseased mind” or posted “faeces” at all then?
I don't know of the scandal being hand waved about.
Christian brothers have failures.
And sometime Christian brothers could use some scolding.
Now that I think about it the Apostle Paul's word about some in the churches given to excessive questioning were ...[text shortened]... hould heed the warning.
And sometimes they may have to deliver the warning in a kind of tough love.
08 Nov 18
@sonship saidHow could you possibly not know? Months and months, maybe hundreds of threads, every day, thousands of posts, sometimes four, five or six almost identical trolling posts in a row. Topic after topic hijacked. February to October. This forum.
I don't know of the scandal being hand waved about.
08 Nov 18
@fmf saidSonship, tell us here and know, before the Lord, that you don’t know anything of the “scandal” (as you put it) of the posting particular style, circumstances and content in the months leading up to and including the banning of Romans1009?
How could you possibly not know? Months and months, maybe hundreds of threads, every day, thousands of posts, sometimes four, five or six almost identical trolling posts in a row. Topic after topic hijacked. February to October. This forum.
08 Nov 18
@fmf saidWe can discount leprosy as an explanation, but perhaps we can't be so quick to discount narcissism.
How could you possibly not know? Months and months, maybe hundreds of threads, every day, thousands of posts, sometimes four, five or six almost identical trolling posts in a row. Topic after topic hijacked. February to October. This forum.
A person would indeed have to be completely self absorbed not to have been aware of the avalanche of abhorrence dumped into this forum by that unspeakable character.
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Sonship, tell us here and know, before the Lord, that you don’t know anything of the “scandal” (as you put it) of the posting particular style, circumstances and content in the months leading up to and including the banning of Romans1009?
I already told you "here and now" before the Lord.
I knew of a poster Romans1009. I knew that he was rather combative in style. I did not know he was banned, though I may have heard about posters being banned.
(Now that I think on it, I may have either wanted to send him a PM or possibly did once.)
I already told you before the Lord that this particular thing I did not follow. Other than FMF's reference to it I have no idea about it.
I tend follow the threads that I find profitable. So I have no comment on the alleged incident.
08 Nov 18
@sonship saidHow could you have possibly missed the thousands of posts spread across almost all threads? It wasn't an "incident". It was February to October.
I knew of a poster Romans1009. I knew that he was rather combative in style.
I already told you before the Lord that this particular thing I did not follow. Other than FMF's reference to it I have no idea about it.
I tend follow the threads that I find profitable. So I have no comment on the alleged incident.
08 Nov 18
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@sonship saidRomans1009 was a prolific all day all night poster for months and months and months. I find your claim that you were not aware of his spamming and creepy posts completely unbelievable.
Other than FMF's reference to it I have no idea about it.