My neighbor is very rude and snobbish. We’ve lived next door for 10 years and she never talks to me or acknowledges me. A few times she wanted something from me but I was already done trying to be friendly and I gave up simple greetings (saying “hi” or good morning)
But the neighbor does the same thing to the building manager. She will ignore him unless she wants something. She ignores other neighbors too, selectively.
She won’t talk to me but she Complains anonymously to the management about me trying to get me evicted or something. Good luck with that because the management company is all from France and Paris like me.
Sometimes she will talk with the gay guys in the building but the vibe she sends off is that I’m the worst man in the entire world, guilty of everything. It’s a mean vibe that I don’t deserve at all.
I’m a good neighbor who chats with other neighbors.
She damages the building too because she ignores the rules. Repeatedly damaging parts of the building. She doesn’t care one bit about anybody except herself.
At first you may give her a bunch of extra chances like nice people will make excuses or give her the benefit of the doubt. Or “hurt people hurt” nonsense, I don’t buy it. But in my opinion it’s just plain old rudeness and also meanness hidden. Like a psychological abuse she inflicts by ignoring people. And I don’t give people like that the benefit of the doubt
So there. I don’t care what the Bible says. I hate this neighbor. No regrets.
“I hate thy neighbor” means “I hate your neighbor.” Just explaining the archaic English. We had a neighbor who was not friendly. One time I passed her outside and said good morning or good afternoon. “Hi. How you doing,” she said in a flat tone of voice. Not my problem. I say hi to people. Most respond politely.
A few days ago there were about four people standing on the balcony shared by our two hotel rooms. I waved and said hi or good morning. They looked at me as if I were a lower life form, as a friend of mine says.
Some people seem to consider conversation with strangers to be a transaction. I merely offer a polite greeting, sometimes a smile, but I don’t get upset if a person doesn’t respond in kind.
Man I knew you’d say something like that. I’m not okay with it though.
Jesus might just agree with me: to hate my neighbor is for the best. I actually Help, the world by hating her. She’s not nice!
She may look nice, her voice may sound sweet, she may dress innocent, but the truth is she is a bad neighbor. Passive aggressive is another term I might add
What does the Bible say about how to deal with bad neighbors? Probably nothing good! It probably says to Hate them.
I’ve actually got more than just 1 neighbor who royally sucks. People who just don’t have well tuned social skills 
I’d even say it’s a step further than that. It’s abusive, passive aggressive behavior
Well, one of the works of mercy is to admonish the sinner. I don’t know when it’s useless.
If a driver runs a red light or stop sign while I’m in the crosswalk (and it happens almost every day), if the driver’s window is open I will sometimes say, “Obey the red light!” or “Obey the stop sign!” If I get a response, it’s usually “I didn’t see you” or “I didn’t see the red light” or “I don’t have to” or “F - - - you.” Remember, they are only a few feet from me and I’m crossing the street. And I’ve been hit twice. When I’m saying something, is that admonishing sinners? I hope so.
Jesus said, “Love your enemies.” I don’t think He meant we should feel kindly toward them. He said to do good to them.
I don’t claim to be doing well at that.
- Emphasis on Love and Intimacy: In the New Testament, particularly through Jesus’ teachings and the writings of the apostles, God’s fatherly love and desire for intimacy are strongly emphasized. Through Christ, individuals are adopted as children of God, gaining access to Him as “Abba, Father”. This transforms the relationship from a subject-king dynamic to that of a cherished child and loving parent.
- Intellectual procession: the generation of the Son
Nature:** This procession is understood as an act of the divine intellect, the Father eternally knowing Himself perfectly.
Result:** This self-knowledge produces a perfect “image” or “Word” of the Father, which is the Son.
Peace to all,
To me the logic is made flesh, the intelligence becomes to the Son in the flesh re-manifested through the Power of the Holy Spirit undefiled logical intelligence, becoming again One Body, One Family, OMNILogically, I believe.
Peace always,
Stephen
That explains a lot ; ) Just kidding.
Did you or have you ever had a Trump sign up in your window or door? And do they have a rainbow flag in their window or door? Perhaps this woman aligns politically with on cult over the other. Our Country is divided more today than ever in my lifetime. There were problems in the 80’s & 90’s, but I feel like we have gone backwards (and not in a good way). The 60’s & 70’s looked more like today than the 80’s & 90’s, but maybe it is just me.
Yes. However, It’s been a while since I’ve lived in an apartment. When you own your home, you run into other squeals that have more to do with the lawn ; )
Our Mexican neighbors thought I was snobbish when they saw me. It wasn’t until our Daughters became friends and we got to know them and they go to know us that we realized that these assumptions were just that. Assumptions. We are really good friends and we get together weekly to play board games.
The Bible never tells us we have to like our neighbors, but the Bible does say that we need to love our neighbors and our enemies (and sometimes these are one in the same ; )
Good points Cade. Yeah it could be political. I’m not exactly walking around with political Tshirts and hats but I’m definitely not woke!!
I’ve seen the same nonsense in my church. It’s crazy how Catholic men would be woke.
I’ve met catholic men who thought it was a great idea to open the US borders and let millions of thieves in. And like even after 3+ years of Bidens open borders these Catholics STILL thought its best to just let the whole world come in like a stupid free for all for criminals. It’s bewildering.
But also once a Catholic guy makes it obvious that he’s a woke liberal progressive, then it’s more obvious that he’s a gay. Because there is no such thing as a straight man who wants wokeness and open borders.
So yeah these people won’t like me at all because I’m patriotic and I went thru all the legal procedures for obtaining citizenship here.
But yeah you could be right. My neighbor must be woke.
Other kinda angry and crazy neighbors are all probably woke. They’re always upset and angry and unfriendly, and we all know woke Liberals are all unhappy and miserable, mentally ill type mean people.
It’s interesting, because Anarachists (the good kind) used to be open border libertarians, but since the Left have become open borders, classical Liberals have become more open borders and Anarcho-Capitalists have become more closed borders. This is odd to me, because Classical Liberals were the ones who are for more government (though very limited government), and the An-Caps were traditionally in favor of voluntarism.
I am somewhere between Milton Friedman and Murray Rothbard (I’m a Ron Paul Libertarian).
My point is, that I can see valid arguments on the many sides of this issue of immigration. The conflict is where is the line. Is the border at your property line, community level, city line, county line, state line, region line, national boundary line, continent, or global (if aleans are real)?
There are times where I think the line sides with private-property rights (traditional anarchist argument). Other times, I see how protecting the national boundary is a security matter (minarchist view). It isn’t as easy as asking are you open borders or closed borders? Some might argue that they are closed borders until certain social programs are eliminated first. Others are open borders, but with certain criteria. Japan has very strict immigration rules and even if you are granted citizenship, you are not allowed to vote. I can see the pro’s and con’s to many of these views.
As the great Thomas Sowell said in his book A Conflict of Visions, “There are no real solutions, only trade-offs.”