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Sorry that you are deciding to quit.
But yes, a good forum needs good strong moderating. That is just a rule of life.
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The post was an answer to another: 100% pertinent. Is the problem that some consider truth inappropriate and divisive? Why? Some chose to stick to untruths and lies and avoid any rational debate, and recur to ad hominem arguments, since they lack any counter-argument?
Luke 12
51 Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to divide people against each other! 52 From now on families will be split apart, three in favor of me, and two againstâor two in favor and three against.
53 âFather will be divided against son
and son against father;
mother against daughter
and daughter against mother;
and mother-in-law against daughter-in-law
and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.
You just called me an asshole. I never insulted anyone. Ever. Whoâs the one who should be expelled for lack of charity?
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DO NOT RESPOND TO MY POSTS UNTIL YOU RESOLVE YOUR ANTI-CATHOLIC BIAS AND SEEK MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING.
Accusing someone of being anti-Catholic and mentally sick because he makes off-topic posts? I can understand demanding that someone be banned from a forum, but this seems like itâs completely un-charitable.
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Calling someone that isnât very Christian. Youâve gone and inscribed it in bold capitals letters across the screen on a world-wide public (Catholic ) forum.
(Iâm only intervening because, despite it not being my business, it is one of only a few paragraphs short enough for me to get through without my patience quickly waning).
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You shouldnât really throw the idea of âmentalâ illness at people, questioning their sanity and therefore persona. Two wrongs donât form aâŚ
(Iâm only intervening because, despite it not being my business, it is one of only a few paragraphs short enough for me to get through without my patience quickly waning - as said to someone else).
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@Tommy, I think your behavior in this thread is just as inappropriate. I am doing my best to clean up this forum, but it takes time.
I have seen you make threats and now you are name-calling, which is not helping. This being said, you have been a help and I hope you will continue to be a help. Keep flagging posts that you find problematic, but also, try to be a positive here as well. Donât let a badge and a gun lead to your own demise.
I know that if you had your way that every single person here would be banned, including the moderators. I donât know that I could live up to your standard. And honestly, I do not know if you have lived up to your own standard.
Be patient and rather than treating everyone (the moderators included) as enemies. I assure you, I am not as evil as you think I am and honestly, I do not think that everyone here is evil either.
Yes, there are some who are here for ill intentions and that is what we are trying to discern. I am not as quick to ban as you would be, nor do I take banning someone lightly.
Young people are used to growing up in a disposable world. They jump from one platform to another without thinking twice. Rage-quitting was not a term when I was growing up. Cancel-culture was not a term when I was growing up. Instead, we were taught, âSticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.â This younger generation was raised believing that âwords are violence!â
So, again, I appreciate all that you are doing and I thank you, and please be patient. I do have a life and other responsibilities outside of CatholicTalk, but I do find value here and have met some great Catholics (and even some non-Catholics Christians, but who are not anti-Catholic).
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We could turn this into a reality show, where we vote others off the Island ; )
I have a feeling I would be the first to be voted off though.
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Cade, youâre the Catholic Social Butterfly of all the men here haha. I seriously doubt youâd be the first to be voted off.
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âSticks and stonesâ: I was told that too, but it isnât true. Earlier this year, one of the leaders of 40 Days for Life told participants that insults donât hurt. At a prolife youth rally outside Planned Parenthood on Good Friday, there were pro-abortion protestors hurling insults and taunts at the young people. One of the teenage prolife girls was in tears.
The point was, donât put your worth in what others think of you.
Words are really just sounds we make with our mouths that we give meaning to (if you really think about it).
Dr. Ray Guarendi has a line that says, âParents discipline your children or the world will.â
I think part of teaching our children discipline is telling them that the world is going to say mean things to you, but how you respond is more important. If you let their words hurt you, then you are giving them power over you. Now, can you take this too far where you refuse to take constructive criticism and meaningful concern into discernment? Sure. But, insults? No. They are just words.
There are numerous passages in Sacred Scripture, however that do talk about taming the tongue and being aware of how we speak to others as Christians. And I have to remind myself sometimes to reflect on these verses, because I do tend to have gamma tendencies. What I mean is that I can be passive aggressive as a sort of defense.
My response to this, is that maybe the overly sensitive girl should not have been at a political protest.
At the 2024 Libertarian National Convention, President Donald Trump was there to address (pander to) the Libertarian Delegates, and someone from the Trump campaign thought it would be a good idea to invite Republican donors of a PAC or something to come and listen to Trump get booed by a bunch of Libertarians ; )
The gentleman in front of me brought his two young daughters and I warned him that it is going to be a little rowdy, because about half of the Delegates did not think President Trump should be at our Convention, and then you throw the fact that someone thought it would be a good idea to invite MAGA supporters. The older daughter understood what I was saying, when I told them that RFK Jr. had got booed the day before when he would say things that Libertarians do not agree with and he got cheers when he would say things we did agree with him. So, expect the same with Trump, only there will be some who will boo no matter what, because they suffer from TDS.
I also told them that Trump will probably call Libertarians âlosersâ and I was right. Heâs pretty predictable. But, this family never got to stick around long enough to see Trump prove my prediction, because the youngest doughter started crying when the boos started. I felt bad, but honestly, the man should not have brought his young doughter to a political protest/rally (whatever you want to call it).
As they were leaving the older daughter smiled at me as I jokingly let out a boo and laughed. I slipped another man that was with their group my e-mail to give to the father and told him to tell him that I was sorry for how some were behaving.
President Trump is the king of slinging insults and making nick-names stick. And then he hires some of the very individuals he insulted (which means that words donât really mean much in politics).
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âsleepy Joeâ was a good one 
âLittle Marcoâ comes to mind 
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The girl who was crying: it was a Mission Youth prayer rally. It wasnât political.
I pray outside Planned Parenthood about 45 times a year. Often, those of us praying and offering help to women get nonstop insults, ridicule, and blasphemy. The clinic escorts are often laughing (âWoe to you who laugh nowâ applies, I think). Some of us call the abortion clinics the gates of Hell.
After an hour of it, I sometimes feel like crying, but I donât think I ever have. The whole scene is distressing. Sometimes a man will bring a woman for an abortion and wait outside with his other children. For me, the only way not to feel like crying would be not to care, and if I didnât care I wouldnât go there. Maybe those of us who are emotionally wrenched are not overly sensitive. âBlessed are you who weep now,â right? Not âOverly sensitive are you who weep now.â
As I recall, Jesus wept over Jerusalem, right?
Abortion has become a political issue. Those who were there in opposition to your being there were not Christians. They are pollical activists. So, even though you do not see your rally as political, they do.
I am not saying what you are doing is wrong (at all). I am simply saying that putting sensitive children in such an environment is wither not wise, or you must prepare them for what they are getting themselves into. It is a spiritual battle, and it has become a political battle.
Weeping and crying are two different things. Yes, even Jesus wept. God weeps.
There is subtle difference between weeping and crying. Crying is when one feels sorry for themselves or feels hurt, whereas weeping is feeling sorry for others. Or at least this is the way that I define these terms. Hope this helps you better understand my point-of-view. You are free to disagree.
Returning to the topic of forum troublemakers: I have seen posts flagged as spam, which is unsolicited commercial mass messages. The system asked whether the messages were spam, and I said no. (One time I deleted an actual spam post that was about bacon.) Flagging posts as âinappropriateâ or âoff topicâ is subjective, so a note of explanation helps. âSpamâ is specific and not likely to get a post deleted by me. If I donât know what to do with a post or complaint, I leave it for Cade.
I looked at the OneLook dictionaries website, which provides definitions from numerous dictionaries. I didnât look at all of them, but the standard definitions seem to be that weeping is crying softly and crying is weeping loudly, with the emphasis on volume rather than cause. When I was a baby, I cried till I was fed. However, for purposes of discussion you can suppose that the teenage girl and I were feeling sorry for ourselves.
As for pro-abortion demonstrators being political, maybe youâve seen and heard different things at an abortion clinic in Ohio, but I have seen little of it in Virginia or Pennsylvania. One pro-abortion protester in Philadelphia keeps saying I voted for Trump, even though Iâve told him twice or more that I did not, but he doesnât seem interested in facts. Iâve also heard a few say that they want Roe v. Wade made into law, but my impression was that they didnât know what Roe v. Wade said (for example, that in the third trimester of pregnancy the state has an interest in the life of the fetus). Rather, the pro-abortion protestors, in my experience, are much more spiritual than political. They mock our prayers and say lewd things (including obscenity about the Blessed Mother). I heard one man shout, âPraise Satan,â and another shout, âHail Satanâ (not âSatan for Presidentâ). One woman said she was a witch and was going to burn us in her cauldron (I laughed).
Anyway, those are my experiences.
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I love bacon! Had some with my egg fold-over this morning : )