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To: boatbums; MarkBsnr

Okay, I read the paramecia paranoia posts. If they truly offended you, please report them to the RM. Frankly, I think SOMEONE is taking one-celled organisms a little too seriously.


3,621 posted on 11/23/2011 8:50:06 PM PST by Judith Anne (For rhe sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us, and on the whole world.)
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To: Judith Anne; metmom
Okay, I read the paramecia paranoia posts. If they truly offended you, please report them to the RM. Frankly, I think SOMEONE is taking one-celled organisms a little too seriously.

They didn't "offend" me because, to tell you the truth, I've gotten used to the regular insults and personal snideness. But, don't forget it was you who asked for proof of such and your words were, "I don't believe you", as if I had imagined them or was lying about reading them here. It started as your comments to mine that I had made to another poster who asked for more demonstrations of Christian love. This seems to be a pattern, though. Accuse someone of lying, demand defensive proof and when shown proof, blow it off or mock it.

I wish I had a dollar for every time you said you weren't going to post to me, yet you keep on doing it - even when you haven't been pinged to a specific post. I wish you would make up your mind. What I find most interesting, and which I hope objective observers notice, is that when "we" make critical comments we rarely to never make them about the person but we stick to whatever the topic is that is being discussed.

I get it that hearing our dearly held beliefs criticized isn't easy but we shouldn't be on open Religion Forum threads if we are incapable of dealing with others of different beliefs than ours in a respectful manner. The Moderator rightly warns against disrupting threads by making things personal or making the thread "about" someone else. This rule is for all our benefit and it helps to keep dialog moving and fruitful. But it isn't for sissies, that's for sure.

3,622 posted on 11/23/2011 9:25:35 PM PST by boatbums ( Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us. Titus 3:5)
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To: Judith Anne; metmom
And one more thing, just to refresh your memory. Your first reply was to my post #3442, which said:

Seeing as this thread started on October 23, almost a month ago, I wonder how our "new" friend even found this since it wouldn't show up in a list of Religion Forum threads until at least a few dozen screens. Maybe our FRiend as been following along all this time. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see a reminder to always exhibit love in our discourses, but I question why only now this exhortation to love suddenly shows up. We sure could have used it back when non-Catholics were being compared to single-celled scum dwellers or our contributions likened to human waste. Which brings to the forefront that we don't seek to, nor want to, think of our opponents in such derogatory ways but would prefer to, rather, respectfully, as best we are able, speak the truths that we are convinced comes from God.

You doubted that anyone had said such things and implied it was a false claim. Metmom and I linked the posts that DID say such things - though there are more - and now here we are where you mock them. I doubt, though, that if any of us had directed such terms to you or your group, that we would have been excused so lightly.

3,623 posted on 11/23/2011 9:34:52 PM PST by boatbums ( Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us. Titus 3:5)
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To: Judith Anne; boatbums
Okay, I read the paramecia paranoia posts. If they truly offended you, please report them to the RM. Frankly, I think SOMEONE is taking one-celled organisms a little too seriously.

No doubt to a paramecium, other paramecia appear different.

3,636 posted on 11/24/2011 6:45:13 AM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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