[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: What Would Jesus Do?
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Black Draver wrote:
> Bob the dancing monkeh, Drew sed:
>
> >Ok, again we come back to the fact that some of us are Christians, and
> >some of us aren't. This sort of discussion is uninteresting to some,
> >fascinating to others, and downright annoying to the rest. Is this
> >really the place for this discussion?
>
>
> So, then, what we're implying is that anyone who wants to can say
> whatever they want to in a passing, hurtful, negative way and let that
> be the definitive statement to the list on the subject? That we allow
> no other thoughtful non-reactive statements to be included? Is this
> what you're implying?
Hmm. no. not quite. I'm just tryin' to figure out when and where is the
proper time for discussion of belief as injected into e-mail
discussion. I've begun to believe that _any_ such discussion does not
work well. It's not that I don't believe that minds can't change over
e-mail, but I do feel that the whole process of living one's beliefs does
not reflect well in plain ascii. Sharing world views is great, but there
comes a time at which point you have to throw up your hands and scream
'Peace!'
Put more bluntly, I sometimes see e-mail flame wars over beliefs and the
ideas put forth as something about as valuable as learning last night's
Texas Rangers' scores - really interesting to look at, but it doesn't
generally change a lot. It can - I've just found that it does not tend
to.
>
> And I do understand you're just throwing it out there as the D.A. ;)
>
Maybe a little bit...
Pax,
-Drew J
O ^ ^ Drew Johnson - djohnson at snowplow_org - Ld Robert Bartholomew )
O(_|_) Tengo gusto de comer creyones. -Elian Gonzales, 4/27/00, goats.com X
O Check out splat.melm.org (monkey at melm_org) & goats.com (drew at goats_com) |
---------------
Unsubscribe by going to http://www.actwin.com/MediaNation/OtR/
References: