[Vision2020] When is it and when is it not my business? (update)

[debismith at moscow.com]

Keely, Doug Ferris can't help it that he is an ass.

His job is to repeat assinine things, treat people with utter disrespect, 
and shout that he's being "persecuted" by those who disagree with him. 
Screeching "I'm a Christian", while acting in a completely un-Christian 
way, is bound to gain converts to his religious belief system! Stomping 
his bitsy feet and waving his little arms and whining "holier than 
thou"...

And if he can slime someone, anyone, so much the better. Slime is what, 
after all, worms like Ferris do best. And, that particular behavior is 
the last resort of someone with no real ground upon which to stand. When 
he can't make a reasoned comment (lacking all reason) he can make up 
something, spread a rumor, twist a fact, or just hurl an insult.

He can't help it. He's just drawn that way, like all cartoon characters.
Don't expect him to recognize when he's over-the-top, outside the bounds, 
or just plain un-Christian. He not only won't, he simply can't make that 
kind of complex connection.

Debi R-S


> Have a great day, Doug.  And thanks for pointing out so eloquently that 
the 
> true Gospel of Jesus Christ involves snotty comments directed to 
> non-believers in the hope that they'll want to follow the God you do.
> 
> Go throw a spitball or something.
> 
> keely
> 
> 
> From: heirdoug at netscape.net
> To: kjajmix1 at msn.com, heirdoug at netscape.net, 
vision2020 at moscow.com,        
> nickgier at adelphia.net
> Subject: [Vision2020] When is it and when is it not my business? 
(update)
> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:45:16 -0500
> 
> 
> Keely Yaps in:
> “I have several suggestions for what you call it
> when a supposed Christian acts like a preening
> sixth-grade bully.  You're being an ass, Farris.”
> 
> 
> We have now heard from the resident theologian here on Blind 2020. 
Keely, 
> check out paragraph 3.
> 
> I might add that if Pastor Wilson stopped living in his home, rented 
the 
> whole thing out to students and moved in with a lady down the street 
you of 
> all people would be the leader in developing a whole campaign of 
indignation 
> that would make the Spanish Inquisition look like “Who Wants to be a 
> Millionaire.”
> 
> 
> Carl wrote:
> "I'd personally call it no one else's business."
> 
> And, Sunil wrote:
> "You've been on this for a couple of weeks now,
> and it's still not your business, not my business, and
> not the business of anyone on V2020 except Nick,
> and perhaps his friend, should she exist and should
> she be on this listserve."
> 
> 
> And, Saundra wrote:
> "As usual, Sunil & Carl are spot on, but for the rest
> of us, let heirdog's post serve as a reminder that
> Jealousy, the Green-Eyed Monster, really is incredibly
> ugly."
> 
> 
> I am very glad that you all are trying to define morality here on Blind 
2020 
> but what standard shall we use to say what is and isn't some one else's 
> business? We all want to participate in the standard defining exercise 
and 
> we need to be all inclusive so that no one is left out.
> 
> For the longest time I have been posting statements that some find 
offensive 
> and some find funny. It seems from this vast difference of opinion that 
> there is no moral standard by which we can judge one and other's 
comments. 
> Saundra calls me jealous and ugly. How does one make an absolute 
statement 
> such as thiat?
> 
> I have read that some posters have "crossed the line" when it comes to 
> saying things. By what unwritten law or code of conduct do we judge 
where 
> the line is? And who is the policeman of "line crossing"? Is it J. Ford 
with 
> her online dictionary? Is it Wayne Fox and his multicolored Bible 
Google? Or 
> is it Keely Mix with her cutting wit and "I am innocent but you are 
guilty" 
> way of putting things.
> 
> Tom-Tom says, by his posts and his blog, that it is OK to re-publish 
the 
> addresses of those he thinks are breaking a zoning code. Isn't what 
they do 
> in the privacy of their own home only "their business"? What gives him 
the 
> "right" to do this? Has he crossed the mystic "line"?
> 
> What gives J. " :] " Ford the OK to publish false or misleading 
information 
> about a local developer, with the intent to do public harm to someone 
from 
> Christ Church? But when someone makes an embarrassing statement about 
an ex 
> husband who resides in the state pen, this has crossed the 
mystic "line"!
> 
> Maybe it's time to shut this site down. Maybe it's time to do what 
someone, 
> I respect, said, ..."Live and let live". Is this the standard we should 
> follow?
> 
> When Dale pointed out the incongruity of Keely's request, in light of 
all of 
> the accusations by Rose and Co. with respect to having people live in 
their 
> house, I thought I would bring up Nick Gier's living situation - again. 
Is 
> he paying any of the bills there? Wouldn't that make him a "boarder" by 
the 
> code? He is not a family member.
> 
> It seems, by the comments back to me, that THIS is none of my business! 
Why, 
> he is an important public school figure with a lot on his plate (he 
told us 
> so)! Why one set of standards for some and not for others? Where is the 
out 
> cry "For the Love of the Code?"
> 
> Is all of this a picture of "white men of privilege" being overcome and 
> subdued by those who feel down trodden? Or is it as Mrs. Lund said, "  
a 
> reminder that Jealousy, the Green-Eyed Monster, really is incredibly 
> ugly..."?
> 
> lemeno, Doug!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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