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

[Paul Rumelhart]

Heir Doug,

I get that you don't like it  when somebody allegedly shacks up with 
somebody else.  I get that.  You've made it quite clear.  What I don't 
understand is why you think *I* should care.

Here are a few reasons why I think I shouldn't care:

1.  It's none of my business.

2.  It's none of my business.

3.  My religious beliefs do not preclude relationships outside of marriage.

4.  It was my understanding that in your religion, while it may be 
wrong, it's between God and the people involved.  Unless you are 
involved as one of the "shackers" or "shackees", I fail to understand 
why you think it's any of your business either.

Paul

heirdoug at netscape.net wrote:

>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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