Striving For Charity

[KnightofChrist]

[quote name='HisChildForever' date='06 August 2010 - 12:02 AM' timestamp='1281067359' post='2153092']
Why can't we be friends, oh why can't we be friends.
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[quote name='Tridenteen' date='06 August 2010 - 12:04 AM' timestamp='1281067494' post='2153094']
JMJ
I'm your friend[img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/saint.gif[/img]
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Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore

[size="1"][i]I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.[/i] [/size]

[Sojourner]

Frankly, I don't know why this wasn't closed 6 pages ago.

Or really, why we needed to have any discussion at all about whether we should be charitable. We're all called to be charitable. End of story. No pledge is going to change that. We're commanded, as Christians, to love God, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. What more is there to say about that?

As Icey noted in her opening post, perhaps it's best for each of us to start by looking in the mirror and do honest examination of conscience about our own charitableness.

If we each worry more about our own level of charity, and less about everyone else's, I think we'd all be better off.

[KnightofChrist]

[quote name='Terra Firma' date='06 August 2010 - 12:10 AM' timestamp='1281067848' post='2153099']
Frankly, I don't know why this wasn't closed 6 pages ago.

Or really, why we needed to have any discussion at all about whether we should be charitable. We're all called to be charitable. End of story. No pledge is going to change that. We're commanded, as Christians, to love God, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. What more is there to say about that?

As Icey noted in her opening post, perhaps it's best for each of us to start by looking in the mirror and do honest examination of conscience about our own charitableness.

If we each worry more about our own level of charity, and less about everyone else's, I think we'd all be better off.
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Indeed.

God Bless

[The Bus Station]

[quote name='Terra Firma' date='06 August 2010 - 12:10 AM' timestamp='1281067848' post='2153099']
Frankly, I don't know why this wasn't closed 6 pages ago.

Or really, why we needed to have any discussion at all about whether we should be charitable. We're all called to be charitable. End of story. No pledge is going to change that. We're commanded, as Christians, to love God, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. What more is there to say about that?

As Icey noted in her opening post, perhaps it's best for each of us to start by looking in the mirror and do honest examination of conscience about our own charitableness.

If we each worry more about our own level of charity, and less about everyone else's, I think we'd all be better off.
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And there was much rejoicing.
[img]http://hadassahsabo.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/the-end-3.jpg[/img]

[Tridenteen]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO1HDKEQlHU[/media]
JMJ

[Jaime]

[quote name='Terra Firma' date='06 August 2010 - 12:10 AM' timestamp='1281067848' post='2153099']
Frankly, I don't know why this wasn't closed 6 pages ago.

Or really, why we needed to have any discussion at all about whether we should be charitable. We're all called to be charitable. End of story. No pledge is going to change that. We're commanded, as Christians, to love God, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. What more is there to say about that?

As Icey noted in her opening post, perhaps it's best for each of us to start by looking in the mirror and do honest examination of conscience about our own charitableness.

If we each worry more about our own level of charity, and less about everyone else's, I think we'd all be better off.
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I'll tell you why. There are more than a few phatmassers who have left because they have not enjoyed the tone around here. They don't enjoy the swarm mentality or as dominicansoul description of a bunch of folks ganging up. So I think it is a needed discussion around here. I think ignoring the uncharitable behavior that is driving folks away (some who have been here for years) also goes to how visitors perceive us.

I think its a mandatory discussion around here.

[HisChildForever]

[quote name='hot stuff' date='06 August 2010 - 12:21 AM' timestamp='1281068480' post='2153112']
I'll tell you why. There are more than a few phatmassers who have left because they have not enjoyed the tone around here. They don't enjoy the swarm mentality or as dominicansoul description of a bunch of folks ganging up. So I think it is a needed discussion around here. I think ignoring the uncharitable behavior that is driving folks away (some who have been here for years) also goes to how visitors perceive us.

I think its a mandatory discussion around here.
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What bothers me is the mentality that there is one "group" causing the chaos.

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='hot stuff' date='06 August 2010 - 01:21 AM' timestamp='1281068480' post='2153112']
I'll tell you why. There are more than a few phatmassers who have left because they have not enjoyed the tone around here. They don't enjoy the swarm mentality or as dominicansoul description of a bunch of folks ganging up. So I think it is a needed discussion around here. I think ignoring the uncharitable behavior that is driving folks away (some who have been here for years) also goes to how visitors perceive us.

I think its a mandatory discussion around here.
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Earlier Iggy noted that she is putting her conversion process on hold right now, partially because of that. If we're driving away not only phamily but converts, too, because we're so rude we're doing something terribly wrong. I don't think we need to be all fru-fru and rainbows and butterflies, but we could all work on acting in Christian charity. I don't know about mandatory, but I don't think reminders and encouragement to try harder is too far fetched.

[Jaime]

[quote name='HisChildForever' date='06 August 2010 - 12:26 AM' timestamp='1281068785' post='2153119']
What bothers me is the mentality that there is one "group" causing the chaos.
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It didn't bother you before. You agreed with it.

[quote]i just think a lot of people don't like others disagreeing with them, and so they band together and harrass those who would dare to oppose them...[/quote]

[quote name='HisChildForever' date='05 August 2010 - 10:29 PM' timestamp='1281061751' post='2153005']
I completely agree.
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[HisChildForever]

[quote name='hot stuff' date='06 August 2010 - 12:43 AM' timestamp='1281069819' post='2153136']
It didn't bother you before. You agreed with it.
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I agreed that a lot of people band together. I did not say it was just one group responsible.