Then I guess it is a good thing that everyone has shown good manners in here.
Are you guys completely cool with your kids dating/marrying someone of a different race?
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Then I guess it is a good thing that everyone has shown good manners in here.
I believe God exists.
Step one, once we can both agree that this is the beginning of my beliefs, we can go on to what I believe the character of said God is.
With me so far?
This analogy assumes that these callings are primarily for the benefit of the congregation rather than the individual. I'm not assuming that, so I suppose we are still at an impasse.
I will continue to consider you over-analytic and hyper-sensitive, and you can continue to consider me misguided and foolish. Fair enough?
Telling someone else what their motivations are is not good manners. Were you raised by wolves?
I apologize to all the wolves in here for indicating they may be less civilized than humans.
No questions so far (at least, none relevant to this discussion).
If the callings are not there primarily for the benefit of the congregation, why have them at all?
The world continues to turn.
So are we on the same page or aren't we? No point in continuing on if we are not in agreement.
Using language to slight what someone else believes is also no good manners. I don't think you should be giving lectures on manners, and that's a fact!
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I have already answered this question. Please refer to post #348.
The fact that you are (re)asking me this question leads me to believe that you are not interested in understanding my position, so much as looking for some way to trap me, so you can "win".
I am not interested in discussion as competition.
Someone telling you the opinion they have formed of what your intentions are from the conversations you two have had is not bad manners. To pretend so shows either intellectual dishonest (which I do not think you are doing) or that the person in question has bought into the rubbish of political correctness and all that it entails. Did they insult you? No. Did they curse at you? No. Did they belittle you? No. They simply said this is my opinion of your intentions based on what we have talked about. It was not presented as fact. If that hurt your feelings than you need to toughen up and not be over sensitive as they were showing manners within the norm. To suggest otherwise is to play into that PC way of speaking where you never say anything that anyone else can disagree with out of a false belief that it is offensive. In my opinion PC language and culture is hogwash.
Here you go One Brow. If you have mutliple people coming to the same general conclussion about your intentions in a certain discussion, all done in a polite way, than perhaps you should rethink the way that you word your replies.
Yes, I accept that you believe in God.