Posted by Dr. Bob on March 6, 2002, at 18:46:13
In reply to Re: How social is Psycho Babble Social?, posted by trouble on March 6, 2002, at 4:10:27
> I am curious to know how people would feel if someone were pitching something a little less abstract, like say Christianity outright, or even Satanism... Is it right in any case to be a fisher of men (and women, the bible is so mysogyinstic its silly)...?
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> kid_AThis has come up before, and there was a lot of discussion, and I kind of came up with some guidelines:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20010718/msgs/1826.html
The main thing was (1) not to put down others or their beliefs and (2) not to pressure others.
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> That's the seed of my frustration, why would someone want to destroy the momentum of a thread w/ some tangential rap when the whole board is an open forum for anyone to instigate their own discrete subject? Instigate being the operative word, as when Black deliberatedly misunderstands White, makes accusations of bad faith and incivility and what do you know 3 posts later there's Black back again, this time as the voice of reason, the hero and peacemaker, can't we all just get along get this thread back on friendly grounds?
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> Madame troublePeople have all kinds of motivations. And just because someone doesn't understand at first and then is the voice of reason doesn't mean their initial misunderstanding was deliberate...
Bob
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