Posted by Phil on December 30, 2002, at 19:20:25
In reply to Re: An idea for the Faith Board y/n? » Phil, posted by Dinah on December 30, 2002, at 11:21:25
I had it on admin but no feedback. Ended up not getting a whole lot of feedback on PSB.
It would be a relationships board, not a faith board. You could talk about: aging parents, rel. with money, with kids, husband, kids teacher, God, yourself, your boyfriend, or how you feel you're getting along here. Just with those examples, God's is one relationship out of nine. So every ninth poster may say God, but it's about your relationship to whatever you call God, not your beliefs about your religion.
It's 'only focus is relationships'. Faith or spirituality would be mentioned in the guidelines as one type of relationship.
It made a huge difference in the meetings I used to go to. There's was a different energy in the room at relationship meetings and it could be the same 20-30 people that were at an open meeting the previous night.
It's very possible that someone who came here for PB but is having difficulty in a R. would feel very at ease posting there. If he looks at PSB, he'll think everyone here knows each other.
I also thought we could let the poster decide whether they wanted feedback or just wanted to vent. A poster could check O feedback or O no feedback. It would be a listening board as much as anything.
In that case, it would be like Al-Anon, as an example, in that nobody interrupts the person speaking and when the person gets it all out, we say thank you. Anyone else have a relationship issue they would like to 'share?'
It's Dr B's board so he'll do what he thinks is best. This change would make the Admin board slow down a bit, don'tcha think?
I know more people would go there than to faith...I try to avoid that board at all cost. There's no way to keep tempers down, I just don't go there cause sometimes, if someone is talking about my beliefs in a negative way, I post pretty much how I feel, in a subtle way, and I get blocked.Sorry this is so long, I can't seem to organize my thinking lately.
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