"Does anyone who regularly post here, think we are too intimidating, too intense for others to feel comfortable joining us?"


Perhaps others are too preoccupied with the pursuit of "dating" to be distracted by such topics.

Or others, like me, prefer to not discuss such intimate topics with a wide, mostly unfamiliar audience. (this doesn't mean that you're not familiar with each other...I'm referring to the other XX thousand JSH users...)

















Bl8nt

i just dont like it when they don't realize i am always right...


lol

I personally think that you find far far more close minded people then open in the big 3 religions. Those people, who think if you don't live by their beleifs your a bad person, rarely discuss anything. They simply talk to reinfornce and hear what they already believe.

That being said, i dont think i've seen any intimadating people in here, i'd just rather not run into the above types. Especially when your religion is differnt then christianity, and gets you the same treatment jesus got.

Red, I like that you mention that this is a dating site. Thinking back a couple of years ago I was so shy that 'just say hi' was the extent of my dating knowledge. It was like ok coach now what do I do after I say hi. Born married - what a curse; Doomed before I even start. Yeah, I liked what you said about comfort; I am nervous enough as it is. I don't need any help getting paranoid. As I tell my friends at my meetings - I don't need drugs because I have enough flashbacks to last a freaking lifetime. You know I live in this small rural town and there is so much more to the world than what I see but I can get in touch with the world via the Internet. Not knocking my parents or the way I was raised through the socialization process but some of the stuff I was taught I have had to reverify. But the cool thing about learning is that new ideas and new technologies can change the way we look at the world especially when we view perspectives radically different from we were taught growing up. To me it like cleaning house and you have all this good stuff that piles around you and you wonder if you will ever use some of it.

You are probably right, Britty. Just a big tree lover here. I see all these beautiful trees along the road and the next thing they have these big caterpillars leveling it flat and it just makes me emotional. Such beautiful green trees. But then the trees are replaced by cows so I guess the cattle benefit from it.

I may not post in here much any more..I read though..I am somewhat daunted at times by the overly brainy responses..I just don't understand them and so it tends to make me be quiet, not every one is a theology major. I also don't see the point of constantly having to argue over the same points ...over and over until its beaten into the ground and still no one is satisfied so they start again..that alone could make new people stop coming.

hey Hillfolk...the thing about the groves...the bad kings-who
were 'bad' in God's eyes because they did as the pagans did in worshipping idols and the sun or the moon-the groves were areas where the the idol worshippers built their altars and held their pagan ceremonies, sacrificed their children to the fire god...
that is why God commanded that they be destroyed, and that is why the 'good' kings did as God commanded in tearing them down.
fyi...

This caught my attention since I am a hillbilly.
The term pagan is from Latin paganus, an adjective originally meaning "rural", "rustic" or "of the country." As a noun, paganus was used to mean "country dweller, villager." In colloquial use, it could mean much the same as calling someone today a 'country bumpkin' or a 'hillbilly'.

The semantic development of post-classical Latin paganus in the sense "non-Christian, heathen" is unclear. The dating of this sense is controversial, but the 4th century seems most plausible. An earlier example has been suggested in Tertullian De Corona Militis xi, "Apud hunc [sc. Christum] tam miles est paganus fidelis quam paganus est miles infidelis," but here the word paganus may be interpreted in the sense "civilian" rather than "heathen". There are three main explanations of the development:

(i) The older sense of classical Latin pāgānus is "of the country, rustic" (also as noun). It has been argued that the transferred use reflects the fact that the ancient idolatry lingered on in the rural villages and hamlets after Christianity had been generally accepted in the towns and cities of the Roman Empire; cf. Orosius Histories 1. Prol. "Ex locorum agrestium compitis et pagis pagani vocantur." From its earliest beginnings, Christianity spread much more quickly in major urban areas (like Antioch, Alexandria, Corinth, Rome) than in the countryside (in fact, the early church was almost entirely urban), and soon the word for "country dweller" became synonymous with someone who was "not a Christian," giving rise to the modern meaning of "Pagan." This may, in part, have had to do with the conservative nature of rural people, who may have been more resistant to the new ideas of Christianity than those who lived in major urban centers. However, it may have also resulted from early Christian missionaries focusing their efforts within major population centers (e.g., St. Paul), rather than throughout an expansive, yet sparsely populated, countryside (hence, the Latin term suggesting "uneducated country folk").
(ii) The more common meaning of classical Latin pāgānus is "civilian, non-militant" (adjective and noun). Christians called themselves mīlitēs, "enrolled soldiers" of Christ, members of his militant church, and applied to non-Christians the term applied by soldiers to all who were "not enrolled in the army".
(iii) The sense "heathen" arose from an interpretation of paganus as denoting a person who was outside a particular group or community, hence "not of the city" or "rural"; cf. Orosius Histories 1. Prol. "ui alieni a civitate dei..pagani vocantur." See C. Mohrmann, Vigiliae Christianae 6 (1952) 9ff.

i agree with Chubby.i don't get intimidated by anyone especially over the internet.i do read these posts and i see way too many of these arguments end up going off the original topic and i don't waste my time with that crap.it's truly a waste of time arguing about it because when it comes to religion,most people have strong beliefs about it and your opinion/belief is not going to change theres,so what's the point in arguing?

I tend to not post in the religious threads anymore because I felt there were a few people that jumped on me no matter what I said! I still read them but will very rarely get involved in them. Why can't people just respect the fact that people don't have to believe exactly as they do?

Very true Fresh.

I hear you Hillfolk regarding the trees. That must be rather an emotional sight to see trees being pulled down that way.

I am very fond of New Hampshire, lived there a few years back. I will never forget the first time I visited the White Mountain region, just to look out for miles around and see a beautiful vast horizon, the splendour of all the different colors of golds, reds, orange...

I don't find it intimidating...I just read some post and if I find that I don't want to get involved in that conversation, I think OH NO WAY AM I POSTING ON THAT ONE!!!
I do find that some people are arrogant, but I think you have that every where you go. People do put others down when I don't think they should, hey, everyone has their own opions.
If don't like a topic...I just stay clear

maybe they get the answer they are looking for

thus they feel no need to return to discuss it further

hhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmm

interesting

maybe thats why i kill so many threads

nnaaaaaaaaa can't be

can it








alex of course you think yer always right

just like every one else



hugsz if ya want them

I understand what some people have been saying... sometimes we do tend to rehash similar arguments... sometimes this can be productive- we revisit to learn more and because the issue is important to us... but sometimes it's the same old disagreements and to me when it gets personal it also frequently becomes less interesting...

As far as some discussions becoming too complex, I do think the simplest answer is often the best one but it can be difficult to stop typing...

It was so nice to see so many post here. I honestly didn't realize there were so many.

anoasis said: "I do think the simplest answer is often the best one but it can be difficult to stop typing..."

My biggest problem right there.
Bl8ant I know you're always right, unfortunatly that's the price one pays - to be a goddess!

Yes we do seem to 're-hash' but often someone new posts a topic that's already been done to death. But it's a new person, and there might be others, so we respond and as someone said, we tend to take it a bit off topic.

But that's what I, personally, like about posting here in Religion and new/currentl events, is that it's not that someone poses a qustions and 50 people give an answer. I like the interaction.

If I'm going to take the time to post, I want to get to know people and disuccions like these, can get you to some good points, pretty quick.

I'm glad, no-one is intimidated, and I'm sorry if anyone feels their 'case had been jumped on', but that's just an opportunity to 'restate' your case, or back it up, and build your confidence.

Peace to you all

I feel intimidated.


.... Shyly raises hand

you want intimidation!!!!!!????? GO TO MY ROOM!!!!


hi James

Where do keep the power tools?

r u guys kidding me
most of u try to seem harsh, but all of u r just teddy bears.