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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.3 to be 4 said:If loving the Lord is an addiction, Im an addicted, Jesus freak!!!!
Thank God!
What do you worship? Everybody worships something. If its not the Lord, its money, your job, your social standing, your relationships, YOURSELF.
Im very grateful to be a full fledged Jesus junkie!!!
Tunescribe said:Loving the Lord is cool and fine, but I'm not talking about that. I'm addressing what appears to be your compulsive need to take up space with religionist bloviating on this messageboard, where no one is interested in reading it but yourself. Care to answer my question about any past struggles with substance abuse?
3 to be 4 said:ok, im not a substance abuse addict. How about you?
as far as a compulsive need to take up space.....its funny how nobody says the samr thing when people post the same Bush is #$%&& or Clinton is a ^&*$# or Brady is great or we should etc etc etc. those things are all repeated over and over and over and over and all to sway opinion, btw.
but if its about God suddenly its a big problem, or as you put it, an "addiction"
My priorities are just in line with Gods commandments. And thats just here. I have a very full and plentiful life, which i enjoy knowing that I have an eternity to spend with the Lord. Its very freeing.
As far as nobody being interested......there isnt a music video ive posted, and everybody knows by now what my subject matter is, that hasnt been viewed. And if 1 person views and enjoys it then that makes my month.
And for weeks, without others replying ( so i know its not people looking to see a verbal fight or anything) hundred of people have clicked on to the Please Read this if....and the Old Testament reasons threads.........
others here have tried to bury that under a "marketing" reason why that doesnt matter. But numbers are numbers.
1 person was enough for me. 2,000 on one and nearly 1,000 on another kind of tells me there is interest in viewing something that actually talks about Jesus in a positive light.
If it bothers you, dont click on and read and get yourself bothered.
its just a website, just a chat. why did you click on it knowing that it would bother you so?
I dont particularly like every thread i see. I dont have to label somebody something because i dont agree.
I hope I answered the question. I actually left out the most important reason. I, as a believer, am supposed to go out in the world and communicate to the world the Gospel. This is the new communication. Just as TV was in 1948. Im just thinking outside the box, so to speak.
coming from New England, i remembered the lack of outlets there were for people there to express their love for ************. You can express your love for politics ( Dems), sports, music, but not ************.
Just thought id bust through that. Its been a blast!
Tunescribe said:I have a very strong belief in God myself, but don't feel a compulsion, as you apparently do, to push it upon others. That you feel directed via religion to persistently "witness/recruit" without regard to the wishes of fellow board members is a chauvenistic conceit and imposition that really has no place here. What you're doing has little if anything to do with divine spirit and everything to do with addictive processes driven by religious dogma.
PatsFanInVa said:I have to reluctantly agree with 3tob on one subject; people do -- eventually -- keep replying to his thread. This is like giving a thousand monkeys typewriters and an infinite food supply; since the thread is ubiquitous by dint of auto-bumping, eventually it is predictable that someone will reply.
Those who have replied, either in the midst of an auto-reply masturbatory frenzy, or in the course of debate, seem to come in two distinct varieties: those who were already believers, and those who very much dislike 3toB's hijacking of the general forum for his own advertising purposes. The repeated auto-replies that serve to make the general forum into his personal free ad space is definitely a unique feature. Not that I haven't "auto-bumped" my own thread a time or two... but IIRC, there were 3 or 4 such consecutive auto-bumps to this one. You can see how if everybody behaved in this way, the board would be paralyzed.
I notice also that faced with a direct contradiction within the Gospels, 3toB prefers to answer the tactical question (which in itself is good tactics.)
A final word in support of 3toB's argument, that people are disgusted by (in 3toB's world, "interested in") his salesmanship: A while back I posted a thread linking to Jews for Judaism, a group I had just discovered via a charitable giving umbrella group. I signed myself up for 10 bucks per paycheck into their coffers. It's not that I agree with everything they say, but through this board, I've come to realize that our country is shot through with this sort of balderdash, and it's best to teach the young and the ignorant, lest they fall for a bundle of self-contradictory "proof texts" and the like. Jews for Judaism seems more aware of the need to get info out there than other groups. I do attribute that move to the disgust I feel at 3toB's more obnoxious provocations.
PFnV
3 to be 4 said:the simple reason i didnt repond to that question about the supposed contradiction is that you and I have shown an inability to have fruitful debate. Whatever I answer, you will distort, or you will eventually feel that I have distorted something that you said. I do not wish to debate you anymore and I wont.
How do you hijack something that everybody has free access to? Once again, if not interested, dont click on and/or reply.
I wish you peace.
3 to be 4 said:And for weeks, without others replying ( so i know its not people looking to see a verbal fight or anything) hundred of people have clicked on to the Please Read this if....and the Old Testament reasons threads.........
others here have tried to bury that under a "marketing" reason why that doesnt matter. But numbers are numbers.
1 person was enough for me. 2,000 on one and nearly 1,000 on another kind of tells me there is interest in viewing something that actually talks about Jesus in a positive light.
3 to be 4 said:hello, Mr Distortion, its been awhile. Bait away. Im not playing anymore.
Peace be with you
shmessy said:Aw c'mon out and play! You're fun and your threads get lost of eyeballs on them. It's all about the numbers, isn't it? You're an ACE marketer, dude!
3 to be 4 said:one other thought about this idea of "addiction" because i post a lot or try to influence others. Are the Democrats who post here any different? or the Republicans? funny, you are only an "addict" or "pushing your views on others" if its about ************. I still think its kind of funny to hear this desciption of anyone having my views "forced on them". By "forcing" them to read my posts? Grow up, people.
Peace to you.
Tunescribe said:Dude, you ARE a religion ADDICT! "Here's the good news, everyone! Try my religion! Subscribe to my dogma! It'll make you feel goooooooood!" How many hours a day do you spend obsessing like this?
Go in peace.
Tunescribe said:Dude, you ARE a religion ADDICT! "Here's the good news, everyone! Try my religion! Subscribe to my dogma! It'll make you feel goooooooood!" How many hours a day do you spend obsessing like this?
Go in peace.
shmessy said:Actually, Tunie, that describes a Religion "Dealer" or "Pimp". He's trying to CREATE "Addicts" - - people to have a dependency, to submit themselves to something.
Tunescribe said:The thought crossed my mind to call him a "pusher," but I wanted to keep things relatively civil. The thing is, he feeds upon our challenging him as a way to reinforce his own addictive process and the religionists' view that the unwashed masses ("sinners") will resist relinquishing their worldly ways by ridiculing him until they finally are brought to "see the light." By becoming a religionist, he has chosen to adopt a belief system rooted in abdication of personal responsibility for one's thoughts and actions (re., "giving one's self to Jesus/God") as defined by his sect's narrow interpretation of the Christian bible. This extends to an ongoing campaign of attempting to control others by luring them into the sect with the promise of eternal life so they can feel "free" and "righteous," and needn't stress any longer over wordly travails. Religionists believe that in the context of eternal life, none of it really matters anyway (as long as one is "saved"). Nothing could be more wrong, as our very purpose in life is to evolve as loving, spiritual beings through the myriad challenges and hardships we were brought into this incarnation to experience. What 3 to be 4 professes has little to do with the true spiritual principles of Christianity, or with one developing a personal relationship with God through the example of Christ's divine life. The genuine Christian relies upon spiritual guidance for (1). learning how to assume personal responsibility for one's thoughts, actions, happiness and well-being, (2). learning how to honor and love one's self, and (3). extending that love to others. You can't get to #3 without first dedicating yourself to #1 and #2 and working damn hard at it. 3 to be 4 suggests sidestepping all that by buying into a ready-made religionist belief system. Without doing the work necessary to evolve personally and spiritually, he and others of his ilk are little more than dogma-spewing, scripture-quoting religion addicts. A person who becomes self-realized through spiritual guidance feels no need to "spread the word" or cajole others into adopting religionism as a way of life. They effortlessly attract others to them by living a life of grace, as God and Christ (as well as Buddha, Mohammed, Moses, et al.) intended. If 3 to be 4 had a discerning mind and knew his Christian history, he'd understand the historical basis of evangelism as an old-world mode of fear-based population control by feudal tyrants. Again, it's got nothing to do with spirituality.