Confession

[dizzyde]

Originally Posted by Alter Ego

I know.

I just hate it when people do that!

[AmazingGrace]

Originally Posted by HeavenlyOne

What was your username there?

Song of the Shulamite

and

Someones Angel

and years ago.....

Dark Angel

[OneAccord]

I lied. And feel awful about it. On the Age thread I said I will be 53 on my birthday. That is a bald faced lie. I will be 52. How could I have been so decieved?

[CC1]

Originally Posted by rrford

Hey, it was fun. And to add insult to injury you told a lie in the above post. Will you never learn?

I can't believe my co-conspirator has stepped forward and confessed also!

You are correct that I mislabled you in my post if I typed ultra con. I meant to type just "con".

It was really funny back then because we had always been so civil to each other and all of a sudden we were just tearing each other up!

I think a lot of people were shocked at the barbs flying back and forth. The more I think about it maybe it was worth the guilt!!!! LOL!!!

I actually didn't feel guilty until thoes folks started coming to my defense then I felt like a deceiver.

[TCSQ]

Originally Posted by CC1

Have you ever violated your own principles on this or another forum and felt quilty about it even though you may have not violated a specific rule?

I have always had this thing about the forum being honest discourse. I personally find the idea of creating a new screen name and pretending to be a new poster, someone who you are not, to be just lying.

TCSQ replies......




Well I see your point but I also feel there is an entirely different side to that that INVOLVES honest discourse.... I have adopted just such a handle NOT in order to avoid honest discourse but rather to enable myself to ENGAGE in honest discourse. It is something that many noteworthy men have done in times past when they knew that to identify themselves at the time would pretty much result in their being silenced once and for all in one area or another. (Benjamin Franklin immediately springs to mind here.) The benefit of such posting might very well lie in the words being allowed to be judged on their OWN merit and ability to hold water rather than being influenced by WHO has said them.

It also allows people like myself who must weigh MANY things in the balance including their ability to reach out to the lost against a desire to speak out very clearly on the different subjects that stir them. For example another board does NOT allow such handles which pretty much garauntees that the men who are on that board keep their mouths shut out of fear of reprisal. Honest discourse there??? NOT ON YOUR LIFE!!!! I know these men and know that oftentimes what they say in the pulpit and what they post on the groups are NOT what they actually believe and will admit to when it is just one on one. In an ideal world such men should have the boldness to speak up, however when balanced against the loss of financial support if they are a missionary, organizational support if they are a pastor or an evangelist or even Pastoral rebuke if they are a saint. If the things they are saying are stuff and nonsense, certainly someone on the board can point that out.

I can tell you that MANY of us out here are deeply stirred about so many things and a yet reality has taught us that there are many vicious wolves in sheeps clothing out there just WAITING to pounce and destroy another mans ministry if they can. Which brings us to why let them KNOW who is on to them, just the ability to post some things and watch some of them go into paroxysms of rage and near apoplexy is in many ways its own delightful reward. Cowardly? Perhaps..Entertaining? Oh yeah!

[CC1]

Originally Posted by TCSQ

TCSQ replies......




Well I see your point but I also feel there is an entirely different side to that that INVOLVES honest discourse.... I have adopted just such a handle NOT in order to avoid honest discourse but rather to enable myself to ENGAGE in honest discourse. It is something that many noteworthy men have done in times past when they knew that to identify themselves at the time would pretty much result in their being silenced once and for all in one area or another. (Benjamin Franklin immediately springs to mind here.) The benefit of such posting might very well lie in the words being allowed to be judged on their OWN merit and ability to hold water rather than being influenced by WHO has said them.

It also allows people like myself who must weigh MANY things in the balance including their ability to reach out to the lost against a desire to speak out very clearly on the different subjects that stir them. For example another board does NOT allow such handles which pretty much garauntees that the men who are on that board keep their mouths shut out of fear of reprisal. Honest discourse there??? NOT ON YOUR LIFE!!!! I know these men and know that oftentimes what they say in the pulpit and what they post on the groups are NOT what they actually believe and will admit to when it is just one on one. In an ideal world such men should have the boldness to speak up, however when balanced against the loss of financial support if they are a missionary, organizational support if they are a pastor or an evangelist or even Pastoral rebuke if they are a saint. If the things they are saying are stuff and nonsense, certainly someone on the board can point that out.

I can tell you that MANY of us out here are deeply stirred about so many things and a yet reality has taught us that there are many vicious wolves in sheeps clothing out there just WAITING to pounce and destroy another mans ministry if they can. Which brings us to why let them KNOW who is on to them, just the ability to post some things and watch some of them go into paroxysms of rage and near apoplexy is in many ways its own delightful reward. Cowardly? Perhaps..Entertaining? Oh yeah!

TCSQ,

I have never opposed posters using screen names that protect their anonymnity. There are both preachers and saints in situations where they can be hurt or others possibly hurt if their identity is known.

I am talking about posters who either post lies like who they are, what they do, their life experience, etc or something like that where people are deceived.

When my friend and I were having our fake fight to stir things up we weren't lying in the positions we were taking but we were taking our usual disagreements and framing them in very demeaning posts to each other that in reality did not reflect our feelings toward each other. I realized it was deceiving, not presenting the truth, when other posters became concerned with the tone of the rhetoric and the personal nature of the "attacks" and came to my defense. I was too embarressed to come clean and let them know we had been doing it on purpose.

[TCSQ]

Originally Posted by CC1

TCSQ,

I have never opposed posters using screen names that protect their anonymnity. There are both preachers and saints in situations where they can be hurt or others possibly hurt if their identity is known.

I am talking about posters who either post lies like who they are, what they do, their life experience, etc or something like that where people are deceived.

When my friend and I were having our fake fight to stir things up we weren't lying in the positions we were taking but we were taking our usual disagreements and framing them in very demeaning posts to each other that in reality did not reflect our feelings toward each other. I realized it was deceiving, not presenting the truth, when other posters became concerned with the tone of the rhetoric and the personal nature of the "attacks" and came to my defense. I was too embarressed to come clean and let them know we had been doing it on purpose.

Oh, I gotcha.

[LaVonne]

I just ate a HUGE homemade cinnamon roll...it was sooo good!

[Rico]

Originally Posted by CareyM

I just ate a HUGE homemade cinnamon roll...it was sooo good!

That kind you can get at the mall are soooooooooooooooooooooooooo goooooooooooooooooood.

[LaVonne]

Originally Posted by Rico

That kind you can get at the mall are soooooooooooooooooooooooooo goooooooooooooooooood.

Mine are better!