Apology

[LadyChocolate]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

You know brother... only the mashed potatoes on the BOTTOM are touching the floor. The rest are still completely edible.

[Steve Epley]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

You know brother... only the mashed potatoes on the BOTTOM are touching the floor. The rest are still completely edible.

Thank you I feel better now.

[Old Paths]

See I told you it wouldn't help.

[LadyChocolate]

Originally Posted by Old Paths

See I told you it wouldn't help.

,,,just ignore "them" bro.! lol you didn't offend me! lol

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Old Paths

See I told you it wouldn't help.

It helped.

Originally Posted by LadyChocolate

Does is actually surprise any of us that some think there are reprobates here??? It doesn't surprise me at all that others think there would be... why such a big deal...??? I haven't seen any names of the accused!

I've had several help me understand this, so you are right. It really doesn't matter.

Since I don't read half of the threads around here, I didn't read the offending post except for the one sentence acknowledged in the first one in this Apology post. If that was all that was said and no names called, I struck with amazement that such a big deal was made out of it.

The only thing that I can make out of it is that there are some on this forum that are lurking, lieing in wait for OP to say something that can be exploited. I hope that I am mistaken about that.

While I have never known a reprobate for certain, no doubt there are many...but who can make the call? God alone is the judge of all men.

OP, I need no apology. Thanks for your good spirit anyway.

[Old Paths]

Originally Posted by Brother Strange

Since I don't read half of the threads around here, I didn't read the offending post except for the one sentence acknowledged in the first one in this Apology post. If that was all that was said and no names called, I struck with amazement that such a big deal was made out of it.

The only thing that I can make out of it is that there are some on this forum that are lurking, lieing in wait for OP to say something that can be exploited. I hope that I am mistaken about that.

While I have never known a reprobate for certain, no doubt there are many...but who can make the call? God alone is the judge of all men.

OP, I need no apology. Thanks for your good spirit anyway.

Thanks Brother Strange for your reply and your preception.

And BTW, I never called any names nor would I do that on a public forum.

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

So could it be rightfully said of this post that...

You still believe that a certain portion of us are reprobates... but certainly not ever single one of us (as there are a few around who believe very similar to yourself). And that you are sorry that the statement was seen as hurtful by some but you still basically believe what was said?

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who read it that way.

This is one of those times when I'll have to follow the advice in my signature line. Even if I don't really see a sincere apology.

This apology reminds me of this scene in Anne of Green Gables where Anne apologizes to Rachel but isn't really sorry. She just does it because she was asked to do so.

"Oh, Mrs. Lynde, I am so extremely sorry," she said with a quiver in her voice. "I could never express all my sorrow, no, not if I used up a whole dictionary. You must just imagine it. I behaved terribly to you--and I've disgraced the dear friends, Matthew and Marilla, who have let me stay at Green Gables although I'm not a boy. I'm a dreadfully wicked and ungrateful girl, and I deserve to be punished and cast out by respectable people forever. It was very wicked of me to fly into a temper because you told me the truth. It WAS the truth; every word you said was true. My hair is red and I'm freckled and skinny and ugly. What I said to you was true, too, but I shouldn't have said it. Oh, Mrs. Lynde, please, please, forgive me. If you refuse it will be a lifelong sorrow on a poor little orphan girl would you, even if she had a dreadful temper? Oh, I am sure you wouldn't. Please say you forgive me, Mrs. Lynde."

Anne clasped her hands together, bowed her head, and waited for the word of judgment.

There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former under- stood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.

Good Mrs. Lynde, not being overburdened with perception, did not see this. She only perceived that Anne had made a very thorough apology.

Originally Posted by Rico

Who cares if OP thinks some of the posters here are reprobates? The sun doesn't rise and set on what he thinks anyway.

I totally agree with the bolded part of your statement.

Originally Posted by Lucy Van Pelt

This apology brought me to tears!

Poor Lucy. Need some kleenex?

[Old Paths]

Originally Posted by Rico

Who cares if OP thinks some of the posters here are reprobates? The sun doesn't rise and set on what he thinks anyway.

Now that is so hurtful and demeaning, especially since the sun didn't even rise here in SE TEXAS until I looked toward the East.

[LadyChocolate]

Originally Posted by Brother Strange

Since I don't read half of the threads around here, I didn't read the offending post except for the one sentence acknowledged in the first one in this Apology post. If that was all that was said and no names called, I struck with amazement that such a big deal was made out of it.

The only thing that I can make out of it is that there are some on this forum that are lurking, lieing in wait for OP to say something that can be exploited. I hope that I am mistaken about that.

While I have never known a reprobate for certain, no doubt there are many...but who can make the call? God alone is the judge of all men.

OP, I need no apology. Thanks for your good spirit anyway.

right......and especially on a forum like this... I mean, many people say lots of things just for the shock value and that would cause some to think negative about them. I've said it many times concerning myself..........if my ultraC friends knew what I posted on this forum, they would be praying my soul out of hell... lol! that 's only because I've admitted to watching veggie tales and similiar shows.. lolol!