I too don't understand what has happened. I had to bail out for a couple of weeks as I was going to school and work for some uptraining and then came back to find that "all the 'conservatives' are gone!"
I hope it has nothing to do with the encounter that I had with one of the Forum's "conservative" voices a little while back. He had made a rather serious accusation against another preacher and couched the whole thing with a bunch of ambiguity. I had never really dialoged with the guy before and I didn't know that he was supposed to be allowed to post anything he wanted without it being challenged; so I called him on it.
After embarassing himself with several posts attacking me personally and trying to bait me with what I thought was childish name calling - the guy banned himself! And it turns out that his accusation against that other preacher was false. They were just two guys who differed on their methods of church discipline and restoration. There was no drunken licentousness at his neighboring UPC church as he had tried to make it appear.
I noticed that all of the people who defended this poster have also left. Are people embarassed because they can't spin their good 'ol boy yarns with impunity? Shouldn't they instead be embarrassed by their own behavior?
Has my friend BOOMM now become embarrassed because these guys have left? BOOMMerino, you're bigger than all those other guys put together!
Really, if there's some sort of rule that "owners" can say whatever they want and you are only allowed to say "yowsa!" in response, then that rule needs to be published somewhere. We should not have to guess.
And if you want to be the "owner" of an open forum, you really need to be careful with your "facts" or grow a thicker skin.
Challenging an indecent and disrespectful accusation is not an act of disrespect; it is an act of decency and respect.
As one of the owners, I can tell you that there is NO rule that we can say whatever we want without restraint. We can always be challenged as long as it is respectful, which is the way folks can be expected to be treated by us as well.
We are providers of a medium of communication, not "popes." We're not the pastors of this place, we're only servants who desire to provide a place where people of (varying degrees) of like precious faith can gather and have freedom of discussion within bounds of decency and decorum.
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"Those who go after the "Sauls" among us often slay the Davids among us." Gene Edwards
As one of the owners, I can tell you that there is NO rule that we can say whatever we want without restraint. We can always be challenged as long as it is respectful, which is the way folks can be expected to be treated by us as well.
We are providers of a medium of communication, not "popes." We're not the pastors of this place, we're only servants who desire to provide a place where people of (varying degrees) of like precious faith can gather and have freedom of discussion within bounds of decency and decorum.
I appreciate you all for these reasons. Thanks for providing us a place.
As one of the owners, I can tell you that there is NO rule that we can say whatever we want without restraint. We can always be challenged as long as it is respectful, which is the way folks can be expected to be treated by us as well.
We are providers of a medium of communication, not "popes." We're not the pastors of this place, we're only servants who desire to provide a place where people of (varying degrees) of like precious faith can gather and have freedom of discussion within bounds of decency and decorum.
As one of the owners, I can tell you that there is NO rule that we can say whatever we want without restraint. We can always be challenged as long as it is respectful, which is the way folks can be expected to be treated by us as well.
We are providers of a medium of communication, not "popes." We're not the pastors of this place, we're only servants who desire to provide a place where people of (varying degrees) of like precious faith can gather and have freedom of discussion within bounds of decency and decorum.
I would like to point out two things.
1. I am not an owner.
2. I am THE food POPE.
in fact I am the ONLY Pope in AFF.
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Hi LadyC, been missing your posts around here. Glad to see ya back.......
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Don't worry, as long as we keep BOOMM in our hearts he will never truly be gone.
Here, the ever optimistic BOOMM offers a toast while in the foreground Pelathais pokes at his "food." Though this pic is from some time in the previous century BOOMM has the same hair today.
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