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Originally Posted by rgcraig
I don't like the labels either.
Another thing that I believe is a problem here too is we are very familiar with each other......it's a good thing, but because of it we also sometimes don't listen to the poster because we already have in our mind what we think they are saying.
I see this happening 9 times out of 10. I'd love to experiment with it sometimes if I could. I bet the same thing could be said by two different people and taken differently because of who said it and not what was being said. Make sense?
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That, my dear lady, is often the problem. I'll give an example of too much familiarity that happened to me today, so..today I was at work and we have a little girl (18) that goes to our church and she needed some money to buy scrubs for work. She starts at the hospital Monday and she's really struggling money wise and asked if she could borrow some money to get her some tops and of course, I said sure. Come by work and I'll give you a check. She did and her boyfriend brought her and he just had surgery on his knee on WEDNESDAY. We had a snow blow in Wed night and so our parking lot at work is still pretty slick because the sun doesn't hit that side for long. Anyway, I looked out there and he has a german shepherd/wolf mix that is big and he was out on the parking lot leaning up against his truck without his crutches and I said, "The little dummy, he's out there with out his crutches" (the "little dummy" is 6'5") and this young lady turns around and says " DUMMY, he's leaned up against the truck." The lady I work with just sat there with her mouth opened. She doesn't attend our church or anything and she was appalled and aggrivated that she would talk to me in such a fashion, especially considering I was loaning her money.
Familiarity often breeds contempt. We become so used to someone that we don't look at them with the proper amount of respect. (I'm not "playing the status card here. Here I am LadyCoonskinner, a person. Yes, my husband pastors but that's not the point here)
Whatever our position in life, we need to RESPECT others. I believe the Bible says, do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
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