NOT ON VACATION!!! Sometimes when your life is people, people, people, you have to get away and be alone.
What? Oh...you are those kind of tourists? Yes us townees know the type.
You come down here and really want to be in seclusion, and therefore you treat us (townees) like non-entities, the type who rarely smile at us, and drive around our town like we are invisible. Why? Because somewhere, someplace, their life is people. They're doctors, lawyers, entertainers, and preachers "who are on vacation." We are not a part of their schedule, and for the most part they will never have to deal with us again. Sister Sheri, I dig what Margie posted, because I have read in the past that Brother Eddie calls us your imaginary friends. To him we are. He sends the message that we are on the same level as Sea Monkeys that you purchased from an ad in a magazine. Just a little light entertainment, a way to pass some time, but maybe to your husband, a waste of time.
I guess when Brother Eddie hears you talk about us, you might sound like a woman talking about the characters on a afternoon soap opera. To you we are real people, people who you have built relationships with over the years.
People who have prayed for you and Brother Eddie, and have known you since Faith Child Forum days. Yet, it is one thing to communicate with us here on the Internet, but to flesh us out, and have to deal with us is another story. You posted to me back on New Faith Child Forum after you visited my city and informed me that Brother Eddie wouldn't be up to meeting me. Reason being he really wouldn't want to sit with anyone who thought he wasn't saved.
I can respect that, yet the Muslims, Rabbinical Jews, Trinitarians, Jehovah Witnesses, Eastern Orthodox Christians and Mormons who I sit with and discuss thousands of topics with have no problem with my view of their life choice. You see they once heard about me, but after they met me, and sat and talked with me, and even met my family, found me to be wonderful company. A virtual wealth of information, and one who has good sense of humor. I was raised around people who didn't take things personal, and could take a beating (and give one as well), yet still be able to coexist with those they had differences with.
Brother Eddie doesn't have to give me a job, or agree with me, or convert to my beliefs.
Elder Epley went to Plantation Barnes and Nobles looking for me first, and then when he didn't find me there (we no longer do Bible study in that location), he came looking for me at Fort Lauderdale's Big and Nasties (Barnes and Nobles) no big meeting, no large discussion on eschatology (I was saved by the book of Acts, not the book Revelation), we sat down for all about 15 minutes, and then he had to pick up Sister Epley across the street at Whole Foods Market. I hugged him and loved to see and meet a man that I have built a relationship with (via Internet) over the years.
Brother Eddie, doesn't want to take 15 minutes out of his vacation? 15 minutes to have me buy him a vanilla cappuccino venti frap? Then all I can say is I'm sorry to hear that.
Again, Elder Epley it was great to see you and hug you, and Brother Hoover, I really hope you are serious in wanting to look me up if you ever come my way.
There is not one person who I have posted with over the years that I wouldn't take the time to meet.
Passions run high here at times and we all have our strong positions on our views. Yet if we crossed each other's paths while out and about America we would be so pleased to shake each other's hand.
When I first met Brother Michael Blume he thought I was going to debate him straight out the gate, but we had the best fun visiting each other. I may think he is a Baptist now, but still, if he was in Fort Lauderdale I would want him to stop by and see me. Sister Blume, has a great sense of humor and is a pleasure to be around, and Brother Blume is way more fun in person.
Again, we don't meet each other to have debates and wrestling matches. Fifteen minutes, out of anyone's schedule (especially at two of the most frequented locations in the city of Fort Lauderdale aside from the beach) would be no problem. Yet, since we are imaginary and a way to kill time, it is no big deal to come to our towns and never seek us out.
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
Last edited by Evang.Benincasa; 07-16-2009 at 12:50 PM.
What? Oh...you are those kind of tourists? Yes us townees know the type.
You come down here and really want to be in seclusion, and therefore you treat us (townees) like non-entities, the type who rarely smile at us, and drive around our town like we are invisible. Why? Because somewhere, someplace, their life is people. They're doctors, lawyers, entertainers, and preachers "who are on vacation." We are not a part of their schedule, and for the most part they will never have to deal with us again. Sister Sheri, I dig what Margie posted, because I have read in the past that Brother Eddie calls us your imaginary friends. To him we are, he sends the message that we are on the same level as Sea Monkeys that you purchased from an ad in a magazine. Just a little light entertainment, a way to pass some time, but maybe to your husband, a waste of time.
I guess when Brother Eddie hears you talk about us, you might sound like a woman talking about the characters on a afternoon soap opera. To you we are real people, people who you have built relationships with over the years.
People who have prayed for you and Brother Eddie, and have known you since Faith Child Forum days. Yet, it is one thing to communicate with us here on the Internet, but to flesh us out, and have to deal with us is another story. You posted to me back on New Faith Child Forum after you visited my city and informed me that Brother Eddie wouldn't be up to meeting me. Reason being he really wouldn't want to sit with anyone who thought he wasn't saved.
I can respect that, yet the Muslims, Rabbinical Jews, Trinitarians, Jehovah Witnesses, Eastern Orthodox Christians and Mormons who I sit with and discuss thousands of topics with have no problem with my view of their life choice. You see they once heard about me, but after they met me, and sat and talked with me, and even met my family, found me to be wonderful company. A virtual wealth of information, and one who has good sense of humor. I was raised around people who didn't take things personal, and could take a beating (and give one as well), yet still be able to coexist with those they had differences with.
Brother Eddie doesn't have to give me a job, or agree with me, or convert to my beliefs.
Elder Epley went to Plantation Barnes and Nobles looking for me first, and then when he didn't find me there (we no longer do Bible study in that location), he came looking for me at Fort Lauderdale's Big and Nasties (Barnes and Nobles) no big meeting, no large discussion on eschatology (I was saved by the book of Acts, not the book Revelation), we sat down for all about 15 minutes, and then he had to pick up Sister Epley across the street at Whole Foods Market. I hugged him and loved to see and meet a man that I have built a relationship with (via Internet) over the years.
Brother Eddie, doesn't want to take 15 minutes out of his vacation? 15 minutes to have me buy him a vanilla cappuccino venti frap? Then all I can say is I'm sorry to hear that.
Again, Elder Epley it was great to see you and hug you, and Brother Hoover, I really hope you are serious in wanting to look me up if you ever come my way.
There is not one person who I have posted with over the years that I wouldn't take the time to meet.
Passions run high here at times and we all have our strong positions on our views. Yet if we crossed each other's paths while out and about America we would be so pleased to shake each other's hand.
When I first met Brother Michael Blume he thought I was going to debate him straight out the gate, but we had the best fun visiting each other. I may think he is a Baptist now, but still, if he was in Fort Lauderdale I would want him to stop by and see me. Sister Blume, has a great sense of humor and is a pleasure to be around, and Brother Blume is way more fun in person.
Again, we don't meet each other to have debates and wrestling matches. Fifteen minutes, out of anyone's schedule (especially at two of the most frequented locations in the city of Fort Lauderdale aside from the beach) would be no problem. Yet, since we are imaginary and a way to kill time, it is no big deal to come to our towns and never seek us out.
Wow! I can't tell how much of that was TIC, and how much you actually meant. Eddie is basically a very shy person; he doesn't meet strangers as well as I do. You would never know that by seeing him in public on the platform on Sundays, but he is basically shy. I'm just the opposite - I hate to get up front, but I can talk to the wall. I guess that's why we get along so well.
Anyway, no offense meant. I would love to meet you because I know you're harmless. You have to understand, when you've been talked about by conservative Pentecostals as much as we have, you tend to get a little gun shy and steer away from any kind of potential conflicts. Forgive us for that.
Maybe we'll look you up after all! You never know!
Is this the reason why your posting number is so high?
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
But seriously, I'll look ya up next time I'm in Ft. Lalaland. We'll have a great time!
Cool.
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
BTW, just so ya know, I don't really look like my avatar. More like this:
Just stay out of Wilton Manors you may never be found again.
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
Pardon me for interrupting this love fest to share a picture with Evangelist Benincasa. (The V-Max was like sitting on a split-rail fence, so I elected to go with a senior's style bike) I've got the training wheels off, and am having a lot of fun with it.
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