Author Topic: Flamingly fast start by BRCatholic (Read 3039 times)

AlligatorDicax · « **on:** July 17, 2015, 02:15:26 PM »

I don't suppose that the CathInfo owner-moderators keep records of this, but a newbie is making quite an, um, impressive start on CathInfo:

Yes !  In only a week-&-a-half as a member of CathInfo, BRCatholic has evoked nearly 4 times as many critics as likers, in entirely sensible reäaction to 58 posts total (6.6 per day).

Flaming or insulting at least 3 well-established & respected members individually (never mind the juvenile insult to me), and making pompous demands of the owner-moderators, is all part of this newbie's charm-offensive. As for the latter, I assume they're just feeding out enough slack for a hanging: Free entertainment while they wait for a break in the rush of their family's real life.

While we members keep an eye out for official action by the owner-moderators, may I recommend that we move responses by CathInfo members to BRCatholic to this topic here in the "General Discussion" forum

, out of the Internet dark alley of the anonymous coward-&-provocateur-friendly "Anonymous Posts Allowed" forum?  We have no need to endure extra demands on the various personal Internet-time budgets/allocations of each CathInfo member, by wasting our time on replies from anonymous "Guest"s.

And I (humbly) request--but certainly know better than to arrogantly demand (ahem)--that the CathInfo owner-moderators keep this thread extant & unlocked, to minimize the collateral damage to other topics that's already being done by the flaming and disorderly thinking that's frothing from this juvenile troll.

After originating this topic, I'll be posting a remedial link to it from at least 1 already hijacked topic in which I was lately participating.

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Note *: Absent any forum that seems to've been created to confine episodes of personal modernist narcissism, e.g.: an "It's All About Me" forum.

BRCatholic · « **Reply #1 on:** July 17, 2015, 02:26:30 PM »

Did you go to the confession ?

Disputaciones · « **Reply #2 on:** July 17, 2015, 03:02:45 PM »

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Did you go to the confession ?

What is "the confession"?

BRCatholic · « **Reply #3 on:** July 17, 2015, 03:13:37 PM »

Quote from: Disputaciones

Quote from: BRCatholic
Did you go to the confession ?

What is "the confession"?

I guess you know.

PerEvangelicaDicta · « **Reply #4 on:** July 17, 2015, 03:21:45 PM »

AD, I always get a kick from your uber efficient approach to things. You have a very identifiable style.

Fwiw, cup-half-full here, but I am hoping that BRC can be coached to be less defensive, and come to understand that we are not the enemy. His command of English is impressive, but it's not his first language and may contribute to his misunderstandings of member comments. Edit: and vice versa.

Regardless, a new member with a shoot-from-the-hip approach alienates his brothers, when instead they could be learning from / helping each other.

Matthew's recent counsel is invaluable, especially for new members:

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In all things, charity -- we can never dispense ourselves from the law of Charity. Christ desires that all men be saved, and no one on earth is worthy of our hatred. Only the devils in hell may be hated. Since the Church does not declare anyone to be in Hell, we may only pray for the deceased -- not hate them. When disagreeing with other members of the forum, we must keep in mind that we will be judged on how much we loved God, and by extension our fellow men. God loves us with the highest kind of love, so the closer we draw to God, the more WE will love our fellow men as well. This was displayed again and again in the lives of the Saints.

We all struggle to accept charitable correction as a gift from the Holy Ghost. It's no easy task, to swallow pride when in debate or argument.

Disputaciones · « **Reply #5 on:** July 17, 2015, 03:31:45 PM »

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Did you go to the confession ?

What is "the confession"?

I guess you know.

I've never heard of such a thing.

ihsv · « **Reply #6 on:** July 17, 2015, 04:17:02 PM »

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Quote from: BRCatholic
Did you go to the confession ?

What is "the confession"?

I think it's like using "", as per G. Bush.

Nadir · « **Reply #7 on:** July 17, 2015, 07:44:54 PM »

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Did you go to the confession ?

"the" confession shows

either PED is correct about BR using English as his second language; (that has not been my perception)

or BR is not familiar with Catholic terminology, showing that he is no Catholic.

He did say on another thread that he is not a Jєω. Can't remember how he illustrated that, something about not playing the victim etc.

JezusDeKoning · « **Reply #8 on:** July 17, 2015, 08:17:10 PM »

Quote from: Nadir

Quote from: BRCatholic
Did you go to the confession ?

"the" confession shows

either PED is correct about BR using English as his second language; (that has not been my perception)

or BR is not familiar with Catholic terminology, showing that he is no Catholic.

He did say on another thread that he is not a Jєω. Can't remember how he illustrated that, something about not playing the victim etc.

"BR"Catholic might indicate that he's from Brazil. IIRC, (and Centroamerica, feel free to correct me), the Sacrament of Confession is known as "A Confissão" (or "the confession") in Portuguese.

AlligatorDicax · « **Reply #9 on:** July 17, 2015, 08:21:19 PM »

Quote from: AlligatorDicax (Jul 17, 2015, 3:15 pm)

In only a week-&-a-half as a member of CathInfo, BRCatholic has evoked ~~ nearly 4 times ~~ as many critics as likers, in entirely sensible reäaction to ~~ 58 posts total (6.6 per day) ~~.

Now  fully 5 times as many critics, in only 63 posts total (6.97 per day). Keep that charm-offensive crankin' !

Quote from: BRCatholic ("... honest here, or honest there?": Jul 16, 2015, 5:01 pm)

Are you talking to me?  If so let me know...

Quote from: BRCatholic ("... honest here, or honest there?": Jul 16, 2015, 7:58 pm)

[...] completely gratuitously, as I wasn't even talking to him.

You're seriously confused about CathInfo, including about what it is, and what it isn't.

What CathInfo is: primarily an Internet discussion forum, being descended from small-computer dial-up bulletin boards, and closely related to USENet news-groups.

What CathInfo is not: for starters, not a blog; but more to the point, not a chat room nor an instant-messaging channel (i.m.). Therefore, operationally & socially, there is no concept on CathInfo of "talking to" nor of being "talked to". Any member can jump into any topic, and comment on anything that you have posted (and, I assert, do so at any time). Any member is under neither an operational nor a social obligation to "let you know". So get over it !

As has been recommended at least once already, you really ought to read the less-than-dozen Web pages of "CathInfo rules -- refresher and summary".  And do it thoughtfully, from top to bottom. We can pray that it'll result in the obviously overdue attitude adjustment, or at least an obviously overdue behavioral adjustment that's evident on CathInfo, one that will be satisfactory to the majority of your sensible critics. Unless, of course, you aspire to being nothing better in computer forums than a juvenile troll.

Centroamerica · « **Reply #10 on:** July 17, 2015, 08:53:12 PM »

As a native English speaker, I have to admit that I didn't catch that misuse of the article "the". I would definitely say that he is not a native English speaker. The question is: Which language would use an article to express this? In the Romantic languages I know, it would be expressed with a verb instead of "go to confession"="confesarse". But that doesn't make sense out of the excessive article "the". Maybe he is a Polack. That would seem to sort itself out.

Disputaciones · « **Reply #11 on:** July 17, 2015, 10:15:22 PM »

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As a native English speaker, I have to admit that I didn't catch that misuse of the article "the". I would definitely say that he is not a native English speaker. The question is: Which language would use an article to express this? In the Romantic languages I know, it would be expressed with a verb instead of "go to confession"="confesarse". But that doesn't make sense out of the excessive article "the". Maybe he is a Polack. That would seem to sort itself out.

He already said his first language is Portuguese.

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #12 on:** July 17, 2015, 10:36:11 PM »

AlligatorDicax · « **Reply #13 on:** July 17, 2015, 10:55:12 PM »

Quote from: BRCatholic (Jul 17, 2015, 3:26 pm)

Did you go to the confession ? 

I do not accept responsiblity--certainly not the stain of sin--for any of your aggressive leaps to incorrect conclusions in reading my posting ("... honest here, or honest there?": Jul 16, 2015, 1:23 pm), no matter how much you continue to nag.

It seems to me rather unCatholic and unmanly for any stranger to nag me about my visits to a confessional, which are none of their [expletives deleted] business, nor the business of anyone else except my confessor or spiritual director.

Now for some constructive criticism (No. 1) for a nonnative writer: In English, your unexpected definite article "the", is understandable as a nonnative mistake in translation. In U.S. English (at least), we "go to confession (sometimes capitalized, but never a definite article), whereas inside the church (in the sense of a building), we "walk to the confessional (never capitalized).

JezusDeKoning · « **Reply #14 on:** July 17, 2015, 10:55:36 PM »

BRCatholic, acho que seu comando na Inglês ê muito legal e parabéns em seu êxito aprender nossa lingua. Mais, você pode usar-lhe para coisas boas? Nossa fê, Nossa Senhora, Deus, etc. Muito obrigado e Deus te abençoe muito.

(For the English-speakers: BRCatholic, I see your command of English is great and well done learning our language. That being said, could you use it for good things? Our Faith, our Lady, God, etc. Thanks very much and may God bless you richly.)