[Capt McQuigg]

JayneK,

Why not start a new thread and discuss which spiritual book you are currently reading?

[Meg]

Thank you again for your advice.  I did discuss this with my spiritual adviser.  He has told me to fast from forums on Fridays and pay attention to how I react to being away from them for a day.  I expect we will discuss this further the next time I see him.

Sounds like you have a good spiritual director. I think I'll try the same thing - fast from forums on Fridays, and see what my reaction is. It's a really good idea, and thanks for posting it.

[Jaynek]

JayneK,

Why not start a new thread and discuss which spiritual book you are currently reading?

Maybe some day.  I don't think people are ready for me to start threads yet.  I should spend some time showing that I know how to behave myself first.  I plan to be mainly posting about cooking and women's topics for a while.

[MaterDominici]

Thank you again for your advice.  I did discuss this with my spiritual adviser.  He has told me to fast from forums on Fridays and pay attention to how I react to being away from them for a day.  I expect we will discuss this further the next time I see him.

Sounds like you have a good spiritual director. I think I'll try the same thing - fast from forums on Fridays, and see what my reaction is. It's a really good idea, and thanks for posting it.

I read this recently and renewed my commitment to take little breaks now and then.

The problem—for me—is not time spent posting. It’s reading something and then trying to walk away from it and having it live in my brain for hours (or days). Where is the fine line between being educated and engaged and distracted and disturbed? I've been trying to step away from social media entirely on the weekends. On Sunday, I logged into Facebook briefly to wish Michael a happy birthday. I ended up clicking on just one link to just one article. But that one article so bothered me that I stewed on it all day. It still bothers me. Far better, I think to be a little less informed and a lot more peaceful?

(from elizabethfoss.com)

I don't mind having something brewing in my head all day, but I can't operate like that constantly, so if I have a few days where I've been preoccupied with things I've read online, I'll take a few days off or save certain articles (and CathInfo threads) for later.

[Meg]

Thank you again for your advice.  I did discuss this with my spiritual adviser.  He has told me to fast from forums on Fridays and pay attention to how I react to being away from them for a day.  I expect we will discuss this further the next time I see him.

Sounds like you have a good spiritual director. I think I'll try the same thing - fast from forums on Fridays, and see what my reaction is. It's a really good idea, and thanks for posting it.

I read this recently and renewed my commitment to take little breaks now and then.

The problem—for me—is not time spent posting. It’s reading something and then trying to walk away from it and having it live in my brain for hours (or days). Where is the fine line between being educated and engaged and distracted and disturbed? I've been trying to step away from social media entirely on the weekends. On Sunday, I logged into Facebook briefly to wish Michael a happy birthday. I ended up clicking on just one link to just one article. But that one article so bothered me that I stewed on it all day. It still bothers me. Far better, I think to be a little less informed and a lot more peaceful?

(from elizabethfoss.com)

I don't mind having something brewing in my head all day, but I can't operate like that constantly, so if I have a few days where I've been preoccupied with things I've read online, I'll take a few days off or save certain articles (and CathInfo threads) for later.

Good advice. You're right about being preoccupied with things that have been read online. And the quote from the elizabethfoss site is good....especially the part, "Far better, I think to be a little less informed and a lot more peaceful." I"m going to keep that in mind.

I always appreciate your good insight and mature approach, Mater.

[Jaynek]

I always appreciate your good insight and mature approach, Mater.

This.  

[icterus]

Thank you again for your advice.  I did discuss this with my spiritual adviser.  He has told me to fast from forums on Fridays and pay attention to how I react to being away from them for a day.  I expect we will discuss this further the next time I see him.

No problem.  Glad I could help.

BTW, just for fun today, I decided to see if I could get banned from CAF with just one post.  Was no problem.  I just posted one sentence about the problem of reconciling Darwinism with doctrine concerning the Fall and bam, I was banned without even a warning.  I think tomorrow I'll try to see if I can get re-banned from Vox-land with just one sentence.  This is a fun game.  

[2Vermont]

Thank you again for your advice.  I did discuss this with my spiritual adviser.  He has told me to fast from forums on Fridays and pay attention to how I react to being away from them for a day.  I expect we will discuss this further the next time I see him.

No problem.  Glad I could help.

BTW, just for fun today, I decided to see if I could get banned from CAF with just one post.  Was no problem.  I just posted one sentence about the problem of reconciling Darwinism with doctrine concerning the Fall and bam, I was banned without even a warning.  I think tomorrow I'll try to see if I can get re-banned from Vox-land with just one sentence.  This is a fun game.  

lol

[Himagain]

I am a fool for not realizing it when you were flirting with that new guy who did not know your story and he left in embarrassment and anger once he discovered the truth.  But I realize it now and I am not helping you to hide the truth any more.

LOL WHAT?!  

I am sorry, Vox.  If you feel that you must ban me for this, rest assured that I will not be one of those people who goes around trashing you in other forums.  I consider you a friend.  And as a friend I have a greater responsibility to speak the truth to you.  The truth is that pretending that Impy is a woman is wrong.

Why not?  "Bash" away.  That place is filthy.

Whoa, seriously a Trad went to a Trad forum, was maybe hoping to find a nice trad woman to date and eventually marry and ends up flirting with a tranny?

 :roll-laugh1:

Not funny at all.  Just outrageous, disgraceful, and awfully sad.  
Imagine the shame and disillusionment.  
I hope that guy's all right, and has stuck with the Faith.  

[Himagain]

Also I'm dying to see where the dude was flirting with Impy and got pissed when he found out.

It is in this thread: flirting Other things are going on so you need to skin through the whole thing.

OHCA, et.al. are apparently seduced into looking at trash to satisfy some merciless and prurient interests with the active assistance of the very person they have lambasted as one who willfully misleads.  

[Jaynek]

OHCA, et.al. are apparently seduced into looking at trash to satisfy some merciless and prurient interests with the active assistance of the very person they have lambasted as one who willfully misleads.  

I can't say anything about people's motives for wanting to see the thread.  My reason for giving the link was so that nobody would have to take my word for it.  People could see for themselves the situation that I had described.

I agree with you completely that it was disgraceful, outrageous and sad.  As I already said, I am deeply ashamed that I was complicit in this deception.  If it is any consolation, "Daddy" thoroughly chastised me in PM as I deserved.

[Croix de Fer]

This lady coming to JayneK's defense might point to something fairly obvious that I don't think anyone has yet considered - that the complaints of the Charity Police are very frequently (around here at least) lobbed by women at men...

Is it simply a matter of the innate differences between the sexes clashing during online discourse? Women are emotional creatures whose capacity for dispassionate,  rational argumentation is limited by their very nature. And with good reason - disputation and debate are inherently masculine pursuits. I've known more than a few Catholic women who are otherwise doctrinally sound who will bristle at an assertion of Catholic truth if it comes across as "mean" or "harsh" and will then foolishly conflate an agressive masculine style with a "lack of charity."

Look at FE. There's a textbook example of the kind of madness that will ensue when a woman is not only engaged in disputation, but is actually in charge of the forum in which it plays out.

"Let the woman learn in silence, with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed; then Eve. And Adam was not seduced; but the woman being seduced, was in the transgression." 1 Timothy 2:11-15

Bumpin' a blast from the past. Truth.