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Offline graceseeker

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most people are shallow, it seems
« on: July 24, 2017, 06:01:58 PM »
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  • I think that explains something another poster (Cristo?) said about how he gets no response a lot of the time.

    I think people have Attention Deficit, probably b/c the world is just so diabolical these days and everyone is in a perpetual state of disturbed-ness.
    But also people generally are just kind of shallow. They care a little about this and that but they don't want to g et too far "into the weeds" and so they just go off and start another Topic.. and after a couple replies (if that) they go off and start yet another one.

    I find this very rude (among other things)

    grow up already

    (sorry, couldn't help it)


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    Re: most people are shallow, it seems
    « Reply #1 on: July 24, 2017, 06:18:17 PM »
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  • Look, a little advice I can give you from my 50+ years of experience: Don't expect too much from people. We are fallen beings. We had a winning ticket to the lottery and we tore it up and flushed it down the toilet. People are in general duplicitous, hypocritical, cowardly, and self-serving, me included, more than most, probably.

    Expecting goodness out of people is a liberal trait. That's why they can't understand why all their schemes to help the "underpriveleged" and the "disadvantaged" and the "victims of discrimination" always come to naught. Give people an inch, and they'll take a mile. There is just enough of a spark of goodness in us that we occasionally do something good and Godly, and that exists just to remind us of what God is like and how far we have fallen away from Him.

    I say this because I've noticed that a lot of your threads deal with dismay at others' behavior. Learn to expect the worst (of others) and you'll never be disappointed.
    St. Jude, who, disregarding the threats of the impious, courageously preached the doctrine of Christ,
    pray for us.


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    Re: most people are shallow, it seems
    « Reply #2 on: July 24, 2017, 06:40:49 PM »
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  • Look, a little advice I can give you from my 50+ years of experience: Don't expect too much from people. We are fallen beings. We had a winning ticket to the lottery and we tore it up and flushed it down the toilet. People are in general duplicitous, hypocritical, cowardly, and self-serving, me included, more than most, probably.

    Expecting goodness out of people is a liberal trait. That's why they can't understand why all their schemes to help the "underpriveleged" and the "disadvantaged" and the "victims of discrimination" always come to naught. Give people an inch, and they'll take a mile. There is just enough of a spark of goodness in us that we occasionally do something good and Godly, and that exists just to remind us of what God is like and how far we have fallen away from Him.

    I say this because I've noticed that a lot of your threads deal with dismay at others' behavior. Learn to expect the worst (of others) and you'll never be disappointed.

    :confused:

    What makes you  think I don't already expect the worst? ha ha... shows how much you know me

    I think they are all demons, in fact. But I do get the point (I think I do anyway) that just b/c I am in the process of cleaning up my act doesn't mean others are.. I noticed that within myself not long ago, that I really do expect certain things from people. But the thing is, i don't feel i expect a whole lot and of course, they cannot even do that much... cannot even do the minimum required by our Lord.. It is when Catholics act like.. pagans and such that I really get annoyed (putting it mildly)

    and that "we're only human" nonsense only goes so far. It doesn't seem to hold much wwater  with the Lord, who "sends" most people off to Hell... Of course, they send themselves but anyhow..

    so here is the thing: If God does not accept bad behavior [hate to sound like I am paraphrasing the so called pope but]  who am I to accept bad behavior?

    u have to admit I have a good point there, eh?

    :-X

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    Re: most people are shallow, it seems
    « Reply #3 on: July 24, 2017, 07:24:03 PM »
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  • Oh, but God does tolerate bad behavior! If He didn't, we would all have been wiped off the face of the earth a long time ago! The amazing thing is that He loves us anyway. And there is the heart of the Christian message. In spite of all of our faults, we are commanded to love each other and forgive each other as God loves and forgives us. It's what we pray every day in the Our Father. We ask God to treat us as we treat others. How can we expect forgiveness from God if we can't forgive our neighbors? It is in that way, our capacity to love and forgive, that we are truly made in God's own image. If we lose that ability, we lose all resemblance to God and we turn away from Him and the paradise He has prepared for us. We turn into that Pharisee, praying at the Wall in Jerusalem, thanking God that he's not a lousy sinner like that publican standing next to him, beating his breast in repentance.

    Humility is accepting the fact that even though you may have improved in some areas, maybe you are a little bit closer to God than some other people, but you still recognize that you are a stiff-necked, obstinate sinner in need of divine mercy. Maybe that jackass you encountered today was having one of his worst days. Maybe he's really miles ahead of you on the race towards salvation. Our vision is so clouded by sin, and so obscured by our enemies the flesh, the world, and the devil, that we can never really be sure of how far ahead or behind others we are. And that's a good thing. That's what makes us humble. That's what makes us turn like little children towards God in need of His mercy, without which we will surely perish.
    St. Jude, who, disregarding the threats of the impious, courageously preached the doctrine of Christ,
    pray for us.

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    Re: most people are shallow, it seems
    « Reply #4 on: July 26, 2017, 05:53:40 PM »
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  • I think that explains something another poster (Cristo?) said about how he gets no response a lot of the time.


     It was Viva Christo Rey.
    In addition to what St Jude wrote, some people are just busy too. I only have time to visit once or twice a week. In that time threads i posted to can be off the first page already or I may have forgotten all of the threads I posted to and therefore miss a response.


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    Re: most people are shallow, it seems
    « Reply #5 on: July 27, 2017, 02:41:36 PM »
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  • . How can we expect forgiveness from God if we can't forgive our neighbors?
    i was w/ you until you said this
    I don't appreciate the implication that I do not forgive. If you think that, you have totally misinterpreted my posts. 
    So now maybe I will read the rest of your post but please do not make assumptions like that... it is highly presumptuous