This is why I don't have Facebook or go to parties

[ParticularWife]

I find interacting with people in an open forum where random people can annoy me with poorly written, repetitive arguments on subjects I don't care about a tedious and unrewarding experience. This is why I don't have social media, I just end up blocking everyone and putting my profile on private. I'm done here. The next forum I join will require an IQ test and a fee to post, I support gate keeping and discrimination in entry. Democracy is gay.

 

[KenH]

Sorry to see you go.

 

[ParticularWife]

Sorry to see you go.

I spend all my time with my family or my church. I genuinely dislike interacting with most people, especially when it comes to their opinions. Most people shouldn't even have opinions, they are clueless.

 

[DaveXR650]

I find interacting with people in an open forum where random people can annoy me with poorly written, repetitive arguments on subjects I don't care about a tedious and unrewarding experience. This is why I don't have social media, I just end up blocking everyone and putting my profile on private. I'm done here. The next forum I join will require an IQ test and a fee to post, I support gate keeping and discrimination in entry. Democracy is gay.

I kinda thought this would be the case, especially when you quoted John Robbins on another thread. You sound like one of his disciples. You might as well stick around. I've heard you can't leave, unless you get banned.

 

[Scarlett O.]

I kinda thought this would be the case, especially when you quoted John Robbins on another thread. You sound like one of his disciples. You might as well stick around. I've heard you can't leave, unless you get banned.

One can request to be deleted or banned. I just obliged someone last week. Not pleasant, but that was the person's wish.

 

[JPPT1974]

My dad doesn't like Facebook either. As he thinks that he would rather talk to people in person. That's just him I guess!

 

[KenH]

I find Facebook, Twitter, and Bluesky useful for spreading the gospel of Christ, such as verses of Scripture, and sermons by Richard Warmack and Bill Parker, et al.

 

[Scarlett O.]

I find interacting with people in an open forum where random people can annoy me with poorly written, repetitive arguments on subjects I don't care about a tedious and unrewarding experience. This is why I don't have social media, I just end up blocking everyone and putting my profile on private. I'm done here. The next forum I join will require an IQ test and a fee to post, I support gate keeping and discrimination in entry. Democracy is gay.

I spend all my time with my family or my church. I genuinely dislike interacting with most people, especially when it comes to their opinions. Most people shouldn't even have opinions, they are clueless.

You say that "most people shouldn't have opinions". Would that include opinions that the 19th amendment was wrong - woman should not have the right to vote? That was your opinion two days ago. You say democracy is "gay"? I would call that an opinion.

My dear, it's hard to tell just who people are on the internet. You know that. I have no idea if you have been trolling us or not and so I am just going to assume you are who you've said you are. And I'm going to assume that since you have school age children that I, at 63, am a lot older than you.

Let me, as the older woman and as the Bible says, teach you, the younger woman, something from my own experience.

There is a particular issue - well, let me call it what it is - a SIN that I struggle with and have struggled with for a long time. What is it? It's a critical spirit. You have it too. I've seen it in you in your many posts.

[1] We aren't educated enough for you here at the BB.
[2] We don't write well enough for you.
[3] Our collective IQ's are too low.
[4] Some here disagree with you on certain issues.
[5] You have great scorn for us.
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With those things, you have deemed us beneath you and lowered yourself to name-calling and rudeness. I understand. I am plagued with that bad and sinful attitude sometimes. On Facebook, online, in person, and with some of my own extended family - I can get very judgmental, critical, and bitter. Very fast! And I can use my mouth and my words to show how much "better" I am compared to them with my wisdom.

Every time that happens, it makes me feel HORRIBLE. Why? My pastor preached a sermon a few years ago on having a critical spirit and the damage it does to the Christian. It convicted me to the core and I try my hardest now to flee from it. Have I 100% been relieved of it? Nope. But I am trying very hard with the help of the Holy Spirit.

Here's a good reference to how to overcome it. As this link says, a criticial spirit is a "perversion of discernment'. How can I overcome having a critical spirit? | GotQuestions.org

If you don't come back here and read this, perhaps it may help someone else and I am going to read it myself.

Good bye and good day.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

You say that "most people shouldn't have opinions". Would that include opinions that the 19th amendment was wrong - woman should not have the right to vote? That was your opinion two days ago. You say democracy is "gay"? I would call that an opinion.

My dear, it's hard to tell just who people are on the internet. You know that. I have no idea if you have been trolling us or not and so I am just going to assume you are who you've said you are. And I'm going to assume that since you have school age children that I, at 63, am a lot older than you.

Let me, as the older woman and as the Bible says, teach you, the younger woman, something from my own experience.

There is a particular issue - well, let me call it what it is - a SIN that I struggle with and have struggled with for a long time. What is it? It's a critical spirit. You have it too. I've seen it in you in your many posts.

[1] We aren't educated enough for you here at the BB.
[2] We don't write well enough for you.
[3] Our collective IQ's are too low.
[4] Some here disagree with you on certain issues.
[5] You have great scorn for us.
​

With those things, you have deemed us beneath you and lowered yourself to name-calling and rudeness. I understand. I am plagued with that bad and sinful attitude sometimes. On Facebook, online, in person, and with some of my own extended family - I can get very judgmental, critical, and bitter. Very fast! And I can use my mouth and my words to show how much "better" I am compared to them with my wisdom.

Every time that happens, it makes me feel HORRIBLE. Why? My pastor preached a sermon a few years ago on having a critical spirit and the damage it does to the Christian. It convicted me to the core and I try my hardest now to flee from it. Have I 100% been relieved of it? Nope. But I am trying very hard with the help of the Holy Spirit.

Here's a good reference to how to overcome it. As this link says, a criticial spirit is a "perversion of discernment'. How can I overcome having a critical spirit? | GotQuestions.org

If you don't come back here and read this, perhaps it may help someone else and I am going to read it myself.

Good bye and good day.

Well said sister, well said