[Faith-talk] Boy friends, et cetera

Fri Nov 7 01:42:49 UTC 2008

Julie, Now I'll take this public, since you did.

I didn't write you to counsel you; only to explain why we were 
getting old messages for a while, and to ask you not to respond on 
the list stating, or rather overstating, how old they are.  There is 
nothing we can do, and, if you continue this uncalled-for, angry 
behavior, I'll ask Dave to remove you.  I find it hard to believe 
that you are truly a Christian when you write this kind of stuff.

Folks, she did write me a message with blah a whole bunch of 
times.  I will counsel you now, Julie, to use your time more 
wisely.  I was only trying to be helpful, and I don't appreciate your 
spending your time to write me such stupid, nonsensical, immature 
messages.  You're 63; act like it.

Enough of this now from me.  I will say no more, but will do as I 
said.  I'm really angry!

 From the certain list moderator

At 07:23 AM 11/6/2008, you wrote:
>I know that when a certain moderator continues to write me off-list 
>and think she's the Pope or the only one with God's counsel, I shall 
>just write her privately:  Blah, blah, blah for a few lines.
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Penny Golden" <goldpen at frontiernet.net>
>To: "Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion" 
><faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:44 PM
>Subject: [Faith-talk] Boy friends, et cetera
>
>
>>Dear Readers,
>>
>>I read the note asking for prayer for a man who is supposedly a
>>hypocrite and was avoiding the writer of the note.
>>I am afraid I felt a little sorry for the guy she was writing
>>about.  Is it possible that, somehow, she is pursuing this individual
>>in a way that is not comfortable for him?
>>He doesn't perhaps want to come out and say: could you back off--but
>>that may be the way he feels.  Is something embarrassing him about
>>the relationship?  Is he feeling somehow entrapped?
>>
>>I'm sorry to write on such a delicate subject in this manner.  We
>>don't have the entire story--and, probably, it is a good thing we do not.
>>
>>Maybe the boy wants some space.  maybe he has plans to visit the
>>parade with someone else.  Maybe, for some reason, he is not
>>comfortable with the writer.
>>
>>My Aunt, a wise old pagan, told me something that I have never forgotten:
>>
>>She said, "Penny, you must not be so possessive."
>>
>>I was twelve years old at the time; a friend of mine had promised to
>>come over and I was really fretted about it.  Yes, it was a broken
>>promise and it was not right of my friend to make a promise and 
>>then break it.
>>
>>But perhaps my wise old Aunt was correct: I was being too possessive
>>of my friend.  She might have wanted to pursue something that she was
>>uncomfortable for me to be a part of.
>>
>>I remember how Tom Sawyer would go down-town but he didn't want
>>Huckleberry to accompany him on such jaunts.  Huck and Tom were good
>>friends--but somehow, his raggedy friend Huck was a bit of a drawback
>>in some of Tom's plans and pursuits.
>>
>>I do have a wonderful group of friends whom, I think, feel
>>comfortable with me.  This subject might well be one that needs a
>>little airing.
>>
>>If we force our friends to play with us, at some point, they'll go
>>elsewhere, where we can't follow--just to get some breathing room.
>>
>>Forgive me if I've stepped on too many corns.
>>
>>On another subject--I've seen so much anger and unkindness in some
>>posts that I have just refused to read any further posts from people
>>who have hit me that way.  I never thought I would get to the place
>>where I would avoid reading correspondence to a list just based upon
>>the writer's name--for I'd been so disappointed in what I had read in
>>the recent past.
>>
>>Maybe that's how my letter hits some of our readers.  If so, I'm sorry.
>>
>>As blind people, we are pretty sensitive to having been discriminated
>>against in various situations--only because of the
>>blindness.  Sometimes it is true discrimination and it's
>>despicable.  Sometimes we have made ourselves so unlovable or so
>>nasty or so vociferous that we have made others tremendously
>>uncomfortable or embarrassed to be around us.
>>
>>Thanks for hearing me out.  I don't have a lot of answers--and I
>>haven't presented my thoughts too  rationally.  But perhaps someone
>>understands something of what I've tried to say.
>>
>>Kindest regards,
>>Penny
>>
>>P.S. I do hope this subject is not beyond the compass of this list.
>>
>>
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