speakword2004
07-24-2006, 02:41 PM
I have really enjoyed my time here recently, but today my belly is sour. I started reading Factnet (I did not post for ages) when it was just Bill and Ginger and a couple of other nuts in the cake and somehow during that time I managed to resign membership in May last year. The first 6 months of Factnet was easy to stomach. Then in April this year, I was ready to throw in the towel, but Philip Rosenthal encouraged me to stay and I did. John Jones was also instrumental in feeding my resolve to encourage others and participate in this little community of tolerance and sharing. He did not manage to wrest the shotgun out my hands, I don't think he tried, but I have been a little less trigger happy since.
I have noticed a couple of trends here:
1. As always more people are reading than posting
2. People are reading for information, confirmation and direction
3. Regular posters see the need for community and fellowship as being most important
4. Some posters belive that this is a Christian site and that everything we write and say must adhere to their Christian standards or the Christian standards previously taught to them
5. This site must either be:
a. A place of disorderly friendly chaos with no or little structure
b. A well structured and orderly information library
6. People are becoming increasingly intolerant of different agendas.
Its like the ending of "Cool Hand Luke" (1967). Paul Newman's character, Luke, an escapee, stands unarmed in the doorway of a farmhouse surrounded by policemen and shouts to the awaiting posse:"What we have here is a failure to communicate". Then he is shot in the neck by one of the wardens. Supreme irony.
Every now and then we miss each other. Sorry, but this is not a church and this is not a democracy or an autocracy. You want to partcipate in cyberspace, then be ready for some spacemen like me.
I have noticed a couple of trends here:
1. As always more people are reading than posting
2. People are reading for information, confirmation and direction
3. Regular posters see the need for community and fellowship as being most important
4. Some posters belive that this is a Christian site and that everything we write and say must adhere to their Christian standards or the Christian standards previously taught to them
5. This site must either be:
a. A place of disorderly friendly chaos with no or little structure
b. A well structured and orderly information library
6. People are becoming increasingly intolerant of different agendas.
Its like the ending of "Cool Hand Luke" (1967). Paul Newman's character, Luke, an escapee, stands unarmed in the doorway of a farmhouse surrounded by policemen and shouts to the awaiting posse:"What we have here is a failure to communicate". Then he is shot in the neck by one of the wardens. Supreme irony.
Every now and then we miss each other. Sorry, but this is not a church and this is not a democracy or an autocracy. You want to partcipate in cyberspace, then be ready for some spacemen like me.