Begin Banned

[steveb (steveb)]

I found out today that I've been banned from the CCG board - the second cultic board from which I've been banned. The first was Phil Maxwell's board a few months back when he went ballistic after I had helped expose Phil's false accusations about his brother Steve's postings here on FACTNet, resulting in Steve's reinstatement to the CCG board and Phil's continued banishment.

The reasons for my own banishment from the CCG board remain unclear to me. The only reason I know about it now is because I tried to post there and got a message from the system that the moderator there had banned my IP address. (I used WebWarper and posted it anyway, so it will probably be deleted soon, but I did want to say something about the way Calvin was being treated there, even though very few people may ever see it there.)

In many ways, I feel this is sort of a badge of honor - it is roughly the equivalent of being declared a dissident and disfellowshipped by Community Chapel - and it makes me feel good about the direction I'm going more than anything else. It makes a statement that the CCG board's values are the polar opposite of my own, and I have no problem at all with honoring that.

(Message edited by steveb on March 10, 2006)

[steveb (steveb)]

Good grief. The title of this thread should have been "Being Banned" not "Begin Banned." Calv, you're a bad influence on me. I think I'm picking up your spelling habits.

Too bad we can't edit the titles of messages like we can edit their content here. On the other hand, "Begin Banned" isn't such a bad title anyway. Today I begin my banishment from the CCG board. A whole new exciting dimension to my life has opened up right before me...!

[calv (calv)]

Just let the artistic side out Steve!
sometimes our mistakes speak to a deeper level
subconciously

get to whats really underneath it all
know what I mean
probably not

[calv (calv)]

It' s all how the reader percives
what color glass
they choose to look thru!

the art
speaks to everyone
differntly

[steveb (steveb)]

<font color="0000ff">"It' s all how the reader percives
what color glass
they choose to look thru!"</font>

Yes, that's one reason I stopped even reading the CCG board. It was just so discouraging to see how Chapelites would twist what people wrote so they would fit into the Chapel view of things no matter what I or anybody else said to them. (Actually, I am convinced that many times they didn't even really read what I had written before responding with whatever they were going to say anyway, no matter what I wrote. They had already decided what I was and which Chapel pigeon-hole I belonged in as soon as I admitted seven years ago that I had begun thinking the Trinity was Biblical and the Chapel might have really been a cult after all.)

The Chapel really, really confused and damaged everybody who joined themselves to it. It's now good to be out of those deceptive beliefs entirely, and to realize the full part spiritual deception played there - good memories of good realtionships and good feelings while there doesn't validate anything. (Neither does the fact that we sat in classes nearly every day studying the Bible - many cults study the Bible a lot, but they are taught by people with a deceived understanding of it.)

The people on the Chapel board represent the people who are still clinging to and defending (to one degree or another) a well-developed but corrupt structure of belief and behavior that is still affecting them by preventing them from entering into a truly sound faith; but it's simply not worth one's time to keep trying to show them that, though I know the impluse to continue is very strong. The best one can do after one has tried for awhile is to pray for them and in the meantime get on with one's own faith and life in the Lord.