That’s not true.
^^^ Yes it is. I have found plenty of offending things said on this forum. Why do I not say anything about them? Because I can’t take a person’s right to speak their mind away from them. So if I don’t like what I find, I just have to deal with it as best as I can. I may ignore it, I may respond, whatever I feel is the best thing to do.
God bless you always!!!
Holly
You don’t?
Yes, you literally do not have the capability to prevent anyone from expressing himself. But this isn’t about rights, it’s about politeness and consideration. Your comments in the McCready thread were inconsiderate, and you should try not to be that inconsiderate in the future.
^^^ I consider the feelings of other people plenty. The question is, can the rest of you say that about yourselves too?
God bless you always!!!
Holly
I never said otherwise.
You don’t act like a Christian; you act like an asshole.
I don’t think you have very much insight into yourself. I don’t think you have very much to do with your time. I pity you. I hope you find a job or something that will let you learn and grow.
Oh, hell. I give up.
Every time you “bless” someone who doesn’t want to be “blessed”, you only make me think less and less of all “Christians”. Your behaviour is only serving yourself, not your God’s, and you are doing your god absolutely no favours by being such a sugar-coated bitch.
I am sorry that all you have in your life is a mediocre country singer and trolling message boards. There should be more than that. I am sorry for you.
^^^ I already have a job and I don’t spend my time trolling message forums when I am not at my job. When I am not helping my chronic ill mom, I spend my time spreading the word about my most favorite singer and if my favorite people do not interest you, why do bother wasting your time giving me grief about them? Do I give you grief about who you like? No.
God bless you and my mom and my other favorite people underneath the Lord always!!! 
Holly
P.S. Why not spend your time focusing on people that you do like instead of those that you can’t stand?
Not here you haven’t. You must’ve said a dozen times that you’re not responsible for other people “choosing” to be offended by your behavior, you’ve suggested the whole problem in the McCready thread was the fact that you couldn’t predict the responses of other posters (that was not the problem), and you’ve said you’re entitled to your opinion no matter what anyone else things. None of those bespeaks any interest in the feelings of other people. The bottom line is that your behavior in that thread was selfish and inconsiderate. In the Pit it’s another story, but what you’re saying gives me reason to think this is going to happen again, and it shouldn’t.
I can.
Just proved the asshole part.
The only thing that I will admit is that maybe my delivery can be better, but in the end, why should I keep who I am to myself when I have the right to share what I stand for like everyone else has and does?
God bless you always!!!
Holly
P.S. I can’t say that this will never happen again, but if it does, I will try to work on the way that I share what it is that I believe in. 
You’re being asked to follow the same rules everyone else does. In that thread, you didn’t (and that also goes for some other posters).
^^^ Like I just said, in the future I will try to work on the way that I share what it is that I believe in since that is pretty much how much this all got started in the first place.
God bless you always!!!
Holly
Impressive. I think I need that in needlepoint.
Nah. Your delivery can never get better. You are who you are.
Just remember that you are much like the fervent religious zealots who think that God commissioned them to save everyone else in the world. They knock on doors and try to convert people. They pass out tracts. They post their screeds on message boards. They’re a plague on humanity, but they’re safe from our DDT. We can’t use that anymore. God, how I miss the old days.
I don’t care how oblivious you are; it’s simply not possible for you to have been acting the way you’ve been acting, apparently for years, and not know that it’s offensive in any society, country, religion, frathouse, sorority, or any gathering of more than one person on this planet. In short: Yes, it is on purpose.
Now this is the Gospel Truth. Of course you don’t go out of your way. It’s your attention. You’re not an Internet Troll; you’re an All-Rounder Troll (ART, because I got tired of typing it). Kudos.
To be honest, I’m either too lazy to do the counting or too bad at it (maybe both), but how many times have you been told–at least once by board staff–that, no, you do not have such a right here, nobody has such a right. We all post here as a privilege and that is at the discretion of the board staff. Yet another suggestion for you: next time you register for a web board, actually read the user agreement instead of just checking the “agree” box.
Mighty Christian of you. :rolleyes: Oh, and that also reinforces my belief that you are an ART. Did you ever consider that maybe, just perhaps, posters here are trying to get you to not act like an ART? Hey, at least one person has already told you that is specifically what they’re trying to do and has expressed hope that (a) you stop being one and (b) your postings in the very near future and onwards be interesting to read as, apparently, they are in some other threads. Evidently, you are capable of that and that person, at least, wants to enjoy your posts.
People are going to say what they want, within the rules here.
By the way, thanks for at least not tossing out a million smilies.
I believe this is absolutely 100% true. You are happy that you cause offense with your comments. I think your comments are designed to cause offense. It’s part of the martyr complex which you obviously seek to experience.*
Please see my posting just above about ways to avoid that.
*I’m now finding myself wondering how much relation that has to Münchausen syndrome or the proxy version of Münchausen syndrome.
^^^ Like I said, if I am not the kind of person that you or anyone else here wants to see here, y’all are more than welcome to put me on ignore and if anyone doesn’t want to see you either, they will do the same because an issue like this will never be a one way street.
God bless you always!!!
Holly
You aren’t keeping “who you are” to yourself. You’re making it very clear “who you are” with every word you post.
Unfortunately, the problem is that “who you are” comes across through your words not as a humbly devout Christian who wants to be good and nurturing to her fellow humans as Jesus directed, but as a vain and self-righteous egotist who only cares about shouting from the housetops at every opportunity about how devout she is. * “God bless you always! God bless you always!! God bless you always!!! Goddy want a cracker! Awk!!”* :rolleyes:
Standing up for your beliefs is one thing. Shoving your beliefs into other people’s faces at every possible opportunity is something else again. No matter how good or sincere your intentions may be, it is not polite to impose your religious-themed opinions or greetings on groups of people when you know that some of them don’t share your religious beliefs.
Some hypothetical examples:
If your buddy James Otto died in a tragic car accident, heaven forbid, and you opened a Cafe Society thread to lament his passing, it would not be polite for some fundamentalist Hindu poster to write “Sad to think that James Otto is going to be reincarnated as a cockroach or a sewer rat because he broke the divine dharmic law about not eating meat.”
Not even if he added “Hey, I’m just stating the fundamental consequences of universal karma, I don’t mean to hurt anybody’s feelings! May Lord Vishnu protect you with Sudarshan Chakra and prevent your evil acts! :)”
Similarly, it would not be polite for a Muslim poster to end their responses to you by saying “May Allah show you the right path and make you among the chosen ones! :)”
So in short, James Otto Sweet Heart: if you really want to “share what you stand for” by making the people you’re talking to feel blessed, then you need to dial back your aggressive attention-demanding self-congratulatory “blessingitis”. Let the loving Christian self that you want to present be revealed through the kindness and thoughtfulness of your behavior, instead of desperately trying to advertise it with parrot-like repetitions of “Christianspeak” every time you post.
If, on the other hand, you don’t really care about actually being kind and thoughtful but simply want to annoy people who believe differently than you do, then just keep right on doing what you’re doing. Rest assured, we will see exactly “who you are”.
Marry me, Holly.
Wow, talk about taking one for the team. Unfortunately, it’s probably not legal in your jurisdiction to keep your wife locked in the basement with no internet access. (Although, come to think of it, I guess there are quite a few fundamentalist Christian communities that would consider it a legitimate husbandly prerogative under some circumstances.)