Are You Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?

I was just hoping that more would jump in there and just say, "Hey, Frank. You're breaking the law here." It was just a scenario. None of it was real. I don't understand why Frank felt he had to jump in there and wreak havoc. Well, I have my opinions about it though.

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I was just hoping that more would jump in there and just say, "Hey, Frank. You're breaking the law here." It was just a scenario. None of it was real. I don't understand why Frank felt he had to jump in there and wreak havoc. Well, I have my opinions about it though.

A position that won't stand up to examination and challenge is weak. Similarly, a poster that won't stand up to examination and challenge is similarly weak.

Frank thrives on challenge.

Totally nice guy, and/but not afraid to address challenges. Tough debater. Someone to respect.

3. Principles before personalities always applies in any situation.

When you consider that 3 or 4 people would have a hard time agreeing on a meal if everyone had to eat the same thing, how will society ever learn to get along and tolerate each other.

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When you consider that 3 or 4 people would have a hard time agreeing on a meal if everyone had to eat the same thing, how will society ever learn to get along and tolerate each other.

This is right on the mark, Intrepid: if people can't get along with their spouses or their parents, if people connive and politic in the office, if, in short, in our private lives, we can't even have peace and harmony, it's no wonder that there's no world peace. The only way there can be even a measure of peace is if people agree to abide by certain peace-promoting ordinances/statutes/rules.

For those who seem to be having a hard time "getting" what the goal of this thread is, Momma's purpose is precisely to see if on a mini-scale, folks can peaceably hammer out compromises and curtail their own egos enough to build a workable Mini-Nation. It's not that different from the Town Square concept.

It is a **GAME** with certain rules; if you want to participate, suspend animosities from other threads and simply work with the "givens." If you can not abide by the givens, simply start another thread where you build a parallel Mini-Nation with your own set of rules. It's that simple.

Kinda like in math, not working with the usual number base, OK Frank?

And Momma, I respectfully submit to the Council that rabble-rousers who've been admonished once be simply ignored. If you study other threads on this site, you will see that (after first shredding the "violator" to pieces), this is the standard procedure for marginalizing those whom the wolf-pack disapprove of. I think it would be an excellent tactic here (minus the shredding part, that is, LOL!).

Totally nice guy......Tough debater. Someone to respect.

As much as people want to live up to #2, we have seen evidence that it only takes 1 dissenter to cause people to break that rule. People react to being picked on, yelled at, cussed at, ridiculed and humiliated. In the anonymity and safety of a public forum, people are able to be brave and abrasive without fear of physical retribution. People can only endure so much before they fight back. Yes, even Christians can be pushed beyond the breaking point. It is also evident that friends of that dissenter will jump on his bandwagon, regardless of whether they agree with his bad manners and lack of compassion. They blindly follow a friend However, in this make believe senario, that dissenter would be banished before it got to that point. One bad apple and all that. Soon, all out civil war could ensue. We have to face the fact that some people do not want to consider other people's view and will do as they please regardless of the consequences.

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Totally nice guy......Tough debater. Someone to respect.

QUICK! I need the Heimlich Maneuver!