Posted by beardedlady on July 8, 2002, at 9:21:53
Lou wrote:
> > pros. to me means to try and recruit someone into a particular religion. Like Islam or Cristiandom. Jews do not pros. My experiance is what I am telling you as to what happenend to me that enabled me to overcome, and to fullfill a promise to the Rider.Dr. Bob wrote:
> I agree, IMO it's more telling people your story than trying to recruit them. They may not be interested in hearing it, but they don't have to listen...
Once again, you are determining intent, something you argued with me that you couldn't do when I asked for leniency on behalf of other posters. In cases of blocks, you're determining someone's intent to be negative, though it's obvious only some of the time. In this case, you determine Lou's intent to be positive, when almost everyone else disagrees.When a poster on the med board quoted the Salvation Army, you called it sloganeering or something of that nature. When Lou answers every post with reference to his religious experience, it's simply "telling his experience." Here is a man who would like to see everyone ditch his meds and pass through the gates, following his path to self-righteousness. We know this because he has said it in the past. So that is certainly the "intent" behind his Gates posts. What about this is not proselytizing? The fact that he SAID he wasn't doing it? That he SAID he wasn't trying to convert anyone and, instead, called it "telling his experience"?
When others ask him a simple question, he answers in lengthy, multiple-post parables. And this is called supportive? When those posters still don't understand the answer and ask for a yes or a no, Lou answers in another parable, and it's still considered supportive?
Maybe we are using different dictionaries.
beardy
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