Posted on 10/31/2015 1:03:37 PM PDT by American Faith Today
So the third, and latest Republican debate is beyond us. I'll talk a little bit about who did well, who did okay, and who shouldn't have even bothered to show up. Also I'll have a little bit of news on Marco Rubio and Ben Carson. I also will talk primarily about this assistant football coach in Washington who is now suspended as well as this little 7th grade girl in Texas who apparently was given an assignment to take a position that God isn't real. She didn't want to do that, and with the school district shifting some details on this, it's probably a story that will stick around for a while at this rate. I will try to cover a couple of other stories as well, maybe even a couple of victories since those are all too rare these days. That's on American Faith Today at 4:30 Eastern time, and archived after that.
Anybody else get the impression that the “moderators” of the CNBC debate were openly being antagonistic and arguing with the candidates?
In a debate or joint press conference situation, aren’t moderators supposed to ask questions, keep people in line on topic, etc. BUT not to take sides or contradict what the candidates are saying? Aren’t they supposed to just ask questions and wait for the answer?
And this is nothing new. I’m still remembering George S. and that inane question in 2012 about states banning contraception. Candidates answered by saying it was not a good question because states were not seeking to ban it, nor were any candidates in favor of such bans. But George S. who will always be a loyal Democrat/Clintonista, wouldn’t let it go and kept badgering the candidates on that issue.
I would love to see future debates with moderators such as Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, not liberals.
How comes it to be that you figure your opinion is better than mine?
Saying the same thing over and over again might make for a nice self fulfilling prophecy and self validation.
What it doesn’t make it is objectively true.
You’re good at railing against people, me and from what I can tell others, for seemingly no good reason at all.
Your opinion on that debate is as valid as anyone else’s and you’re welcome to post it here. In fact, I’d be pleased and honored if you did.
I don’t know how anyone can NOT have that opinion. It was clear that they were trying to make every Republican up there look like the scariest monster imaginable.
I don’t see how questioning your authority to proclaim things as being “railing”.
Valid question.
Just who do you think you are to lecture anyone?
Valid question back
How is my having a “Blog Talk” show one iota different from posting something and sharing thoughts, input, and opinions on here, as we all do?
I could ask who you think you are to challenge and assume things about people whom you don’t know.
I could surmise that under your “rules”, no one should ever say anything, as we’re all a bunch of idiots without the authority or permission to do or say anything. After all, what “authority” do we have to proclaim or post anything here?
You see, I don’t really have a problem with you. But you’ve concocted this false belief that I’m on some ego trip elevating myself above other people.
I took advantage of something that yeah, isn’t all that- you’re right about some of the flaws of Blog Talk. But it interested me because I’d been in radio in the past and I jumped into it at a time in which I didn’t know what I was going to do with himself in a lot of ways. And sadly, because it indeed wasn’t all that and because I have no illusions that I’m the next Rush Limbaugh or superstar anything, it’s to this day more hobby than anything else.
I’ve considered stopping it altogether in the past but I haven’t because it is still enjoyable usually and because I’ve gotten enough private messages from good Christian people who appreciated it that I continue on with it, not for me, but for them. And when I get a message from them telling me about their business, their family, asking me to pray for them, telling other people about the show, or sharing with me a personal story of the Chattanooga shooting that occurred near their business, that personal connection makes it worth it to continue to do a show, whether it’s a home run on a particular day or a pop fly behind home plate on another day. I have days that I think, “It went well” and I have days where I think “That was kind of a mess.” But what I think is in many ways the least important part of it all.
I’m not anyone special at all. But for crying out loud, it’s a hobby I enjoy. Anyone can do what I do without necessarily having any special skills. Anyone can go start their own blog, post here at this forum, start their own business, whatever they love to do.
And if they do it, good for them!
You apparently want to live in the “bah humbug” realm of raining on parades and stealing enjoyment from people. If you do, you do I guess. Beats me as to what exactly you gain from it though.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
LOL... okay dude.
I can only imagine the ego it takes to presume to tell other people what they can and can not do.
Que sera sera.
Likewise I have trouble with the ego required to presume to lecture others.
Well then you would have to have a problem with yourself, since you’re lecturing to me.
So I guess that’s where you start, and then go from there.
What I actually find humorous though is if you actually KNEW me, not what you BELIEVE you know, you would encounter the least ego centric, almost shy if not at times timid (yeah that can be a weakness of mine) person that you’ve maybe encountered in all your life.
Although I don’t presume to know all the people you’ve encountered in your life. But nonetheless...
And in this you would discover your error.
Gunner habitually surrounds himself with folks who, like himself, are essentially innocuous, self effacing introverts without any vestige of pretension.
It makes for a real problem when we try to go out in public together because no one will presume to walk through a door first.
Interesting to know. Thank you for that.
Oddly, much to his apparent everlasting chagrin then, I would probably fit right into his circle of friends.
Although I don’t know if I am THAT bad when it comes to walking through a door. =P
This is ridiculously simple in terms of why what I do with this show. I’ve been blessed, by God or by chance, in my life to receive some extraordinary biblical teaching. Even with that, me being me, I almost made a complete mess of it.
But I don’t know if it’s everywhere I go, but certainly all throughout many venues and many corners of this world we live in, it’s lie after lie after lie that we encounter. Now I don’t claim to be the possessor of some unique truth, although again I do go back to that biblical teaching I alluded to. But even that, only by the grace of God was it ever received.
I remember after the election of 2012 immediately afterward feeling this great sense of darkness and depression. Not because Mitt Romney brought some great light. But because Barack Obama was, and is, that destructive and that evil. But I felt that way for about 5 minutes, picked myself up, and resolved to try, in some way, to share with people what little I knew and the tidbits that I believed in that were true. Whether it’s 2 people, 2 million, or 200 million. But the thing is, I’m never doing enough- due to my own limitations for one. Due to the fact that try as we might, some people just won’t be reached for another.
If I’m spreading lies and falsehoods then I’m doing something almost unforgivable. If I’m sharing truth, be it spiritual truth or hopefully political truth, there’s no ego in that. Sharing truth is the essence of and the greatest commandment of Christianity. If every Christian held back the truth about Jesus Christ out of some fear of being labelled an egomaniac or what have you, no one in this world would be saved. If every good man remained silent for fear of being labelled arrogant or presumptuous, evil would win every battle and ultimately the war.
I say that not to try to proclaim some divine mission. As a matter of fact, I’m sure there’s times I greatly disappoint God. I say that because it’s common sense to me. If you have something to share, whether it’s in written form online or in print, or whether it’s vocalized, and it’s with good intentions and full of truth, you share it. Holding it back is the least productive thing to do imaginable.
The one thing humblegunner does not know, CAN NOT know, and apparently, sadly, doesn’t care to know is the struggles I’ve been through in life that have knocked me so backward, sideways, and inside out that in some ways self confidence at times IS one of my greatest weaknesses. Self worth, self love and not feeling like a total failure and a screw up at times before God is one of my greatest weaknesses. And it was the case that when I was only working part time for a period in my life, thankfully a rather brief period, but only working part time, that in my mid to late 30’s not having any idea what in the world to do with myself, I went back in a sense to what I wanted to do coming out of college that I got away from, which was radio. And obviously, in terms of career, I still didn’t go that direction with it at this time.
But it to me is just so incredibly presumptuous, so incredibly ridiculous really to just ASSUME, without ANY evidence, that doing something like this is to satisfy ego for anyone, ESPECIALLY ME.
No, doing something like this is me trying to do some small service, and trying to figure out who I am and where I’m heading in life.
So it’s actually a little offensive to be accused of such when I consider it. And while I suppose his opinion of me doesn’t matter greatly to me as not everyone is going to like you, it is a public forum where these allegations are made and so I will try to set such things straight. And if pouring out my heart with such personal, if still somewhat vague, details, still causes your “friend” to think such things of me, well then I don’t know what to say other than the only thing that comes to mind.
Despite the fact there’s several willing to stand up for him, which means he’s a good guy at heart, he sure isn’t showing that. And again, he couldn’t be any more wrong if he was actively determined to be.
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