Posted on 07/04/2012 1:16:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Wellllllll Jim, Enjoy The Bed You’ve Made . SUMMARY: . IN COMPLEX INTERPERSONAL SITUATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS—WHO CAN KNOW WHAT IS “REALLY REAL?” APPEARANCES ARE WHAT IS REAL TO THE OBSERVER CONCERNED. So, in many respects, the REAL might be the opposite of the statements below. However, the statements ARE PERCEIVED TO BE—APPARENTLY REAL ENOUGH for evidently thousands of FREEPERS that only idiots would fail to give such assertions fitting prayerful pondering.
1. Your leadership and leadership culture are consistent with those of a fairly complex person—like many of us.
2. Your leadership and leadership team CAN be quite generous, forgiving, kind, patient, understanding, compassionate, stalwart, tough, durable, endearing, perceptive, sensitive, thoughtful, persistent, occasionally self-effacing, prefer peace and peacableness; . . .
3. Your leadership and leadership team CAN also be quite arrogant, mean-spirited, harsh, abusive, very foul-worded, hypocritical, mercenary, spiteful, !!!CONTROLLING!!!, narrow, rigid, brittle, prickly, vengeful, judgmental, erratic, flip-floppy, irrational, arbitrary, hypocritical, petty, shallow, prefer flailing about in bitter harsh ways . . .
4. Like all of us with such disadmirable traits, such junk MUST come from your early history and less than ideal fathering (or possibly mothering and/or both).
5. For whatever reasons you have failed to work such junk through very far or very thoroughly.
6. Which might be largely neither here nor there in the larger scheme of things—EXCEPT THAT—you HAVE BEEN GIVEN OF GOD an incredible honor, opportunity, calling, gift, mandate—which you have appeared to increasingly squander to alarming degrees on arrogance, greed, foul, petty, dishonorable ugliness and ineffectual chaotic nastiness, conflictedness, unnecessary contentiousness and the like.
7. As I’ve often said—it’s fine with me if FREEPERS make you rich every day. If a million FR users and lurkers wish to give you a dollar or 5 dollars a day or a month the rest of your life—GREAT. FR gives lots of usefulness, pleasure, relationships and community to many thousands of people daily day in and day out; year in and year out.
7.1 Given the importance of the financial aspect to so many people . . . here’s some comments I posted earlier:
7.2 There is FARRRR tooooo little transparency and candor in terms of finances generally and specifically.
7.3 There is FARRR TOOOOOOO much abuse of even long time users and big time donors. What kind of management brilliance does it take to run off for petty shallow reasons folks who donated $2,500 PER FREEPATHON . . . and folks who donated $500 PER FREEPATHON . . . folks who just left in disgust if not hurt and anger over the petty abuse they took (or their friends or people they respected took) for no good reason. There's evidently some sort of spiritual and psychodynamic sickness at the deep root of such nonsense. And it appears to be getting worse instead of better.
7.4 Begging for funds with various kinds of shallow manipulations and funky hogwash could just be harmless fun among friendly family . . . except that . . . those giving such funds faithfully for more than 10 years are NEVER REALLY SECURE in the RELATIONSHIP and not even in being able to enjoy the FR HOME THAT THEY PAID FOR AND HELPED BUILD from virtually the ground up.
7.5 At some point, the arrogant dogmatic !!!CONTROL!!! freaque domineering fist pounding that "IT'S HIS HOUSE!" "IT'S HIS LIVING ROOM!" is outrageous, hypocritical and just plain factual nonsense. It is FREEPERS who have built up the readership of FR. It is FREEPERS' creativity and writing skills and interesting personalities who have build up FR's once great attractiveness to a wider audience.
7.6 Who paid for the carpet? Who paid for the paint? Who paid for the furniture? Who paid for the pics on the wall? Who pays for the electricity? Who pays for the heat and air conditioning? Who pays the insurance? Who pays the other utilities? Who pays for the internet service? Who pays for the gardening? Who pays for the groceries? Who pays for the transportation? Who pays for the "coming soon servers" that never quite seem to arrive?
7.6.1 Just who is the guest of whom?
7.6.2 It appears that with readership down 16-20% over the last 6 months or so . . . an increasing number of people are flushing the 'guest' out of their lives.
7.7 Clearly, it's the FREEPER SHEEPLE who have been paying through the nose in the face of erratic, arbitrary, irrational abuse year in and year out--never knowing when the mean-streak is going to strike out and slap them hard or even ban them--sometimes in the foulest language any "Christian" was ever known to utter or write. And then their EXTENDED FAMILY that has become so dear and precious to them—sometimes their literal life-savers--will be suddenly flushed out of their lives with absolutely no recourse whatsoever.
7.8 It is ACTUALLY ABOUT AS REASONABLE to say that JR and family are the squatters in the FREEPERS' HOME. . . . you know . . . that old founding documents thing . . . OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE?
And even that wouldn’t be soooooo outrageous IF a REPRESENTATIVE sample (REPRESENTATIVE—AS IN “REPUBLIC”!!!) of the FREEPER COMMUNITY had a seat at the table to offer input and advice THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY THOUGHTFULLY AND FAIRLY CONSIDERED each quarter. But, NOPE, the fist pounding, insecure, arrogant !!!CONTROL!!! freak domineering junk always rules.
8. HOWEVER, the mean-spirited, arrogant, hypocritical etc. junk has APPEARED to poison your well from the beginning. There have been gross hypocrisies. Early on you were reportedly utterly convinced (with good reason, actually) that Bush was complicit in drug running through Arkansas etc. Yet, fairly early on, you became convinced or persuaded that any discussion of conspiracy stuff on FR had to be forbidden—and mocked as absurdly untrue.
9. You would pontificate at length about maintaining a CONSISTENT stance as a Republic on the unchanging values and foundation of the founding fathers and founding documents. You claimed therewith to be the Premier Conservative website etc. in support thereof. All this was repeatedly stated with great pontifical emotion and fanfare while your leadership and leadership team APPEARED TO BE an erratic, irregular grossly inconsistent, grossly petty, shallow, flip-floppy and often a pathetic chaotic, haphazard, directionless mess.
10. Some folks have documented that few of the political figures you have ended up supporting have won. I don’t know that THAT means a huge lot, given the globalists insuring that the whole SElection/voting mess is 98% farce, charade, futile. However, there’s been a great deal of emotion, energy, expense, time, angst UTTERLY AND TOTALLY WASTED on !!!DEMANDING!!! that loyal FREEPERS support person XYZ and NOT ABC under pain of banning. Only to wake-up the next morning and have to flip-flop with the FR leadership team—too often—seemingly 180 degrees. And to do that with a straight face as though it were rational, made sense and was of benefit to the Republic has been more than a little off the wall and mystifying to thousands of FREEPERS. I don't know where folks were supposed to check their brains and integrity as they complied with the FR Pied Piper in following that nonsense lock-step.
11. You have evidently repeatedly and reportedly from the early years--returned evil for good. That’s been true toward individuals and toward classes and groups of individuals. There’s no excuse for that. None. There’s dozens of ways to avoid that in any kind of disagreement. SOMETIMES it has APPEARED that you and/or your leadership team have gone out of your way to do that—SOMETIMES SEEMINGLY in the meanest, harshest ways handy. Scripture is quite clear about the consequences of that kind of sowing.
12. You can be glibly self-effacing and disarmingly dismissive of the quality of your own Christianity, your leadership, your understanding . . . a list of things in that paragraph that ON THE SURFACE sounded and appeared impressive. Sadly, shortly after, it appeared to be merely propaganda for the FREEPATHON. It became quickly unclear how much of an earnest, heart-felt confession it really was—largely because there was no follow-up fruit of such a confession. It soon rang hollow and a farce. The arrogance, harshness and arbitrary and erratic !!!CONTROL!!! freak stuff quickly returned.
13. You and your leadership team have pontificated, exclaimed and wailed about !!!LOYALTY!!! and !!!BETRAYAL!!! while demonstrating the most petty and absurdly based disloyalty and outrageous betrayal of anyone who was ever a part of FR. You have absolutely no room to talk or complain about either one of those issues. You have merely reaped A PORTION of what you have so chronically, persistently and often mean-spiritedly sown in such regards. And your reaping is far from finished on such scores.
14. You have rightly and honorably claimed Christian values as a hallmark of your personally held priorities as well as FR’s priorities. Sometimes you have followed through—such as with your very admirable and honorable tenacious insistence that prayer threads be allowed in the main NEWS forum. By the same token, you have frequently demonstrated a hideous tendency to lapse into harsh, abusive, foul-mouthed communications publicly and privately—which would make many a sailor blush. None of us is 100% free 100% of the time of 100% of all hypocrisy. However, the frequency and ruthlessness of such foul-mouthed and arbitrary harshness out of clearly a mean-streak is NOT AT ALL a fruit of Holy Spirit. AT some point, perceptive, thinking and discerning folks have to ask themselves: Where is the real JimRob and just how much of an authentic Christian is he? And what game is he REALLY playing for what goal(s)? And doe HE even know or have a clue who he is and what he's about?
15. Many of us have been prayerful and seriously concerned about your health problems for a long time. However, sadly, even there some of us are troubled. Given the relationship between the MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT, one has to wonder if your health would be significantly better if your spiritual health and persistent demonstrations of your spirituality were more consistent with the advertising. In short—mean-spiritedness produces a troublesome harvest in the body, in relationships, in the psyche and certainly in the spirit. At some point, all the prayers in the world will not force a STUBBORN, mean-spirited ARROGANT soul to be better, healthy. As Scripture notes:
1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. . . .” I don’t know if the rest of that verse applies to you at present, or not. I know you’re on slippery ground on that score.
16. And IDOLATRY will NOT WORK for anyone—even the king of FR. It doesn’t matter if one nurses one’s own bitterness as idolatry; or if one idolizes one’s country; or one’s own press releases; or one’s FR baby or whatever. Idolatry is a deadly poison.
17. I’ve agonized for many months over how to write the compassionate but stern rebuke I felt pressed so strongly in my spirit to write. People either seem to suck-up to you in fierce psychophant fashion—or to trash you as a minion of satan. I see you more as a typical Attachment Disordered man hung up on some serious spiritual and psychodynamic flaws like most of us in our era. So what. However, to stubbornly cling to one’s arrogance, stubbornness, meanness . . . and to ALLOW, much less seem to exalt in spewing such all over the thousands of folks who give money for your support and the support of your baby . . . that is at best unwise and at worst a pretty hideous example of human excess.
18. I don’t know what God intends to do with you and/or FR. I know you are NOT indispensable. I know that FR will NOT significantly influence the corrupt farce of a November SElection process—if we get that far in any kind of functional shape as a Nation.
19. I know that you have been given a priceless gift and honor of ENORMOUS potential good for the Nation, millions of individuals and the Body of Christ. And you & your leadership team have appeared to squander horrendous chunks of that potential on pettiness, personal pique, arrogance, stubbornness, meanness, willful blindness and willful ignorance. I know that many thousands of people in and out of the Body of Christ who COULD HAVE BEEN FITTINGLY AND USEFULLY WARNED about the spiritual and practical hazards of satanic globalism as well as the fallen angel UFO stuff have not been warned because of y’all’s junk and the junk of the likes of JeanS and Dirtboy and their cadre of harpies. To the degree THAT is true, there will be embarrassing amounts of blood on such hands, come judgment day—unless confession and repentance are heart-felt effected before then—and even then, though it may cover such sins redemptively with Christ’s blood—it will not save thousands who would have otherwise been saved had such a sobering responsibility been carried more fittingly and Biblically earlier.
20. Yet again, as all of us every day—have a choice. You can continue as is most likely—as you have for decades. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. And, I am well aware that you have rarely to never demonstrated, to my awareness, the least bit of a constructive response to negative feedback. It’s more likely that such a msg will result in a hardened heart, more arrogance and more stubbornness. That will be however it will be, with the responsibility for individual choices resting with each individual on your leadership team as well as on your supporters.
21. I only know of one priceless brilliant Christian in the upper levels of FR respect, who could likely help pull FR out of such a mess. You know who that is. You probably know they would be highly unlikely to ever say anything—particularly unasked. And, even if asked, they would likely be very sparse with their words—and it would be easy for you to discount, dismiss and ignore their wisdom. They would not push it. Shoot, they likely even would help you circle the wagons unless God made it clear they needed to do otherwise for your spiritual and other health.
22. Time is running out. Your options are shrinking daily in a list of ways as they are for all of us--unless we abide in Christ. I don’t know if Fresno is at a high enough elevation to escape coming traumas for California. I don’t think it is. Besides, the Chinese are not likely to be kind to Californians when they arrive to take possession of so much that they now own. I don’t’ know if HumbleGunner’s place in Texas is far enough from the coast and from Mexico to be wise either. I just know, you and all on the planet need to do MUCH BETTER at getting your spiritual house and your practical house in order--faster.
22. The question was raised in the FREE QUIX thread you closed yesterday about whether I’d like to return to FR. (A) I don’t feel the freedom to do that without your confession, repentance and evidence that you are going to sincerely back such confession and repentance up with “fruit” as the Bible might put it. Confess and repent about what? Whatever of the above that God would confirm as having validity and truth in your life. I suspect hell would freeze over before you’d humble yourself sufficiently to confess and repent. BTW, it needs to be public because your junk was flung about so freely publicly. (B) I don’t feel the freedom to return unless my posting options would cease to be curtailed by mindless, ignorant boundaries. That would include about globalism AS WELL AS the fallen angel UFO topic. I miss the relationship connections but God is God and always will be God and makes even that OK. Besides, folks can find me on this TBL forum.
22.1 Yes, THIS TOO is done as I’d want done toward me IF I’d demonstrated the junk you and your leadership has demonstrated for 11+ years. I’d want someone to care enough to try and starkly but caringly get my attention about such horrors in my life and turf.
23. I do thank you for the years I had on FR of many fulfilling and meaningful exchanges with very interesting people of great diversity but a lot of shared values. May God richly reward you for the humble part I had in all that.
24. I do pray that you earnestly do what you can to, by God’s Grace, truly get your act together. Reaping what we have sown can be a troublesome challenge for all of us. Given your evident current bent, I’d much hate to see any further reaping what you have sown.
« Last Edit: Today at 12:43:06 PM by Quix »
I think you’re wanting to get into a Religious Forum discussion now. SO ... please do start one up, about the particular issue and topic you have, and ping me to join you. I’ll be glad to do it.
OK, so you’re mad and not making any sense.
Fine.
Have at it.
You dance real pretty but you're not quite quick enough. And I didn’t call him a “good-for-nothing” or an “idiot” or a “fool” or “Raca”.
That is EXACTLY what you did! And more!
you know that there are Christians who are Bible-believing, Evangelical (and perhaps Dispensational) - who are going to say that Catholic teachings are DOCTRINES FROM HELL and are going to lead those who believe in that straight into the Devil’s hands.
Shame on you. And now you are making excuses, post after post trying to justify what you did.
I love Jesus and I ain't buying it.
I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.
Of course, many people say many things about themselves on the Internet, sometimes not altogether true.
If that is the case here, then Quix is merely a liar.
I vote for BOTH!
You caused a believer grievous hurt. On purpose. Now you are trying to justify that. There is none. We are done.
“I don’t’ know if HumbleGunner’s place in Texas is far enough from the coast...”
Although Humble Gunner has never talked to me (is that good or bad), I have deduced that he may live not far from me so he is fairly far away from the gulf. He will feel hurricanes that come in at Galveston, just like I do.
Don’t know what Quix thinks is going to happen to Texas but it would have to be major to put this area of Texas under water.
Humble Gunner, if you don’t live in my area, please don’t dump on me for thinking you do. I definitely don’t want to get on your bad side. Besides, I don’t have a blog.
Sorry Onyx...my reference was to Quix. Not to your husband.
If I recall correctly, I once saw a Quix post where he said he was completely insolvent and was living with his parents. I never saw the claim of him being a psychologist. Imma call bovine excrement on that one.
You’re already on it! :^)
You’re already on it, FRiend! :^)
Seems you are the only one on FR today making any sense, eh, lost tater?
If I recall correctly, I once saw a Quix post where he said he was completely insolvent and was living with his parents. I never saw the claim of him being a psychologist. Imma call bovine excrement on that one.
He referred to his PhD in Psychology credentials numerous times (while accusing others of making “Type II errors” and other wild projections). Never heard about him living with his parents, but he did claim to be broke several times. And asexual.
I have run across a few of Quix' posts through the years. IMO they are ALL questionable. I think he is an alcoholic, possibly a dry drunk and showing all kinds of symptoms of it including a huge case of grandiosity.
See, if Quix can do long distance psychology so can I!
“Posters who are offended when anyone condemns or ridicules their deeply held religious belief ..”
~ ~ ~ ~
I know, I know. You’re restating: ‘don’t go there.’ I get it .. I won’t go, but here’s a prime example of just that kind of ugly, hurtful rhetoric from StarTraveler engendered even on this, an opus thread, where he/she felt free to fling that rank nastiness on a thread that just touched on the subject when I naively offered my observations. It’s beyond the pale .. ugly, offensive and totally unnecessary.
The subject is obviously too naturally highly charged and personal.
Again, I absolutely don’t get the inherent common sense or positives to be gained for the FR community as a whole to provide a religious debates section, when folks of faith are already well convicted in their beliefs at this age, and as it clearly, implicitly embodies such a predictably high likelihood for inflammatory rhetoric, inter-forum rancor and resentments.
And the bad blood and resentments do spill over into the other threads, as we all know, which can get contentious enough.
It seems particularly destructive, especially in these very tough times, when multitudes of overwhelmingly deadly serious issues are coming at us every single day from THEM on the outside to punish and damage us and our beloved country. Why do we voluntarily need another festering source for more ugliness here, too?
Call me foolish but I don’t think I’m being a Pollyanna, wishing, as much as possible, and I would dearly hope and pray, that we could still mostly find sanctuary and respite with our family here as we’ve counted on... to be lifting up, brainstorming, having some fun, and helping each other together be factually informed and promote a mostly united, cooperative, congenial, inspirational, friendly and helpful atmosphere here.
Most FReepers with whom I’ve engaged in my nearly 14 yrs here are simply THE best, most decent, patriotic, fun, most savvy and wonderful folks in the world, and I’d totally choose them as, and some are, friends in real life. It is and has absolutely been my home on the web.
The bonding of folks here by shared political and social conservative beliefs, community history together, positivity, empathy, fun, generosity, unity .. which is the very opposite of the tension and disagreements and all the negatives spawned on those faith debates and the attendant spillover battles. That good stuff is what keeps folks coming back, feeling comfortable here and like this IS their home on the web they support and are proud to promote.
Just my 2 cents, knowing we’re all flawed and imperfect, to say I think it would help so much to see more occasions for collegiality and civility, less for internal conflict, for these days and the days, months and years ahead in this scary, tempestuous and uncertain world by keeping the FReeper family strong and together in basic good will.
Simply said: first do no harm.
Jim, please consider my heartfelt comments. Thank you SO much and your crew for FR, for all the interesting and wonderful years I’ve enjoyed here. God bless you always for your service to our country and for ALL you’ve done and do for us for the cause of freedom and our blessed America. God protect you and keep you strong and healthy always. Long live FR into a future of robust vitality for a hundred years!
Maybe you can help me then. I think I am losing it. I am having hallucinations that a bunch of conservatives around me are campaigning for a guy that funded abortion and created gay marriage in some eastern state...
I mean that’s crazy right? No conservative would ever do something that clearly insane...so it must be me.
Help me ObiWan! You’re my only hope!
I don't know, of course, but I hope and expect that all of the people I listed will have long and productive careers in politics,
Why on earth should we have to wait eight years rather than just four to put someone like Scott Walker in the White House?
I am campaigning for Romney this year because I think that four more years of Obama will cause significantly more damage to our country and to conservatism as compared to the first four years of a Romney Presidency. Obamacare, leftist judges, "green energy", disarmament and surrender, etc. The damage is real, it's happening now, and Congress can't really stop Obama from continuing it. If Romney is as terrible as his detractors here say he will be, I still think he will be no worse than Obama, and we can primary him in 2016.
Your strategy of putting RINOs in the White House has repeatedly failed, moved the nation to the left and resulted in the careers of rising conservatives to snuffed out.
I have no such strategy. My strategy is to support the most conservative candidate who has a chance of winning in every race always. There is nothing remarkable or new about this strategy, and I do not think it has moved the country to the left or stopped rising conservatives. It is the leftists who have done this, both those who admit they are 'Rats and the RINOs.
The way to deal with RINOs is to replace them with conservatives whenever you can. Replacing them with leftists is what moves the country to the left.
It sounds like you want to get into a Religious Forum discussion - at which spot they have some VERY GOOD GUIDELINES and I appreciate those guidelines as they are EXCELLENT. But you just don’t want to go over there and discuss it. So ... if you change your mind ... just ping me ... :-)
well, bye.
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