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“If you had said “I believe you want” or “It seems you want” you would be expressing your own mind and not reading the mind of another Freeper.

Also, for a statement to be “making it personal” it must be speaking of another Freeper, personally - not as a group.

Finally, the Religion Forum guideline is that when one Freeper in a sidebar has been warned, all Freepers involved in the sidebar should consider themselves warned as well.”

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Thanks for explaining but I am slow, I still don’t quite
get it. And not to argue. To appear to be reading someone’s mind is a no, no but outright or veiled personal insults are okay? No one can read anyone’s mind but God and a few mystics in history.

I was trying to say count your change, “you are stuck in
your belief, I am hoping you will change” That’s a sincere
comment.

Then, you explain to the person, CYC...why.

“Then, you explain to the person, CYC...why.”

Oh, it has been....often and in detail, which is why I attempt to be civil to all and respectful of none.

“I was trying to say count your change, “you are stuck in
your belief, I am hoping you will change” That’s a sincere
comment.

Then I suggest that is what should be said!

Thanks to Rel. Mod.

Thanks for explaining but I am slow, I still don’t quite get it. And not to argue. To appear to be reading someone’s mind is a no, no but outright or veiled personal insults are okay? No one can read anyone’s mind but God and a few mystics in history.

I can and do intervene to prevent Religion Forum posters from "making it personal" but there is nothing I can do to prevent them from "taking it personally."

For something to be "making it personal" it must be speaking to another Freeper, personally.

"Protestants are heretics" is not making it personal. "You are a heretic" is making it personal. "Catholics worship Mary" is not making it personal. "You worship Mary" is making it personal.

However, when a poster paints with a brush that accuses an entire religion of criminal behavior - his post will be pulled as flame bait. For example, posts that say "Protestants kill babies" or "Catholics molest children" will be pulled. However, if the post is specific about a non-Freeper, I will not pull it. For example "Rev. Doe says abortion and infanticide are not sin" or "Father Doe was convicted for molesting those kids" would not be pulled.

Statements formd as questions are rarely "making it personal."

"Are you a heretic" is not making it personal. "You are a heretic" is making it personal.

Forms of "making it personal" include mind reading, attributing motive, accusing another Freeper of telling a lie (because it attributes motive, the intent to deceive) - making the thread "about" individual Freeper(s), following a Freeper from thread to thread and badgering a Freeper over-and-again with the same question.

When in doubt, avoid the use of the pronoun "you" and Freeper's names - or put yourself in the other guy's shoes.