Max Gutroom
Posted on 05/11/2012 5:04:25 AM PDT by Lazamataz
How do you take over Free Republic? You can't. You shouldn't even try,
Recently, a friend came to me with what he perceived to be the failings of Free Republic. I wrote back: "....JR is really not interested in people advising him on how to run the forum. He's had success with his own direction.......Seriously man. Don't stress this so hard. It is what it is, and you have no power over other people/places/things. Hell, you don't even have power over YOURSELF. That's GOD'S power. Just suit up, show up, color in within the lines, and enjoy what you can in the forum. You know what's off limits. So do I. I live within the boundaries, without complaint and grateful for my blessings."
It is a good life lesson, using Free Republic as the catalyst. How many of us struggle mightily against the circumstances in our life, only to find that we have made utterly no difference? Maybe we have even made things worse, for our interference. We human beings have tiny little three-pound brains. What makes us believe we know best, how our reality should be? Often, what we believe is best for us, turns out to nearly kill us. Similarly, that which we believe is horrible for us, turns out to change us, positively, for the best. It is clear we do not know what it is that will make us prosper.
Many of us live in a perpetual state of anxiety or fear, or regret or remorse. These are wasted emotions. These emotions sap your energy and have no positive effect. Regret and remorse are utterly incapable of changing the past, and since we truly cannot know what is good or bad for us, how can we profit from fear or anxiety? It is best if we leave the particulars of our lives to the will of our God, however we understand Him.
This suggestion works well for atheists, too, since all of us have a God of our understanding. Perhaps, for the atheist, their God is an impersonal and uncaring universe. It still works. Let the results be decided by someone or something other than yourself. When we stop trying to control events around us, much better things come to pass than we had ever envisioned.
This is not to say we don't participate. We do. We show up every day, and we do the next right thing. This is not to say we don't make plans. We do. We are simply willing to get out of the way should the God of our understanding have something better in store for us. In my experience, when I get out of the way of God, the most amazing things happen to me. When I try to control some things, my fat sausage-fingers manage to make it much worse.
Back to the topic of this forum: We all have directions we believe the forum should go. Yet, if we did succeed in altering the forum's direction, we might end up destroying it outright.
So, how do you take over Free Republic? You can't. You shouldn't even try.
Laz Armstrong
Somehow, that didn't seem as appropriate, when thinking about a stolen car. LOL
I am the wet phone saver at work. I take out the battery and pump them down in a vacuum chamber for an hour. Works most of the time.
Laz Headroom
Ah crap, I’m sorry Laz.
May the thieves get testicular cancer.
Probably a better fit.
Max Gutroom
My stolen car (not Acura) was found after a couple of months with the same trash on the floor that I left there, thank goodness.
That said, is this thread about Free Republic, or about resigning in your fights and accepting God’s will? I thought the latter, but what do I know. I know that God, if such a being exists (putting on my armor), hasn’t done anything for me in a while if he has ever done anything. But the devil, yes, he derailed me, knocked me out, thank you.
God, devil, it’s really the people around us, the good, the bad the ugly, and the perfidious. Today I was asking myself, that if no one wants you, and the message is perfectly clear, then why should you want yourself.
And I was asking if others are responsible for one’s suicide (I assure you that I am not considering it at the moment), or if the suicider is the only one responsible. I know the kneejerk thoughtless answer, so don’t bother, I have also seen people driven to suicide. Driven, that’s effing right.
I see that I’ve gone too far, let’s suicide this rant!
I like that you passed too. It’s really gratifying to leap such a hurdle successfully, and it makes me happy to see you do it so well.
Obama sucks and America knows it. We are going to kick his skinny Marxist butt right back to Kenya and anybody who doesn’t pull their oar with all of their might is a Frenchman!
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The latter. The former was a springboard to the discussion of the latter.
I'd phrase it more to be that one is getting his or her will out of the way, so that God can act.
Great post - It has been said that trying to control Conservatives is a lot like herding cats - And FR is necessarily a reflection of that. : )
The minute FR is ‘taken over’ is the precise moment it will lose all significance.
Aw, man ... sorry about your car. But I hear that the new Acura NSX is the car to die for :-)
“Lord, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the Courage to change the things I can; and the Wisdom to know the difference.”
Nicely written, but even after reading the replies, I’m still confused. Who is trying to take over FR?
http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2012/05/legendary-racer-car-builder-ca.html
Yer ride gets stolen and Carroll Shelby passes away......?
Damn !
Which is how the post came to be.
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