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To: HiTech RedNeck
So-called "bullying" has been around since time immemorial. Its a completely natural social self correction mechanism. Its how people are taught what the boundaries of social norms are.

This is different from people merely on power trips and like to sadistically harass and torment other people for the fun of it. That sort of bullying useful too since it teaches people how to stand up for themselves.

40 posted on 10/13/2013 2:44:14 PM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

If you are talking about imagined bullying, that’s one thing. That cannot be avoided.

However if you are talking about REAL bullying, i.e. refusal to be a conduit of the special love of Christ which leads to reconciliation with God — then you are so badly in the wrong that you cannot even see it.


51 posted on 10/13/2013 7:31:02 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

And even though in fact the last may be morally useful... well, as C. S. Lewis very usefully pointed out, to afflict people “because it is good for them” indeed will not break God’s plan but it DOES constitute volunteering for the post of Satan in that plan... and it will earn you Satan’s wages. Be very careful not to excuse such volunteering to be the afflicting party behind the stalking horse of “oh, affliction is good for them.” God has Satan on a chain (exact biblical language “in eternal bonds”) and if you call on that power you will be trapped as a slave to a master that’s on a chain. Not too fun.


52 posted on 10/13/2013 7:33:38 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

At any rate, Fisto, the noblest fight is not against flesh and blood but against Satan’s supernatural minions. And Satan is socked in the teeth with acts of... kindness. Very precisely targeted ones, not sloppy indulgence, but meeting the real need. It’s easy to pontificate like a Fisto. It’s harder, but actually brings the blessing, to view the person as already a potential beneficiary of Christ’s cross, and extend that very special love. Which rightly embarrasses the bullying-excusers.


53 posted on 10/13/2013 7:36:54 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

I’ll make it a foursome here I guess. Almost all homos already have a plethora of griefs. They don’t have to be told there’d be a wonderful benefit to leaving it. They try vainly to mask it by pride, but that never works. It would never work if the entire society were “gay-friendly” in the manner that the “gay movement” intends.

Who will stand up and be the Christ carrier of the situation. This is the question. You set your sights way too low — and earn God’s righteous frown — if you only look at pushback on an earthly level.


54 posted on 10/13/2013 7:44:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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