We are getting good at it....and being triggered.
"Now you did it!"
Posted on 06/08/2018 4:27:53 AM PDT by navysealdad
Anthony Bourdain, a gifted storyteller and writer who took CNN viewers around the world, has died. He was 61. CNN confirmed Bourdain's death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide.
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CNN said he had hung himself.
“I never implied that he was classy. I was merely stating dancing on his grave is a little much. I would like to think we are better than they are, that’s all.”
You are bringing nothing...to a knife fight.
Laz, I understand what you're saying, but isn't that a little bit like saying, "Hey, we shouldn't celebrate the deaths of the guards of the death camps or the soldiers who pushed the doomed into the railway cars; save it for the big players ..."
I'm of the opinion that the deaths of our "foot soldier enemies" who would love to inflict the same on us is as vital to our survival as that for the "big players".
“Satan is evil, not human beings. “
Wrong. Humans do evil things. Motivations are not my concern. God gave us the ability to decide for ourselves. Satan cannot make us do anything; he can only lead us to temptation.
"Now you did it!"
I am sorry for my previous hateful posts. Heck I will plant flowers on his grave as penance. He truly was virtuous man that needs our prayers.
“No, save your celebrations for the big players. “
H was a big player. He had millions of followers.
Since when do rational arguments include "bulverism" of the other guy's points?
Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits (Matt 7:15-20).The entire Sermon on the Mount requires moral judgments to be made by the followers of king Jesus. Elsewhere, Paul urges the followers of Christ, “Test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil” (1 Thess 5:21-22). The word translated test in this verse means “to prove, verify, examine prior to approval, judge, evaluate, discern” (Ceslas Spicq, the Theological Lexicon of the New Testament [TLNT]).
The abuse of this verse is nothing new. Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) provided an excellent explanation of the problem in his day as he commented on Matthew 7:1-6,
This prohibition, like many others in our Lord’s discourse, if interpreted in its utmost latitude, would go to censure what is elsewhere commended. If we judge not truth and error, good and evil, we cannot embrace the one and avoid the other; neither can we discharge the duties of our station in the world, or in the church, without forming some judgment of those about us. Paul and Silas are supposed to have judged Lydia to be faithful, ere they entered her house; and Peter did not scruple to tell the sorcerer that he “perceived him to be in the gall of bitterness, and in the bonds of iniquity.” We are not only allowed, but directed, even in this discourse, to judge of men, as of trees, by their fruit, ver. 16–20.Fuller offers a clear headed explanation of what Jesus is forbidding when he tells his followers to “judge not” (Matt 7:1). I have summarized Fuller’s points in updated language below, and then I offer a positive corollary that reflects the biblical necessity for disciples of Christ to exercise Christ-exalting judgment.It is part of our duty as ministers to declare from God’s word that they who live after the flesh will die; and that they who are carried away by strong delusions and the belief of a lie are in the utmost danger of damnation. They may be displeased with us for thinking so hardly of them, and may allege this passage as a reproof to our presumption. The judgment which Christ forbids is that which arises not from good-will and a faithful discharge of duty, but from a censorious spirit, which takes pleasure in thinking and speaking evil of those about us, puts the worst construction upon actions of doubtful motive, and is severe in detecting smaller faults in another, while blinded to far greater ones in ourselves (The Complete Works of Andrew Fuller: Memoirs, Sermons, Etc., vol. 1, J. Belcher, Ed., Sprinkle Publications, 585).
The judgment Christ commends is that which arises from a faithful knowledge of the truth of God’s word and never loses sight of the gospel.
The judgment Christ commends is that which flows from a broken heart over one’s own sin and never loses sight of the fact we are all fellow sinners in need of grace.
The judgment Christ commends is that which deals with actions and deeds because only God is capable of judging the motives of the heart.
The judgment Christ commends is that which freely acknowledges one’s own faults and gives others the benefit of the doubt regarding theirs.
How do you measure the validity of your methods if you can’t point to successes?
“Politics aside, FR is now as classless as DU. “
That’s just more “white guilt” type of crap.
If you want such liberal nasty player to be alive and doing the harm they do, then go back to DU and join them in their sorrow for losing a public liberal figure. Me, I am going to celebrate yet another dead liberal.
That’s your opinion. What fight is there with a dead guy?
“Sad isn’t it? Please folks don’t hurt yourselves”
They are typed words. They don’t hurt anybody.
I've been stuck in the airport listening to their dreck and didn't hear that. I did hear that he was a "household name", but I had never heard of him.
See 229
“How do you measure the validity of your methods if you can’t point to successes?”
That’s the point of not taking a stand. They don’t have success because they have no standards. Without standards all they do is successful.
This is how we have an entire generation of slackers we call the “millennials”.
I'm in deep blue Northern Virginia. Are you saying that I and my fellow Republicans shouldn't even bother trying?
“What fight is there with a dead guy?”
Who’s “fighting”?? We’re celebrating. Big difference.
I am! In fact, anyone who wants to break with Free Republic tradition and celebrate on obituary threads should check in with me!
I am sorry for my previous hateful posts. Heck I will plant flowers on his grave as penance. He truly was virtuous man that needs our prayers.
He was not a virtuous man, so I wouldn't plant flowers. However, I might go before Jesus and ask HIS forgiveness.
Just sayin'.
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