no prayer requests allowed
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Take it from an antagonist, you are not an antagonist.
Would I bring up anything religious? Nope, not here.
Why?
People that know me say I'm competitive and I can handle the heat of a barbed discussion. But, winning a discussion at the cost of pissing off a legion of people is a costly win. Then I'd have the label; Doesn't play well with others" -
@Dr-Mark said in no prayer requests allowed:
People that know me say I'm competitive and I can handle the heat of a barbed discussion. But, winning a discussion at the cost of pissing off a legion of people is a costly win. Then I'd have the label; Doesn't play well with others"
As a Pediatrician, I live by the saying: Much better to be pissed off than to be pissed on.
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@Dr-GO said in no prayer requests allowed:
As a Pediatrician, I live by the saying: Much better to be pissed off than to be pissed on.
Tough to argue with that logic.
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Religious (or spiritual) matters are in the eye of the beholder and entirely subjective. Getting worked up over this is an exercise in futility.
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Hi Dr-GO,
If praying is talking and meditation is listening, then I'm praying that some of our leaders will begin to listen with a little more warmth in their hearts. -
@Dr-Mark said in no prayer requests allowed:
Hi Dr-GO,
If praying is talking and meditation is listening, then I'm praying that some of our leaders will begin to listen with a little more warmth in their hearts.Let's see . . .talking - listening - talking - etc. Don't they exist, simultaneously?
Benge 3X
Martin Committee
Getzen Capri Cornet
Adams F-1 Flugelhorn"If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."
Charlie Parker"Even if I could play like Wynton Marsalis, I wouldn't play like Wynton Marsalis."
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@Kehaulani said in no prayer requests allowed:
Let's see . . .talking - listening - talking - etc. Don't they exist, simultaneously?
Unfortunately, some people love listening to the ring of their own voice at the expense of listening to others.
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@Dr-GO How about ... Praying is talking to yourself. Meditation is listening to yourself.
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@Kehaulani said in no prayer requests allowed:
@Dr-Mark said in no prayer requests allowed:
Hi Dr-GO,
If praying is talking and meditation is listening, then I'm praying that some of our leaders will begin to listen with a little more warmth in their hearts.Let's see . . .talking - listening - talking - etc. Don't they exist, simultaneously?
They can. But expressing and hearing... That's the key!
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What did I miss?
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@administrator said in no prayer requests allowed:
What did I miss?Nothing. And the OP's been missing in action since last August.
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Moshe,
I am not taking up anything religious here. But I want to offer some practical help.
You say you neep some form of transport to get yourself and your racing vehicle (the electric wheelchair) to the venue. Can I help you by contributing to the cost of such transport? And perhaps, if a few more members contributed, we might get this problem out of the way in a few moments. I suggest that you create a crowndfunding site, and publish that here.ACB Doubler Picc
Courtois Balanced
Courtois D
Olds Recording
Buescher Aristocrat
Gaudet C
Selmer G
Courtois 154 Flugelhorn
Besson International Bb cornet
Ganter Eb cornet
Besson International baritone
B&H Sovereign trombone
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@barliman2001, he hasn't been here for almost a year. Do you really think he cares?
Benge 3X
Martin Committee
Getzen Capri Cornet
Adams F-1 Flugelhorn"If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."
Charlie Parker"Even if I could play like Wynton Marsalis, I wouldn't play like Wynton Marsalis."
Chet Baker -
@Kehaulani said in no prayer requests allowed:
@barliman2001, he hasn't been here for almost a year. Do you really think he cares?
I just hope he is doing well and in a good place. As a wheel chair dependent person, I know life can be rough.
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@Kehaulani I'm going on the principle that he has been consistent in all his postings so far.
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This is not the first time that Moshe/Morris started a thread like this - with similar outcome (disappearing for a while/not getting the result that he wanted).
He thought that he was being "clever" by asking for a prayer request by going into great detail about not asking for a prayer request. That was 100% sure to draw the responses that it did. Not very clever.A prayer request in my world is not a strictly "religious" activity. If he had simply come out with his personal challenge and ask us to keep him in our thoughts and prayers, everything would go its course. The thread would be somewhere else today. Life is full of challenges and having "community" to help deal with them is a special thing. It is a two way street however. Those that insist on being the "underdog" generally end up there without outside help. Open internet forums are generally not very good at psychological challenges as it is far too easy to get off track - then the thread owner is no longer the center of attention - or help. That is not a deficiency in the community. It is simply online life with very "random" approaches based of our form for that specific point in time.
If we want to reap interest, we have to invest. That is true of home, work or online forums.
I hope that Morris got the support that he was looking for. At TrumpetMaster he would pop up in irregular intervals and then go away, sometimes on his own, sometime with help.
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Man, hook, line & sinker. And talk about your straw men.
Everybody go back and read his posts and pay attention to the language. It's an attempt at subtlety but it's not really subtle. Just manipulative.
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Anybody opposed if we just close the thread down?
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Locked. Not loaded.
