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Am I "too radical"?

ReginaForbes

ReginaForbes

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I was just wondering how I come off to people. Do I seem "dangerous" or "scary"?
In the summer I had done a video on my youtube channel about proper gun safety using a bb handgun and my husband made me take it down because he thought I came off as threatening. I also had some friends who I used to do a bible study with but they don't talk to me anymore. I know that I'm very hardcore in my faith and about the Constitution, but I am also very hardcore about non-violent interaction. But am I too much? too radical? Does anyone else feel they're "too much" sometimes as well?
 
I'm always talking about how I would love to be a martyr for my faith, but then I think about all of those nutcase jihad jerks and I'm like "no not that!!" If I die it's because I was non-violently resisting. But I wonder if that translates as something scary to other people.
 
ReginaForbes: 1043748 said:
I was just wondering how I come off to people. Do I seem "dangerous" or "scary"?
In the summer I had done a video on my youtube channel about proper gun safety using a bb handgun and my husband made me take it down because he thought I came off as threatening. I also had some friends who I used oughtto do a bible study with but they don't talk to me anymore. I know that I'm very hardcore in my faith and about the Constitution, but I am also very hardcore about non-violent interaction. But am I too much? too radical? Does anyone else feel they're "too much" sometimes as well?
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We will always be to radical to some and not passionate enough for the others...some of us are outspoken some dont have a original thought,,,, Jesus did not tell the sheep to feed the sheep
 
ReginaForbes said:
I was just wondering how I come off to people. Do I seem "dangerous" or "scary"?
In the summer I had done a video on my youtube channel about proper gun safety using a bb handgun and my husband made me take it down because he thought I came off as threatening. I also had some friends who I used to do a bible study with but they don't talk to me anymore. I know that I'm very hardcore in my faith and about the Constitution, but I am also very hardcore about non-violent interaction. But am I too much? too radical? Does anyone else feel they're "too much" sometimes as well?
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No, but you do seem kind of "traditional" to me.
 
A bunch of us, including the preacher, once scared the socks off a visitor to our Bible Study when we began casually talking about Jesus' return, and the Eastern sky splitting. Thought she was going to faint............ And that was at the CoC, we weren't even close to radical when we went there. More like the "Frozen Chosen."
 
ReginaForbes said:
I was just wondering how I come off to people. Do I seem "dangerous" or "scary"?
In the summer I had done a video on my youtube channel about proper gun safety using a bb handgun and my husband made me take it down because he thought I came off as threatening. I also had some friends who I used to do a bible study with but they don't talk to me anymore. I know that I'm very hardcore in my faith and about the Constitution, but I am also very hardcore about non-violent interaction. But am I too much? too radical? Does anyone else feel they're "too much" sometimes as well?
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Yes, you do come off a little scary. But I say that in a good way. An intelligent female who's not afraid to speak her mind. Yeah, this world needs more like you. You have conviction and spirit in your words and posts. They can't take away your spirit from you. Hubby made you take down the gun vid? Thought you came off as threatening? Even so, you can bet $ that it makes him feel good on some level, he just isn't comfortable crossing that line in public is all, so it's all good.

Do not tone yourself down in response to what people think. God comes first, and His precepts. and your family second. The world will hate you for your convictions, this is promised. That's to be expected. Stand up for your God and your family as you have been doing. My hat is off to gals like you.
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ReginaForbes said:
I was just wondering how I come off to people. Do I seem "dangerous" or "scary"?
In the summer I had done a video on my youtube channel about proper gun safety using a bb handgun and my husband made me take it down because he thought I came off as threatening. I also had some friends who I used to do a bible study with but they don't talk to me anymore. I know that I'm very hardcore in my faith and about the Constitution, but I am also very hardcore about non-violent interaction. But am I too much? too radical? Does anyone else feel they're "too much" sometimes as well?
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Regina, you are aggressive and scary.
So what?
Join the club.
 
Ive been told im too extreme because I mention how the end is near and people that aren't saved have to do it now as being saved isn't all thats necessary but proof of character which takes time.I think we need more people like you.Herding together and following is in our nature but only in individual practice of God's word is how we progress.God Bless You for your efforts.
 
Regina,
My wife and my daughter are very aggressive and from your posts you have a very, very, long way to go before you are aggressive and remember, I love both of them.
 
ReginaForbes said:
... If I die it's because I was non-violently resisting. But I wonder if that translates as something scary to other people.
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It does. Have you ever been around a freshly murdered or somehow mutilated human body? I mean actually been there, picking it up (or picking up pieces of it), feeling the still warm flesh and organs in your hands, the blood oozing out and running across your hands? Smelled the odor of the blood mixed with the odor of ripped open intestines from a shotgun blast to the gut or exploded out after a fall from being thrown off of a high building? Seen grey brain matter laying on the pavement oozing the clear fluid that the brain had lived in? Felt it's texture in your hands as you clean up the mess? Or how about someone with a hole blown right through their abdomen that you can actually see through, and they haven't died yet so while you hold them and try in vain to give them some comfort you hear them moaning in unimaginable pain as they take their last breaths? I've done all those things and more, so yeah, when someone talks so casually about being killed it's a pretty scary thing because I know and picture the reality of what that means like no one will ever see in any movie or TV show.
 
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It does. Have you ever been around a freshly murdered or somehow mutilated human body? I mean actually been there, picking it up (or picking up pieces of it), feeling the still warm flesh and organs in your hands, the blood oozing out and running across your hands? Smelled the odor of the blood mixed with the odor of ripped open intestines from a shotgun blast to the gut or exploded out after a fall from being thrown off of a high building? Seen grey brain matter laying on the pavement oozing the clear fluid that the brain had lived in? Felt it's texture in your hands as you clean up the mess? Or how about someone with a hole blown right through their abdomen that you can actually see through, and they haven't died yet so while you hold them and try in vain to give them some comfort you hear them moaning in unimaginable pain as they take their last breaths? I've done all those things and more, so yeah, when someone talks so casually about being killed it's a pretty scary thing because I know and picture the reality of what that means like no one will ever see in any movie or TV show.
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TV and Hollywood make it all so neutral. When you have to wrap the commanding General's son in a Plastic Poncho and take the remains to him before going over to Graves Registration, it is not a good day, especially when the poncho was wrapped but not tied and the brain matter and blood are dripping from you and the walls of you ship when you land and he is already, no time to make anything look right. It stinks and is not funny.
 
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TV and Hollywood make it all so neutral. When you have to wrap the commanding General's son in a Plastic Poncho and take the remains to him before going over to Graves Registration, it is not a good day, especially when the poncho was wrapped but not tied and the brain matter and blood are dripping from you and the walls of you ship when you land and he is already, no time to make anything look right. It stinks and is not funny.
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Yeah, real life scenes like that are why I'm not a pacifist when it comes to defense and, I think, why I've never known a pacifist to remain that way after they've experienced it a few times. It's the sad truth of the horrors of what "human" beings do to those who allow it. And I find that very scary. I'd much rather live to spread the Gospel another day and try to be a blessing to someone.
 
Obadiah said:
Yeah, real life scenes like that are why I'm not a pacifist when it comes to defense and, I think, why I've never known a pacifist to remain that way after they've experienced it a few times. It's the sad truth of the horrors of what "human" beings do to those who allow it. And I find that very scary. I'd much rather live to spread the Gospel another day and try to be a blessing to someone.
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Amen, I am home sick and I admit it but I gave my life to my LORD and it is not choice to make my wife and daughter go through that mess. We set my ship down in the shallow of the river and cleaned that mess, right away, and I could still smell that every morning when I cracked the first door open for better than a month.
 
ReginaForbes said:
I'm always talking about how I would love to be a martyr for my faith, but then I think about all of those nutcase jihad jerks and I'm like "no not that!!" If I die it's because I was non-violently resisting. But I wonder if that translates as something scary to other people.
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Regina,
1. Christianity is radical in the sense that it rejects everything taught by the world religions. Salvation by grace alone through faith alone is radical. And God becoming Man in order to become "Sin" is extremely radical. And handing out the gift of eternal life to all and sundry when they obey the Gospel is unbelievably radical.

2. At the same time, because there is general blindness to spiriutal things, and even among Christians there is more humanistic thinking than spiritual thinking, the path of wisdom is to simply share the Gospel without going into your personal stand. You don't have to wear your heart on your sleeve. Only those who are like-minded will understand why you are so radical. Therefore "Be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves".

3. When it comes right down to it, you may only be able to freely discuss your views with a very few spiritual brothers and sisters. Just make sure your position is firmly grounded in the Word of God.
 
ReginaForbes said:
I was just wondering how I come off to people. Do I seem "dangerous" or "scary"?
In the summer I had done a video on my youtube channel about proper gun safety using a bb handgun and my husband made me take it down because he thought I came off as threatening. I also had some friends who I used to do a bible study with but they don't talk to me anymore. I know that I'm very hardcore in my faith and about the Constitution, but I am also very hardcore about non-violent interaction. But am I too much? too radical? Does anyone else feel they're "too much" sometimes as well?
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I was feeling the same way today, and longing to understand, and I think it is because I need to worry less about others relationship with Yeshua (Jesus) and instead make space for him in my life more fully. Some people might call me a conspiracy theorist but there is so much evidence for how satanic and dark our world is especially outside of our comfort zone. Of Corse there are good people out there but we must remember end times scripture too and how scary it is for those people of that time.
 
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