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My Agenda/Your Agenda

Rollo Tamasi

Rollo Tamasi

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There comes a point in time when one has to ignore another's agenda and only promote one's own agenda.
Which is pretty much all the time.
It makes me wonder if ego, pride, is the most powerful force on this forum.
There are some on this forum that express their love towards others all the time while others?, well, others simply have their own agenda.
I am no doubt as guilty of this as anyone on this forum but I think the problem lies in what I see as a FACT that many others don't see that in themselves.

I just wonder, does it really matter, and if it does, how much does it really matter?
 
My agenda is to try to enjoy myself. That's very selfish I know. But if I enjoy myself, maybe others will too.
Doesn't seem to work does it ...........
 
It's very easy to sound pious on a Christian forum. If you mention Jesus or God or the Holy Spirit in a post, you must doing a great job as Christian. Evangelising right?
This is where the Catholics get it right in my opinion. They focus on witness rather than sounding Holy and trying to bring people to God through the Bible.
 
humble soul said:
It's very easy to sound pious on a Christian forum. If you mention Jesus or God or the Holy Spirit in a post, you must doing a great job as Christian. Evangelising right?
This is where the Catholics get it right in my opinion. They focus on witness rather than sounding Holy and trying to bring people to God through the Bible.
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I have no idea what your agenda is.
I guess you are doing something right!
 
My agenda is to use fellow Christians as a sounding board and to be one in return. Also to give/receive advice and even rebuke. I like hearing both sides of an idea/argument. I like balance. I like a well thought out position even if I don't agree. I strive to be a better husband/father and like to hear others' struggles and share mine. If I have a secret agenda, it would be ,,,,,How do I get out of America and get my family to New Zealand??? Otherwise, if I am to remain in America....where? If I am to remain in Texas...YIKES. Should I get involved in something like investing in things (if I get the money) I could only dream of before? Helping others would seem a worthwhile endeavor. I like praying for others. It helps with my own problems.
 
daninthelionsden said:
My agenda is to use fellow Christians as a sounding board and to be one in return. Also to give/receive advice and even rebuke. I like hearing both sides of an idea/argument. I like balance. I like a well thought out position even if I don't agree. I strive to be a better husband/father and like to hear others' struggles and share mine. If I have a secret agenda, it would be ,,,,,How do I get out of America and get my family to New Zealand??? Otherwise, if I am to remain in America....where? If I am to remain in Texas...YIKES. Should I get involved in something like investing in things (if I get the money) I could only dream of before? Helping others would seem a worthwhile endeavor. I like praying for others. It helps with my own problems.
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Remember the Alamo!
 
God is a good humbler. I mean im always being humbled. God always puts something in my path to humble me, sometimes i dont learn wat God is trying to teach me to live in his ways as they are righteous so he allows me to sometimes be completey broken until i learn a specific lesson. Because he cares and wants me to learn a lesson not because he gets pleasure in watching me go down hill. If i do what is right i will be blessed. No matter how angry i get its not Gods fault.
 
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My agenda is also to share my enormous bank of knowedge and Christian skill. It would be selfish of me to keep it to myself. Such vast files of encyclopediacal detail stored in my not small brain, are a gift to you, the people. Ive always been a giver, not a taker.
 
i've been here 10 years now (!). i was a sad, broken creature when I first came here...got saved 8 years ago, so about 2 years here was just running on dogma and such...

now? i dunno. lol. God has certainly dealt with a lot of my bitterness and anger, as I've repented and as He has blessed my parents and me, changed our lives, etc. and...

i started posting here in a rented apartment out of state, basically in exile from my parents. then i was in a cheap apartment in a city near them, in poverty...basically in exile. :-(

got saved. spent 5 years living at home -in my 30s- and now...

by the grace of God, they've been willing and able to provide a modest, but surprisingly comfortable, life for me. Have they forgiven me for...man oh man, I was wretched...everything? is that even truly on the cards? I don't know, honestly.

I've been here with a "Bipolar" label and a "Schizophrenic" label and...blah blah blah...basically, I'm glad that I've been here, because I wasn't even supposed to be alive (or in society) when I started posting, and now...

well, I've been made healthy. I apparently look a good bit younger than 36 years old (of course, people are forever saying "he's 38 years old! no job! welfare! got a laser peel! ugh), and...

yeah. my older, wiser Pentecostal friend will not ever speak to me again, I don't think. am I truly saved? is she? is it a "values" issue? no clue.

on the other hand, a long term unbeliever (since high school) acquaintance literally told me the last time she called that she was "so happy that we're friends." I told her about some stuff that had happened, and how I wasn't hallucinating, but I had no one to talk to about it, and no way to really -do- anything about it, and...

she's in a big metro area, now, so not at all local...but she was actually more compassionate than many church people ever were, truth be told. i mean, she was talking about different forms of therapy and such and I'm thinking...where? and...why? but at least she was trying to deal with me on a person to person basis, complete with our long history, and not dismiss everything right off the bat as "a trick of satan" or "a symptom of illness," etc.

today, at dinner, mama seemed...surly. not being critical, just...she was not in the happiest mood. nice to me, though. anyway, i thought i heard her say, under her breath "he's had a lobotomy. you can tell by his eyes," and...

ugh. Eyes on Christ, and Him Crucified. getting there...

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God gets pleasure in having forgivness and mercy not at watching the world suffer as humans think they know best and want to rule over themselves and other humans to the point of completely insane control and power freaks who even force there own will on others. Not even God forces his own will on people.
 
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Sometimes it gets to me what other people do on this forum.
Like ignoring what I say and trying to talk over me.
I see exactly what they are doing but I have to always control the negative feelings I get from this.
It's good to talk about it.
 
humble soul said:
How does one talk over you ? Online. Without voice. Do they type over you?
How do they do that exactly? How do they interrupt your post? It's an interesting phenomena, I would like to explore furthe
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It's like when I give a solid answer in a debate and they ignore what I say and continue to say what they want to say to only the one person they want to say it to and then that person does the same.
What they are doing is carrying on a private conversation in a public forum.
My answer should have ended it all but they only care about the words coming out of their own mouths.
 
Rollo Tamasi said:
It's like when I give a solid answer in a debate and they ignore what I say and continue to say what they want to say to only the one person they want to say it to and then that person does the same.
What they are doing is carrying on a private conversation in a public forum.
My answer should have ended it all but they only care about the words coming out of their own mouths.
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You don't feel listened to is what you are saying. And respected. Tessa is best at this. She makes listening a priority. Or should I say "reading to find empathy" a priority. She's naturally humble. Her only agenda is to help people.
 
Rollo Tamasi said:
My answer should have ended it all
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To me that says you assumed you had the last word.
But forums are eternal. Debates and arguments can be eternal. Everyone likes the last word. No one wants to be humble enough to admit the other person might be saying something useful . Ok not everyone.
 
My agenda is to be about my Fathers business sharing the word of God with others as the Holy Spirit led me to this forum 10 years ago. Do I always get it right in what I teach, no, as I am not infallible, but there are others with more Spiritual knowledge that bring a light to that for where I have errored, thank you Jesus.

I consider myself a passionate and humbled person and hope others see that in me. I'm not into arguing or heavily debating with others as that can be a waste of time. I try my best to walk in the Spirit trying to keep on that straight and narrow path, but yet far from being perfect, but being perfected daily. I'm just a simple housewife that loves sharing the word of God with others engaging in good conversation.
 
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