Shimei said:
Yes, they made sense. I plan to call in but not till Thursday or Friday as I will be out of town early in the week.
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That's OK... Bob will be out of town for the rest of the month.CabinetMaker said:Yes, they made sense. I plan to call in but not till Thursday or Friday as I will be out of town early in the week. (bettcha' can't :bannana: )
Turbo said:That's OK... Bob will be out of town for the rest of the month.
Do you walk up to every retarded person you see and say "You're retarded"?Nineveh said:Why hide the fact? If CM is an idiot, perhaps s/he should be told so they may change it, unless of course s/he likes being an idiot, in which case s/he should be proud others can tell right away they are indeed an idiot.
CabinetMaker said:Okay Nineveh, now you too have called me and idiot and made no effort to support that rebuke.
If you are going to call me and idiot, support it. (bettcha' can't :bannana: )
fool said:Do you walk up to every retarded person you see and say "You're retarded"?
If they keep talking to you as you walk away and follow you do you say "You're retarded"?
Yes.Nineveh said:Are you of the mind a retarded person has control over their mental capacity?
fool said:Yes.
Retarded means slowed down, not vacant.
Nineveh said:Actually if you follow along with my part of the convo, no, I haven't.
No, I can't in good conscience call you an idiot, as I haven't read all of your posts on this thread. At this point I can however call you ignorant, as you seem to have either ignored or can not comprehend what I have actually said, and that has left you without understanding.
CabinetMaker said:As to point A, instead of more deserving of compassion, the question is are they deserving of any compassion. Not long after the tragedy a group, I forget exactly who, planted 15 trees, one for each family who lost somebody that day. A couple of people showed up the day the trees were dedicated to the families and cut down two of the trees. I always found that to be a particularly cruel act. It implied that two families were undeserving of compassion. The same two families that we think deserve nothing but scorn and condemnation Christ determined that they were worth dieing for.
As to point B, no I don't have any evidence for either point. What I find interesting is the attitude that fellow Christians on this site have towards the families. Just two posts up from this koban clearly states that the Harris and Kleebold families do not deserve forgiveness. Why?
Shimei said:From my newspaper clipping collection 1999.
CabinetMaker said:That was the story I remembered. The Church made it plane that the trres were for the families, not the killers. The people who cut the trees down said the trees were for Dylan and Eric.
The article points out that the Harris and Kleebold families were not contacted to see if they even wanted to be included.
Anyway, I think the West Bowles Community Church is a Church where God is active. They understood that 15 families (and many more when you include the injured) were victimized that day and at least made an attempt to reach out.
This is bound to get me in trouble after all that has gone before in this thread but, oddly enough, I don't balme the parents for cutting down the trees. The greif of losing a child is one I hope and pray to never suffer.
Finally, it would seem that Westboro belives that Christians do have a responseability to show to compassion to those in need.
Now what do we do to fix the system?
Delmar said:They showed NO compassion for the families of the 13 murder victims!
CabinetMaker said:Your reference to they is unclear. If by they you mean Eric and Dylan then I agree. Ifby they you mean the families of the Eric and Dylan, I disagree.
Re-read the first paragraph of the article. The trees were planted for the families of people killed that day.
Shimei said:How do 15 trees and 15 crosses represent 15 families? They clearly represent the 15 people who died that day. Saying anything else is a cop out and maybe a realization that you screwed up, so you now must cover your tracks.
13 people were murdered and 2 were murderers. You never honor the murderers especially along with their victims. It is just plain sick! Why Christians can not understand this is beyond me. The "nicer than God" teaching has turned many Christian's minds to mush.
CabinetMaker said:Check out paragraphs 1, 4, 13, 25, 29 and 30. Doesn't seem as clear as you make it sound. No need to cover any of my tracks.
CabinetMaker said:Your reference to they is unclear. If by they you mean Eric and Dylan then I agree. Ifby they you mean the families of the Eric and Dylan, I disagree.
Re-read the first paragraph of the article. The trees were planted for the families of people killed that day.
AgreedDelmar said:I am saying that the leadership of the Westboro Church showed No compassion for the families of the 13 murder victims when they planted 15 trees after promising the families of the murder victims that they (the Westboro Church) would do nothing in honor of "15 victims"! If they or anyone else wanted to show compassion for the murderers families they should have found a way that did not dishonor the memory of the 13 innocent!