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I've been around the internet for a long time. It's been about 20 or 21 years now. I am not sure what is a good way to introduce myself. I feel that people judge other people by what they write. I think sometimes I don't always come across in the most popular manner. You might find that I am a weird guy. Judging by how I often get treated online, I am always the one that is at fault for my issues. If I feel that I need to push back on that, people just get mean. I am currently leaving another "Christian" forum. Because I often like to make prayer requests over issues that I feel that only God can help me. But what often happens is that other people seem to think they got the answers, because they can find some scripture in the Bible. Never mind the fact even when you know all the correct scriptures it is not always easy to apply them to one's life. This is often times why I ask for prayer. I'm expecting God to help me in this area of my life! I hope that people on this forum will understand the difference between a prayer request, and someone who is asking for advice. Because if I run into this sort of problem again, and I have ran into on two different Christian forums, I will probably just quietly delete my account and leave. Because I did not join to defend myself, in a prayer thread. Now, If I'm crazy enough to engage in a debate, then in that case I am expected to defend my position, and I understand that.

I want everyone to know, and respect the fact that I am joining here with some frustration on my shoulders. This does not mean that I'm easily angered. The main thing that angers me is when people disrespect me, and I haft to endure the same junk over and over and over again. That is when I start to feel some resentment.

I do believe in forgiveness. But I also believe that forgiveness and emotional/spiritual healing can be a real process, depending on what caused the damage. Jesus commands forgiveness but I'm not God like He is. I am a follower of His, and I am always trying to grow and become more like him. I have not arrived yet, and I hope that acknowledging that you will understand that I think that makes me humble. At least that is what I hope.
 
I've suffered a lot of abuse online as well... it can be quite difficult.

I listen to sermons on forgiveness all the time.
 
dizerner said:
I've suffered a lot of abuse online as well... it can be quite difficult.

I listen to sermons on forgiveness all the time.
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Growing up I was constantly bullied, leaving me with no friends. The internet has been my only hope for friends, but it has proven to be a very rough place, and I'm trying to put my foot down early, so that people will understand my point of view.
 
AlwaysOnAJourney said:
Growing up I was constantly bullied, leaving me with no friends. The internet has been my only hope for friends, but it has proven to be a very rough place, and I'm trying to put my foot down early, so that people will understand my point of view.
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I'm sorry to hear that. I can relate a lot.

Although I have passionate opinions, I would never want to hurt someone's feelings.

I will say a prayer for your journey brother.
 
I'm currently trying to get the admins on christianityboard to delete my account. They are giving me the run around. What the admin wrote me back hurt my feelings again! Firstly He acts like He respects me, and is sad to see me go. But in the next He acts like it's my fault in how I posted my prayer requests that invited all the discussions to happen. I'm like how on earth when I never one time asked people for advice did I manage to ask for advice? It feels like they are just shifting the blame on me. It seems like if they really respected me they would just do what I ask. Anyways I'm here on these forums to try and start all over.
 
I pray extra hard for people when they mistreat me, to try to help guard my heart from resentment and offense.

It really isn't easy.
 
civic said:
You will not get advice from me or the admin unless you ask us for it.
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Thank you for that. If you don't mind me talking and sharing a little... Over many years I've gone from one Christian site to another. I always run into issues. But they are never the same issue. I feel like I try my best and yet I never get to the bottom of things and learn the correct way to conduct myself so that I don't run into an issue that causes me to leave. I guess part of the problem is with me. It's not easy to fix. It's not easy to hit a moving target. I think this is a good reason to pray for people like me. Maybe it is also a good reason to pray for Christian social and forum sites as well. God needs to guide us in the right direction.
 
I want to be clear about something. I enjoy getting "likes" but the "like" button on facebook is also used for tracking purposes. If you can guarantee me that the like button on here is not used for tracking, that I will use it.
 
Pretty sure the admin wouldn't even know how to track with likes, even if it were possible.

Pushing like doesn't give the website any more information then it already has, so no worries.

I'll be your friend, bro.
 
I don't want to blame my so called learning disability for everything that is wrong in my life. But logically you can almost connect every issue I have to it. It effects how fast I learn things. It effects how good I get at things. I've been driving since the age of 19, and yet at my current age of 44 I'm no better at it then I was way back then. The ability to drive well really impacts one's life in this society. The ability to pick up things quickly also really impacts your life in this society. People don't want to wait around on you. You got to get it learned and get it done. That is why I'm stuck in the low end job that I'm in. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that I at least have a job. But it's extremely lonely, and after all the problems me and my parents have had with the local churches, even as a family we don't have any solid friendships. Everything I just said could be a topic in of it's self.

Currently I'm not feeling very well in the head. I'm tired. When I'm tired my emotions and stuff aren't as stable as I would like them to be.

I think the point I'm actually trying to make is, I could use friends. But not just people who want to only make forum posts. I actually think I do better in one on one conversations. It's less for my brain to process.
 
AlwaysOnAJourney said:
I've heard other people online say the same thing. But I also got to consider that people also seem to get confused by what I say, and take things the wrong way too.
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That's not always your fault, people don't pay attention and think more with emotions than logic. It's just human nature.

I've also always had severe learning disabilities all my life and was bullied in school, so I know how you feel.

If you are on discord, feel free to add me, we could text chat in real time.

peace
 
dizerner said:
That's not always your fault, people don't pay attention and think more with emotions than logic. It's just human nature.

I've also always had severe learning disabilities all my life and was bullied in school, so I know how you feel.

If you are on discord, feel free to add me, we could text chat in real time.

peace
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A couple years ago, I had a discord account. I had a terrible time trying to get people to talk to me. As a result I started to feel tempted to go looking around the discord channels. I found some nasty stuff on there, and finally I had to terminate my account. :(
 
AlwaysOnAJourney said:
A couple years ago, I had a discord account. I had a terrible time trying to get people to talk to me. As a result I started to feel tempted to go looking around the discord channels. I found some nasty stuff on there, and finally I had to terminated my account. :(
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No problem.
 
AlwaysOnAJourney said:
I know discord has become "popular" but ironically when I was on it, it didn't seem to be that much better then an old fashion AOL chatroom.
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It's just an IM app like any IM app... that's like saying telephones are "no better than telemarketers."
I don't really understand your logic, but I'm not trying to be mean.

peace
 

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