can you transfer ownership and just move on??
jd
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From: "David Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Well, it is Friday. Time to say our goodbyes.
>
> I will leave the list up through the weekend to give time for lurkers to
> catch up and perhaps make their final post. Please bring the other
> conversations to a close and focus on saying your final farewells. I will
> start with this one, but I plan to send some more posts where I talk about
> past members of TruthTalk and some of my impressions, for good or for bad.
> In this post, I want to talk about TruthTalk in general.
>
> In my opinion, much of the difficulty of TruthTalk these last several years
> has been related to a problem described by the proverb, FAMILIARITY BREEDS
> CONTEMPT. I have seen this same phenomena in home churches too. When a
> small group of people become so thoroughly familia r with each other that
> much of what others would say become somewhat predictable, people become
> more free to speak their mind and tend to focus more upon faults than
> strengths in the other person. Marriages often illustrate this same
> difficulty. The time frame for this seems to start at around 4 years, and
> within 10 years, it becomes rather entrenched. Those groups that tend to be
> focused upon itself exhibit more of this tendency than groups that tend to
> reach out and pull in fresh people.
>
> On TruthTalk, there was a time when that polarizing of groups became rather
> noticeable. There came to be the liberals versus the conservatives, which
> eventually turned into the liberals versus the fundamentalists. When this
> first came to light, I questioned the group whether we should encourage this
> kind of sectarian dialogue. Several on the list thought it was natural
> human nature and fine not only to allow it but encoura ge it. Interestingly,
> some of those most outspoken for this perspective are no longer on the list.
> My personal judgment in hindsight is that any kind of sectarianism like this
> is counter productive for good discussion. What happens is that people
> speak more from bias and emotion rather than engage in a teamwork of
> discovery. People tended to work harder on putting the other side in their
> place rather than trying to hear whether or not there was even a grain of
> truth in what was being said.
>
> Overall, I have appreciated TruthTalk very much. It has been a source of
> motivation for me to study issues that I might otherwise have left
> untouched. My heart has been warmed by many who have posted here, and my
> mind has been enriched with a diversity of viewpoints to consider and
> examine. Some on TruthTalk have steered my thinking in certain directions
> that I might otherwise not have gone. Some have blessed me by pointin g me
> to resources and individuals that have previously been outside of my realm
> of study. In some future posts, I will discuss some of the members of
> TruthTalk who have most impacted me and how they influenced me.
>
> David Miller
>
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> you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org
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