DonO - Thanks for your well-considered explanation.
My heart goes out to your ailing friend and to Denny�s injured son. I sincerely hope that their suffering will be as small as possible and recovery will be maximized. It doesn�t offend me that people would turn to their friends for support. It's positive and important to ask one's friends for help. I would more naturally choose to respond directly to a friend rather than in a public forum, but perhaps I�m mistaken in that as a general expectation. Somehow in the recent discussions about taboo subjects I missed reading about the exception regarding prayer that you refer to. It seems like it only takes the slightest crack of an open door to trigger passionate religious monologues. Last time it was someone�s pretty tame joke that lit the fuse. What does offend me is that some people will use any opportunity to launch into diatribes expounding their beliefs. Mark --- DonO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, > The original discussion was that aside from friends asking friends for > prayers in a time of need, the vfb would not become a forum for religious or > political topics. > > One thing that makes the vfb so special is the family-like atmosphere. This > has been generated by more than just fishing-related technical topics. Like > so many have put it, the vfb is an extended family that we can go to in time > of personal need, and most times that's just emotional or spiritual support. > > One of us having an operation is not fishing related, but it is of concern > to us, being as close as we are. My friend is close to me, as my wife and > his are best friends, and we've know them so long, they're like family to > us. I'm stuck in my office and I got the bad news this morning via the > phone. So I just wanted to lean on my friends a little, not promote a > religious viewpoint. I'm sorry if you have to use the delete button more > times than you planned. > > Denny needs support and others here are more than willing to give it. If it > gets to be too much for what Byard envisions for not-on-topic conversations, > he will say something. > > Don > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Klemick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 10:52 AM > Subject: [VFB] Yikes! - more prayers > > > > > > I'm sorta confused... > > > > Wasn't it just last week when everyone agreed to avoid political and > religious > > topics on the list? > > > > What's up with all this? > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
