Goodbye everyone!

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A number of years ago, a monk advised me that I should refrain from participating in discussions on religious internet forums. He said that it could only lead to arguments and lack of charity. Many years later, after thousands of arguments and a few suspensions for lack of charity, I have decided to abide by the advice of this holy monk.

I am a slow learner. 😃

I am hereby removing myself from this forum–and others.

I have met some wonderful cyber friends on this forum and I have also butted heads with some people who are as stubborn as me—a few will be very happy to see me resign. 😛

For everyone that I may have offended during my 11,000 plus postings, I apologize and ask for your forgiveness.

Many blessed years to all!

Slava Isusu Christu!

Mickey
 
Mickey, I have the same concern about forums… I know what you mean.🤷 don’t know if we’ve ever been in a debate, but in any case, God bless you 🙂
 
I think we will all be the poorer for your departure, Mickey. Please reconsider. If not, go with God.

Tom
 
How blessed for you to have a ‘good’ spiritual director. Though I have strongly avoided debates, I am very dismayed at the amount of ‘negative’ comments and debates that I have witnessed here, and have been praying about leaving these forums as well. Will keep you in my prayers. God’s blessings.
 
I didn’t know you Mickey, but it sounds like you are doing what is good for your soul; and that’s the most important thing. God bless:)
 
Mickey said:
A number of years ago, a monk advised me that I should refrain from participating in discussions on religious internet forums. He said that it could only lead to arguments and lack of charity. Many years later, after thousands of arguments and a few suspensions for lack of charity, I have decided to abide by the advice of this holy monk.

I am a slow learner. 😃

I am hereby removing myself from this forum–and others.

I have met some wonderful cyber friends on this forum and I have also butted heads with some people who are as stubborn as me—a few will be very happy to see me resign. 😛

For everyone that I may have offended during my 11,000 plus postings, I apologize and ask for your forgiveness.

Many blessed years to all!

Slava Isusu Christu!

Mickey
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Bye Mickey. Know that this you’ll get this measly soul’s prayers for as long as I can give them. God bless you, your life, family, and faith. May you shine like the stars. Pray for me.

May you always be veiled in Our Lady’s mantle of love.
 
11,000??? it has been fun though… right?

God bless you, Mickey…
 
Mickey said:
A number of years ago, a monk advised me that I should refrain from participating in discussions on religious internet forums. He said that it could only lead to arguments and lack of charity. Many years later, after thousands of arguments and a few suspensions for lack of charity, I have decided to abide by the advice of this holy monk.

I am a slow learner. 😃

I am hereby removing myself from this forum–and others.

I have met some wonderful cyber friends on this forum and I have also butted heads with some people who are as stubborn as me—a few will be very happy to see me resign. 😛

For everyone that I may have offended during my 11,000 plus postings, I apologize and ask for your forgiveness.

Many blessed years to all!

Slava Isusu Christu!

Mickey
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I had an Orthodox priest advise the same thing, he felt that it destroyed the peace of one’s soul. It can be very helpful, and I’ve learned alot in the years I’ve dialogued over the internet, but there is certainly a downside as well.
 
I’ve been black-balled on another forum for being too aggressive in my opining, I guess, but rather than quit I’m using that as a learning experience to improve my behavior on this one. Sorry you have to leave us.
 
I haven’t seen any of your posts but I wanted to comment if only to say that I believe the internet brings out the worst of ourselves. It’s almost as if the anonymity and lack of face to face discussion leads to a kind of … lax attitude when it comes to how we treat others.

A few things people should keep in mind.
  1. If you wouldn’t say it to someone’s face do NOT write it on an internet forum.
  2. Even if this is only happening through written word God still sees what you are writing and someone is being affected by your written words.
  3. Someday someone you know offline might stumble upon this board and find you in your posts. This actually happened to me in my first two weeks here!!! Thankfully I haven’t written anything I’m ashamed of but if I had let my emotion rule my posting things might have gone differently.
That’s just my two cents on this issue. 🙂

That said, there is MUCH good that can be done online. The words you print will remain visible for all for a long time and you NEVER know who’s going to stumble upon a little gem of truth in your post. God can use any medium for His plan… our voices, pen and paper, and the internet.

If you truly feel you cannot contain yourself and behave in a loving and charitable manner then it’s best to log off… if, however, you feel you could accidentally lay down a gem that someone might see then perhaps you should consider staying? 🤷
 
Mickey said:
A number of years ago, a monk advised me that I should refrain from participating in discussions on religious internet forums. He said that it could only lead to arguments and lack of charity. Many years later, after thousands of arguments and a few suspensions for lack of charity, I have decided to abide by the advice of this holy monk.

I am a slow learner. 😃

I am hereby removing myself from this forum–and others.

I have met some wonderful cyber friends on this forum and I have also butted heads with some people who are as stubborn as me—a few will be very happy to see me resign. 😛

For everyone that I may have offended during my 11,000 plus postings, I apologize and ask for your forgiveness.

Many blessed years to all!

Slava Isusu Christu!

Mickey
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Hey Mickey,
I’ve shared the same experience as you. My confessor advised against being on here too. I’ve left for long periods of time because I don’t like what it turns me into, so I feel your pain. I consider you a friend and have had some great talks. (and butted heads. :D)
God bless, my friend!
 
wise monk
the rules for apologetics apply here above all, so no one who is not willing to abide by them should try to participate in those discussions. and no one should undertake any activity, even a neutral or worthy one, if it is a danger to his faith personally.
 
Hello Mickey,

I will miss your voice being here. That is one of the unfortunate things about forums; We interloccutors are often speaking at cross purposes. Hence, I am only an occasional contributor.

Rosemary
 
Hello Mickey,

I’m not sure if I’ve come across you in the hundreds of threads I must have seen since I first came across CAF. I admire your obedience - that’s so important…

I hope you will still continue to educate yourself spiritually - you can still read things like ‘This Rock’ and other CA resources, right? If not, make sure you can get similar good spiritual reading.

I wish you all the best for the future!

God bless,
Siobhán. 👋
 
Sad to see you go. I didn’t always agree with you but it was always interesting to get a very staunchly Eastern Orthodox perspective on things.God grant you many years as you continue your spiritual journey.
 
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