I wonder if the same things happens with prayers. Some people will tell someone “I’ll pray for you” as a way of not talking the time to listen to the other’s worries. Sure they may pray but they also don’t offer kindness or support.
You declaring is a meaningless gesture doesn’t make it so for anyone else but you. You should know that.
Lol that is actually the subject being discussed!Boy there’s a lot of self righteousness running through this thread.
It does if it a gesture without meaning. Which it mostly is. Would you like it better if instead of meaningless we just used impotent?
You’ve kind of hit on why these shows of solidarity are difficult; more than one tragedy has happened recently. I’ve seen a lot of pictures/memes and posts addressing this. I didn’t change mine because I already have a image on mine and it’s a drag to change it out. However, my twibbon is for an organization/movement I support year round and it’s something I’m passionate about.Eh, I probably am more inclined to your point of view, though I suppose I don’t pay it that much thought. I tend to figure that while I think it rather silly, the people doing it probably mean well, and it’s not hurting anything for them to do it. I agree that it’s partly a matter of it being made that easy to do. (That, and Paris is, of course, much sexier than rural Mexicans being murdered by drug cartels.)
You think it is. I don’t. If Twitter/Facebook was a thing around 9/11 I would have appreciated seeing the American flag superimposed on a tweeps pic. Instead there was a forum (like CAF) that I followed and members were from all over the world. I saw the practical gestures (offering people a place to stay if they were stranded after the airplanes were grounded) as well as words of support and comfort from them. It meant a lot even though I didn’t need help and they had no idea who I was.
I don’t have a ton of facebook friends but I’m seeing a few who do both, a few who do neither, the rest do one or the other.
One is right and one is wrong. A hard concept for post moder thought to accept.
Yeah.
How nice of you to declare my intentions to be meaningless.
Again, to be fair: a number of my friends on FB who are quite active in pro-life circles (think attending all-night prayer vigils in front of the local abortion clinic, that sort of thing) have superimposed those flags on their profiles, and post about abortion and pro-life matters quite frequently. I have no idea if they’re representative of pro-lifers in general in this matter. For context, these are youngish people, mostly in their 20s. Some are college or grad students. The vast majority of those who are married are rather obviously following the Church’s teachings on matters contraceptive, if you get my drift.
(As for the others, I have no idea what’s going on in their sex lives, and don’t presume even to wonder.)The intent may indeed have meaning. But the action does not have effect.
I’m sure prayers (even if a Lutheran) are more meaningful than a flag or frankly even blood. You know fasting could be a great form of solidarity and no one would even have to know. Something about a father who sees what is done in secret or the prayers of a righteous man. Or is the bible too outdated for today’s tragedies…
How do you know?
How do you not know?
