What the heck is wrong with some CAF posters?

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po18guy

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We are all trying to help. We offer our posts as best we can. There is a money-back guarantee on each of my posts.

Only to have them picked apart by others who seem to demand that we agree with them, or to correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. I had no idea that I was submitting my posts for grade! And hardly ever is it the OP who objects, but rather the vigilante squad of “thread cops” that in my mind are more akin to the Keystone Cops. If this is how loving fellow Christians treat us, I might just take my chances with the devil.

I am clearly edging, if not racing toward curmudgeonliness. I struggle with medical conditions. I struggle with the high-dose steroids that I am on. I have typed and erased so many snarky, sarcastic (but true and somewhat witty) remarks that I have lost count.

Can anyone here simply mind their own business and let the OP in each thread ask the questions? Maybe PMs are the way to go.
 
I have to agree. My pet peeve has to do with correcting vocabulary.

Someone can start with a sincere question: As I was approaching the Eucharistic minister to take the wine, the chalice was jostled and I’m afraid some of the wine might have spilled. What should I do if this happens again?

There will be seven answers immediately:
  • The only Eucharistic minister is a priest and what the OP meant was the extraordinary minister of Holy Communion
  • It isn’t wine, it’s the Precious Blood of our Lord
  • We don’t “take” communion, we “receive” communion
  • Too many extraordinary ministers are used at Mass
  • It’s a sign of the irreverence at a novus ordo Mass
  • I will only receive from the priest on the tongue while kneeling
  • It’s not necessary to receive communion under both forms
And after all these responses to the OP, there won’t be one that addresses the question that was asked.
 
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For those who ask the original question, such a variety of answers does nothing to, well, answer.

I am not suggesting that I am anywhere near correct, but I reply honestly - and neither is this a graded activity. I know that membership here includes Priests, maybe a hidden Bishop, theologians, catechists, avid Catholics, as well as the old, young, the anxious, the scrupulous, the doubtful, non-Catholics, non-Christians, atheists, and perhaps a few troubled loners and deranged psychopaths.

I am ever more filled with joy that our Lord is so much more merciful.
 
Po, what you say is true, but I don’t think it’s any worse here than on other websites. Comments threads, here or anywhere else, attract self-appointed thought police and grammar police the way picnics attract wasps. The one forum, possibly, that is particularly prone to this kind of nuisance is Liturgy & Sacraments. SuscipeMeDomine seems to be saying the same thing. On some threads there you get the impression that around one-third of the commenters regard receiving on the tongue as an unforgiveable display of spiritual pride, while another one-third see receiving in the hand as a disgraceful sell-out to Protestantism, leaving only the remaining one-third who are interested in carrying on a civilized conversation. Liturgy & Sacraments apart, the other forums, on the whole, I have found to be relatively pest-free.
 
It’s a whole lot easier to be critical online than in real life. Even if you don’t mean it, you are behind a screen and will probably never meet the person you are interacting with online. This gives you a sense of invulnerability which can be used to be more aggressive in posting. I try to make it a point to never write anything unless I could say it to the person’s face in real time.
 
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All are invisible, but I trust God explicitly. I’ll take my chances with the devil. But, save me from my brothers and sisters!
 
We also have to remember that English may not be the first language of some people and words and phraseology among Catholics can very from around the world. Some of these different wordings are very likely, at least in part, to have caused the East/West split.

If what the poster is trying to say/ask can be understood, there is no reason to make corrections of them. Correction for the sake of clarification is not the same as correction for the sake of correction.
 
po18guy said:
I am clearly edging, if not racing toward curmudgeonlines. I struggle with medical conditions. I struggle with the high-dose steroids that I am on. I have typed and erased so many snarky, sarcastic (but true and somewhat witty) remarks that I have lost count.
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😂…

I’m not laughing at your medical conditions but 😂 I don’t know, I don’t know

I’m sorry, yes, it’s frustrating.
 
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I have a Facebook friend who belongs to a Communion in the Hand group. And I’m thinking, what the heck is going on? To me it’s just bizarre, all these small little quibbles.

You soon see why Jesus was the most stern with the Pharisees.
 
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No worries! I laugh about the three cancers I have had - one of which I still have. The osteoporosis. The hypertension. The type II diabetes. The cataracts. The chronic graft-versus-host-disease from a stem cell transplant. Lumbar pain from two surgeries. Dupuytren’s disease. Peripheral neuropathy. An obtuse personality. Male pattern baldness!!! Life is not as easy as it used to be, but is still worth living.

I do question that when the various professors here red pencil my posts. I would not wish my nightmare medical resumé on any of them. But I am certainly tempted to at times…
 
Excuse me, but I’m fairly certain that you need a comma just following “jostled”. 💂
 
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There are some people you should never reveal your “pet peeves” to. 😱

I suppose I could have went after vocabulary, but I chose to throw a curve ball, in this case.
 
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I am on alternating doses of steroids. It was “high dose” day when I began this thread. Nevertheless, even on low dose days it sets the teeth on edge.
 
I’m sure that’s no fun at all! I can be moody at times. And it tends to make me really moody that I’m moody.
 
Seeing myself say 'I this " and “I that” has me wondering how else I could phrase things…
“One would think…” “One ought…”…🧐 I’d rather not be an “I” kind of person,
 
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