When somone on this forum tries to tell you what you believe...?

Question

... and they usually have it wrong, how do you respond?

Answer 1

I usually flat out tell them
do you know my mind ?
are you me ?

what does puzzle me is how straight people know how a gay person thinks and feels
or when a Protestant tells a Catholic that they do worship Mary
or when someone tells a Muslim that he/she is a terrorist
or when a " believer " tells an atheist that they really do believe in God

it is all presumptuous and assuming and arrogant

Answer 2

The most thumbs down I ever got was in the teacher's forum. Someone asked us to compose a sentence which I did. Then I got all these thumbs down and have no idea what the problem was. That is not a good way to teach or change anything.

P.S. I didn't tell them I am a teacher.

Answer 3

It hasn't happened to me really, as i don't hold any particular similarities to any mainstream religion apart from buddhism.

Which is extraordinarily simple to understand, so if a person gets buddhism wrong then i just assume they're trying too hard to impress people, which is ultimately an egoist ideal and therefore that person has no intention of actually following the path set down before them.

But other than that, i could care less.

Answer 4

To add to what Pangel said:

I recently replied to a Q insisnting that Catholics worship Mary by pointing out that made as much sense as telling an atheist they really do believe in God. I got 2 thumbs down (IIRC), and no thumbs up!

Some people really are just hopeless!

Answer 5

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Answer 6

If someone says that I really don't mean it when I say I am not looking for Christ, stuff like that?

I used to get really angry, every time, and I would yell at them and tell them what preposterous, stupid, idiotic, brainwashed, moronic boneheads they are.

Now I only do that about half the time, and ignore them the rest of the time. Is this improvement?

I really can't answer them without getting mad mad mad, so I try to ignore them. I suspect that my anger is just what they are looking for anyway.

Answer 7

I am happy to be taught new and wonderful things. Listening to other viewpoints and absorbing knowledge is a really good way to defend yourself against the ignorant and mean people who would try to mislead you. I will not correct anyone, I will remember what they said. No added points for correcting a bonehead, just more arguments.

Answer 8

I try to discuss with them and correct the misperception. That's how I would want to be treated. If they don't want to listen and are only trying to insult, give up and avoid them.

And when I'm guilty of the misperception, I try to apologize. Most people will accept the apology, but some won't.

Answer 9

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother
don

Answer 10

I don't bother being polite about it anymore...I either ignore them, or tell them to fvck off...life is too short to waste time on it.

And if they email me with a diatribe, WHOA! I really tell them what I think of THEM.

I usually don't have any trouble after that.