A Reckoning

[Lucky]

I just finished reading Louise Penny's novel A Great Reckoning. It's received thousands of 5 star reviews at Amazon, so I picked it up. It's a good story, but not why I am posting this.

It's the Christmas season, a time to be full of good will for all men. And with this quote from the novel:

"We are all of us marred and scarred and imperfect. We make mistakes. We do things we deeply regret. We are tempted and sometimes we give in to that temptation. Not because we're bad or weak, but because we are human. We are a crowd of faults."

Perhaps we need a reckoning of sorts in this forum. Wonder where the good will is missing, know our own humanity, and try...I do say try...to see it in our fellow posters. All of us human, mistake-making men. Me included.

Merry Christmas.

[Guest Larstrup]

  POPE TO GAYS: DROP DEAD!

[Lucky]

The Pope is not being very loving there, is he? Maybe he should read this post! Or is our task to forgive him for his mistake?

Well, we can forgive him, but that doesn't mean we have to let his opinion go unchallenged.

[Guest Larstrup]

4 minutes ago, Lucky said:

The Pope is not being very loving there, is he? Maybe he should read this post! Or is our task to forgive him for his mistake?

Well, we can forgive him, but that doesn't mean we have to let his opinion go unchallenged.

Actually, the Pope never told US to drop dead. It was YOU.

[MsGuy]

Sounds like someone isn't feeling the season...

Ho, ho ho?

[Lucky]

When I posted this, I predicted some response would be like the lovable Larstrup's. Let's face it, the forums have not been very exciting lately. It's either the very healthy Latin forum, or attacks in the threads about JD Daniels. We're supposed to discuss the topic and not attack the poster. That's all my original post contemplated.

 

Ford never actually said to New York "Drop Dead" but that was the gist of his comment. He showed no real interest in the city's welfare, just as the Pope has shown in recent papers a similar lack of interest in gay people. ho ho ho

 

[AdamSmith]

On December 8, 2016 at 3:22 PM, MsGuy said:

Ho, ho ho

After all the reason we're here, no? 

[Lucky]

2 hours ago, AdamSmith said:

After all the reason we're here, no? 

Most of us!

[Suckrates]

On 12/10/2016 at 5:08 AM, AdamSmith said:

After all the reason we're here, no? 

 

 

(perhaps to avoid the GRINCH ?)

[Guest larryoz]

On 12/9/2016 at 2:22 AM, Lucky said:

I just finished reading Louise Penny's novel A Great Reckoning. It's received thousands of 5 star reviews at Amazon, so I picked it up. It's a good story, but not why I am posting this.

It's the Christmas season, a time to be full of good will for all men. And with this quote from the novel:

"We are all of us marred and scarred and imperfect. We make mistakes. We do things we deeply regret. We are tempted and sometimes we give in to that temptation. Not because we're bad or weak, but because we are human. We are a crowd of faults."

Perhaps we need a reckoning of sorts in this forum. Wonder where the good will is missing, know our own humanity, and try...I do say try...to see it in our fellow posters. All of us human, mistake-making men. Me included.

Merry Christmas.

I'm seeing a lot of kindness and love flowing out from @Lucky. I agree that Christmas brings out the best in people (as noone wants to he Scrooge) and kindness wins over most abrasive and argumentative behavior. 

[Lucky]

Thank you, LarryOz. Welcome to the forums.