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by When someone does something in the past, and it's wrong of them, it's a mistake. They may do that wrong something a couple of times, enjoying it and all, until they realize how wrong it is. Then they strive to make it better. They may fall back into bad habits again once or twice, but eventually they get over. They don't do whatever they used to anymore. Say, what they used to do would earn them the title of a 'slut' (if this person was a girl). However, they're not doing anything of the sort anymore, and they haven't been in a while..wouldn't that mean this person was no longer a slut, if she was even one in the first place? Wouldn't it be the christian thing to forgive and forget if they were now doing the right things? However, what if someone won't get over the fact of what they used to do and insists that this person is still a slut based on what they used to do. Isn't that person in the wrong? Especially if there is no reason to think that about the other person anymore accept for the things done in the past.
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Everyone messes up. EVERYONE. It is however human nature to remember bad things that happen to you. It is hard for people to TRULY forgive and forget. But that is the christian thing to do. But you are TOTALLY right, those you still refer or speak about a person from something they did in the past, isnt showing a christian spirit AT ALL!
whatever mike. you slut.
ha well this SLUT is going to kick ur rootie poo candy REAR END!!!!!
r u callin me a slut?
Yes! This whole journal entry was about how I feel that you are a slut but my friend Malibu keeps telling me it's all in the past but I go against my christian upbringing and continue to call you a slut.
that soooo hurts. Thanks for stickin up for me, julie.
is it julie or julia?.. i always called her "yo" but i guess i should know.
well first she told me julia, but then she calls herself julie, or maybe those r just two personalities living in the same mind?
Being her sister indirectly because I am her sisters twin sister I would know that her name is Julia but she is known mainly as Julie. I wouldn't doubt the two personalities idea though.
lynz is right. my given name is julia and when i first meet people that's what i tell people, but once i talk to them like twice they usually call me julie. but my mother has five children so as mike pointed out. i do respond to yo!
where the hoes at? (sorry had to say it)
You know what...I would like to say, for the record, that Thai Pham is a MAN-WHORE ( i dont' really know what that means, but Thai is always doing cool stuff so maybe this is one of those times)
i hereby declare this journal "The Highest Concentration of Offensive Words Yet". please keep it cleaner and nicer people.
God has spoken. FEAR HIM!
whoa whoa whoa.. you're going to hades for that.. you called ian "God" with a capitol G ... oh my . oh me.
yeah thats like a sin, bye bye
It's my big brotherly duty to say that it was the beginning of the sentence, so it would be capitalized... give the poor girl a break.
clearly i'm just joshing and pulling her chain a little bit.. her chained needeed to be pulled. whose doesn't... mind hasn't been pulled in awhile. i'm sad.
Sorry, I'm the oldest in my family and have 2 younger sisters so the big brother thing is a part of my life.
it was funny though... doesnt that make it worth it?
SOMEBODY'S going to have to bring some level-headedness to this journal and I guess it's going to be me...
Like Mike mentioned, we have all done bad things in the past. But if we repent (which is turning away from our wrong-doings) and live our lives the way Jehovah requires, then all the past should be forgotten. Jehovah forgets and forgives (I guess He doesn't really forget it, but He doesn't hold it against us) so who are WE to keep harping on it?
When someone is disfellowshipped and later reinstated, do we go up to them and say "Oh, like you were disfellowshipped 10 years ago so you're not acceptable to Jehovah"? Or do we not even think of the time they were out of the Truth.
I had to help my dad appreciate this after he was reinstated. He was out for 30 years and he deeply regrets those 3 decades. I kept telling him to look ahead to the future, because if we keep harping on the past, we'll be discouraged and ripped apart, which is what Satan wants us to be.
In short, yeah, we can regret the wrong things we did... but bringing those things up over and over again and holding those things against someone is a Satanic attitude.
yeah i don't like those people that look down on those that have been reproofed or df'ed or whatever, id like to lay some smack down on those type of people thinkin they all high and mighty. The person made a mistake and realized it and is now doin good again, who are they to judge them? People should look at them selves and stop hatin on others!
hmm can i meet this girl. hahaha .. sorry i didn't read the story in depth.. i just read the "s" word. thats it. i apologize.
This is rough situation, because on one hand its hard for the kids that dont get in trouble, because usually the kids that do always get the attention. Once they make one step in the right direction everyone is jumping in talking about how good they are doing and how great they are, no matter how many times the kid goes back to his old ways. So the one that doesnt get in trouble is left out with no attention. Which is obviously going to make that one resent the "bad" kid, even if they eventually make a real change. On the other hand you have to think about the story of the prodical son. We have to be happy when people realize their mistakes, and even if its hard you have to allow people to change and when they really do, you have to look at them differently too.
forgive and forget is the right thing to do. but you have to wonder if others still question this person, why? do they know something you don't? or do they just not like this person for some other reason? consider it carefully.
That's a good way of looking at it, but I was working from the point of true repentance... she wrote "Wouldn't it be the christian thing to forgive and forget if they were now doing the right things?" So I'm assuming this girl is no longer doing what she did to earn her rep in the first place... it's good to be cautious if there's reason to suspect that this person is leading a double life, though.