discussion about idiots on myspace,...

sonicreducer

im sure that many of you have a myspace account and are aware of the bulletins that people can post. i came across this one posted by a friend i used to work with. tell me what you all would do if you saw this. if you aren't a christian, pretend you were. would it still not piss you off?


HE DIED:

He died, most of u won't post this!!! When Jesus died on the cross he was thinking of you. If your one of the 3% who will stand up for Him repost this with the title: he died

The Illinoisemakers

sonicreducer wrote:

im sure that many of you have a myspace account and are aware of the bulletins that people can post. i came across this one posted by a friend i used to work with. tell me what you all would do if you saw this. if you aren't a christian, pretend you were. would it still not piss you off?


HE DIED:

He died, most of u won't post this!!! When Jesus died on the cross he was thinking of you. If your one of the 3% who will stand up for Him repost this with the title: he died

I'm failing to see the real problem with this, and I'm a Christian.

jeffbr

sonicreducer wrote:

HE DIED:

He died, most of u won't post this!!! When Jesus died on the cross he was thinking of you. If your one of the 3% who will stand up for Him repost this with the title: he died

I wouldn't post this for a few reasons, not the least of which is that I wouldn't want to be associated with fucking up the spelling of "you're".

hippiemom

sonicreducer wrote:

im sure that many of you have a myspace account and are aware of the bulletins that people can post. i came across this one posted by a friend i used to work with. tell me what you all would do if you saw this. if you aren't a christian, pretend you were. would it still not piss you off?


HE DIED:

He died, most of u won't post this!!! When Jesus died on the cross he was thinking of you. If your one of the 3% who will stand up for Him repost this with the title: he died

I'm not a Christian, so perhaps I'm missing something, but the main thing I see that's wrong with this bulletin is it's pointlessness.

Pacomc79

I'd be as upset as I am at people who are so lame they feel they need to fill my inbox with crap like that because people are trying to feel good about themselves and how far thier post will go. It's an attempt to play on other fundamentalists emotions, and a cheap one at that.

It's an annoyance.

Chain letters are freaking stupid as are the people who create them.

angelica

jeffbr wrote:

I wouldn't post this for a few reasons, not the least of which is that I wouldn't want to be associated with fucking up the spelling of "you're".

Cosmo

sonicreducer wrote:

im sure that many of you have a myspace account and are aware of the bulletins that people can post. i came across this one posted by a friend i used to work with. tell me what you all would do if you saw this. if you aren't a christian, pretend you were. would it still not piss you off?


HE DIED:

He died, most of u won't post this!!! When Jesus died on the cross he was thinking of you. If your one of the 3% who will stand up for Him repost this with the title: he died

...
Wait... all I have to do in order to be 'Saved' is repost a bulletin in MySpace?
It gets easier and easier everyday.

sonicreducer

The Illinoisemakers wrote:

I'm failing to see the real problem with this, and I'm a Christian.

one problem i see is that it implies that if you don't repost the bulletin, you don't stand up for jesus. that is completely false. i think she was playing off of her own guilty conscience when she saw the post. it just makes me wonder how people think. maybe she didn't overanalyze it like i did. i believe Jesus Christ is my savior, but i would say this does more discredit to my faith than it does to raise her supposed 3%,...

The Illinoisemakers

I don't know, I'm a Christian and I see this stuff and I just laugh. Like someone said earlier, my salvation is guaranteed if I post something like this on myspace? Well then I'm screwed, I don't even have a myspace page.

know1

Like others have said, there may be some minor issues with us, but I fail to see any REAL problem with it.

I have more of a problem with the "if you're not a Christian, pretend you are" statement and, more importantly, the way you lump all Christians together as if everyone of us has the exact same thoughts, feelings and actions.

miller8966

I get alot of those bulletins for impeach bush. I usually type back:

2 more years!

norm

sonicreducer wrote:

When Jesus died on the cross he was thinking of you.

Well I was born in 1969. I'm pretty sure he died before I was born so I call bullshit on this one.:D

Pacomc79

Cosmo wrote:

...
Wait... all I have to do in order to be 'Saved' is repost a bulletin in MySpace?
It gets easier and easier everyday.

Maybe this will spawn a really cool discussion about da da da.....Predestination.

hippiemom

Pacomc79 wrote:

Maybe this will spawn a really cool discussion about da da da.....Predestination.

Oh please no .... if Jesus really is the Lord, he won't let there be another thread about this.

sonicreducer

know1 wrote:

Like others have said, there may be some minor issues with us, but I fail to see any REAL problem with it.

I have more of a problem with the "if you're not a Christian, pretend you are" statement and, more importantly, the way you lump all Christians together as if everyone of us has the exact same thoughts, feelings and actions.

i didn't mean to offend anyone. i worded that poorly.

dkst0426

I'm a Christian, and bulletins like those piss me off.

There's one that goes around about a girl who was walking home late at night and prayed for safety, and didn't get raped by this man she walked by, and when she went to the prison to ask him why he didn't jump her, he told her he saw two men walking with her.

The clincher? You're asked to repost that story with the headline "Girl brutally raped in (insert your town name)," and then there's the "lesson" about "the power of prayer."

Idiotic. Panders to emotions, and it's shameless. I'm almost embarrassed to be associated with the people who put crap like that out.

Pearl Jam and toast

jeffbr wrote:

I wouldn't post this for a few reasons, not the least of which is that I wouldn't want to be associated with fucking up the spelling of "you're".

lmao

Yeah I don't care either.

hippiemom

dkst0426 wrote:

I'm a Christian, and bulletins like those piss me off.

There's one that goes around about a girl who was walking home late at night and prayed for safety, and didn't get raped by this man she walked by, and when she went to the prison to ask him why he didn't jump her, he told her he saw two men walking with her.

The clincher? You're asked to repost that story with the headline "Girl brutally raped in (insert your town name)," and then there's the "lesson" about "the power of prayer."

Idiotic. Panders to emotions, and it's shameless. I'm almost embarrassed to be associated with the people who put crap like that out.

Yikes! So if you're not a Christian, god's cool with you being raped?

Yeah, that's sick. People who post such things are NOT Christians in any meaningful sense of the word.

RavennaSeattle1911

sonicreducer wrote:

im sure that many of you have a myspace account and are aware of the bulletins that people can post. i came across this one posted by a friend i used to work with. tell me what you all would do if you saw this. if you aren't a christian, pretend you were. would it still not piss you off?


HE DIED:

He died, most of u won't post this!!! When Jesus died on the cross he was thinking of you. If your one of the 3% who will stand up for Him repost this with the title: he died

im a chistian and who cares what people put on my space -free speach

you go online -you read what you want

if you hate myspace then go read newyorktimes site or a dictionary thats predictable

sonicreducer

RavennaSeattle1911 wrote:

im a chistian and who cares what people put on my space -free speach

you go online -you read what you want

if you hate myspace then go read newyorktimes site or a dictionary thats predictable

myspace is not a free speach zone,... (speech, by the way)



but seriously, i understand what you are saying and i've passed those bulletins off before. but, i keep seeing them and they piss me off. there is no meaning to it. myspace is a platform for garbage and keeping up with old friends, not religion. if someone wanted to incorporate religion into the issue, they better do it in a meaningful way. posting those kinds of bulletins are not well thought out and mean nothing about one's reverence towards their religion.

dkst0426

hippiemom wrote:

Yikes! So if you're not a Christian, god's cool with you being raped?

Not entirely--more of a "look what happens when you pray and rely on God" kind of direction.

Still a crock.