Pride, an interesting choice.

[Vine Abider]

10 minutes ago, Marathoner said:

There's also a generous helping of hypocrisy afoot, yes? Yep. Take a look around this topic, brother.  

If Adam is present in any way (i.e. the flesh) then yes, an ample supply of hypocrisy is surely here! 

[NConly]

5 hours ago, Slibhin said:

Did you read my post or just lazily skim it? Here you go:

 

Maybe it's confusing because you are unable to absorb change or new information.

I don't know much about aboriginals, because I'm from Israel/Ireland. I believe @ayin jade is married to a native so perhaps she can explain better, but "squaw" is used as a nasty slur against aboriginal women. The word "kike", a slur against Jews, comes from the Yiddish "kikel" which means circle. Obviously "circle" is not an offensive word but it becomes a slur when it is used to express racial/ethnic malice.

In some countries calling people "black" was once considered racist and offensive... it depends on the time and culture. Honestly, I've never heard a black person in the west say they are offended by the word. Back in the old days people used the term "negro"... now times have changed and it's considered retrograde if not outright offensive. Any black users here should please feel free to shed some light on the subject.

Some of that lie vs "untruth", ex-convict vs ex-offender... I've never heard or read such a thing so you'll have to show me where you heard that information. 

No I did not mean to direct my post at you in a bad way. I was trying to show how words are softened to make it seem like it is not as bad as it really is. I was brought up a lie is a lie not a lie is an untruth; a thief is a thief not A person with judicial history.  And for the squaw that was directed toward Indians in the U.S. not any where else.

here is a sample of words that are being promoted to not offend offenders

https://fortunesociety.org/wordsmatter/

  

 

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[Ghostdog]

6 hours ago, NConly said:

Indians called their wife squaw now our government has renamed 650 sites with the word squaw in them I dont think the Indians were slurring their wife by the word squaw

the word squaw is what the early white settlers called the native american women cause they didnt know the word for woman

Edited June 12, 2023 by Ghostdog

[Marathoner]

4 hours ago, Vine Abider said:

If Adam is present in any way (i.e. the flesh) then yes, an ample supply of hypocrisy is surely here! 

I've addressed this before, and it would be good to do so again.

Our upbringing, experiences, and that work which the Lord created us to walk in combine to make each one of us a unique part of His many-membered Body. 

In this, then, I can only speak for myself: apart from our Lord Jesus Christ, I share very little in common with my American brethren. I share more in common with brethren from other parts of this world instead.

Sure, I was born in the United States, but I spent most of my young life living elsewhere. When I say (or write) that I'm from nowhere, that's shorthand for the lifestyle of a transient. Some time ago, I used Google maps to plot all of those places I've lived or otherwise traveled through on this earth, and the end result was perfectly insane. There were little blue flags all over the world map. 

I didn't know the love of a mother or father, and I didn't have life-long friends. Secure military installations around the Pacific and Europe served as my prison under my parents' roof. I escaped their gaze however and whenever I could (after I acquired a military dependent ID so the MPs at the gate wouldn't detain me), so I spent a great deal of time beyond the confines of those bases. I wasn't "Americanized" to the degree that my fellow Americans were/are.

Therefore, issues that seem to be of great importance to many of you are utterly meaningless to me. I wasn't brought up in a world where the people surrounding me looked like me... sounded like me... or dressed like me. On the contrary, my experience has been the polar opposite. 

I neither obsess nor fixate upon how others look, nor am I concerned with what they are doing. I'm only concerned with my own conduct, and I learned how to be polite and respectful to those who don't look like nor behave like I do. That's the fruit of wandering off base for all of those years. 

Ah, but this is how the Lord prepared me for the work I have done and continue to do in service to Him! I'm not offended by how others dress, nor am I offended by their conduct; His wisdom is revealed in this way, for the Lord sends me to places where most won't go. I'm accustomed to this on account of my upbringing and experiences. 

I've been brought low and stripped of everything except for the life in this body. I've dived in dumpsters looking for food, shivered in the cold, and walked on blisters and tired feet. I have not known a predictable nor comfortable life by any means, so I struggle to understand the offense of some who obsess and fixate upon what others are doing. Does it truly matter?

All that matters is what we ourselves do, my friend. I say that our business is to be about the Lord's business, walking in the manner He provides to us, listening to and obeying His voice. 

Who has time to grumble and whine? Neither accomplishes anything worthwhile. Let us remember what happened to the grumblers in the wilderness. 

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[NConly]

1 hour ago, Ghostdog said:

the word squaw is what the early white settlers called the native american women cause they didnt know the word for woman

This is more in line with my thinking; It was  a decent word may be white men turned it into a slur imo

https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/94999/squaw article on web page.pdf?sequence=1

[warrior12]

On 6/11/2023 at 1:07 AM, Slibhin said:

You could also just say LGBT people and not look for abusive epithets.

They are demanding that you call them by their pronouns now, especially in the schools and universities ect.  Is that acceptable, or are you inclined to obey their demands to be called by their preferred pronouns ?.

[LearningToLetGo]

22 minutes ago, warrior12 said:

They are demanding that you call them by their pronouns now, especially in the schools and universities ect. 

If anyone asks you for your pronouns, say "I/me/mine" with a straight face. Let's see how that works out.

[warrior12]

11 minutes ago, Slibhin said:

I don't give a fig. If you asked me to call you a pyrofox I'd do it because you asked me to. What you call yourself doesn't affect me one iota.

I've been a professional model for years and that industry is full of LGBT people. None of them have done me harm.

Either you are ignorant of the threats that professors and others are faced with for not complying with the demands, yes I said demands that are used to force others to call them their preferences.  Your workplace is not everyone's.   

I did not say they harm people, but it has become a ridiculous act to demand people to see them as something that is not natural in nature.  Are they a special species of the human race or are we as a society remaking it to be so.  Lord have mercy.  

[warrior12]

25 minutes ago, LearningToLetGo said:

If anyone asks you for your pronouns, say "I/me/mine" with a straight face. Let's see how that works out.

Yardie or Dread ,  Jamacian style 

[warrior12]

18 minutes ago, Slibhin said:

I sincerely doubt you care about the poor, beleaguered teachers as much as you just can't stand trans people existing

Wow, that's a mind reading statement right there.  So now you know what I like and dislike, you can state what's my beliefs are on what the bible has to say about Romans 1.  Now, I did not write the book, but you can tell me what I think.

Are we heading like in George Orwell 1984 , where the poor fella was eventually forced to admit 2+2= 5.    Sure seems like it with all this parade of what "Pride".  Seriously though, where does it stop.  It does not, no, not till the coming generations are schooled in the way of ......