Can't ignore forum "ministers"?

[Jayne]

3 hours ago, enoob57 said:

Don't grow weary in well doing... you have great Biblical foundations and that is needed here as you well know! 

Here's the deal everyone.  @enoob57 @Patticats @Sparks @NConly @other one @Neighbor

Politics makes me a crazy person.  A raving  person.

I can't seem to get away from it.  Forums, Facebook, the church parking lot, the grocery store, and anyone who asks "what do you think?".  And I just get sucked in every single time.  It's like a person sucked into smoking, drinking, or overeating.

I did not mean anything personal about putting someone one ignore.  It was for me.

I ralked to my therapist yesterday because I've been having bad headaches.  They are stress headaches.  He knows it.  I know it.

He told me to get away from discussing things that no one will agree on.  And to stop watching so much of the news.  We talked a long time about it.  He's a Christian man, competent man,  and very thorough.

There is someone here who posts every now and again and with whom I correspond privately that needs great counsel.

I will stay, but lay very low until after the election.

Pray for me.  

 

[Marathoner]

I see the hazards which is why I refrain, @Jayne. A life spent wandering around the world helps, too. I never paid attention to politics when I was a kid. Military personnel on the bases where I grew up were permitted to vote in general elections but otherwise weren't authorized to engage in political activism of any kind. It's codified in the Uniform Code of Military Justice. 

I lived in ignorance of it. 

Being homeless for so long made involvement in politics impossible, so I've been able to avoid it with minimal effort. I stay out of it because it drives me nuts, too. 

[Sower]

27 minutes ago, Jayne said:

They are stress headaches. 

I had two heart stress tests on running machine because of heart pains.
Both times the 2 different cardiologists told me I have a good strong heart , and my heart is not the problem.
One cardiologist said I was on the wrong floor, to go to 2nd floor. What's that?  Psyche evaluation....

I learned the pains were from stress, when I couldn't control situations I 'tensed up' tearing chest muscle.
Thus pain in chest. Both times I was running a crew of 'men' installing commercial/residential cabinets and trim.
At that time my crew was mostly adult children, and acted like it. I was trying trying to control the uncontrollable.

I changed my contractor/crew. With prayer, scripture, thinking about the whatsoever good stuff, my pains left.

               To God be the Glory....

      Thank you Jayne for allowing us to know to pray for you.
(I also can get *#%#*# when listening or participating in politics.)
           My wife always reminds me, it will all work out...

[TheBlade]

Sorry.. you know I've never ignored anyone. The one I believe has every right to never has so I never do. Just one moment in time and its just text. 

Yes "Politics" is one I try to stay away from. Were human and some have very strong feelings lol. 

[Mama Etna]

I have ignored people who's posts I don't want to deal with.  There are a couple of them on here.  So I hear ya.

[Pop]

Understandable.  It probably is a good idea to avoid even viewing any threads with political titles until then.

[farouk]

12 hours ago, NConly said:

I had similar experience trying to ignore someone. Reminds me James 2

Interesting comment........

[walla299]

I grew up a military brat so politics wasn't really on the menu as a kid. It wasn't as an adult either since I spent a lot of time in foreign countries where learning the language was enough of a challenge. Local politics wasn't even on the radar especially in the region I was in which was near the French border . . . so you had a mix of both French & German politics in the local papers. I tried to follow some of it but doing that in a second language gave me a headache.

American politics these days just makes me mad. Anger is not a fruit of the Spirit so I avoid it for the most part except for keeping an eye on things due to work. There is no salvation in politics anyway. That is only found in Jesus Christ.

[Neighbor]

18 hours ago, Jayne said:

Here's the deal everyone.

Personally I find USA politics irrelevant to  the mission at WCF and wonder why it is part of so many threads.   I think that it needs be bunched  in one area or better yet banned as it detracts from subjects of greater import, of the joy we find  and share in Jesus.