Perhaps they are taking cues from you to just ignore me?
And again, this is more evidence of your railing accusations, verbally slapping everyone here in the face without any justification (especially those who have tried to talk with you), which is why we can't hardly have a rational discussion with you. If anything, as of now, you're living proof that my book on psychology is correct because you have not given account and taken responsibility for your accusations, and you won't confess your sin.
After some introspection and prayer, God has revealed to me that you're quite right. I am guilty of unintentional and intentional railing accusations. Namely with the murmuring and passive aggressivism (I'm dividing them since I see the murmuring as the action and the passive aggressivism as the intent). I'll admit I was frustrated to hear about the discussion about what I said without me present. I assumed you guys were all trying to do that in order to just completely blast my position on things and puff yourselves up with "Look how we're right completely." But you're right. People have been trying to talk to me about it here, and it's also not like you guys have banned me and deleted or altered my posts so that no one could see both sides of the issue. I'm sorry for letting my pride and anger get in the way. I'm sorry to God for that too, as that doesn't bring Him any glory.
The unintentional railing accusations I'm guilty of are the calling you "arrogant, childish, etc etc". After the introspection and prayer, I can see that yes I did have some prior inclinations that you were those things, despite my best efforts to not hold those opinions. I don't know you, and it's hard to discern tone of voice or motivation of a person over written text. I'm sorry that I judged rashly, unfairly, without knowing the facts, and wrongly. I still hold to what I said at first, that correcting someone over a tiny detail that has nothing to do with the argument can be seen as prideful, and indeed can be done in pride. This is because of, again, my personal experience with the matter (both me doing it intentionally out of pride, and me doing it not with pride but the other person sees it that way). But I am sorry for thinking you were prideful in any sense, and I'm sorry to you, myself, and God that I tried suppressing that opinion.
I thank God that He has made me aware of what I've done wrong.
I'm also sorry for creating all my responses in the heat of anger, instead of perhaps waiting until I was more tempered and could think and respond more rationally. I also did it without trying to put myself into the shoes of the other person to understand their motives properly.
Admittedly, I still don't appreciate being called a liar without justification. Not so much on the hiding behind my intentions when calling you arrogant and those other things, because the denial of my opinion could be considered a form of lying, I think. It's at least hurtful to the other person when you don't own up to doing that. But on the accusation that I picked a fight (so to speak) over the word "ego" because I wanted to defend Freud's theory of the ego, and psychology as a whole. No, that's not true. Maybe my attention was drawn because it was the word "ego" and I'm familiar with Freud's work (and perhaps I agreed with Leslie on some level). Granted. But no that's not why I was attempting to help you. You have your opinion that all those who are involved with psychology do is lie and continually deny their responsibility for their sin (and teach others to do likewise). I hope that isn't blinding you to the truth of the matter. I also don't appreciate that it seems like to you, because I study psychology that I'm automatically of the devil, too (correct me if I'm wrong and this isn't what you think, or that it's not as simplistic as that).
Nor do I appreciate being called a supporter of railers (Leslie) because I assumed to understand what he meant (which, I will remind you out of charity, so did you. And it seems we both assumed the same thing without asking Leslie, unless I'm mistaken) when he used that word and I addressed his use of the word. Again, that is why I didn't address his post as a whole, as it really didn't matter to me whether it was his e-mail or someone else's.
If you want to come to a Skype call on a Thursday night to discuss this with all of us to try and work this out for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ, I'll invite you, and I assure you, we will not treat you in the contemptuous manner you have treated me on this matter. However, you have got to stop the childish, passive aggressive (i.e. murmuring) slap-and-run comments like this because, as of right now, I am not seeing any evidence of the grief and godly sorrow you claimed (in your introduction post) to have had when you were saved because you are feigning humility in your posts.
murmur (n): a complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
-1Co 10:10
Also your invitation to the Thursday night Skype calls is making me see how irrational I was being. I'll have to at this point politely decline the invitation as I work Thursday nights. I really only needed to know that you weren't purposefully trying to not include me on a discussion, anyways. However, even if I was right and that's what you were doing, I still shouldn't be making generalized, slap-and-run comments. Especially not without knowing the facts for sure and also checking myself for pride. I am sorry for acting contemptuously and irrationally. I know words said with contempt can be personally hurtful. And I won't deny that perhaps I did that on purpose to incite a reaction. I'm disgusted with myself, knowing that I like to manipulate in that way.
