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Ransom (and FSSL)
Ransom, you may be very well educated, and it shows, but you are one of the least fruitful "Christians" I have witnessed on this board. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. You are absolutely brilliant when instructing on facts and history, but it's almost always in the context of smugly correcting someone, treating the person as if he's an uneducated fool. Yes, this is the "fighting" forum, but your tiresome and persistent patronizing remarks aren't fighting. You're just being conceited and rude.
In fact, most of your posts on this forum are just impertinent quips intended to insult. I even once said it seems like a strange choice to make you a moderator, when all your short responses to peoples' posts seems to imply their posts are inferior and worthless, with the subtext that "the forum would be better off if you never posted anything". I have never seen ANY evidence of kindness, goodness, or gentleness in how you post, only a sense of smug superiority.
In those rare cases when you're wrong, you simply deflect, attack or lie about it. Granted you don't lie often, because you're most often factually right. But case and point, the whole controversy over nudity. You DID say, "Why are you changing the subject from nudity to fine art?" Tim just challenged me to post nudity, not MOVIE nudity, which makes it obvious that you never said, "Why did you switch the subject from MOVIE nudity to fine art nudity". If he had asked for movie nudity, why on earth would I comply by posting the statue of David, or the Sistine chapel?
But here's the worst part. You and FSSL didn't complain about the fine art nudity when it was the statue of David or photos of Adam and Eve on the Sistine chapel, even though those images were of total nudity.
I predicted in the post including the fine art photography studio picture that the picture would get deleted ("let's see how long this will last"). I only posted it to expose Ransom's hypocrisy. Ransom's "changing the subject" retort was just his typical smug reply.
Ransom, YOU were the one changing the subject. Just because it's fine art doesn't mean it's not nudity. The real difference was that the previous pictures were statues and paintings and the "offensive" picture was a live woman. But they were all "fine art". If "fine art" makes a nude picture okay, then nobody should ever have complained about the fine art photography picture.
The fact that FSSL blew up about it demonstrated that Ransom was making a false dichotomy. Of course, FSSL didn't just remove the picture. He had to remove ALL the evidence of hypocrisy by deleting the whole thread.
And then I get banned because I refused to apologize for posting "pornography" (according to FSSL)? Perhaps you, Ransom, should explain to FSSL the difference between pornography and nudity in fine art.
By the way, here's a quote from the page where the picture demonstrating lighting in nude photography is located. Doesn't look to me like they're talking about pornography.
LINDSAY ADLER ? FINE ART NUDE VIDEO SERIES (it's a video series about fine art photography)
Part 1
01 ? Introduction / Posing Fundamentals
02 ? Five Posing Tips
03 ? Five Cautions
04 ? Five Go-To Poses
Part 2
01 ? Lighting Essentials ? The Fundamentals
02 ? Lighting Essentials ? 10 Go-To Lighting Setups
03 ? Lighting Essentials ? 10 Go-To Lighting Setups (continued).
Part 3
01 ? Creativity
02 ? Creativity Continued
Anyone interested in seeing which picture was "pornographic" can go to the site and look for the "Subject's Position to Light" example.
https://www.slrlounge.com/lindsay-adler-fine-art-nude-video-series-review/
If you delete the above link, all you'll be doing is trying to prevent anyone from seeing PROOF that what you called "pornography" isn't pornography at all. You will expose your lying and hypocritical character.
All this is to say that you (Ransom and FSSL) are liars and hypocrites, which is why I have you both on ignore. I know I wasn't banned for that picture. I was banned for standing up to you, FSSL. I suspect you were still butt-hurt from having your butt handed to you in the discussion on the canon, and my refusal to apologize pushed you over the edge.
ALAYMAN
Yes, I have you on ignore, but I can't help seeing some of the things you say when you're quoted.
Get off your high horse, you hypocrite and whitewashed tomb. The Bible does not say "Those who watch movies like Deadpool shall not enter the kingdom of heaven", but it does say liars won't get in. And you're the biggest liar of them all here. Determining who is a true Christian is above my pay grade, but if there was a hell pool, I'd put my money on the fact that you're going to hell unless you repent of your Pharisaical attitude elevating outward appearance above the Spirit, your pride and your commitment to lying about everything that shows you're wrong about something. That's a pool I'd be happy to lose, but hey, I'm just playing the odds.
For example, you started a thread supposedly regarding an article promoting marijuana for Christians. I correctly stated that the author was not promoting marijuana. Then you pulled a quote from the article NOT written by the author to "prove" I was wrong. The quote you pulled was from a list of competing opinions, and right next to it was a another quote about how Christians should NOT indulge in marijuana.
The author was simply doing the proper job of a journalist and reporting competing views.
Yet you continued to lie for pages and pages about it, even denying that my statement was about the author of the article, when it was plain for all to see that I said "the author". All they had to do is look at my post.
I've also seen recent examples of your lying nature in exchanges between you and aleshanee.
Due mostly to your pride and inability to admit when you're wrong, you lie like it's your native language, even when presented with proof you were wrong. Coming back to Deadpool, enjoying a movie because you can overlook brief scenes that you would prefer not to see vs. being a pride-filled Pharisee who lives and breathes bragimony, lies and accusations of the brethren as a way of life -- which of those do you think matters more to the Lord? Personally, I'd be more inclined to think you are Spirit-led if you enjoyed Deadpool and stopped lying and accusing the brethren based on outside appearances. Please tell me how a pathological liar like you shall enter the kingdom of heaven?
Tarheel Baptist
Another liar, for the same reason ALAYMAN is a liar. You can never admit you're wrong. But I've had you on ignore for so long I don't have any recent examples. I will simply say that you, ALAYMAN, FSSL, Ransom, and a few others have such swelled heads that it would take 4 days for a good suggestion to go in one ear and out the other.
Conclusion
God WILL humble you folks. That you can count on, because God said he would. I don't expect that to happen anytime soon, so I'll just have to keep you all on ignore.
Maybe I just never adequately considered that this isn't really a Christian forum. It's a forum mostly filled with people obsessed with or damaged by HAC. Maybe it's just the fruit of being current or former IFB(x) to be a pride-filled hypocrite and liar obsessed with the appearance of being holy. Or maybe that's just the way things are, that there will always be people like you who proudly display all the characteristics Jesus condemned with his "woe to you" lecture. And some of you are actually pastors and teachers!
Fortunately, there ARE a number of honest people here. And they don't engage in bragimony. They don't focus on outward appearance. I agree and disagree with them, some of them are rude, and sometimes I'm rude, and sometimes we "fight" about things. But they're honest and obviously Spirit-led. They make it worth sticking around. Unless, of course, you ban me permanently. But if you do, I will wear it as a badge of honor that I showed honesty is not tolerated on the FFF.
Ransom, you may be very well educated, and it shows, but you are one of the least fruitful "Christians" I have witnessed on this board. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. You are absolutely brilliant when instructing on facts and history, but it's almost always in the context of smugly correcting someone, treating the person as if he's an uneducated fool. Yes, this is the "fighting" forum, but your tiresome and persistent patronizing remarks aren't fighting. You're just being conceited and rude.
In fact, most of your posts on this forum are just impertinent quips intended to insult. I even once said it seems like a strange choice to make you a moderator, when all your short responses to peoples' posts seems to imply their posts are inferior and worthless, with the subtext that "the forum would be better off if you never posted anything". I have never seen ANY evidence of kindness, goodness, or gentleness in how you post, only a sense of smug superiority.
In those rare cases when you're wrong, you simply deflect, attack or lie about it. Granted you don't lie often, because you're most often factually right. But case and point, the whole controversy over nudity. You DID say, "Why are you changing the subject from nudity to fine art?" Tim just challenged me to post nudity, not MOVIE nudity, which makes it obvious that you never said, "Why did you switch the subject from MOVIE nudity to fine art nudity". If he had asked for movie nudity, why on earth would I comply by posting the statue of David, or the Sistine chapel?
But here's the worst part. You and FSSL didn't complain about the fine art nudity when it was the statue of David or photos of Adam and Eve on the Sistine chapel, even though those images were of total nudity.
I predicted in the post including the fine art photography studio picture that the picture would get deleted ("let's see how long this will last"). I only posted it to expose Ransom's hypocrisy. Ransom's "changing the subject" retort was just his typical smug reply.
Ransom, YOU were the one changing the subject. Just because it's fine art doesn't mean it's not nudity. The real difference was that the previous pictures were statues and paintings and the "offensive" picture was a live woman. But they were all "fine art". If "fine art" makes a nude picture okay, then nobody should ever have complained about the fine art photography picture.
The fact that FSSL blew up about it demonstrated that Ransom was making a false dichotomy. Of course, FSSL didn't just remove the picture. He had to remove ALL the evidence of hypocrisy by deleting the whole thread.
And then I get banned because I refused to apologize for posting "pornography" (according to FSSL)? Perhaps you, Ransom, should explain to FSSL the difference between pornography and nudity in fine art.
By the way, here's a quote from the page where the picture demonstrating lighting in nude photography is located. Doesn't look to me like they're talking about pornography.
LINDSAY ADLER ? FINE ART NUDE VIDEO SERIES (it's a video series about fine art photography)
Part 1
01 ? Introduction / Posing Fundamentals
02 ? Five Posing Tips
03 ? Five Cautions
04 ? Five Go-To Poses
Part 2
01 ? Lighting Essentials ? The Fundamentals
02 ? Lighting Essentials ? 10 Go-To Lighting Setups
03 ? Lighting Essentials ? 10 Go-To Lighting Setups (continued).
Part 3
01 ? Creativity
02 ? Creativity Continued
Anyone interested in seeing which picture was "pornographic" can go to the site and look for the "Subject's Position to Light" example.
https://www.slrlounge.com/lindsay-adler-fine-art-nude-video-series-review/
If you delete the above link, all you'll be doing is trying to prevent anyone from seeing PROOF that what you called "pornography" isn't pornography at all. You will expose your lying and hypocritical character.
All this is to say that you (Ransom and FSSL) are liars and hypocrites, which is why I have you both on ignore. I know I wasn't banned for that picture. I was banned for standing up to you, FSSL. I suspect you were still butt-hurt from having your butt handed to you in the discussion on the canon, and my refusal to apologize pushed you over the edge.
ALAYMAN
Yes, I have you on ignore, but I can't help seeing some of the things you say when you're quoted.
Get off your high horse, you hypocrite and whitewashed tomb. The Bible does not say "Those who watch movies like Deadpool shall not enter the kingdom of heaven", but it does say liars won't get in. And you're the biggest liar of them all here. Determining who is a true Christian is above my pay grade, but if there was a hell pool, I'd put my money on the fact that you're going to hell unless you repent of your Pharisaical attitude elevating outward appearance above the Spirit, your pride and your commitment to lying about everything that shows you're wrong about something. That's a pool I'd be happy to lose, but hey, I'm just playing the odds.
For example, you started a thread supposedly regarding an article promoting marijuana for Christians. I correctly stated that the author was not promoting marijuana. Then you pulled a quote from the article NOT written by the author to "prove" I was wrong. The quote you pulled was from a list of competing opinions, and right next to it was a another quote about how Christians should NOT indulge in marijuana.
The author was simply doing the proper job of a journalist and reporting competing views.
Yet you continued to lie for pages and pages about it, even denying that my statement was about the author of the article, when it was plain for all to see that I said "the author". All they had to do is look at my post.
I've also seen recent examples of your lying nature in exchanges between you and aleshanee.
Due mostly to your pride and inability to admit when you're wrong, you lie like it's your native language, even when presented with proof you were wrong. Coming back to Deadpool, enjoying a movie because you can overlook brief scenes that you would prefer not to see vs. being a pride-filled Pharisee who lives and breathes bragimony, lies and accusations of the brethren as a way of life -- which of those do you think matters more to the Lord? Personally, I'd be more inclined to think you are Spirit-led if you enjoyed Deadpool and stopped lying and accusing the brethren based on outside appearances. Please tell me how a pathological liar like you shall enter the kingdom of heaven?
Tarheel Baptist
Another liar, for the same reason ALAYMAN is a liar. You can never admit you're wrong. But I've had you on ignore for so long I don't have any recent examples. I will simply say that you, ALAYMAN, FSSL, Ransom, and a few others have such swelled heads that it would take 4 days for a good suggestion to go in one ear and out the other.
Conclusion
God WILL humble you folks. That you can count on, because God said he would. I don't expect that to happen anytime soon, so I'll just have to keep you all on ignore.
Maybe I just never adequately considered that this isn't really a Christian forum. It's a forum mostly filled with people obsessed with or damaged by HAC. Maybe it's just the fruit of being current or former IFB(x) to be a pride-filled hypocrite and liar obsessed with the appearance of being holy. Or maybe that's just the way things are, that there will always be people like you who proudly display all the characteristics Jesus condemned with his "woe to you" lecture. And some of you are actually pastors and teachers!
Fortunately, there ARE a number of honest people here. And they don't engage in bragimony. They don't focus on outward appearance. I agree and disagree with them, some of them are rude, and sometimes I'm rude, and sometimes we "fight" about things. But they're honest and obviously Spirit-led. They make it worth sticking around. Unless, of course, you ban me permanently. But if you do, I will wear it as a badge of honor that I showed honesty is not tolerated on the FFF.