Boss
Take a Memo:
Can we work in teams.
Hollie and I both object to how you and Boss frame your own representation of God to the exclusion of the other.
Hollie thinks both are false and downright silly to argue. I think both are equally valid and thus should not compete.
How about one team where Hollie and I, you and Boss, challenge each other to come to a consensus
or to agree to separate and respect each other's views. Without calling names like imbecile or zealots projecting.
And for the other team, Boss and me, Justin and you, can challenge BreezeWood and maybe TAZ
on this spiritual healing prayer business.
My theory is that for both focus points
whoever is the most forgiving will reconcile first.
Whoever is the least forgiving will fight and obstruct more and take longer to resolve the issues.
Dear Emily, I do not need to be on a team for the purpose of respecting the views of others. I am not the one with a problem respecting the views of others. I can respect your view while disagreeing with you and that is often what I do here. I am afraid you misinterpret my posting style, so let me explain how this works... I am like a mirror, you get a reflection of what you put in front of it. Converse with me respectfully and cordially and that's what you get in return. Attack me with personal insults, that's what you're going to get back from me. Pick a fight and I am not backing down. You want to interpret this as me disrespecting the views of others, and that isn't so. Myself and GT do not agree on God, our opinions are as different as night and day, but I respect his opinion and he respects mine. I can think he is wrong without insulting him or attacking his views, and he can do the same for me, so we don't have a problem. Still, there may be times in the "heat of battle" where we call each other idiots or something, but it's rare.
I honestly do understand what you are trying to do here, but I think yours is a futile effort. The strategy of forming workgroups and teams is useful when everyone is trying to achieve a common goal. Here, you do not have such a dynamic, whether you fool yourself into thinking that or not. You have various people who have their own agenda, their own goal, and they are not interested in consensus with others as you are. So you will constantly have some who try to bully or cajole others, people who will use insult and ridicule, appeal to popularity, or find fault and disagreement when there really isn't any... whatever it takes to further their agenda. Your efforts are never going to change this dynamic, as noble as they are.