I've learned something
I've learned that you have to change the way you "reason" with people depending on who they are individually. One size does not fit all. Therefore, in my email to my friend who has been pestering me for months now via email about how crummy anyone who believes in God is, I had to format a special method of speaking. First, I had tried writing him a long, nice, understanding email--he told me I was "overreacting." Therefore, when today, I saw he had emailed me yet another hardcore anti-God article (this time specifically anti-Catholic), I decided, deliberately, to respond in a manner more fitting to the type of person he is. This is how he speaks, so now I'm communicating in a language he'll understand finally. I wrote:
what the F***!? are you nuts? do you not realize that I am a Catholic!? Still? And you have known me HOW LONG!? Do not send anymore emails like this because from now on I will delete your stuff without even opening it. I've reached maximum boiling point with this crap. You're just a big bigot and these articles are bigoted too. You are far more a Nazi than ANY Christian-Right-Winger and you make me want to vote Rep.s in office more than anyone else I've ever met. If you tell me I'm overracting I'll try not to hang out with you anymore either. If you try to annoy ANYone this much for this long they'll snap. I've put up with MORE than a saint's worth of your intolerant Nazi/Commie crap! I'll tell you this in person and on the phone too but I want it in writing so you can get it from all directions. Apparently until now you have NOT gotten the point!??? I'm not mad at you, I know how you are, but enough is enough and so STOP IT. If you've got this much a problem with me and what I believe you can just not see or talk to me anymore. That'd be better for the BOTH of us if you're THIS hardlined against me/the belief. NO MORE!
I rarely like riots or fights but even St. Francis used an explative against Satan and Jesus coolly made a whip to drive the money changers out of the Temple. Maximum boiling point indeed.
Needless to say, I'll keep y'all updated on where this goes. I'll bet he either:
a) buckles under my surpringly fierce defense, or
b) throws a big tiff, tells me I'm insane, and ignores me for a month until he doesn't care anymore.
Which one will it be!? Oh boy, I can't wait to find out. We'll know by tonight.
In other news, went to Mass with CJ and his parents today, then out to Jittery Joe's afterward. There was talk of visiting FL together which would be nice. Yeah, yeah, my dating past and present is like a UN meeting.... :) If anyone thinks it's ironic that I just got back from Mass and then cussed a friend out, think again. As in everything, I might have done it "better"--but by and large I really feel that the "just war" theory is coming into play.
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