Subject: Why do people lose interest and leave? |
Bible Note: Dear Sir Pent: First off, thank you so very much for your kind and heart-warming remarks that you made about me in another post..... And I have a few for you, too. Your untiring efforts to improve the forum have not by any means gone unnoticed and are commendable indeed. You have an active and fertile mind and I'm pleased that you are directing it in efforts to bring this forum to a higher level of competence. I like your use of the terms REACTIVE and PROACTIVE in connection with conduct of the forum. By very definition, I think, it's easier and demands a lower level of effort and creativity to react to someone else's ideas than it does to proact, which requires that we come up with fresh new ideas of our own. I feel that one of the major factors that serves to drag this forum down into the swamp is the never-ending salvos of REACTIVE personal insults, name-callings, and general displays of disrespect and even disdain for one another. Another nemesis of equal or greater concern is the perpetual and perservering habit of straying far, far away from true Bible study -- the avowed purpose of this forum -- into the never-never land of pure speculation and fantasy. Questions continue to be posed on subjects the Bible knows nothing of, and answers continue to be rendered that have no more to do with what God's word teaches than polar bears do with the Equator...... Sir Pent, I think your idea of Bible study by books, assigning each active user a particular book, is a worthy one, but is it do-able? The logistics seem, at first blush, virtually insurmountable. I just don't see how it would work on a forum such as this, although I wish it could. Long before you came aboard there was much, much discussion on ways and means that might be employed to improve the forum. Some good fruit may have been harvested from these efforts, but I must be realistic and add, but not much. That is not to say that we should cease trying nor in any manner to dissuade you and others from the good and honorable pursuit of excellence. One final note, the most important one, indeed must be that the most powerful help for the good of this forum will come, not as we stand at our drawing boards or sit at our desks with our hands flying across our keyboards, but as we kneel upon our knees in prayer. --Hank |