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Blogs > GavinLS2 > The Heretic


GavinLS2 69M
936 posts
11/24/2014 4:38 pm
Compliments to Lulu

Hi lulu,

I just wanted to tell you that I've enjoyed many of the pics you've posted recently. I know we've had differences in the past, but please know that I'm not being sarcastic when I pay you an honest compliment.

GBU, (no sarcasm here either)

Gavin

GavinLS2 69M
1525 posts
11/24/2014 11:15 pm

 Well thank you all for your comments! I'm not going to make any more efforts to explain myself, and I thank those folks who appreciate my request that God blesses you!

People are free to make up their own minds about me!

GBU all! (Cos it's the absolute best I can hope for anyone)

Gavin


GavinLS2 69M
1525 posts
11/24/2014 11:21 pm
    Quoting samslade:
    so sad any one deems a blessing as any thing other than wishing the person happiness an well being. we christians make no excuses nor apoligize for our beliefs. seems to me some thing as simple as saying GOD BLESS YOU, makes any one angry or up set. a nerve was touched. this once again is another double standard. non believers seem to think its ok to trash our LORD or make fun of our beliefs ,. yet be come angry or offened by a simple GBU
Ooops. Almost forgot.

Sam, it's mostly folks with whom I've had differences in the past, and are still angry. I'm done trying to convince anyone that I'm not harboring any grudges, and it's extremely rare when I might use GBU with sarcasm. Folks cling to what they want to believe, and others move on. I guess it's a personal choice one makes.

Thanks for your comment and GBU,

Gavin


GavinLS2 69M
1525 posts
11/25/2014 2:19 am
    Quoting lulugravy:
    Are you really that naive that you think that using Christian words, phrases and acronyms makes someone a nice person? Really?.......Well, Gavin is counting on it.
Hello Lulu! How nice of you to drop by again! Always such pleasure!

GBU,

Gavin


bijou624

11/25/2014 3:24 am

 Hi Gav: The origin of the expression "God Bless You" is interesting. The custom originally began as an actual blessing. Gregory I became Pope in AD 590 as an outbreak of the bubonic plague was reaching Rome. In hopes of fighting off the disease, he ordered unending prayer and parades of chanters through the streets. At the time, sneezing was thought to be an early symptom of the plague. The blessing ("God bless you!") became a common effort to halt the disease.


GavinLS2 69M
1525 posts
11/25/2014 4:51 am
    Quoting bijou624:
    Hi Gav: The origin of the expression "God Bless You" is interesting. The custom originally began as an actual blessing. Gregory I became Pope in AD 590 as an outbreak of the bubonic plague was reaching Rome. In hopes of fighting off the disease, he ordered unending prayer and parades of chanters through the streets. At the time, sneezing was thought to be an early symptom of the plague. The blessing ("God bless you!") became a common effort to halt the disease.
Interesting bit of history Bijou! Thank you!

GBU,

Gavin


Maudie1 74F
8151 posts
11/25/2014 6:00 am

 GBU Gavin. It's a term we use here in Ireland a lot. Take care.


Robyn363 83F
3474 posts
11/25/2014 7:09 am

 Its like what Maudie said Gavin and I believed you when you first said it. GBU is a blessing we pass to each other in Ireland. I hope some time he blesses you so that the next time you say it, it will be sincere.


GavinLS2 69M
1525 posts
11/25/2014 4:54 pm
    Quoting Robyn363:
    Its like what Maudie said Gavin and I believed you when you first said it. GBU is a blessing we pass to each other in Ireland. I hope some time he blesses you so that the next time you say it, it will be sincere.
Now Robyn, that's unfair, and if you persist in alleging that same falsity about me, I will be forced to scratch your name off my list of friends.

Had you read MY side of the story, you'd know that I'm ALWAYS sincere when I say or type it. And for clarification I said I don't try to tell God how to bless anyone, only that He do so. Further, NONE of us knows if or how God may choose to bless us, and very often it's NOT in the ways we might have hoped for.

GBU,

Gavin


GavinLS2 69M
1525 posts
11/25/2014 5:02 pm
    Quoting Maudie1:
    GBU Gavin. It's a term we use here in Ireland a lot. Take care.
TY Maudie!

I got into the habit over a decade ago when I hung out in a Christian chatroom. Now its become second nature. (A few times I've even accidentally done it out of habit in business correspondences! LOL! )

It has never been an issue anywhere else but in SFF tho, when some folks learned I was a Christian. When they decided they didn't like me for whatever reason, they started complaining about it and demanding I stop. I refuse to change what has become intrinsic to my personality for them tho. Anyone is also free to interpret it as "Good Bye to U" if they prefer.

Thanks and GBU,

Gavin


GavinLS2 69M
1525 posts
11/25/2014 5:04 pm
    Quoting  :
TY Akamet!

I agree!

GBU,

Gavin


Robyn363 83F
3474 posts
11/26/2014 11:32 am

 I always believed you were sincere Gavin when you said GBU. I quite honestly dont know what goes on here, Im quite upset. God means a lot to me. As Alfie said, stay out of the controversial blogs. I never thought you were like that. I have been minding my grandchildren and never loooked at this until now. Maudie and I mean God Bless You as its an rish saying and everyone over here say it. Dont scratch me off I your list. I have only one friend onn my friends lixg group. he has always been my friend, and after I had to change my title he also came on to my list. Thats what I call a true friend.


GavinLS2 69M
1525 posts
11/26/2014 2:24 pm
    Quoting Robyn363:
    I always believed you were sincere Gavin when you said GBU. I quite honestly dont know what goes on here, Im quite upset. God means a lot to me. As Alfie said, stay out of the controversial blogs. I never thought you were like that. I have been minding my grandchildren and never loooked at this until now. Maudie and I mean God Bless You as its an rish saying and everyone over here say it. Dont scratch me off I your list. I have only one friend onn my friends lixg group. he has always been my friend, and after I had to change my title he also came on to my list. Thats what I call a true friend.
Thank you Robin, I feel much better now. Lulu and others like to twist the meaning of my intent when I say GBU. The fact that in rare circumstances it may be an ironic moment, and therefor carrying with it a sense of sarcasm when I say it, doesn't mean I don't seriously ask God to bless them. And my confession is that on those occasions I can't help but enjoy the irony and induced sarcasm that naturally arises in such situation. No matter the circumstance or timing, I always sincerely ask God to bless them.

Thanks for showing me you are a true friend by your comment here, and GBU,

Gavin




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