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In what ways do you struggle with being prejudice? - 7/29/2010 2:44:18 PM
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rmoore1925
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In Jesus day people were very prejudiced against Samaritans. In what ways do you struggle with being prejudice?
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RE: In what ways do you struggle with being prejudice? - 7/29/2010 3:01:13 PM
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VanDuzer
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I'm prejudiced against Floridians and Bostonians.
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RE: In what ways do you struggle with being prejudice? - 7/29/2010 11:11:44 PM
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gralan
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I'm finding it hard to get over having a prejudice against people who appear to be obviously selling something all the time.
I've got a radar that I think is bent, but I pick up clues that make me think a person is wanting to walk my down the primrose path and I start shutting off the connection with them.
It is especially hard in church, because there are people who are excited and come across that way, then there are people who are exactly that way.
Wheelers & Dealers is another way of thinking about them. There's a secret code, there's a inside track, there's a conspiracy, there's....
I've found that I need to pray that the Holy Spirit works through me to show grace, to not back off from the encounter.
I do have a problem when they end up doing teaching or preaching.
I usually leave. Sometimes it isn't wrong to ignore some people.
Just like there are people who ignore me. 
I'm not speaking of being wary of these folks, its like a switch that gets hit and I have to recognize it and pray immediately. Then I try to discover what would be pleasing to God in an encounter, and if I cannot think of something I go somewhere else.
I'm wary of people who seem to have an attitude of superiority. But that's because it is an unhealthy trait for a new creation.
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RE: In what ways do you struggle with being prejudice? - 7/30/2010 5:27:46 PM
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Digrieze
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The ones that push my button are the manipulators. After many years it seems I can spot them quickly. They're quick to be your "friend" but you can tell that what they want is not your friendship, it's what they can get from you (and they'll never tell you that directly). They're smarmy, slimey ingratiators that couldn't tell the truth without falling backward as their nose shrinks at supersonic speed giving themselves a black eye.
Unfortunately I've run into too many of these slimeballs in the church as they've built themselves up at the expense of others.
I am a friend of Jesus (not them)!
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RE: In what ways do you struggle with being prejudice? - 7/30/2010 10:10:03 PM
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by snapping to the conclusion if some crime is done,or anything like that
It must have been a black person doing it.I don't mean to,it's just the way society is you know.
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RE: In what ways do you struggle with being prejudice? - 7/30/2010 10:25:23 PM
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CarmenJanes
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People on public assistance. I know there are some out there that are trying really hard and still need help, but I just don't see very many of them. Most people could get off of it if they would work. In my experience and my encounters anyway. I have a hard time wanting to help these kind of people cuz I automatically think "if they would just get a job......"
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RE: In what ways do you struggle with being prejudice? - 7/31/2010 1:06:46 AM
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Liveloved
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In Jesus day people were very prejudiced against Samaritans. In what ways do you struggle with being prejudice?
Surely in more ways than I realize. And those I do realize I must confess and repent and turn from.
I have great difficulty with people who do not do what is good/best for them. Example, people who have poor eating habits. All I have to do is learn that soda/pop is like poison, empty calories, not good for me in any way and I don't touch the stuff. Plus it is expensive.
So I can struggle in my attitudes towards those who have what I see as 'self inflicted' problems.
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RE: In what ways do you struggle with being prejudice? - 7/31/2010 9:19:44 AM
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CarmenJanes
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Liveloved...that reminds me I also have prejudice against people that smoke. I used to do it. It killed my father and too many family members still do it. I don't understand why someone would want to go thru what we all watched him go thru and continue to do it especially around their kids, in the house, and in the car.
I hate to say this..but I have quite a few prejudices :-(
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RE: In what ways do you struggle with being prejudice? - 7/31/2010 10:37:34 AM
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"If you judge people you have no time to love them."--Mother Teresa
God has shown me there is more to people than my blinkered experience and upbringing, my ignorance, the blood libels of others, or the cowardice I may harbour. I have chosen to trust in the Lord.
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Jessica Rabbit: I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
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RE: In what ways do you struggle with being prejudice? - 7/31/2010 3:17:36 PM
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" There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch. "
Errr....um....
In all seriousness, I am probably least tolerant of ignorant people. Maybe that's a bit pretentious of me, but I just think there are things that someone who is a full grown adult without any mental disabilities should know, or at the very least have a willingness to learn.
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RE: In what ways do you struggle with being prejudice? - 7/31/2010 3:41:34 PM
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gralan
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Way back in the old days, when folks used film to make movies, Bill Cosby made an educational film on prejudice and postive tolerance. Yes, those things are not new, even in the dark ages of the 1960s.
The film is probably lost; film suffers the second law of thermodynamics.
I saw it in the classroom at Public School, back when we said the pledge of Allegiance and raised the flag and sang the state song. When we had real homework, and no calculators to do our math with. Weird useless things like that.
Anyway, his face was painted one half white and one half black in makeup. He would turn one way and discuss prejudices, the other way and speak of biases, and he did this off and on. It was insightful and masterfully delivered; which is one of the reasons he was given an honorary doctorate in Psychology... because he displayed that level of understanding the human psyche, not because he was giving money to the University.
At the end of his dual diatribes, he looked square at the camera and stated that the people he hated the most were bigots.
Selah! which is hebrew for "now, think about that why dontcha!"
 - its a good thing you can tolerate me rawr.ben - I'm swedish. hahaha
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ORIGINAL: rawr.ben
" There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch. "
Errr....um....
In all seriousness, I am probably least tolerant of ignorant people. Maybe that's a bit pretentious of me, but I just think there are things that someone who is a full grown adult without any mental disabilities should know, or at the very least have a willingness to learn.
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The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever...
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RE: In what ways do you struggle with being prejudice? - 7/31/2010 10:55:13 PM
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sunshine4God
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quote:
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"If you judge people you have no time to love them."--Mother Teresa
I love that saying
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your good deeds and glorify your Lord".
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RE: In what ways do you struggle with being prejudice? - 8/3/2010 9:47:54 PM
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freetobehis
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I don't want to have any prejudices! I just think it wrong to pre-judge. With that said, I have a lot! People who aren't logical. People who live for drama. People who critisize anyone and everyone. Old people who are so intolerant of new ideas. (I'm getting there so this is really scarey!) Young people who don't respect authority. The list goes on and on.
I often have to remind myself that there is probably nothing that I dislike in others that I haven't done myself!
A lot of these are just dislikes as I don't assume these things in anyone. But one thing that I don't like about myself is that I make judgements on those who are poor or live on welfare. I think that most of them are partiers or drug addicts. It probably isn't true so I hate that I think that.
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