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How Safe Do You Feel Today?
Discussion in 'General Baptist Discussions' started by righteousdude2, Jul 9, 2014.
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Yes
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No
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I still feel safe, but am more cautious than in the past
4 vote(s)28.6% -
I feel safe, but have concern for loved ones safety
4 vote(s)28.6% -
Nothing I do can change what will happen
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My home is no longer the bastion of safety, I once thought it to be.
1 vote(s)7.1% -
I feel safe, but do look for signs of danger when out in public
5 vote(s)35.7% -
I have concerns with my children while at school
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No opinion
1 vote(s)7.1% -
My views on personal safety explained in comments
2 vote(s)14.3%
Multiple votes are allowed.
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corndogggy Active MemberSite Supporter
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My safety is in Christ. He has my back regardless of what happens to me physically.
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There is a difference in feeling "safe" and being "afraid". I don't feel safe in a lot of situations (especially with my PTSD). But I can honestly say that I don't feel fear. For three reasons: 1. It's been trained out of me. 2. I've been in a firefight with the Taliban, been in a house fire, and several other life threatening situations. 3. But the biggest is, worst thing that can happen to me is I get sent to Heaven. Not a bad deal.
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Keep this up Dconn (I think that is the moniker you are usually given) and you'll be agreeing with me regarding violence yet. :smilewinkgrin: -
corndogggy Active MemberSite Supporter
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But that's OK. It's a process! I open carried once (Out of state - not really possible in Maryland), and still have all my guns actually. You'll get there eventually. :smilewinkgrin: -
What kind of life is it to worry about your safety all the time? What I tell folks who express concern about my safety when I visit some not-so-safe areas in the world is that I'm just as safe there as I am in my house for if God wants to end my life, I don't have to be in any specific "hot spot". He can let a plane drop out the sky onto my house. :laugh:
Worry and fear breed all sorts of bad decision making in everything. Perhaps it is worry and fear that have a lot of Christians angry and making idols out of politics because they want men to "FIX" things and make them feel safe and okay the way they used to feel. -
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righteousdude2 Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Ooooooooh.....
Next time stay on topic, and you will escape scathing comments like the one above! :laugh: -
righteousdude2 Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Me thinks ....
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Unreal. Seriously. Your post was all about gun violence and my comment about safety was that one reason I feel safe is because I live in a non-gun culture.
I clearly answered your question. I assumed you would want to know why.
So in order to avoid your perspective of off topic I guess I should only have said 'I feel safe' and said nothing else.
Your comment about gunfights clearly indicates that you don't feel safe as a result. I do feel safe because in this culture my chance of being near a shoot-out is next to nil.
After thinking about it I retract my apology. My comments were totally and absolutely on topic. -
righteousdude2 Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Don't anyone criticize me for adlibing on my poll titles ever again, when people, not mentioning names, can't even grasp the context of the question I really asked.
As for me, regardless of how I could be harmed, or my wife harmed, no, I do not feel as safe today as I did years ago. Some has to do with my being older now, but the truth is, there are so many ways evil can visit us, that I do not feel safe!
There is the growing "Knock out game!" You can be knifed. You can be shot. You can be raed. You can be strangled. You can be beaten to death, r pisto whipped. You can be a victim of a hit and run [especially here in Caifornia]. Terrorists could blow up the bus, plane, train, mal or restaurant you are at or on!
Pick your poison. Do you feel as safe today as you once did? That is the question! I am not asking anything else!
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