cricket Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 If you've ever taken the time to see Who's Online and actually read the things that they are reading, one of the subjects that is frequently viewed by anonymous viewers is the subject of friendships. The thread is titled, "What is a friend?" There is another thread that is frequently viewed--it is about a subject that can be found in Unusual Statements (and is viewed about twice as often as the "Friend" thread). I'm not certain why these two are among the most frequently viewed topics, but they are. So, in the interest of people who still are wondering,... A Friend is Someone Who...______________________. Quote
Dr. Shane Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 cares about you. They share your pain, your joy, your successes and failures. Quote Pastoral Family Counselor... Find me at www.PostumCafe.com Author of Peculiar Christianity
Taylor Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 A friend is someone who believes in you. A friend is someone who listens. A friend is someone who loves you just the way you are. A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway. Quote
Clio Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 A friend is someone who sees all your flaws, and loves you anyway. Clio Quote A heart where He alone has first place.
WayneV Posted January 1, 2006 Posted January 1, 2006 A good friend will come and bail you out of jail. A true friend will be in the cell with you saying, "Wow, that was sure some fun!" . Quote WayneV Just remember these words of warning, for they will come to pass all too soon: If you are ever flying through the desert and your canoe breaks down, remember that it takes three pancakes to lift the doghouse, because there ain't nary a bone in ice cream!
Neil D Posted January 1, 2006 Posted January 1, 2006 A friend is..... someone who knows all about you.....and still hangs out with you anyway.... someone who causes you to do fun things.... someone fun to be with..... someone who shares your pain..... someone you don't mind sharing your lunch with.... someone ....... Quote Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw
Administrators Naomi Posted January 1, 2006 Administrators Posted January 1, 2006 A friend is.................... Someone who will ask questions to help find a solution, not to place blame. Someone who you haven't seen for years, and in a moment, it's as though you were never apart. Someone who loves you because of the size of your heart, not the size of your bank account. Someone who loves themselves unconditionally, and can return unconditional love to you. Naomi Quote If your dreams are not big enough to scare you, they are not big enough for God
Amelia Posted January 1, 2006 Posted January 1, 2006 A friend is..... Someone who will help you bury the body. Quote <p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>
Administrators Naomi Posted January 1, 2006 Administrators Posted January 1, 2006 </font><blockquote><font class="small">Quote:</font><hr /> Amelia said: A friend is..... Someone who will help you bury the body. <hr /></blockquote><font class="post"> Good one Amelia! May I add ... or bodies, and ask no quesitons! <img src="/ubbtreads/images/graemlins/oops.gif" alt="" /> Quote If your dreams are not big enough to scare you, they are not big enough for God
Clio Posted January 1, 2006 Posted January 1, 2006 A friend is someone who will tell you the truth, especially when no one else will. A friend is someone who puts your well-being before their own. A friend is someone who will pray for you, even before you ask them to. A friend will intercede for you, when you really need an advocate. Quote A heart where He alone has first place.
LifeHiscost Posted January 4, 2006 Posted January 4, 2006 A friend is one who insists on high integrity of their own, whether or not they can expect it from others. Quote Lift Jesus up!!
Nicodema Posted January 5, 2006 Posted January 5, 2006 ... has time for you. Better yet, MAKES time for you. ... appreciates you for exactly who you are. ... respects your feelings, whether they agree or not. ... would never just stand there silent while someone else mistreated you, disrespected you, played head games on you, or pulled one over on you behind your back. Quote "After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" -- T.S. Eliot
Morning Glory Posted January 5, 2006 Posted January 5, 2006 "a friend is someone who will help you bury the body." Actually, I think that is call "an accessory." Quote Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Ceth Posted January 5, 2006 Posted January 5, 2006 A friend is someone who gives: trust, respect, appreciation, time, energy, and assistance (among other things). The first draft of this specified these things were mutual but at second thought I don't think mutual friendship is required, so I rewrote it. As an example, God was (is) a friend to us even when we aren't there for Him. Quote What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on? J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Hobbit
LifeHiscost Posted January 5, 2006 Posted January 5, 2006 Quote: Nicodema said: ... would never just stand there silent while someone else mistreated you, disrespected you, played head games on you, or pulled one over on you behind your back. On a purely human level I might be able to accept this up to a point. But as a disciple of Christ there appears to be something more to friendship than meets the obvious. I'm satisfied John the Baptist was a friend of Jesus. Likewise the scripture seems to indicate Jesus to be Friend of whoever accepts His friendship. [:"red"] "No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you." [/] John 15:15 NKJV [:"red"] "And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?" [/] Luke 7:19 KJV [:"red"] "Having been prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist." [/] Matthew 14:8 NASB [:"red"] "And his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother." [/] Matthew 14:11 NASB [:"red"] "I assure you, of all who have ever lived, none is greater than John the Baptist." [/] Matt 11:11 NLT Keep looking up!! Quote Lift Jesus up!!
cricket Posted January 5, 2006 Author Posted January 5, 2006 MG and Amelia, It's funny how our minds play tricks on us. When I first read the words, "will help you bury the body," my reaction was one of, "Yes! How true!" But, I wasn't thinking about having done the crime--was thinking more along the lines of a friend...helping another to bury the body of a deceased loved one (i.e., a spouse, a son, a mother, a father)--someone to be there for you at your most vulnerable moments and hold you up! And, in that moment, I think of a friend as being more as an extension of self, rather than an "accessory." QB _______________________ Ceth and LHC, "Likewise the scripture seems to indicate Jesus to be Friend of whoever accepts His friendship." When we introduce someone (or refer to them in conversation) as a "friend of mine," aren't we being presumptious? How are we to know if the "friend" truly is a friend? Jesus was a "Friend of whoever accepts His friendship." Was He a Friend to those who did not accept His friendship? QB Quote
Norman Byers, N.D. Posted January 5, 2006 Posted January 5, 2006 A friend is someone who will help you bury your body. Norman Quote The unconditional pardon of sin never has been, and never will be. PP 522
Amelia Posted January 5, 2006 Posted January 5, 2006 </font><blockquote><font class="small">Quote:</font><hr /> Jesus was a "Friend of whoever accepts His friendship." Was He a Friend to those who did not accept His friendship? <hr /></blockquote><font class="post"> I think He was more of a friend to them. There are times when Im reading the bible that I get the impression that Jesus is frustrated with the dependance of the apostles. Rather like "hey, I'm your friend. I love you. Accept that already. I have other people more in need to see to". Quote <p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>
Nicodema Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 Quote: LifeHiscost said: Quote: Nicodema said: ... would never just stand there silent while someone else mistreated you, disrespected you, played head games on you, or pulled one over on you behind your back. On a purely human level I might be able to accept this up to a point. But as a disciple of Christ there appears to be something more to friendship than meets the obvious. I'm satisfied John the Baptist was a friend of Jesus. Likewise the scripture seems to indicate Jesus to be Friend of whoever accepts His friendship. I have to confess I feel a bit "put out" that up until now this entire thread has been about sharing our views on friendship. And the first time someone gets criticized for sharing their feelings who does it end up being? That's right -- ME again. ALWAYS ALWAYS ME. Why do you people always have to try to come after me, attack me, try to "correct" whatever it is I have to say? WHY CAN'T YOU JUST TREAT ME THE WAY YOU TREAT EVERYONE ELSE ON HERE AND LET ME HAVE MY SAY JUST THE SAME??? I wasn't picking at anyone ELSE's statements. I wasn't finding fault with anyone ELSE's view of what friendship is. I'm sorry if I sound like I'm throwing some kind of pity party here -- that isn't my intention -- I'm just really angry right now that this has happened YET AGAIN. YET AGAIN I get singled out and made to feel like I don't belong, like I don't have the same freedom everyone else has here to just participate, have my say on the subject, and be heard like everyone else. No, someone has to pick it with me. WHY??? WHY???????????????????????????????????????? Quote "After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" -- T.S. Eliot
cricket Posted January 6, 2006 Author Posted January 6, 2006 LHC, Did you mean that you would be able to accept people (i.e., your friends) to be silent when someone else mistreats or disrespects you? I am really unclear as to what you meant when you said you'd accept it up to a point on a purely human level. QB ___________ Nico, If this post by LHC was meant to be a negative criticism of your post, there is no way in the world I'm going to sit by idly! (I don't know what I'm going to do though--but sitting won't be it.) Your's, QB Quote
Nicodema Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 Quote: QBJFN said: If this post by LHC was meant to be a negative criticism of your post, there is no way in the world I'm going to sit by idly! that's very kind of you QB. since you are being so kind I'll just fast-forward Planet Earth Tiresome Repetitious Monotonous Never-Changing Replay #1,304,099,728,312 for you and skip right to the end part where you are hereby absolved of any and all responsibility to do anything. Do you mind if I speed-play it? You're a sharp cookie, I know you can catch what they are saying even if it flies by like chipmunks! Ready? Here goes!! . . BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH NICO is such a [insert malicious lie here] BLAHBLAHBLAHBALHBLAH always __________ [insert stupid, insipid, fallacious misjudgment here] []http://graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/template/smiles/icon_evil.gif[/] BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH her fault BLAHBLAHBLAH crazy BLAHBLAH overpersonalizing BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH hypersensitiveBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH! BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH LHC [insert seven dozen variations of praise, admiration, and assertion that s/he does no wrong] BLAHBLAHBLAH BLAH! BLAHBLAHBLAH somebody lock this thread now BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH BLAHBLAH enter ****** -- BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH [insert VERY LOUD VEHEMENT NASTY tongue-thrashing coal-raking skin-peeling soul-flaying nasty sarcastic bittertongued scathing CONDEMNATION OF NICO HERE THAT COULD HAVE BEEN SCRIPTED BY SATAN HIMSELF] []http://graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/template/smiles/icon_evil.gif[/] BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH *enter Stan* I'm disappointed in you ppl. [skip behind the scenes shots of Nico at home cuz no one cares] THE END Quote "After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" -- T.S. Eliot
Nicodema Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 (OK I had to admit that cracked me up, especially the enter Stan part and the dancing lock icon!!!!!! ROFL!!!!) Quote "After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" -- T.S. Eliot
cricket Posted January 6, 2006 Author Posted January 6, 2006 Well, that sucks! I didn't want to be absolved. I wanted to make a difference. In the future, I want everyone here to use this template when you accuse Nico of [some stupid, insipid, fallacious, misjudgment]: enter ME: You are wrong, she never [whatever lie was told]. You don't know her (though you think you may) and you are reading far too much into what she said than she intended. Nico has a good heart. When you think she doesn't just look down in the sand. I bet you'll turn your head and walk the other way. She overpersonalizes things because, HEY! SHE'S A PERSON JUST LIKE YOU AND ME! If you promise not to overpersonalize her posts, I'll promise not to overpersonalize your's and think poorly of you! [Whoever you are, insert your name here], get real! You are not praiseworthy, admirable nor perfect! Go home and rethink your life. Don't come back until your hypersensitivity to this post has cooled. exit YOU (quietly) Quote
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