BABYLON SCAMYLON

[TheHolyBookEnds]

...Lorenzo is nice.
I don't think he could kill a fly.
And he doesn't really like this pope.

You are in great danger. Their 'spiritual exercises' link them directly to satan. Their will is submitted to their superior, which is submitted to theirs, etc unto satan. It is like Eve under the influence of the serpent who went to Adam. You are in that much danger. The order is not above assassination, as they say, "ad maiorem dei gloriam". I am not saying that any individual person is automatically lost, but I am saying, that any Jesuit, who has taken any oath to his superior, has done any amount of the 'exercises' is directly under satanic influence, and can in a moment turn, and they themselves need to be told the truth. The root is satanic, and this was shown to you though you refuse it.

"Throughout Christendom, Protestantism was menaced by formidable foes. The first triumphs of the Reformation past, Rome summoned new forces, hoping to accomplish its destruction. At this time the order of the Jesuits was created, the most cruel, unscrupulous, and powerful of all the champions of popery. Cut off from earthly ties and human interests, dead to the claims of natural affection, reason and conscience wholly silenced, they knew no rule, no tie, but that of their order, and no duty but to extend its power. (See Appendix.) The gospel of Christ had enabled its adherents to meet danger and endure suffering, undismayed by cold, hunger, toil, and poverty, to uphold the banner of truth in face of the rack, the dungeon, and the stake. To combat these forces, Jesuitism inspired its followers with a fanaticism that enabled them to endure like dangers, and to oppose to the power of truth all the weapons of deception. There was no crime too great for them to commit, no deception too base for them to practice, no disguise too difficult for them to assume. Vowed to perpetual poverty and humility, it was their studied aim to secure wealth and power, to be devoted to the overthrow of Protestantism, and the re-establishment of the papal supremacy." - The Great Controversy; by E.G. White, Page 234

"When appearing as members of their order, they wore a garb of sanctity, visiting prisons and hospitals, ministering to the sick and the poor, professing to have renounced the world, and bearing the sacred name of Jesus, who went about doing good. But under this blameless exterior the most criminal and deadly purposes were often concealed. It was a fundamental principle of the order that the end justifies the means. By this code, lying, theft, perjury, assassination, were not only pardonable but commendable, when they served the interests of the church. Under various disguises the Jesuits worked their way into offices of state, climbing up to be the counselors of kings, and shaping the policy of nations. They became servants to act as spies upon their masters. They established colleges for the sons of princes and nobles, and schools for the common people; and the children of Protestant parents were drawn into an observance of popish rites. All the outward pomp and display of the Romish worship was brought to bear to confuse the mind and dazzle and captivate the imagination, and thus the liberty for which the fathers had toiled and bled was betrayed by the sons. The Jesuits rapidly spread themselves over Europe, and wherever they went, there followed a revival of popery." - The Great Controversy; by E.G. White, Page 235​

This is not isolated, and is found in every known history of the Jesuits:

John Guyse (AD 1680 - AD 1761) was an English independent minister.

The Practical Expositor: or, an Exposition of the New Testament, in the Form of a Paraphrase; with Occasional Notes in their Proper Places for Further Explication, and Serious Recollections at the Close of Every Chapter. To which is added, an alphabetical table of the principle things contained in the paraphrase, especially in the notes. For the use of the Family and Closet. by John Guyse, D.D. The Fifth Edition, Volume VI., containing The General Epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude; and the Revelation of St. John the Divine; 1797.

"... REVELATION XII. … NOTES ... + The Jesuits, the most subtle and active of all the popish emissaries, were established, as a society, by Ignatius Loyola in the year 1534, soon after the Reformation, which was begun by Luther in the year 1517, and was carried into an open protest against the severe popish decrees at Spire in Germany, by several princes of the Empire in the year 1529, which was the original of the name Protestants, by which the reformed churches are called to this day: And how indefatigable numerous swarms of Jesuits have been in their endeavors to overthrow the Reformation; and what cruelties the Duke of Alva used in the Netherlands, and Queen Mary in England; and how the Council of Trent, the Parisian and Irish massacres, and numberless other efforts of popish princes have been spirited up to suppress and extirpate the Protestant religion, is so familiarly known, as are all the rest of the facts, ... with respect to the time of the Reformation, that it is quite needless to quote particular au- [Page 287-288] thorities, which may be seen in all the historians of those times; and are almost in every one's hands." [Page 287-288] - https://archive.org/stream/practicalexposit06guys#page/287/mode/1up
https://archive.org/stream/practicalexposit06guys#page/288/mode/1up​

 

[TheHolyBookEnds]

...Lorenzo is nice.
I don't think he could kill a fly.
And he doesn't really like this pope.

Samuel Morse (Morse Code):

Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of THE UNITED STATES: The numbers under the signature of BRUTUS, originally published in the New York Observer. Revised and Corrected, with notes, by the Author, Samuel F. B. Morse, A.M. - President of the National Academy of Design, and Profesor of the Arts of Design in the University of the city of New York [7th Edition; Online Google Books; Chapter IV; Under Austrian Control page 60-62,94-95]

"... And who are these agents? They are, for the most part, Jesuits, an ecclesiastical order proverbial through the world for cunning, duplicity, and total want of moral principle; an order so skilled in all the arts of deception, that even in Catholic countries, in Italy itself, it became intolerable, and required its suppression. They are Jesuits in the pay and employ of a despotic government, who are at work on the ignorance and passions of our com- [pg 60-61] -munity; they are foreigners, who have been schooled in foreign seminaries in the doctrine of passive obedience; they are foreigners under vows of perpetual celibacy, and having therefore, no deep and permanent interest in this country; they are foreigners, bound by the strong ties of pecuniary interest and ambition to the service of a foreign despot.* Is there no danger to to our free institutions from a host commanded by such men, whose numbers are constantly increasing by the machinations and funds of Austria?

Consider, too, the power which these Jesuits and other Catholic priests posses through the confessional, of knowing the private characters and affairs of all the leading men in the community; the power arising from their right to prescribe the kinds and degrees of penance, and the power arising from the right to refuse absolution to those who do not comply with their commands. ... And should not the men who possess such powers be jealously watched by all lovers of liberty?

Is it possible that these Jesuits can have a sincere attachment to the principles of free institutions? Do not these principles oppose a constant barrier to their exercise of that arbitrary power, which they claim as a divine right, and which they exercise, too, in all countries [pg 61-62] where they are dominant? Can in not be perceived, that although they may find it politic for the present to conceal their anti-republican tenets, yet this concealment will be merely temporary, and is only adopted now, the better to lull suspicion? Is it not in accordance with all experience of Popish policy, that Jesuits should encroach little by little, and persevere till they have attained the plentitude of power? At present they have but one aim in this country, which absorbs all others, and that is, to make themselves popular. If they succeed in this, we shall learn, when too late to remedy the evil, that Popery abandons none of its divine rights. The leaders of this sect are disciplined and organized, and have their adherents entirely subservient to their will. Here, then, is a regular party, a religious sect, ready to throw the weight of its power as circumstances may require -- ready to favor any man or set of men who will engage to favor it." - https://books.google.com/books?id=J-LChYFcUf8C&printsec=frontcover&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false

"...Surely American Protestants, freemen, have discernment enough to discover beneath them the cloven foot of this subtle foreign heresy, and will not wait for a more extensive, disastrous, and overwhelming political interference, ere they assume the attitude of watchfulness and defence. They will see that Popery is now, what it has ever been, a system of the darkest political intrigue and [pg 94-95] despotism, cloaking itself to avoid attack, under the sacred name of religion. They will be deeply impressed with the truth, that Popery is a political as well as a religious system; that in this respect it differs totally from all other sects, from all other forms of religion in the country. Popery imbodies in itself the CLOSEST UNION OF CHURCH AND SATE. Observe it at it the fountain-head. In the Roman States the civil and ecclesiastical offices are blended together in the same individual. The Pope is the King. ..." - https://books.google.com/books?id=J-LChYFcUf8C&printsec=frontcover&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
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James Aitken Wylie (History of Protestantism):

The History of Protestantism by the Rev. J. A. Wylie [James Aitken Wylie], LL.D. Volume II; Illustrated; Cassell Petter & Galpin: London, Paris & New York; Chapter VIII. Diffusion of the Jesuits throughout Christendom. The Conflict Great-the Arms Sufficient-The Victory Sure-Set Free from Episcopal Jurisdiction-Acceptance in Italy-Spain-Portugal-Francis Xavier-France-Germany-Their First Planting in Austria-In Cologne and Ingolstadt-Thence Spread over all Germany-Their Schools-Wearing of Crosses-Revival of the Popish Faith.; pg 412, left and right columns.

"The soldiers of Loyola are about to go forth. Before beginning the campaign we see their chief assembling them and pointing out the field on which their prowess is to be displayed. The nations of Christendom are in revolt: it will be theirs to subjugate them, and lay them once more, bound in chains, at the feet of the Papal See. They must not faint; the arms he has provided them with are amply sufficient for the arduous warfare on which he sends them. Clad in that armour, and wielding it as he has been at pains to instruct them, they will expel knowledge as night chases away the day; liberty will die wherever their foot treads; and in the ancient darkness they will be able to rear again the fallen throne of the great Hierarch of Rome. But if the service is hard, the wages will be ample. As the saviours of that throne they will be greater than it. And though meanwhile their work is to be done in great show of humility and poverty, the silver and the gold of Christendom will in the end be theirs; they will be the lords of its lands and palaces, the masters of the bodies and the souls of its inhabitants, and nothing of all that the heart can desire will be withholden from them if only they will obey him.

The Jesuits rapidly multiplied, and we are now to follow them in the peregrinations over Europe. Going forth in little bands, animated with an entire devotion to their General, schooled in all the arts which could help to further their mission, they planted themselves in a few years in all the countries of Christendom, and made their presence felt in the turning of the tide of Protestantism, which till then had been on the flow.

There was no disguise they could not assume, and therefore there was no place into which they could not penetrate. They could enter unheard the closet of the monarch, or the cabinet of the statesman. They could sit unseen in Convocation or General Assembly, and mingle unsuspected in the deliberations and debates. There was no tongue they could not speak, and no creed they could not profess, and thus there was no people among whom they might not sojourn, and no Church whose membership they [left column to right column] might not enter, and whose functions they might not discharge. They could execrate the Pope with the Lutheran, and swear the Solemn League with the Covenanter. They had their men of learning and eloquence for the halls of nobles and the courts of kings; their men of science and letters for the education of youth; their unpolished but ready orators to harangue the crowd; and their plain, unlettered monks, to visit the cottages of the peasantry and the workshops of the artisan. "I know these men," said Joseph II. of Austria, writing to Choiseul, the Prime Minister of Louis XV.-- "I know these men as well as any one can do: all the schemes they have carried on, and the pains they have taken to spread darkness over the earth, as well as their efforts to rule and embroil Europe from Cape Finisterre to Spitzbergen! In China they were mandarins; in France, academicians, courtiers, and confessors; in Spain and Portugal, grandees; and in Paraguay, kings. Had not my grand-uncle, Joseph I., become emperor, we had in all probability seen in Germany, too, a Malagrida or an Alvieros."

In order that they might be at liberty to visit what city and diocese they pleased, they were exempted from episcopal jurisdiction. They could come and go at their pleasure, and perform all their functions without having to render account to any one save to their superior. This arrangement was resisted at first by certain prelates; but it was universally conceded at last, and it greatly facilitated the wide and rapid diffusion of the Jesuit corps. ..." - https://books.google.com/books?id=busCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false​

 

[TheHolyBookEnds]

...Lorenzo is nice.
I don't think he could kill a fly.
And he doesn't really like this pope.

Consider they are even in the dictionary itself:

"Jesuit

n. s as z. One of the society of Jesus, so called, founded by Ignatius Loyola; a society remarkable for their cunning in propagating their principles." - http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/Jesuit
​

"Jesuitism

n. The arts, principles and practices of the Jesuits.

1. Cunning, deceit; hypocrisy; prevarication; deceptive practices to effect a purpose." - http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/Jesuitism
​

"Jesuitical

a. Pertaining to the Jesuits or their principles and arts.

1. Designing; cunning; deceitful; prevaricating." - http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/jesuitic
​

"Jesuitically

adv. Craftily." - http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/Jesuitically​

Napoleon and his generals:

History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena from the letters and journals of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, and official documents not before made public; by William Forsyth, M.A., author of 'Mortensius' and 'History of Trial by Jury' Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In Two Volumes, Volume I; New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 329 & 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square. 1853; Chapter VI, pg 208

"... Great dissentions and civil commotions between De Las Cases and Gourgard (the latter backed by Montholon) about the rooms. Both applied to Bonaparte in urgent term to get them, but Nap. very wisely settled it like Pope Leo, by taking them himself. Montholon can not conceal his joy at the failure of De Las Cases, and for the present is triumphant; 'but the Jesuit ever worketh underhand, speaketh little and mischievously, and at last will make his way like a mouse in a cheese.' 1

1 "Ma il Gesuito sempre travaglia travaglia sotto man, parla poco e male, ed alla fine riuscira come topo nel formaggio."" - https://books.google.com/books?id=SS4QAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false​

History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena by General Count Montholon [Charles-Tristan Montholon], the Emperor's Companion in Exile, and Testamentary Executor. Volume II; London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, Great Marlborough Street. ["Entered at Stationers' Hall"] 1846; pg 388

"...But there is a religious society, the tendency of which is highly dangerous, and which should never have been admitted into the territories of the empire -- viz., the Society of Jesus. Its doctrines are subversive of all monarchial principles. The General of the Jesuits desires to be sovereign master, the sovereign of sovereigns. Everywhere the Jesuits are tolerated, they strive for power, at any price. Their society is by nature fond of ruling, and nourishes, therefore, an irreconcilable hatred of all existing power. Any action, any crime, however atrocious it may be, is meritorious, if committed for the interest of the society, or by the orders of its General. …" - https://books.google.com/books?id=YNUsAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
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John Adams, president of the United States:

The Works Of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with A Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, by his grandson Charles Francis Adams. Volume X; Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1856. - entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by Charles Francis Adams in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Riverside. Cambridge: Stereotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company., pg 216,219; 168

"To Thomas Jefferson. Quincy, 6 May, 1816... [pg 216]

[pg 219]... I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. They have a general now in Russia, in correspondence with the Jesuits in the United States, who are more numerous than everybody knows. Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as ever a king of the gypsies, Bampfylde Moore Carew himself, assumed? In the shape of printers, editors, writers, schoolmasters, &c.? I have lately read Pascal's letters over again, and four volumes of the History of the Jesuits. If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth and in hell, according to these historians, though, like Pascal, true Catholics, it is this company of Loyola. ..."

"To F. A. Vanderkemp. Philadelphia, 13 July, 1815. ... [pg 168]

... I have read D'Argen's Ocellus, Timaeus, and Julian. Instead of being sincere, he appears to me to be a consumate hypocrite, in the beginning, the middle, and the end; the most frank, candid, impudent, and sincere liar I ever read. It is plain that he believed neither the Old Testament nor New, neither Moses nor Jesus. He labors to destroy the credibility of the whole Bible, and all the evidence of a future state, and all this for the sake of establishing the infallibility of the Pope and the church, the necessity of forbidding the Bible to the people, and placing all religion in grace, and its offspring, faith. Among all the disciples of Loyola, I never read a more perfect Jesuit. He is a complete exemplification of Condorcet's "precious confessions," as you called them. You speak of his "superficial reflections." I have not found them. They are all deep, and aiming at the same end, a complete system of Antichristianity. ..." - https://books.google.com/books?id=MZQ8AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
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[TheHolyBookEnds]

You know I'm not going to read all that......

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

I have told you the truth.

 

[Jay Ross]

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

I have told you the truth.

Yes, but by whose measure? Yours? If so then the deception of copious BS rules out any semblance of being told the truth that is easily verified.

It seems to me that you want to be the king on top of your own mountain of the copious material that you produce.

 

[TheHolyBookEnds]

Yes, but by whose measure?...

There is only one measure of Truth, "... thy [God's] word is truth." (John 17:17), "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6), "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1), "Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth." (Psalms 119:142), "Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth." (Psalms 119:151), "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies." (Psalms 25:10), "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he." (Deuteronomy 32:4), "This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth." (1 John 5:6)

The Jesuit order is proverbial for their iniquity, and thus, there is no light in them, and they have blasphemously taken the name of Jesus in vain:

Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.​

The [dis]"order" of the Jesuits are not guiltless before God.

Luke 11:23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.​

 

[Jay Ross]

There is only one measure of Truth, "... thy [God's] word is truth." (John 17:17), "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6), "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1), "Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth." (Psalms 119:142), "Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth." (Psalms 119:151), "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies." (Psalms 25:10), "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he." (Deuteronomy 32:4), "This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth." (1 John 5:6)

The Jesuit order is proverbial for their iniquity, and thus, there is no light in them, and they have blasphemously taken the name of Jesus in vain:

Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.​

The [dis]"order" of the Jesuits are not guiltless before God.

Luke 11:23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.​

WOW what an answer. Good thing I am a Callithumpian and not a Roman Catholic.

The thing is have you stitched yourself up by the laborious quoting of scripture. I just wonder, if there is any truth left in the mosaic of the material?

 

[GodsGrace]

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

I have told you the truth.

Well THBE, I wouldn't say that just because I don't read YOUR posts means I have no knowledge.

In trying to be helpful, you're actually very insulting.

 

[GodsGrace]

Consider they are even in the dictionary itself:

"Jesuit

n. s as z. One of the society of Jesus, so called, founded by Ignatius Loyola; a society remarkable for their cunning in propagating their principles." - http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/Jesuit
​

"Jesuitism

n. The arts, principles and practices of the Jesuits.

1. Cunning, deceit; hypocrisy; prevarication; deceptive practices to effect a purpose." - http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/Jesuitism
​

"Jesuitical

a. Pertaining to the Jesuits or their principles and arts.

1. Designing; cunning; deceitful; prevaricating." - http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/jesuitic
​

"Jesuitically

adv. Craftily." - http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/Jesuitically​

Oh, the above is just too funny.

And what exactly is it that YOU are doing?
You post so much misinformation to get your hateful point across that you should not be criticizing ANYONE.

 

[TheHolyBookEnds]

...In trying to be helpful ...

... about as helpful as Guy Fawkes in trying to re-foundation English Parliament.

 

[bbyrd009]

feed a troll, starve a fever!

 

[Helen]

feed a troll, starve a fever!

Now that was clever...did you buy it somewhere or is it an original?

But, Feed a troll and it keeps on trolling!

 

[TheHolyBookEnds]

Now that was clever...did you buy it somewhere or is it an original?

But, Feed a troll and it keeps on trolling!

**Nobody likes me ... everybody hates me ... guess Martin Luther will go to the diet of Worms ** ...

 

[Helen]

**Nobody likes me ... everybody hates me ... guess Martin Luther will go to the diet of Worms ** ...

Okay..that is very funny too.
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[amadeus]

Okay..that is very funny too.
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Funny perhaps, but I still have not yet read what he has posted. I responded your post, but refuse to read his book(s) in order to understand what he believes. If it is good as God would define good, it is hidden within the masses of material. I will not read an encyclopedia in order to find what is hidden within. I have the scriptures and the lead of the Holy Spirit to find all that is needed.

I have read the Bible and will continue to do so. I have read other books when given the incentive, but the that has not happened here. Each church group and many individuals perhaps have prepared long writings to support their position, but surely they do not really expect that every potential convert will be either willing, or some cases even able, to read them with understanding. I may be able, but my time is limited and I must choose as the Lord directs me how to use the time available to me. Others I am certain have the same problem.

But, I've discussed this with our friend, @TheHolyBookEnds previously. He has apparently not changed his mind. This really is a forum, not a library without a proper table of contents and index.

 

[Helen]

@amadeus
You and many of us have made objections to his lengthy back to back hoggish posts.

When all the time a shorter post would get his message across in bite sized pieces.
He is doing this to himself.

Maybe some people read his stuff...I skim it...but so much I do not agree with.
Especially the strong hatred for the Catholic church.
They are so sure that they are right about The Whore..etc etc

No one can be sure about anything...."But Christ, and Him crucified. "

Bless you....H

 

[amadeus]

@amadeus
You and many of us have made objections to his lengthy back to back hoggish posts.

When all the time a shorter post would get his message across in bite sized pieces.
He is doing this to himself.

Maybe some people read his stuff...I skim it...but so much I do not agree with.
Especially the strong hatred for the Catholic church.
They are so sure that they are right about The Whore..etc etc

No one can be sure about anything...."But Christ, and Him crucified. "

Bless you....H

I don't even skim it. When I look at "new posts" each time I visit the forum, I immediately hit the latest page to remove it from my list without reading any part of it except the names of the posters on that final page. Any interim pages since my last visited won't ever be visited. If there is the name of a trusted old friend included on the very last page I may check it out to that extent as in the current thread.

 

[Helen]

I don't even skim it. When I look at "new posts" each time I visit the forum, I immediately hit the latest page to remove it from my list without reading any part of it except the names of the posters on that final page. Any interim pages since my last visited won't ever be visited. If there is the name of a trusted old friend included on the very last page I may check it out to that extent as in the current thread.

Did you ever play the card game "Snap" as a child?
The quickest child yells SNAP when an identical card is laid.

Well "Snap" in reference to how you check out your new posts...I do the very same thing...

I start at the bottom...if I'm not involved or interested in a thread, I click it, spin to the very last post...then spin to the top , so get get rid of the posts I'm not involved in...then I go to the bottom when they are gone and start clicking on threads I am interested in..and like you, I look for names I like to read.
THEN I check my ALERTS...and make sure I haven't missed some friends post.

Agree..... It's a good system and easy to see and use.

 

[amadeus]

Did you ever play the card game "Snap" as a child?
The quickest child yells SNAP when an identical card is laid.

Well "Snap" in reference to how you check out your new posts...I do the very same thing...

I start at the bottom...if I'm not involved or interested in a thread, I click it, spin to the very last post...then spin to the top , so get get rid of the posts I'm not involved in...then I go to the bottom when they are gone and start clicking on threads I am interested in..and like you, I look for names I like to read.
THEN I check my ALERTS...and make sure I haven't missed some friends post.

Agree..... It's a good system and easy to see and use.

No, I never played, SNAP, but I am with you on this. I spend time on forums according to how much I participate. If I am attracted I take time to write a comment how ever much time is required unless something else is really pressing. I start with ALERTS and then go to new posts. Many days I do not get caught up with new posts as other interests and needs offline beckon. Other days I go through everything and away I go not to return for good while, be it hours or tomorrow.

Reading brand new O/P by any known or unknown posters may catch my attention, but certain names are automatically tossed into the waste basket so to speak. The starter of this thread is certainly included in this category.

 

[quietthinker]

There are events in the making globally behind the scenes that we are well advised to be prepared for. Events that will divide the human race into two groups. Those who are on God's side and those who are not.
As with the parable of the ten virgins, some who thought they were ready for the bridegroom were not. It behooves us all to have oil lest we find ourselves knocking on the door and calling, 'open to us' only to hear the answer, where are you from, I don't know you.