Just to clarify for the purpose of dispelling untruths: when you first made your request, @IshChayil, I did not at all originally realize that you were referring to my much-earlier use of the name of G-d that starts with the letter 'Y.' I had no clue. You used 'G-d' in your request, so I entirely understood what you were requesting to refer to my having spelled out 'G-d' in my post. A couple days ago it began to dawn on me that you must be talking about something else, because you kept saying I wasn't getting the point (which I guess I wasn't), so I researched earlier pages of the thread on which our disagreement began and found where I had previously spelled out the 'Y' name (which I, by the way, do not consider blasphemous). Prior to that backwards research, though, I assumed we were just talking about the spelling of 'G-d.'
I do not have the same religious practices belief that you have about the speaking, writing or contemplation of the names of our F-th-r. In fact, my own beliefs on the matter are probably fairly diametrically opposed to yours, because I'm more likely to consider it disrespectful to not say H-s N-m- than to say it.
You are free to consider me to be overly sensitive. You are apparently also free to be overly sensitive yourself, as is demonstrated by your clear habit of engaging in ax-grinding, repetitive ad hominem attacks any time anyone challenges your belief that you are The Expert on Anything You Know Something About. I have attempted to make peace with you in private messages, but you have basically refused to let any of this go. It appears to me that you will belittle anyone who disagrees with you or even likes a post written by someone who disagrees with you. Your original request to me was written in a forum thread that was located in the Singles section of the Marriage and Family forum area, which contradicts statements you're making here that imply that you're only attempting to enforce your name-naming preferences within this or other threads started by you in the Messianic/Hebrew Roots area; your request was clearly a marker you put down in a completely different realm that everyone everywhere should tiptoe around your tulips.
You seem to want the freedom to 'request' adherence to your religious vision, but in recent days you have demonstrated a disturbing willingness to sink to the lowest common denominator in your efforts to punish people for challenging you -- as well as demonstrating that if anyone calls you on your written behavior you will state that that person is being overly sensitive. I have observed you on more than one recent occasion stoop to dragging out pieces of old and new private communications between you and others, information clearly shared with you in confidence, to display the other persons' comments publicly to make those individuals look bad. You seem comfortable with not just arguing with someone but with attempting to destroy them. Are opposing points of view that threatening to you? Do you have to eliminate opposition, even to the point of pretending that you're blocking people only because they are overly sensitive?
Lastly, . . .
Perhaps, but, given that you assert that you ran your request by your wives and they didn't have any problem with how you worded it (assuming they read the whole context), did you also run by them your decision to assert that a brother was feigning ignorance when he didn't know something you mistakenly believe everyone else knows? Did you run by your wives your decision to repeatedly refer to a brother whom one might think everyone knows is significantly your elder by the phrase, 'little brother?' Did your wives also think it was totally fine that, for the purposes of belittling a brother, you publicly revealed assertions he had made in the context of private messages between you and him?
I have my own request: please consider the actual distinction between a request and a demand. When a request is made and the requestee denies the request, the requestor will accept that denial. In other words: asked, answered, and that's it. When the requestee denies the request and then the requestor is unwilling to accept that denial -- when the requestor will not let up on the issue until the requestee complies -- then it's not truly a request; it was all along just a covert demand. I'm requesting that you acknowledge that you have already demonstrated that you can't simply accept denial of your 'request' that everyone adhere to your expectation that they follow your practice of not spelling out the names of our F-th-r. If you deny my request that you acknowledge this, as will most likely be the case, I will move on, because I'm willing for this to be my last set of words on this matter, and I recognize that none of us who are mere members of this community have any authority over one another. Will you be willing to move on?
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