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Ezek 34:3-5 source: biblehub.com...
You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock. You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally. So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals."
thoughts? more categories?
originally posted by: ElGoobero
I've concluded that most people can be fit in one of these six categories.
-snip-
3) Wolves
Obvious. Some people are predators, and they prey on the sheep. The drug dealer, the strongarm thug, the real estate agent that knowingly sells you a house with a suck roof, the used car dealer that...you get the idea. Many wolves are criminals, but not all. At the extreme edge of these are terrorists and psycho shooters.
4) Sheepdogs
Sheepdogs, of course, protect the sheep. Police, First Responders, Military, even the humble TSA screeners and night watchmen. We may day-to-day see these as annoyances (screening at the airport, ticket on the highway) but these people protect us from anarchy. Thank God for them.
originally posted by: tanstaafl
originally posted by: ElGoobero
I've concluded that most people can be fit in one of these six categories.
-snip-
3) Wolves
Obvious. Some people are predators, and they prey on the sheep. The drug dealer, the strongarm thug, the real estate agent that knowingly sells you a house with a suck roof, the used car dealer that...you get the idea. Many wolves are criminals, but not all. At the extreme edge of these are terrorists and psycho shooters.
4) Sheepdogs
Sheepdogs, of course, protect the sheep. Police, First Responders, Military, even the humble TSA screeners and night watchmen. We may day-to-day see these as annoyances (screening at the airport, ticket on the highway) but these people protect us from anarchy. Thank God for them.
4.5) Wolves in Sheepdogs clothing
originally posted by: Nothin
a reply to: ElGoobero
Hi LG.
What about the folks whom like to put other folks into little boxes ?
originally posted by: ElGoobero
4) Sheepdogs
Sheepdogs, of course, protect the sheep. Police, First Responders, Military, even the humble TSA screeners and night watchmen. We may day-to-day see these as annoyances (screening at the airport, ticket on the highway) but these people protect us from anarchy. Thank God for them.
originally posted by: F2d5thCavv2
a reply to: ElGoobero
Don't forget that some are capable of leaving one category and entering another. Not typical, but extreme situations can provoke atypical behavior.
Cheers
originally posted by: ElGoobero
originally posted by: Nothin
a reply to: ElGoobero
Hi LG.
What about the folks whom like to put other folks into little boxes ?
(who, not whom)
some people need to be boxed for the safety of others. if one is serving the cause of justice, that's a good thing.
if your speaking of philosophically sorting, meh. I think its human nature to categorize. looking for insight here.
originally posted by: F2d5thCavv2
a reply to: ElGoobero
Don't forget that some are capable of leaving one category and entering another. Not typical, but extreme situations can provoke atypical behavior.
Cheers
originally posted by: Gnarley
originally posted by: F2d5thCavv2
a reply to: ElGoobero
Don't forget that some are capable of leaving one category and entering another. Not typical, but extreme situations can provoke atypical behavior.
Cheers
And these days, the other categories are being denied presence and being ostracised as fools, in order to keep those easily boxed in the box they are told to be.
Even when provoked, some will remain in their own category due to this.
originally posted by: whereislogic
John 10:1-6,25-27
As one can see in the Bible, sheep or sheeplike behaviour is not put in a negative light. Goats or people displaying (stubborn, rebellious) goatlike behaviour tend not to have a high opinion of the obedient sheeplike behaviour of others. Would you agree that your desciption of your 2 sheep-categories doesn't sound very flattering or encouraging to others to be more sheeplike (in comparison to category 4 or 5 of yours for example)*?
*: you can split that one up into 2 questions, one with the "in comparison..." remark in mind, one without. Or with the usage of "or" there you can even split it up into 3 questions if you feel like answering, or answering that way.
“For the one who conducts himself as a lesser one among all of you is the one who is great.” (Luke 9:48)
“But many who are the greatest now will be least important then, and those who seem least important now will be the greatest then.” (Matthew 19:30, New Living Translation)
Sheep rule! Goats and wolves in sheep's clothing drool.
Quite literally as well I just realized: