Posted by rayww on January 2, 2007, at 12:44:21
In reply to Re: floods, posted by Dr. Bob on December 31, 2006, at 15:55:52
> Isn't excommunication permanent? Blocks might be kind of like jail. Have they felt that way to you?
Considering I have only been blocked from PBF, I'd have to say excommunication, but in this case, without grounds, so mis-excommunication. In excommunication both the plaintif and the victim are allowed to speak. Then a committee makes the decision, based on gospel principles. Never is the arbitrator and plaintiff the same person.
You have set up a system here, that does not apply to one of your boards, and you are confused between jail and excommunication. btw, I don't know how excommunication works in other faiths, but in mine (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), it is used as a repentence tool, with the goal to help you come back. Excommunication is used when a person wants to maintain their good membership, and also when a person is purposely trying to destroy it from within. You cannot have your cake and eat it too. Of two I want the one the most, but I am two, and both alone in me.
For a block to feel like excommunication, it would have to relate back to a set group of principles, whether Christian, Jew, or Otherwise, and that be what you would judge against. For it to feel like jail, it would be the same, only not with religious laws. But, on the other hand if you ask where did law orriginate, I would have to say religion. Plus if I thought about whether a person could be excommunicated by breaking a natural law, it would be yes.
I realize I have not answered your question. It feels like excommunication and jail combined. Excommunication because of being banned or shunned, and jail because of being locked out.
I'm a thinker, and the more I think about this one the more confused I get, because law is law. I still think JS explained it the very best in the link I gave you yesterday.
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