My friend is a rather old-fashioned lady, always quite delicate and elegant, especially in her language. She and her husband were planning a week’s vacation in Florida so she wrote a particular campground and asked for a reservation. She wanted to make sure the camp ground was fully equipped, but didn’t quite know how to ask about the toilet facilities. She just couldn’t bring herself to write the word toilet in her letter. After much deliberation, she finally came up with the old-fashioned term “bathroom commode.” But when she wrote that down she still thought she was being too forward. So she started all over again, rewrote the entire letter, and referred to the bathroom commode merely as the B.C.
“Does the campground have its own B.C.?” is what she actually wrote.
Well, the campground owner wasn’t old-fashioned at all, and when he got the letter, he just couldn’t figure out what the woman was talking about. That B.C. business really stumped him. After worrying about it for a while, he showed the letter to several campers, but they couldn’t figure out what the woman meant either. So the campground owner finally coming to the conclusion that the lady must be asking about the location of the Baptist Church, sat down and wrote the following reply.
“Dear Madam: I regret very much the delay in answering your letter, but I now take the pleasure of informing you that a B.C. is located nine miles north of the campground, and is capable of seating 250people at one time. The last time my wife and I went was six years ago, and it was so crowded that we had to stand up the whole time we were there. It may interest you to know that right now, there is a supper planned to raise money to buy more seats. They’re going to hold it in the basement of the B.C. If you do decide to come down to our campground perhaps I could go with you the first time you go, sit with and introduce you to all the other folks. Remember this is a friendly community.”
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ReplyDeleteThis is halarious. It really shows you how important context really is. I wonder how the lady responded to this. saying things not in context can also relate to the Bible. For example, if someone says to love tour neighbor. Then logical thing to do would be to love your neighbor. but if that person who said this didn't follow that up with "as yourself", than people wouldn't really know to what extent to love "their neighbor" .there are definitely other examples of how things can go wrong when out of context.
Wow! That is very funny! I would hate to be either of those people honestly. I completely agree that it is incredibly important to speak clearly and to listen to the context of things. I would have had no idea what "B.C." meant, I think it was ridiculous to use it. But I think it was a bit stupid to make a guess like that on the camp directors part.
ReplyDeleteIf you look at how this compares to the Word of the Lord, you can see that there are words like "Selah" in Psalms, we cannot say it means anything because we have not been shown by God what it means for sure.
Also when pastors take pieces of scripture completely out of context and make them sound so evil. Or take something and make a denomination out of it. It is important to read around scriptures. The Church has become 'lazy' and will just take one verse and turn it into what they want.
~Caroline Grace Barger
We are all entitled to our own opinion and have that right to speak it. Although, I do think that many people take that statement to the extreme and go wild. During an argument someone who likes to stretch things might start tearing the other person apart but then come back around and say that they are 'entitled to their own opinion' and have the freedom to say whatever they would like to say. Like I said, you should have the freedom to say whatever you think but it should be used with discernment. It should not be used to tear someone down or beat them up.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what Caroline said, how Pastors take scriptures completely out of context. When it clearly states in the previous and verses after that that is not what they are talking about. Not only is it bad for the community and teaching them fallacies, but it can make him look a bit dumb, to be honest. It also has the potential of make him look unprepared and unorganized. Although, I do understand and can see how Pastors from different denominations can interrupt a passage differently, because of their different perspectives.
This is hilarious. What kind of a person would go through that much difficulty say toilet or bathroom in a letter. I can see that she is a very polite person to worry about those aspects of the letter but Wow. I would have struggled just as much as he did to figure out what B.C meant because those two letters could mean anything, they could mean Before Christ, Bruce Carter, I don't know how he came to the resolution of B.C meaning Baptist Church but it was a very educational guess. If anyone would have gotten those acronyms I don't think anyone would have figured out that those two letters meant bathroom. I could not stop laughing when I read the last paragraph because of what he said. It can hold up to 250 people and they were preparing a feast to get more seats, Me and my wife had to stay standing because it was so crowded. All I can say is WOW.
ReplyDeleteThis is so funny. But was it so hard for the lady to say tiolet or bathroom. I think people have the right to speek, but i dont think they should go around making statements other people may not get. Each person has there own opinion but it was very ridiculous to use B.C. for batheroom. But i think it was a bit stupid from the camp directors part to come up with B.C. standing for Baptist Church. If he didnt know what B.C. standed for he could have wrote back saying, sorry madam i dont know what B.C. stands for instead of taking a wild guess. But as i said before each and every person has there own opinion. I agree with what Caroline said, Pastors take pieces of scripture completely out of context. But many Pastors do take pieces of scripture and translate it in different ways becuase of thier different perspectives. I think this was a very good story.
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