Pat, well, then, I won't dare come to your conference, because if I 
want to read a novel on my Braille Lite or listen to a game, neither 
of which you would know I was doing, because I would use the mute 
button, I would be disrespectful according to your standard.  If a 
person is doing something at the same time as your conference, but 
isn't distracting anyone, I don't see the problem.  What you don't 
know, doesn't hurt you.

earlier, Pat Ferguson, wrote:

>John,
>
>Sorry! It's a big problem, and it's not going to happen on our 
>conference line at all.
>
>Even if we can't hear it, just knowing it is happening is making me 
>mad and it is so very disrespectful to God.
>
>Blessings,
>Pat Ferguson
>At 06:42 PM 10/11/2006, you wrote:
>>If you people that are on the phones can hear the person's game, 
>>that's different.  In that case, that's a problem.
>>
>>earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:
>>
>>>Pat,
>>>
>>>Tell them to turn that damn radio off or get off the freaking phone.  Let me
>>>tell you what I do on Sundays when I am teaching.  Some people, and I have
>>>never done such a thing of course, like to whisper to each other during
>>>church.  It may be a little different in a large church where you are 500
>>>feet back from the pulpit and the pastor can't even see the shine on your
>>>bald head from that distance even with his tri focals on, and the public
>>>address system he is speaking through echoes so much, you'd think you were
>>>in the super dome or something, but in a small living room and dinning room,
>>>where you have a dozen adults squeezed in with four or five kids, some as
>>>young as three, and an African Gray Parrot who swings around and bangs his
>>>hanging toys all over the cage, whispering is very distracking.  So, what I
>>>have begun doing, since it has really started to bug me, I stop teaching.  I
>>>mean, I stop talking all together and I don't start until the whispering
>>>stops.  I have foregone speaking up and telling them to shut up because of
>>>the kind and loving man of God I am but that'll be next.  Besides, who cares
>>>about football, or baseball, or any other game, when you are trying to have
>>>church?  What is this, a circus or church we are having here.  Somebody over
>>>there needs their butt kicked.  I hope it isn't somebody I know.  In which
>>>case, I take everything back I just said and beg for forgiveness.
>>>
>>>Phil.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>John
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