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Dave wrote:
Malcolm's latest confession about having had secret plans to start a separate community with this guy who wrote in after he left, gives a picture of where he was coming from.

I had a similar thought!

It wouldn't surprise me if Malcolm had perhaps actually misled this other fellow a bit to make himself and his situation (i.e. not being part of the community) to be a little bit more than what it really was. So of course the other guy would have been surprised to hear that Malcolm was somewhat estranged from the community and asked Malcolm about it.

And there went Malcolm in his bitterness.

Malcolm's bitterness is very ugly.

What is it about people CHOOSING to work for God instead of for money that makes people get so vicous and mean? I mean what did a Jesus Christian ever do to anyone?

Take a look at what happened here in the last few days.Someone goes from good friend defender and supporter to completely acting deranged and making cruel disgusting posts.Name calling.Insults.Because of what?whose business is it anyway what adults do?Theres and Gods.Why does anyone feel they must attack?seems to me they just want to attack someone,littlerose is just venting and spraying poison venomous word because shes an angry hurting person.You can tell that by her posts even when she seemed OK she was so combative(herwords) and aggressive.Not normal at all.Not in line with any Christian I ever knew.Not Jesuslike calling people the dirty words she is posting now on the other thred.Yet she sees herself as this great Catholic lady who is going to preech to everyone else?Yet she is wishing ill for the Jesus Christians in Austrialia saying she dont care what happens to them a____holes.What a testimony.Says so much about the state of her heart and her head.

I am trying to be quiet on the matter and let the moderaters and the leadership handle it but I have to say its a disgraceful exhibition she is putting on.doesnt she know the words you print are there for the world to see?God already sees the sin and hate in her heart.Her pure hate.Her jumping from enemy to enemy makes her statements lack credibility.

i went and took a look at the sites being disgust and its easy to see why littlerose was belonging there because there just isnt much positive.lots of complaints but little of what they do to help there fellow man.littlerose needs prayer and some interventsion to get her emotions under control.

I pray someone good comes into her life that will help her as it cant be easy being littlerose.in the meantime she would be so much better off not posting anything and maybe just read some articles for a few days and see how she feels later.She once was a supporter so what changed and made it go so extremly the opposite.I can tell she is a unhappy woman looking for some cause to battle.thats so sad she turned because some of her posts were good but now its like she has split her personility into someone else.this new personilty isnt Christian.

Hi Peter. When someone really is suffering from mental illness it's a lot easier to be patient with them. This particularly reflects what I have noted in Denise and Brian. But what you have observed with them is not so very different from what we have experienced with many other people. We touch on some kind of a sore spot, and all hell breaks loose. Obviously we are human and do a lot of things wrong ourselves, but, strangely, the more innocently we touch a sore spot, the more violent is the reaction (in many instances).

I see it as relating very strongly to our understanding of what happened to Jesus. He was as pure and innocent as anyone could be. There were times when he said some very sharp things to and about some religious leaders; but on the whole, he was quite harmless. And yet it did not take much for a mob to be whipped up with such hatred that they not only wanted him killed, but they wanted him to be tortured to death. They had managed to convince themselves that he was a monster, a messenger of satan, etc.

These people were not mentally ill. They were just ordinary citizens. And most of our enemies are like that, at least superficially. But I think that all of the patterns in the mentally ill (e.g. Denise and Brian) are reflected in them too, making it very difficult to know where the crazy label stops being applicable.