Australian cult: Anyone recognize this?
Date: November 11, 2006 03:43AM
"...I do agree, however, that things like your/our home address and phone number should not be posted on the internet... as protection against some crazies out there... like Brian, from the Rick Ross forum, who says that we should all be taken out to protect the world from us.
If you can't see anything hateful in the other posts that appeared over the last few days, then that, too, says a lot about your so-called positive interest in us.
You see, there are a few of you... Attila, Craig, and the concerned mother in particular, who have tried to make posts that sounded at least reasonably positive. But when the underlying goal is to just cause trouble, it comes out, sooner or later. You will invariably find yourself sympathising with Brian, as happened on the Rick Ross forum when another ex-member ('xenophone') suggested that he get treatment for his mental illness, which he freely admits to.
Brian admits that he spent a total of about fifteen seconds listening to some article being read out in the community in Dallas before he was struck by an anxiety attack and literally jumped over a chair to get out of the place. He, of course, has never been a member of the Jesus Christians, and has only that one brief encounter to go by, but still you guys tell him to be brave and reveal all, as he struggles to come out from under the evil influence of the Jesus Christians..."
I have very clearly described my introduction to and (very, very limited) involvement with the JCs. I could tell immediately that the people that I met in Dallas that day were quite obviously heavily conditioned and that something generally was very wrong with the picture, so I followed my gut instinct and left quickly. I am gifted with sharper-than-average-discernment my Spidey-Sense told me to flee, so I did. And I have followed your activities ever since, for years now, since my gut tells me that real danger exists for this group. In terms of the physical danger that it's members are in. I have been diagnosed by a competant doctor as having Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and take Prozac for its treatment. I see a therapist and am stablilized on my meds. Does that neutralize the validity of everything I have to say? I am not perfect and have a big fat beam in my own eye I need to work on. But, if God can use an ass to correct the false prophet, then I can have something useful to say as well. If being treated for depression and anxiety related to my OCD is a crime, then I am guilty. I am not crazy, nor dangerous to anybody, except you.
I never said that the world should be protected from the JCs, Dave, I said that the world should be protected from you. I have a problem and I know it. I am working on it. You won't acknowledge that you have a problem, much less work on a solution. It's everybody else's fault, everybody's fault and everybody's problem but yours, huh? Quit trying to shift the focus off of yourself and onto somebody else and try to make an honest attempt to look at yourself and what you've done to your own family.