Edwin Harmon's wife
by Robert Hedges ©

Oh yes, I forgot to mention, that leaders of a christian group must set an example of that christian virtue called forgiveness. Haranguing someone is not reflective of forgiveness, regardless of the truth, veracity, falsity, or current nature of an alleged infraction. Remember when you harangued me, Mrs. E. Harmon. !!! Shame !!!. So many years had elapsed. A person can only notice that such behavior has an appearance of grasping at straws to cause trouble. Incidentally, I got the idea that smoking was OK at "church", the example set by. among others. those illustrious leaders of the church, the Deacons. Out front socializing on Sunday morn before the service . . . socializing . . .a crutch for social interaction . . .upstanding examples. Yes, I smoked cigarettes for a few years. But why the harangue ? It sounds like grasping at straws to vent anger.
Further, regarding accusations, every time someone accuses me of something, I know that the person I am facing shows their own bias, slant, and definition. An accusation that I am "using her" shows that the accuser has a mind-set from which I can descern that that person would be using a person if they were me. Likewise, when a person accuses me of, say, homosexuality, for example, they invariably will be just that . . . homosexual, looking for a way to find others so they won't feel alone. This is projection defined.

So, either a person wants to cause trouble, or trys to accuse their way into a self-serving confession.

Schadenfreude = outlaw emotion of harm-joy. We seek to justify feelings of harm-joy to assuage our guilt for having them. We secretly want those who do better, or seem better to fail, and after they suffer a setback, we "justify" those outlaw emotions to reduce our own feelings of vulnerability. We assign blame after the fact to the "betters" so we may feel that universal justice exists, and we need not fear similar random setback.

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