Why The Craziness?

2008-8-20 18:05:00

My Friends,

Our forum is almost ten years old. How time flies when you're having fun.

One thing we should be thankful for is how stable the list is and the quality of people we have here. Overall most of the group really want to learn and share and refrain from letting their egos get out of control.

The group started out with a lot of passion with 30 or so members. It is interesting that in those early days I believe we had more posts per day than any other time. It seemed that almost every member was posting and with enthusiasm. We often had more than 50 posts per day. We were posting more than any other group on the Internet that I could find -- some with 50 times our membership.

Then things settled down and challengers started coming on board. These challengers brought out some interesting teachings, and even some parables, but overall they were discouraging to some members who just wanted to discuss and learn.

Finally we had so many distractions, and even some threats, that we had to put the group on moderation. This wasn't a cure-all from distraction as I have the philosophy that we should let everything through within reason.

What we generally found though is that most of those who do challenge us stay about a month, make their case and move on. Some of them have such a different vibration that they cannot bear to be here for long. Dawn already told me she was quitting, but seems to be hanging on anyway.

We have been fortunate here in that not many have claimed to be the Messiah, David Servant, a prophet like Moses, the Two Witnesses, [the One] Mighty and Strong, God, and similar others. There are other religious lists with a major problem in this area where a major call to listen from beast-like authority is dictated every few days.

Dawn is the first person with big ego proclamations to come along in a while. She believes she is a prophet and one of the Two Witnesses as well as one of the seven angels of Revelation. That's quite a package.

There is a rule of thumb here:  The bigger the claim the less sense the person makes.

This brings us to a new topic for discussion.

We notice that the bigger the claim of authority a person makes the less sense he makes. Sometimes this seems to border on insanity. This not only happens with religious ones but also in other fields.

Why do you suppose this is the case?

Hint:  DK [Djwhal Khul] gave some information on this.

Can you think of one person who presented himself as a great authority who made any sense at all?

Don't say Jesus because he never presented himself as the Christ and told his disciples to not reveal who he was while he was teaching. His works proclaimed him.

  

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