Some comments on the VT Massacre

The following is a post sent to one of my spiritual boards which i will leave unnamed. Some poignant comments are made in regards to the MI (mentally ill). Here follows the excerpt:

--- In [deleted], James
wrote:
> The whole thing I don't like about his released videos and his past
history is that he was a loner, quiet, subdued and possibly ridiculed
on campus.
>
> This puts a bad vibe in the public's eye of people that are
naturally that way or suffer from a mental illness

I can dig it. It's a toxic stereotype. And the truth is that there's
a hell of a lot more 'mentally ill' or 'different' people that are the
victims of violence than are the perpetrators of it...
Reuben

--- In [deleted], James
wrote:
>
> The VT shooting:
>
> The whole thing I don't like about his released videos and his past
history is that he was a loner, quiet, subdued and possibly ridiculed
on campus.
>
> This puts a bad vibe in the public's eye of people that are
naturally that way or suffer from a mental illness like i do - i have
schizoaffective bipolar disorder, PTSD, OCD, and Panic Attacks. So I
mostly "hobbit" myself in my apartment happy with my pet friend tigger
the cat and read a lot of books. I stopped getting cable tv just b/c
i'm sick of the news playing over and over and over the bad news...
like Columbine and now this at VT.
>
> And how could he compare himself to 'dying like Jesus Christ'???
He wasn't nailed to a cross after being nearly beaten to death... he
simply finished his job and shot himself to death. And that's
torture? A bullet to the head is almost always instant death. I'm
sure the nether regions he now exists in will serve him justice. No
matter what your beliefs are... I believe in a universal justice in
life and after life.
>
> As for us "mentall ill", most of us are non-violent and
self-absorbed that is. I take medication and that allows me to mostly
function and interact with people that I could not do without them.
For me its a necessity right now, but maybe later - with the doctors
approval and suggestions - I can some years from now taper off my
meds. Some in my mental health group CAN and do live with out meds,
but still have their issues. Others like me have a medicine cabinet
full of meds.
>
> Peace-out,
>
> James
>
> Jennifer wrote:
>for all the poor and downtrodden. Awaken Christians to this child of
> your own creation, to this mental disaster called 'satan' manifest in
> the minds of those who dwell at the boarders of sanity.
>
> The minister cheating on his wife with gay lovers as he numbs his
> rational with powerful drugs, the preachers wife slaughtering her
> husband in a desperate attempt to escape his control, the mother who
> drown her children in the bathtub to secure their souls place in
> heaven, branch davidians burning themselves in the name of the reborn
> Messiah David Koresh, Columbine.. where will it end?
>
> Where does satan dwell? The 'world' didnt create this , other
> religions didnt create these ideas in your 'least' members minds, its
> own teachers did.... blasphemys and death roll from the mouth of the
> beast. No longer can the walls of the church sustain their firm grip
> on the chains of its own created demons, but their time is short as
> the worlds eyes open. This Monster is now real, it is manifesting
> before your very eyes , it condems and blames the innocent as it
> lashes out in its fear and frustration.

End of excerpt