Interesting contribution, Archimandrite !
It's good to know that the same problems are afflicting people there, too.
MUCH THANKS to Icxpion for his balanced, thorough and deeply aware post above.
Actually, as probably many Americans are, I am TIRED of STRANGERS dumping a massive amount of
negativity onto others who have little, or usually nothing, to with their problems - this occurs over and over
and is probably a major factor in the Devil's having a big hold through this one trick alone on so many
people.
I was just looking at something about how a certain type of person blames a NICE person as their target,
for some inexplicable reason, and then tries to wear that individual down so that
the target will feel negative about herself or himself. Then that nice person becomes ripe for exploitation by the less scrupulous
of these types.
SO MUCH HARM is caused, like mental/emotional/spiritual HARM, that I wouldn't want to be the person
who is dishing venom out on the nearest available person ! It is a SIN in my opinion, to deliberately cause HARM
to another.
I felt awful when I read that.
I could have been upset and tripped on something on the pavement because of feeling attacked and had a bad problem
as a result. Guess who would be held as responsible ?
Same for anybody.
Orthodox tend to be often TOO aggressive in singling out people and heaping blame which they don't even deserve,
as though because of INTENSE MOODINESS or internal frustrations, as Icxpion suggests.
May I suggest we turn this incident from spiritual LOSS to spiritual PROFIT by reining in oneself if one is susceptible
to these outbursts, so that harm is not done to anyone anywhere ? Online or in person or by letter or in a workspot.
I have quite a few bleeding scars from anonymous attacks made regarding the internet.
Maybe others do, too.
But in an Orthodox Christian milieu, there is no excuse for this low behavior of some parties. I am not talking about joasia there.
By lashing out hoping to harm someone else [who barely could possibly deserve such crude treatment !],
I want to remind us all that it comes right back to those who perpetrated the assault, and often in WORSE form.
So one is hurting oneself by denouncing or dumping on a totally unrelated party !
Families can also have the same dynamic. At least there, there is some FAINT basis for singling out due to jealousy
of a family member of whom the aggressor is jealous.
Here where we are starting to create a harmonious True Orthodox community, it's either demented or inspired by the dark
side to ruin someone's day - or week ! People have to think if THEY want to responsible for this before God !