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not to be all whiny about it. could be 100x worse, I know that. that's not the issue. its just...

'where's the money coming from?' 'his parents aren't allowed to support him! the doctors won't allow it!' and 'yeah, he said Jesus healed him...looks like he got a laser peel, hahaha!' on and on and on...

the banging on my front door today, while i was showering, was fun. at least this time, when I checked the front door, the locks were firmly in place. one time, a couple of weeks ago, i had to push the door back to get the locks into proper position. -scary-

truth? i might have a sealed misdemeanor. i think that only comes into play if you want an occupation that requires a license or if you end up in court again, neither of which apply to me (Praise God, btw). no felonies, and i'm a "voluntary outpatient" at the mental health place, which...

-scratches head- gets me to thinking if maybe I should try to just get in with a family doctor. the mental health industry can be rough on people...I'll take the prescription, but maybe I could ditch the clinic?

anyway...I don't know what's going on, really. lots of lies spread about me...is it persecution? a part of me wants it to be, honestly. not because i -want- to be persecuted...

but because, at least then, its a bigger issue than being an "uppity mental patient" and not "knowing my place" in society, etc. blah. :-(

people have long spread lies about me, even before my conversion, a bit over 7 years ago. -sigh- low status, upwardly mobile family...i dunno, that's what makes sense in my mind, anyway. but now...

now, its kinda like...i sense bona fide, genuine -hatred- , and i dunno...i don't feel -unsafe- , but i don't feel completely 110% cozy, either. make sense? yeah...anyway...

i would say "file this under 'more of what Poor People go thru,' " yet again, but...

-sigh- I think it really is more like "this is what psychiatric survivors go thru," honestly. poverty goes hand in hand with 'severe mental illness,' so its not either/or, of course. anyway...moving on, yet again...

I know I come here for prayer -constantly- . this is just...frustrating, a tad bit crazy-making. Jesus loves me, this I know...a) because Scripture tells me so and b) because of His work in my life. I just...

well, I have no where else to move, I'm hated and known here, but oddly/ironically enough, probably safer here than anywhere else. true story.

so please pray, y'all. thanks :)
 
not to be all whiny about it. could be 100x worse, I know that. that's not the issue. its just...

'where's the money coming from?' 'his parents aren't allowed to support him! the doctors won't allow it!' and 'yeah, he said Jesus healed him...looks like he got a laser peel, hahaha!' on and on and on...

the banging on my front door today, while i was showering, was fun. at least this time, when I checked the front door, the locks were firmly in place. one time, a couple of weeks ago, i had to push the door back to get the locks into proper position. -scary-

truth? i might have a sealed misdemeanor. i think that only comes into play if you want an occupation that requires a license or if you end up in court again, neither of which apply to me (Praise God, btw). no felonies, and i'm a "voluntary outpatient" at the mental health place, which...

-scratches head- gets me to thinking if maybe I should try to just get in with a family doctor. the mental health industry can be rough on people...I'll take the prescription, but maybe I could ditch the clinic?

anyway...I don't know what's going on, really. lots of lies spread about me...is it persecution? a part of me wants it to be, honestly. not because i -want- to be persecuted...

but because, at least then, its a bigger issue than being an "uppity mental patient" and not "knowing my place" in society, etc. blah. :-(

people have long spread lies about me, even before my conversion, a bit over 7 years ago. -sigh- low status, upwardly mobile family...i dunno, that's what makes sense in my mind, anyway. but now...

now, its kinda like...i sense bona fide, genuine -hatred- , and i dunno...i don't feel -unsafe- , but i don't feel completely 110% cozy, either. make sense? yeah...anyway...

i would say "file this under 'more of what Poor People go thru,' " yet again, but...

-sigh- I think it really is more like "this is what psychiatric survivors go thru," honestly. poverty goes hand in hand with 'severe mental illness,' so its not either/or, of course. anyway...moving on, yet again...

I know I come here for prayer -constantly- . this is just...frustrating, a tad bit crazy-making. Jesus loves me, this I know...a) because Scripture tells me so and b) because of His work in my life. I just...

well, I have no where else to move, I'm hated and known here, but oddly/ironically enough, probably safer here than anywhere else. true story.

so please pray, y'all. thanks :)
I highly recommend a Ring peephole. It stopped the unlocking of our apartment door by whoever the criminal coward who was doing it. Prayers for you. Remember an ounce of deterrence is worth a pound of worry.
 
Cameras are awesome to have. That's the very first upgrade I made to this house I inherited. Motion lights for outside are fairly cheap and super easy to install as a replacement to an existing light.

Try not to get too discouraged about how those things happen to you. It's not like you were promised that life here on earth to be all warm and fuzzy after being born again. Scripture promises that we will be persecuted, hated and go through much tribulation.

Acts 14:22
22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.../

John 15:16-20
16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.

18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.../

Reading these two scriptures makes it sound like you have no choice in the matter. You gave your life to God, but HE chose You even before that, so perspective would tell us that these are tests for you Brother. And you're probably passing them because you haven't hurt any of them yet (!!).

...and in a way, these things may be recognized to be proof of the Lord's working within your life as promised. So I encourage you to continue in the Faith and to praise God and thank Him for everything, even if you don't understand why these things happen to you. And remember, Life is 10% what it throws at you and 90% how you react to it. So when life hands you Lemons...make Lemonade!

Nevertheless, I will pray for you Brother.
 
Cameras are awesome to have. That's the very first upgrade I made to this house I inherited. Motion lights for outside are fairly cheap and super easy to install as a replacement to an existing light.

Try not to get too discouraged about how those things happen to you. It's not like you were promised that life here on earth to be all warm and fuzzy after being born again. Scripture promises that we will be persecuted, hated and go through much tribulation.

Acts 14:22
22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.../

John 15:16-20
16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.

18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.../

Reading these two scriptures makes it sound like you have no choice in the matter. You gave your life to God, but HE chose You even before that, so perspective would tell us that these are tests for you Brother. And you're probably passing them because you haven't hurt any of them yet (!!).

...and in a way, these things may be recognized to be proof of the Lord's working within your life as promised. So I encourage you to continue in the Faith and to praise God and thank Him for everything, even if you don't understand why these things happen to you. And remember, Life is 10% what it throws at you and 90% how you react to it. So when life hands you Lemons...make Lemonade!

Nevertheless, I will pray for you Brother.





Amen.
 
ok. keeps happening, lol. last night, i was up late (hungry...cooking...), and I overheard some dudes talking about beating me up. true story. taunting, bullying, intimidation...

me thinks the mental health 'experts' are in on this one, honestly. i say this because my 'treatment' often consisted of sharing information, taunting...a former psychiatrist even publicly humiliated me way back when, more than once. -sigh-

but it doesn't really matter, does it? i mean, not in Christ. I'm safe, I'm healthy, I'm bright eyed and normal and...these are all blessings from THE LORD. I -am- increasingly thankful.

at least...now, 7+ years into Knowing Him, I can turn to Him, He has an answer for what's going on...

and its not because I"m a burn out or a junkie or anything like that...reminds me somewhat of 1 Peter 3:17 ...

I mean, I'm not a super-Christian, out doing God's work in hostile foreign lands (and they are very important, God bless them), but I am -a- Christian, in a hostile alien world. so...there's that. :)
 
Call the police ASAP. Especially now that they're making threats.
Once they start making physical threats CE, that's when you got'em. You have to document this though. If you fail to do this then you are inviting harm. They're testing your boundaries. Place "Electronic Surveilence" signs in your windows or yard. Remember, you are under the Americans With Disabilities Act and they are committing a Federal crime. All you have to do is identify and document.
 
Once they start making physical threats CE, that's when you got'em. You have to document this though. If you fail to do this then you are inviting harm. They're testing your boundaries. Place "Electronic Surveilence" signs in your windows or yard. Remember, you are under the Americans With Disabilities Act and they are committing a Federal crime. All you have to do is identify and document.





Actually, he could have filed a police report for herrassmeent as well, but now it's serious.
 
Actually, he could have filed a police report for herrassmeent as well, but now it's serious.
In my experience, if the police are corrupt, he'd better have actual documentation(video/audio/witness) or the police can turn it around on him and claim he is hallucinating. This can lead to reverse police documentation not in his best interests. If he can't at least identify his antagonist in a line up, he is on thin ice.
 
In my experience, if the police are corrupt, he'd better have actual documentation(video/audio/witness) or the police can turn it around on him and claim he is hallucinating. This can lead to reverse police documentation not in his best interests. If he can't at least identify his antagonist in a line up, he is on thin ice.






True, but this poor guy has to put up with all of this for WAY too long. :nonono
 
True, but this poor guy has to put up with all of this for WAY too long. :nonono
Fake cameras are cheap. At the very least, threaten to document. Through my experience, these people are cowards. A little deterrence goes a long way. Prayer/advice is about all we can do on this end. The Lord has protected CE thus far and faith is in order. He can back them off by threatening to document. He can put them on the defensive by actually documenting.
 
thanks, y'all. :)



Unless I have -serious- documentation, I highly doubt the police will help. im...despised, here. i lived out of state briefly, going on 10 years ago, and...well, i had to move once my lease was up, let's put it that way. "no such thing as happily ever after!," as some locals like to yell at me.

its a really long, sad story that i only kinda remember (electroshock...not voluntary...what fun...) and as THE LORD has restored my mind (but only -some- memories, thank God), I see both 'twas grace that saved a wretch like me and also...

wow. nobody deserves all that junk, but I get the sense it happens all.the.time, more to poor people, probably more in red state america...blah blah blah. His mercy set me apart, and His work in my life since I came to repentance 7+ years ago is...

to me, nothing short of miraculous.

some things going on: my parents were targeted. they were middle-middle class, then. somehow, they ended up promoted, now their careers are ending...in voluntary retirement. even with the reduction in income that's coming up with dad tapering off his career, im thinking they'll still be above middle-middle class...

and that, all by itself, rubs a lot of people the wrong way. and then there's me, and i just...i kinda wish we had -real- asylums, you know? places where one could enter and just rest and -be- , but we don't. i don't know that even the more humane places of yesteryear were all that humane, honestly. -sigh-

but yeah, i've been labeled 'genetically defective' and 'oppositional defiant disorder' and 'pathological liar' and....

-ugh- im average height, now...my face is much better than it used to be. people apparently really, truly believe i somehow got plastic surgery, etc. so, its kinda like...

God is Good. God has showered some much needed Goodness and (agape) Love on me, may He be praised forever. and...

the backlash to His work in my life, my parents' lives, too...-not good- . 7+ years into actually knowing Jesus, I see that there's no -real- earthly explanation. i mean, upward mobility, what mental patients go thru, what ugly people who somehow become not ugly go thru, homophobia (no longer 'gender non-conforming,' btw...and i kinda wonder if my community had a lot to do in creating and then reinforcing that, honestly)...

but, seriously? the upstairs neighbor....about 1 year ago, one of the people up there had a leak in the bathroom directly over mine. i didn't say anything until it became clear that they weren't going to do anything, and it might damage the structure in my place. the hoa called out a plumber, problem solved right? wrong. a) it turns out, they knew they had a leak, the whole time b) they complained about -me- , and i don't even speak to them. didn't then, don't now.

they stomp, loudly...talk -about me- (psych labels and all) loudly enough for me to hear downstairs, and...

nothing compared to what jail was like, what prison would probably be like, or what continuing on in real poverty or in a group home or in a state hospital would be like...

its just rough. and men have talked about beating me up around here for years, its revved up lately, then it'll wane, which is why i suspect its spiritual warfare with an earthly root in...

angry mental health people. long story.

just...please pray. i love my parents, but i think...yeah, long story, there. please pray. :)
 
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