Theos-Talk Archives (December 1995 Message tl00104)

At 010000 AM 12/12/95 -0500 you wrote:
>
> To Malcolm:
>
>>>We in New Zealand are backing this organisation in order to foster youth
>>membership of the theosophical society and its objectives around the world
>>as it is obvious that the TS has and aging membership and it is often very
>>difficult for younger new members to feel a sense of belonging.
>
> Well... well... This may sound tragic or comic but I study
>Theosophy
>since I was seventeen now I'm in the return of Saturn as a Lodge president
>and I never ever received one sole communication from WYTF although
>I had met many times the "retired" president from this "world"
organization
>Arnaldo Sison his wife Marina sending regular mails from my branch to theirs.
>They do know my branch has a good number of young members because
>they saw them at theosophical meetings.
>
> I'm glad the organization is working people of many countries do
>contribute
>to the newsletter but at the same time shoked by the "fact" that
>the WYTF
>don't communicate with the Lodges of the country where its headquarters
>is located. It is a very strange situation to see news about this from
>New Zealand
>thousands of miles away when people envolved live at the same country do
>speak the same language as in the case of Brazil.
>
Osmar: You are seeing the power of communication in Internet. So
distance is no longer the problem. When I posted a msg requesting the
receipt to be acknowledged the very first one was from NZ even though I am
in the USA. Glad you have access to Internet.

....doss