Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00370)

Nick:
>I wasn't really making a point, just throwing some stabilizing ingredients
>into the boiling pot as it brews.  Every once in a while as we are
>discussing topics ranging from morality, to being unhappy that our leaders
>don't live up to the images we have formed, I feel it is important to
>reflect on some of the basic comments that HPB provided us.  For me its one
>way to re-center.
	As far as I know, we are all theosophists on theos-l, and all
have read HPB, and pretty much agree with her.  Believe it or not,
nothing that Chuck or Alexis or Alan or Richard I or JRC (or myself) have
posted on theos-l is *against* anything that HPB wrote, that I am aware of.
Its another way of saying things, or of looking at things, and sometimes
extensions of what she said, or possibly something she should or would
have said to a modern audience.  But nothing against her, at all.  I often
deliberately put ideas into a fresh context just to shake people up and
make them think a little (the devil makes me do it).  Many of the
postings from Chuck leave me rolling out of my chair laughing.  This
is not only good for the soul but serves as a cleansing process
in which we can eliminate some of the "uptightness" that serious
study often brings.  Newbies are entitled to moral uprightness
(and uptighness as well) but those of us who have been studying
this stuff for many years should be past such silliness.  I always
feel sorry when I detect moral uprightness in older theosophists
because it makes me wonder why they are still back at the
newbie stage.
	Anyway, there is nothing wrong with adding quotes
to back up your viewpoint on some subject.  But your last post
was only quotes, and ones which I, for one, had no disagreement
with.  So I just wondered what you had in mind.  Thanks for your
answer, but I do feel sad that you felt any need for "stabilizing
ingredients."  I hope that this post helps you some.  I, for one,
have thoroughly enjoyed the recent postings.  I used to argue
against moral uprightness all by myself on theos-l.  Now Alexis
and Chuck and JRC are making me look like one of my pussycats.

	Jerry S.
	Member, TI
	Moral Uprightness Basher