Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00422)

At 04:59 PM 4/12/96 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>
>Jerry Well said, and thanks. My Pussycats, by the way, are anything but
Bunnies, but then they live with the Wolf. (and soon the Wolves)