Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00548)

At 05:35 PM 4/14/96 -0500, you wrote:
>
>	Joe Sixpack?  I wasn't even able to explain it to a single
>family member, who all consider me a black sheep for leaving
>the Christian Science fold.
>	I still recall one evening when I was young, when my
>grandparents came for a visit.  My grandfather was in his early
>80s at the time (he died at 90).  He was a bit depressed, and
>began talking about old age.  He stated, loudly, that all old people
>should be lined up and shot because they no longer contributed
>anything to society.  Now, it turns out that this idea was prevelant
>with the American Indians, but my grandfather was German,
>and spoke from his heart rather than from a philosophy.
>	So, you are right, Alexis, people don't understand the
>difference between be and do.  They think that life is doing,
>and when there is no longer anything constructive to do, they
>die.  I was not able to help my grandfather (no one else could
>either, except maybe my grandmother who told him to shut up).
>I suspect that I will be unable to give much solice to Joe Sixpack
>either.
>
>	Jerry S.
>	Member, TI
>
>Jerry:
I didn't say "succeed" I said TRY! I have had much expereince in trying to
get this across to "blue collar" folks, of course I can't put it to them the
way you do to Richard Taylor, but, I talk to various people as I have
learned those people needed to be talked to. This is a skill I had to learn
while in the MIlitary. Once in a great while one causes Mr, Joe Sixpack to
have an AH HA! experience, and then you go on slowly to build up from that
experience to another one. It's certainly not "instant enlightenment" but it
is a very slow "turning up the rheostat" As to your Grandfather, when has
any prophet had honour in his or her own family? My own family considered
HPB to be a major embarassment.

alexis