Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00938)

Here is a msg. Some of the things mentioned in the msg is relevant to
theos-l too. Hope you enjoy reading it.
	....doss


> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 23:00:23 -0400
> From: Vivanaut@aol.com
> Subject: The success of listening-l

While it is possible to evaluate listening-l by looking
at its failures, I wonder if there is any way this can
be done that doesn't depend on one's own expectations.

A failure can exist only if there is some expectation that
is not met.  Some promise not kept.

On the other hand, it seems possible to evaluate
listening-l by looking at its successes - whatever they
might be.  And they can be different things for different
people.

I've been receiving the list for what feels like about five years,
and it is always interesting.  While it is vulnerable to
"takeover" by madmen, they do burn out, one after another.
Even when the focus is monopolized by someone with
an agenda of their own, there continue to be other threads
of discussion that a person can follow and to which one
can contribute.

When you consider that the structure of the list simply is
that it retransmits anything sent to it to anyone subscribed,
the fact that it retains its more-or-less "K" focus and continues,
over all these years, to be a place where K's work and
teachings are discussed, is quite a success.

Most folks on the list have come to terms with the fact that
we communicate in words, and that these mean different things
to different participants.  In spite of this limitation, we continually
are able to hold the little jewels K left for us up to the light, to
fondle them, and to pass them back and forth among us.

I suspect that five years from now many of us will have little
TV cameras mounted on our computers,  and our letters will
be accompanied by photos of ourselves slaving away at the
keyboard.  Where we now see through a monitor darkly, we
will soon meet face to face.

Dan Stevens












continually






There does always seem to be a designated madman.  Now
that Mo is gone, who shall we choose?