Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl01339)

alexis dolgorukii wrote:
>
> At 03:05 AM 4/28/96 -0400, you wrote:
> >>>>>cut for continuity's sake<<<<<<<
> >       You need not ask what the Three Objects have to do with this
> >list, as I did not assert that anyone needed to agree with my
> >perspective. your question should more properly, I think, be addressed to
> >Eldon ... what does acceptance of a "body of doctrines" have to do with
> >being on this list? It is Rich and Eldon who are trying to define
> >parameters of discussion, not myself. Frankly, I like the list just as it
> >is.
> >                                               Regards, -JRC
> >
> >
> >Good for you JRC. I really think it's time to stand up to bullies. I'm
> doing so. No one can tell anyone what "Basic Theosophy" is. I have, however,
> filtered RichTay as he's as useless to talk to as Pat Robertson. The kind of
> theosophy that RichTay, Eldon, and Daniel Caldwell represent is exactly the
> kind of mindless pharaseeism that Blavatsky IMO would have loathed. She,
> like me, was "quick to loathe". This is a good list for it's probably the
> only semi-Theosophical venues upon which any kind of actual "Free
> Discussion" is encouraged. All the "Regulation" theosophical societies are
> bound up in dogmatism and are not for the likes of us.
>
> alexis

So there we have it. You have set yourself up as judge and jury on what this
list should be. Theosophy according to H.S.H. Alexis etc. You accuse Daniel,
for example, of bullying yet you have been doing just that in a much more
subtle and insidious way. Systematically making remarks like above on people
who like a view of Theosophy that you do not subscribe to. This list will be
for the 'gang of five' very soon and you can all have your sort of "Free
Discussion" by yourselves. This list has become a major focus for your
philosophical views and woe be tide anyone who has the temerity to question
your right to impose yourself on discussions that are really irrelevant to
your point of view.
I had my little falling out previously and had to distance myself and have a
look at myself. I realised that I did resent being given lessons in royal
protocol and extracts from Who's Who. I was disappointed that someone with
your wit and standing had to respond in such a manner. I had been very
interested in your input when you first came on this list as you had such an
unusual background and were obviously a very intelligent and well read
person. I am also well aware that you are quite different from the rest of us
because of you background but that should have enriched this list not turned
it into the battleground it seems to have become. I have had to come to a way
of dealing with your responses that do not push my buttons so I do not take
you seriously anymore and I am rather sorry about that.
The way you hammer at the establishment will only serve to make them more
entrenched and I hope Adyar does not get on e-mail because I can just see
them receiving the benefit of your advise and so getting more convinced that
theos-l is a danger to them. It is better to woo the opposition and lull them
into a sense of security and then change their minds when they aren't
looking. That does not seem to be your way of operating. I am trying to make
things happen in my neck of the wood and already Theosophy on the Internet is
being spoken off in negative tones because the rumours of what goes on here
has reached the ears of quite a few who are not computer oriented. Some of us
had planned to set up computers at our next Convention and have theos-l
running for the participants to read but it won't be this list if it remains
as it is. I am used to it by now but to the ordinary person it would not
endear them to the idea of TI that we are trying to promote among non
computer people. I am trying to put my money where my mouth is and it isn't
easy when I have to overcome the hurdles from here first.
I will not waste anymore time on this matter as I know it won't make the
least difference what I think. I am just thankful that another list is in the
making and I shall transfer myself to that so you won't have to put up with
naive provincials who can't seem to get the curtsy right.
RIP Theos-l  :-(
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   Bee Brown
   Member TSNZ,Wanganui Branch.
   Theos Int & L