Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl01373)

Bee: I thoroughly enjoyed your message. You are on target. Just stay in
here and I am an eternal optimist and I am sure things will change.
Whether it is next hour, next day, next week or next month, I do not know.
	....doss


On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, Bee Brown wrote:

> 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  :-(
> --
>
>
>
>    Bee Brown
>    Member TSNZ,Wanganui Branch.
>    Theos Int & L
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