Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00975)

At 08:47 AM 5/17/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Rich T.
>The problem of "throwing out the baby with the bathwater" is hardly confined
>to theosophists.  The difficulty comes from trying to be so dreadfully nice
>and not offend anyone that they cannot see that they are offending the spirit
>of their own teachings.
>
>Chuck the Atrocious MTI, FTSA
>Heretic
>Troublemaker
>
>Chuck:

The thing I'm reluctantly coming to think about is that it may, one of these
days soon, be absolutely required to "throw out both the baby and the bath
water". But one thing I am sure of and that is that when one is in
relentless and dedicated pursuit of that truth which is "higher than
religion", sometimes one has to offend the hell out of people. Facts=truth,
and truth is more important than being "nice". After all, where do we stand,
rationally, if it turns out that Blavatsky was wrong far more often than she
was "right"? That article posted by Bee brown, and re-posted by Doss, is an
indication that, (if she actually wrote it, and she probably did) that she
was deadly wrong. The minute any person suspends their reason and
intelligence to an absolute belief in the perfect correctness of anyone, God
or Man, then, the human part of the equation is in deep trouble. Humans
always get themselves into the most awful predicaments when they allow
"faith" to suspend good judgement.

alexis