Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl01580)

Bjorn,
You will be hearing from Alex shortly.  Flame retardant armor is recommended.

But seriously on this.  The list runs in cycles.  We get very serious and
scholarly for a while then we get burned out on that and have some fun for a
while and then we get serious and scholarly again.
Part of creating a nucleus of universal siblinghood is learning to get along
with each other despite our foibles and some of us are more open about them
than others. I like to make jokes and Alex likes to snarl.  In the meantime,
there is more to people than philosophy and if this list corrects one of the
big, huge problems the ts has, namely that people in it rarely know each
other very well, than it will than more have served its purpose.
 Theosophists are humans with human problems and human failings.  We eat, we
drink, we bleed, we laugh, we mourn and on this list we have often done it
together.  It has allowed me to make new friends (and a few new enemies) and
renew old friendships as well.  And if I pick on you it's all in fun in the
hope that you'll laugh at your own foibles as I laugh with others at mine.
You're in a different culture here.  Relax and learn to enjoy it for what it
is.  After all, you wouldn't expect to hear Wagner at a rock concert and the
internet is as raucous as it comes..

Chuck MTI, FTSA