Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00217)

On Thu, 9 Jan 97, "K. Paul Johnson" <pjohnson@leo.vsla.edu> wrote:

>Tom Robertson writes that "If anyone has any reason to consider
>your [JRC's] credibility to be more than negligible, I would
>love to hear why."  OK:
>
>On any subject related to TSA affairs I've ever seen him
>discuss, JRC's comments have been well-founded in observations
>and he can back up his judgments with details.  He has been
>consistently insightful about how the TSA operates and why, in
>ways that cause me to have "Aha" reactions where formerly I
>was totally confused.  No one to my knowledge has ever caught
>him in a factual error on these subjects.  He has been
>attentive to all evidence presented from any source.  His
>conclusions about the Boston lodge affair are based, in
>addition to his own insights into Wheaton, on research
>done by Sy Ginsburg who actually went to the Boston area to
>interview people.  Rich Taylor, a Theosophical conservative who
>is poles apart from JRC on doctrinal matters, was present at
>the Boston imbroglio, and backed up what Sy reported.  NOTE--
>Rich is an HPB Theosophist who deplored the Baileyite emphasis
>of many people in the lodge but STILL considered Wheaton's
>comments on the matter to be grotesquely unfair and
>inaccurate.  The actual dollar amount spent on lawyers was
>slightly short of $500000, as reported by Sy and Rich; all this
>is in the theos-l archives for the period leading up to the
>ballot on by-laws changes.  That's a brief effort at a reply
>to your presumably rhetorical challenge.  Do you love it, as you
>said you would?

I always appreciate level-headed attempts at giving substantive
information.  That the predominant way I have seen JRC act has been just
the opposite from how you describe him does not make what you say false.