Theos-Talk Archives (April 1998 Message tl00130)

Sorry, I couldn't resist either.

( ) E.S. member
( ) BS Member
( ) Co-Masonic member
( ) Mystic Brick layer
( ) LCC faith
( ) LSD faith
( ) Subscriber to "Quest"
( ) Watches television
( ) Eats meat and/or chocolate
( ) Participates in culture (familial, national, racial, etc.), without
being biased by it
( ) Believes in "Star Wars"
( ) Vegetarian
( ) Has had a "Happy Meal"
( ) Alcoholic
( ) Sacramental drug user
( ) Member of ACT party
( ) Acts like a party animal
( ) Arcane School Member (believer in Alice Bailey)
( ) Member of 'rival' T.S. group (ULT and/or Pasadena .. or God forbid
. "TI")
( ) Been to Wheaton
( ) Been to Adyar
( ) Been to the source of their own Being
( ) Member of any Theosophical branch, twig, or nut
( ) Card carrying?
( ) Member of "questionable cult" (I AM, CUT, RAJNEESH, WACO, GUYANA,
BROWNIES, KIWANAS)
( ) Years of membership
( ) Dues paid in full?
( ) Comprehends Krishnamurti
( ) Has read traditional source texts in addition to Theosophical
literature
( ) Has investigated living Hindu, Buddhist (and other cited)
practitioners
( ) Has direct knowledge of these traditions only from interpretations
of
TS literature
( ) Believes that reading about something is the same as experiencing it
( ) Believes in Atlantis
( ) Age
( ) Male
( ) Female
( ) Androgyne
( ) Neither this nor that
( ) Actually speaks in gender neutral language
( ) Elemental (1st, 2nd, or 3rd)
( ) Mineral
( ) Vegetable (that means you, Carrot)
( ) Animal
( ) Savage Human
( ) Average Human
( ) Advanced Human
( ) Approaching the Path
( ) Probationer
( ) 1st Initiation
( ) 2nd
( ) 3rd
( ) More than that
( ) Ascended Master
( ) Something hybrid in between (re:Brenda)
( ) 5th Root Race
( ) 6th Root Race
( ) 7th Root Race
( ) Beyond that
( ) White, [Preferably European and Victorian]
( ) Other
( ) Aborigine or some other "remnant"
( ) Financially secure (not in need of salary/reimbursements)
( ) In debt or denial
( ) Fucked up personal life
( ) 'Living in sin'
( ) Mental confusion
( ) Selfishness
( ) Anger
( ) Lust, sexual fantasy, repressed twinges
( ) Masturbation
( ) Outright Perversion
( ) Silk underwear
( ) Latex Chasuble
( ) Claims to be an Initiate
( ) Claims to have a master, spirit guide, or special animal
( ) Claims to be one of the "elect," "elite," or "chosen ones"
( ) Distinguishes society on the basis of that
( ) Believes UFO's somehow fit into all of this
( ) Makes income from such claims
( ) Believes that "what is known" is all that there is to reality
( ) Acknowleges the unknown and is comfortable with that
( ) Does not know what is not known
( ) Believes in God and the Bible
( ) Believes: Metaphorically, Allegorically
( ) Believes: Literally, Historically
( ) Mixes and matches in a fuzzy kind of way
( ) Imagines Charleton Heston, Robert Powell, or Franco Zefferelli when
asked about it
( ) Believes that "God" is "Dog" spelled backwards
( ) 'Believes' in Theosophy (HPB version, Besant/CWL version, ...)
( ) Established track record of evil deeds in the world
( ) Have been arrested
( ) Inhaled
( ) Have written bad checks
( ) Endorsement by major theosophical figures 
( ) Endorsement by association
( ) Legend in their own mind
( ) Believes that God is within them, but prefers to let "Masters"
actually embody it
( ) Ashamed to admit that they are "Human"
( ) Disdains lower "ego"
( ) Rejects "passional nature"
( ) Accepts the contradictions of being "Human"
( ) Believes that the Human kingdom is a natural evolutionary phase that
has to be gone through
( ) Is afraid, wants to skip it and shoot right into the next one by
some unearned miracle
( ) Understands the difference
( ) Accepts Blavatsky's writings as final word on Theosophy
( ) Accepts Daniel Cadwell's
( ) Believe's John Algeo, or the office he occupies is the living
representative of the Mahatmas
( ) Reads every post by Dallas all the way through
( ) Proven experience in writing about or teaching Theosophy
( ) Proven experience in writing about or teaching things which can
never be proven
( ) Likes argument for it's own sake
( ) Capitalist
( ) Willing to give large sums of money or property to existing
Theosophical bodies
( ) Cheats on taxes
( ) Owns firearms
( ) Stores food or water
( ) Was afraid of nuclear threat during the cold war or the Reagan
administration
( ) Saves for a rainy day
( ) Lives in the present moment, but saves for retirement "just to be
safe"
( ) Student or full-time-employed vs unemployed, not-working
( ) Happy in their vocation
( ) Still looking for it
( ) "Monking" around (Walking the Earth; like "Caine" from TV's "Kung
Fu")
( ) Healthy
( ) Admittedly flawed
( ) Self accepting
( ) Handicapped
( ) Just right
( ) Perfect in every way

Forgive me,
Mark
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