Theos-Talk Archives (June 1996 Message tt00038)

AEB:
>>>insidious
>>>1.     Working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy
>>>manner: insidious rumors; an insidious disease.
>>>2.     Intended to entrap; treacherous: insidious
>>>misinformation.
>>>3.   Beguiling but harmful; alluring: insidious pleasures.

JHE:
>>All three

AEB
>Aha!  Are these the times in which such things as television
>sitcoms, violent movies, political party manipulation, lower
>astral indulgence, spamming mailing lists, slick advertising,
>creepy cults, psychic 900 numbers, big print books written by
>celebrities, legal and illegal drug addiction, sport hero
>worship, rampant materialism and fast/junk food entrap humanity
>in an abyss of illusion? Tied to the wheel of karma for what
>seems like infinity?  No way out of the game???

JHE
There could be a ray of hope; with the events concerning OJ and
Magic Johnson: "sport hero worship" might be on the way out  :-)

JHE:
>> . . . So for a start, I hope to at least reintroduce
>>the idea that ethics is part of Theosophy.

AEB
>Being that ethics is a set of principles of right conduct, what
>would you consider those principles to be?

JHE
HPB wrote a whole book full of them. It is called THE VOICE OF
THE SILENCE.  Rather than "principles" they are sometimes called
virtues. I think altruism is the most important of them to work
toward.

Jerry HE