Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00065)

At 10:57 PM 11/2/97 -0500, BJack5259@aol.com wrote:
>Dear Mr. Ramadoss:
>
> I hit the wrong key, and somehow sent an incomplete message again. I am
>sorry.
>
> With regard to your question of whether my responses were suggested or
>coached by anyone at T.S. headquarters, the answer is flatly NO!
> I have been following these posting for some time, and frankly became
>disturbed at the recent exchanges with allegations of "Theosophical
>Fundamentalism" and squelching - which I find divisive and disturbing for the
>reasons given in my earlier replies.
> I am for some reason troubled by the divisiveness and personality
>attacks within the TS membeship, of which we seem to have a gracious plenty.
> I have responded in the past in print - mailed letters - when my sense of
>fairness was offended by actions taken by Theosophists which crossed the
>line, and that was also unsolicited and unprompted by Wheaton.
> By the way, for what its worth, my common sense tells me that TS elected
>officals cannot and will not for obvious reasons become personally involved
>in defending the appropirateness of their decisions, which I suspect are
>based on considerations greater than mere personalities. It is, after all,
>always difficult to separate the person from his office. A person may
>always have personal opinions, the office-holder cannot share that luxury
>without risk of alienating some member or group of members. I suspect that
>any reply by Dr. Algeo as to his personal opinions with regard to (divergent
>- my word) views about the Masters would only be more hopelessly confused
>with his official position than it appears to be already, and therefore add
>further fuel to the divisiveness.
> Yes, these were my personal opinions, but aren't they obvious to all? I
>only wonder why others who see the same thing didn't themselves respond?
>
> Brant Jackson
>

Dear Mr. Jackson:

Thanks for your detailed reply.

Apart from this particular issue of Masters, to this day I have never seen
*any* current elected National or International Officer ever on any Internet
Maillist or Usenet forums.

I think that *unmoderated* *(uncensored/unedited)* Internet discussion
groups/maillists etc like what printing and publishing newspapers was before
printing was invented. Also the current younger generation is getting geared
into Internet discussiong groups/maillists etc and with the current trend in
the continued decline in membership of TS(Adyar) a great opportunity is
being missed, IMHO. If the current trend continues, I shudder to think the
situation in the coming century.

Such lack of use of the maillist and usenet forums is like not using the
print media like newspapers and magazine. IMHO it is only badly hurting the
future of TSA/TS(Adyar) and not helping. Only future would tell.