Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tt00265)

John E Mead wrote:

> this has been my own personal experience.  Most of the TSA
> members I know (and they are from the 'at-large' category) are
> very distrustful. A fuzzy guess would put the number at about
> 3 out of 4.....    but that is a guess.

    Thanks.

> you do not think they should be bothered....   (??)
> (due to perceptions of theirs (yours?) regarding the
> internet environment).

    I have personally asked John Algeo and others why they don't participate
on this list. Specifically, I wanted to recommend theos-talk to the membership
of the TSA. However, based on my policy of not quoting anything that is not
public record on this or your list, or, for that matter, the TSA list, I
cannot give the reason, except to say that it was decidedly non-sinister. What
is a matter of public record is that, in the first edition of THE THEOSOPHISTS
GUIDE TO THE INTERNET, Theos-World magazine was recommended to the membership.

> Maybe if you asked them,  they may agree to responding if the format
> was to their liking??  The problem is that total silence from them
> is very damaging (MHO) since it is so easily (mis)construed as
> arrogance, inconsideration, or even worse -- concealment of
> facts (just to name a few possible (mis)perceptions).

    If it weren't for people like you, Paul Johnson, Eldon Tucker, etc., I
would not be here either. The reason why I would not be is that there is a
significant group, for whom anything I say is automatically wrong, and if it
isn't wrong, they'll change my words into something that is. At least one
message I received recently literally almost had me in tears. Luckily, I have
a policy of never creating email when I am angry.

> gee - maybe we could get them to do a "TS" Town-Hall meeting.  We could
> get CNN to set one up!!    :-)

    I think that's a good idea.

    Bart Lidofsky