Theos-Talk Archives (August 1999 Message tt00074)

--- Dr Aidan Rankin  wrote:
> I find it hard to comprehend that in an age when
> illiteracy was widespread
> people understood the rich language of the King
> James Bible.  Now that a
> large number have been stupefied by public
> education, simpler versions are
> sought.  Church of England services which use the
> New International or other
> 'modern' versions of the Bible are anodyne, banal,
> colourless and lacking in
> beauty, mystery or spiritual depth.  Needless to
> say, the introduction of
> dumbed-down Bibles and dumbed-down prayers has
> coincided with other
> 'modernising' measures, such as the introduction of
> priestesses (most of
> whom are rights-conscious feminists), 'counselling'
> instead of good common
> sense advice and an obsession with being 'with it'
> and 'trendy' at all
> costs.  The modernised Anglican churches are empty,
> in contrast to the
> Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches which are
> full (and winning converts
> from the Cof E).  The mosques and temples are also
> full.  I think we can
> learn something from this - MAN CANNOT LIVE ON
> POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ALONE
> (indeed, political correctness and the spiritual
> life are incompatible).
> Best Wishes.
> Aidan
> 
> 
> I just read 65 new messages, of which, you sent a majority.  Upon
reading this last message, I felt nausious, no doubt from the ongoing
build up of bile.

  I would gladly point out all the contradictions in your multitude of
words, but I was overwhelmed and deleted them all.

  Firstly, let me say that if you were a Theosophist, you would
understand that the lives we are in are the lives we are meant to live.
 Your constant stereotyping and demonizing of entire belief systems is
too much.  These systems are made up of individuals, who are or are not
trying to help their fellow man, but either way it is their life to
lead.  

  Secondly, war is never justified. Ever.  The killing and maiming of
people over disputes of power by leaders who never see the truth cannot
be accepted.  Mahatma Ghandi saw this, Martin Luther King saw this, and
someone called Jesus supposedly spoke of it in the King James as well
as the New International.  In war, these are not cattle who die and
scream, they are people, the same as you, children, women.  Nothing can
justify war.

   Thirdly, no system of rule is perfect.  Communism, Fuedalism,
Capitalism, Democracy, a rose is a rose by any other name...governments
will kill, destroy, slander, and even worse in order to maintain and
further power.  The outcome is always the same, people wasting time
arguing over man made systems of power in which the elite rule, without
exception.  
   These systems rise, teeter, and fall.  People live and die, and live
again.

   The Universal Mind has been so flustered with selfishness, at all
costs, serve the self, and point fingers to justify.  Sacrifice the
truth, viel ourselves with judgement.  In the end no one group is to
blame, no one person, or belief.  We all have our hand in the mischief,
and we all suffer for it.

   If one man is imprisoned, then all are imprisoned. If a man murders,
then all are guilty.

   We all belong to the one.  It seems to me the Universal Mind could
use a lot more thoughts of compassion and good will.  

   I hope for you the best, but after reading all those notes in a
couple hours, I feel we must bring back the focus to real issues.

   What of orphaned, or abused children?  You said yourself that the
poor in England are growing, what better thing than share your own time
and good fortune! Oh, my friend, our world groans in pain and
suffering.    
   While we sit on our computers, complacent.  Thinking we are
learning, helping...phoooey! 

   Most of what I read tonight was insanity.  And nothing that I've
said has not been said before.   
   


    
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