Theos-Talk Archives (April 2001 Message tt00143)

At 08:24 AM 4/27/01 -0400, you wrote:
> ramadoss@infohwy.com wrote:
> > The point I was trying to make was that the way they are dealing with
> > Internet seems to be typical of how organizations (including spiritual
> > ones) try to deal with dissemination of info on the net over which
> > organizations have no control. It would not surprise me at all if we find
> > similar reaction from many organizations we may be familiar with.
> >
> > A seeker after truth should be alert to such tactics.
>
> And an organization which is confident in its own tenets would
> encourage use of the Internet. On the other hand, I would not be
> surprised if, in the near future, there are courses on how to separate
> the "wheat" from the "chaff", so to speak, on the Internet.
>
> Bart Lidofsky
I agree. Any organization whose foundations are on solid grounds and whose 
practices are open and transparent (what you see is what you get) need not 
be afraid of Internet or any other communication tool.

Any help the public can get to sort out the wheat from the chaff will help. 
Above all, I think it is the responsibility of the user of info to make 
diligent inquiries and even use intuition to validate the info. Of course 
most organizations like conformity and blind following as it is easy to 
manage such a crowd as Independent thinkers are difficult to "manage" and 
are unpredictable.

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