Theos-Talk Archives (July 2001 Message tt00345)

In a message dated 07/28/01 4:52:33 PM, ringding@blinx.de writes:

>Leon:
>In any event, none of this will work unless there is a guiding director that
>can correlate and carry out the necessary preliminary research as well
>as present a preliminary working plan that a group can be inspired by and
>formed around -- which either you or some other capable volunteer must 
>be able to then oversee, guide and manage.
>
>Frank:
>This is a statement I can agree with. When you argue that a leading head is
>necessary, why then the persecution of Katherine Tingley? She did nothing
>else.

Who is persecuting Katherine Tingley? I don't remember having said or done 
anything that would persecute anyone related to this forum. (Other than you, 
perhaps -- since I take a particular glee in persecuting anyone who falsely 
accuses others of imaginary wrongs.:-) 

Besides, Tingley's long dead. One can only "persecute" someone who is alive. 
So, are you paranoid, defending a ghost -- or are you a relative or friend -- 
that you keep harping on this imaginary persecution? Or, do you still have 
some non sequitur ax left to grind about the dealings between theosophical 
leaders that have nothing to do with what I was talking about, has no 
relationship to my study of or work in theosophy, and are, as far as I'm 
concerned, long dead issues. 

Besides, What has one thing got to do with another? How do you conflate my 
arguing for the necessity for a leader (in the particular case I was talking 
about) with the implication that somehow that's a persecution of a particular 
person that has nothing to do with my suggestions? 

It isn't being a leader that's important, but what, how, and from what 
motive, or basis that leadership must stem from and rest on, how skillfully 
it's carried out, and how effective its results are. What has that got to do 
with ad hominum implications and innuendoes, or with my statement -- which 
was taken totally out of context and used to launch what could be taken as a 
provocative, prejudicial and persecutive barb? 

LHM