Theos-Talk Archives (November 2001 Message tt00027)

Haha - clearly I meant clearly - lol

Nos



|-----Original Message-----
|From: nos [mailto:nos@granite.net.au] 
|Sent: Friday, 2 November 2001 4:02 PM
|To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
|Subject: RE: Theos-World how do you draw a line between what's 
|theosophical and non-theosophical?
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|Would you not say I cleary label my headers?
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|Nos
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||-----Original Message-----
||From: Eldon B Tucker [mailto:eldon@theosophy.com]
||Sent: Friday, 2 November 2001 3:53 PM
||To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
||Subject: Theos-World how do you draw a line between what's 
||theosophical and non-theosophical?
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||At 03:08 PM 11/2/01 +1030, you wrote:
||>As I've stated to those who have contacted me privately -
||Where do you
||>draw a line between theosophy and non-theosophy?
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||>Nos
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||Everyone has different expectations of a theosophical
||list, and depending upon the person, something you
||say might be ok or be way off in left field.
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||A tight definition might say only talk about quotations
||from a narrowly-selected collection of classic books.
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||A looser definition would be to talk about the
||philosophy and general religious and metaphysical themes,
||putting ideas in your own words.
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||A still looser definition would be to talk about
||politics, world events, recent discoveries in
||science, historic items, and other materials that
||might have deeper meanings that we could explore.
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||The broadest definition would be to include any item
||of interest, but I'd hope there would be some connection
||made between the materials and some deeper understanding
||of life. An example here would be to take the Bin Laden
||terrorism and relate it to a general threat of fundamentalism 
||and how it can affect people including us, if unaware.
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||People may find it hard to extract a deeper meaning
||from arguments for and against various political
||conflicts in the world, like the Israeli/Palestinian
||conflict. It may be possible to give all the arguments
||for either side of the situation, but the situation
||isn't getting solved here, and no deeper understanding
||may come from rehashing the various political theories.
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||Another important thing is to be clear when we're
||joking. We can even say, "<GRIN>" or "I'm kidding!" 
|prominently in the 
||message. This is so people won't misunderstand and think there's any 
||ill-will or hatefulness involved.
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||Coming back to your basic question, I'd say that we'd
||each need to draw our own line regarding how loose
||a definition of Theosophy we'd use. Even so, we need
||to consider who we're writing to, and make our
||writing appropriate to the people on the list. The
||same is true with public speaking. If you start a talk
||and see the audience falling asleep or reacting the
||wrong way, you've got to consider how they're responding
||and change your approach, or the talk will end up
||as a dud, and people won't come back to hear you again.
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||If the subject line is clearly labelled, people
||can pick and choose messages they're interested in,
||and not feel bad when opening a message that isn't
||what they'd expected.
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||-- Eldon
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