Theos-Talk Archives (October 2002 Message tt00046)

I suspect that there's a tendency out there on the part of, 
say, a number of Theosophists, to so 
exoterically/conventionally interpret possible 
Theosophically relevant concepts relating to 
"brother/sister" (among other things) that attempts to 
clarify "about such relevance" in "more esoteric/more 
relevant" terms, might, (generally?), tend to fall somewhat 
short of a "meaningful enough" target, so . . . 

Or, another perspective (?): if all Theosophists were 
"sisters," I wonder how the "brothers" might feel about 
that . . . I don't know about the rest of you brodders and 
people out there, but, hey man, I'm no sissy, noway, so if 
the membership rules were changed sos us guys had to call 
ourselves "sisters," no way I'd hang around that there TS 
another second, man.

Having written that last paragraph (well, kind of tongue in 
cheek, BUT . . . not that I'm not a real macho guy, and all 
that, mind you, eh!) . . . but, I suspect that what that 
question/issue brings to the fore might be something that I 
might've experienced, in some form, to some extent, 
personally at some TS meetings that were attended by a 
younger woman who, apparently, came to check out what 
went on at a "Theosophical meeting." Thinking back, she 
may have felt somewhat left out because of what she 
might have seen as a rather overpowering male aura or 
predominant influence in the room. She was the only 
younger female there. Like her, I had just joined the TS, 
but, (unlike her?), my speculative approach seems to have 
substantially enough shielded me from the kind of people 
allergies that people in general seem to so often succumb 
to, one way or another, "partly" or otherwise.

The moral of this story, of course, is: before you go out 
the door, each day, make sure you bring your speculator 
pills with you! What's in those pills? Windex, I think. 
Anyway, that stuff works on EVERYTHING! If you don't 
believe me, go see "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."

Speculatively,
Mauri

PS On the other hand, I hope you'll take it easy with those 
speculator pills. They tend to be addictive! In my case, 
for example, having steeped myself in my speculative 
addiction, I seem to have caused some people (like Wry, 
apparently?) to upchuck all over themselves while reading 
my "disgusting" speculations (I think that was the word 
Wry used), so . . . what can I say!? Sorry, Wry. And of 
course scores of other people seem to react similarly to 
my posts. A plus side of my addiction might be that, as I 
get more and more addicted, of course fewer and fewer 
people respond to my speculations, so I get more and more 
free time to do other things, like "speculate without 
writing"! Neat, eh, speculatively speaking?