Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00505)

... or charged by Steve of being backed by a Republican-supported
multinational conspiracy to destroy third-world countries in order to spend
billions of dollars to rebuild them again because some evil dictator sits at
the throne of the great devil of capitalism ...

People we don't really know, especially historic characters, we tend to make
bigger than life. This can be to demonize them, making them into monsters,
or to deify them, making them into people too good to be true. Not having
the actual people to know, we are lacking a good reality check against our
ideas about them, and the ideas can get too carried away.

When we turn a historic figure into a monster, we are told that we're going
too far and being offensive by people liking that person. (Everyone has some
good qualities.) When we deify a historic figure, we are told that we're
going too far and being offensive by people objecting to all the bad things
the person may have done. (Everyone has done some bad, perhaps terrible
things in the past.)

It's easy to make extreme statements in either direction, perhaps as a joke
or perhaps simply to provoke a discussion by getting some of us mad for a
moment. It's harder to walk a balanced line, acknowledging both the good and
bad in someone and portraying them as a multifaceted human being rather than
a one-dimensional good guy or bad guy. With a historic personage, it's
easier to do, since they're not around to say anything in their own defense.

-- Eldon

-----Original Message-----
From: stevestubbs [mailto:stevestubbs@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 2:34 AM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World MAGICK OR MAGIC ?

The person who told the truth about St. Germain was Casanova, who met 
him when he was trying to swindle the Marquise d'Urfe. St. Germain 
was a crank and anyone who says otherwise will be accused by Eldon 
Tucker of hubris.