Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00353)

Dear Krishtar,

I am rather startled by your idea that the "strange and tense 
atmosphere" at theos-talk is attributable to Anand Gholap. As one 
who has been here off and on from the beginning, I can assure you 
that the strangeness and tension did not start with Anand.

For me the strangest and most tense phase of all was the recent 
behavior of thalprin, who at the end was posting up to ten or more 
personal attacks in a row, on the same individual, named in the 
header. I did not notice *anyone* objecting to this horribly 
destructive behavior, only to the frequency and insubstantiality of 
her posts. (And then only vaguely and indirectly, which she used as 
an opportunity to pretend that others were the problem.) My God, 
this was a full-scale out-of-control hatemonger in your midst, and 
y'all turned a blind eye just like Kitty Genovese's neighbors!

Why might that be? I figure that the odious practice of denouncing 
people multiple times daily using their names in the headers is 
like "broken windows." Once people notice that it is OK to break 
windows, more and more windows get broken. It has been going on 
here for years, but to my knowledge thalprin was the only person who 
tried to outdo the originator of this bullying technique.

You wrote:


> Very oportune the excerpt you, Erica, send us, taken from the 
HPBīs pen.

A passage that Theosophical fundamentalists NEVER bring up!
snip
 
> I donīt have nothing against diferent povīs but what I know is 
that everybody find enormous difficulties in dealing with diferent 
aproaches in a aplacid, pollite way, when the other part not uses 
his sincerity and gives no supports for the opinions.

Not everybody! Most of us completely ignore the posts in question.

> Anandīs way of accusing and writing ugly things about HPB and 
showing no support for his POVīs and even not answering, not 
replying the great majority of posts is what creates this strange 
and tense atmosphere, in my view.

Not so. Check the archives; things are better now than they have 
been at various times in the past. I don't share Anand's opinions, 
but think that he has been used as a punching bag here. It actually 
turns my stomach to see someone treated this way. But since Pedro 
came back I figured it might be worth resubscribing to see how long 
the relatively calm atmosphere (relative to April's thalprinfest at 
least) might last this time.

Cheers,

Paul