Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00355)

Dear Paul,

No, not everybody was silent about the posts of thalprin. I post 
some complains here about thalprin and I was even called cruel. But 
yeah, and I agree with you it is not right to blame Anand, and this 
is what I tried to say in my previous posts. 

Erica

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "kpauljohnson" 
<kpauljohnson@y...> wrote:
> 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